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Elevators, ladders, staircases, seesaws; anything that brings one up and down should be in the title. Fact or fiction.
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
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Up the Down Staircase
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The Circular Staircase (Miss Cornelia Van Gorder Trilogy #2)
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The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)
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The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #2)
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The Girl in a Swing
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The Ogre Downstairs
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A Ladder to the Sky
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A Countess Below Stairs
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Some Must Watch
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The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales
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A Darkness on the Stairs
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The Sex Ladder
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Ladder of Flesh
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Stairway to Death
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The Space Elevator: A Bobby Blinx Adventure (The Blinx Adventures Book 1)
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Laughter on the Stairs
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The Door by the Staircase
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The Lost Staircase
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Ten Second Staircase (Bryant & May, #4)
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The Elevator Family (Elevator Family, #1)
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Douglas Evans (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 511 ratings
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The Madwoman Upstairs
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Catherine Lowell (Goodreads Author)
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The Steps Up the Chimney
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The Staircase
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House of Stairs
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The Secret Staircase (Brambly Hedge, #5)
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Staircase 4
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Floating Staircase
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Ronald Malfi (Goodreads Author)
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Seesaw Girl
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Woman Up the Corporate Ladder (Lifegames, #1)
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The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
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Jonathan Stroud (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 73,731 ratings
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The Woman Upstairs
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Stairway to an Empty Room
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The Devil of the Stairs
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The inner steps
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2.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Elevator Ghost
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3.59 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Ladder of Years
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3.73 avg rating — 19,408 ratings
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A Gate at the Stairs
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3.18 avg rating — 18,737 ratings
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Jacob's Ladder
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Brian Keaney (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 613 ratings
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The Upper Berth
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A Twisted Ladder (Devils of the Briar, #1)
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Staircase to the Sea: Fourteen Ghost Stories
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Take A Step To Murder
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The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2)
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Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 105,742 ratings
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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
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The Ladder of Rickety Rungs
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Scandal Above Stairs (A Below Stairs Mystery, #2)
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Jennifer Ashley (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 3,687 ratings
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Death Below Stairs (A Below Stairs Mystery, #1)
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Jennifer Ashley (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 6,005 ratings
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The Paradise Below the Stairs
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Winding Stair
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No Crystal Stair
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The Swing in the Summerhouse (Hall Family Chronicles, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Climb A Broken Ladder
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Hermit's Swing
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The Secret Stair
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The Spy in the Elevator
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The Seventeenth Stair
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The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime
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3.37 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Witches' Ladder
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2.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Darkness Before Tomorrow / The Ladder in the Sky (Ace Double F-141)
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3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Adam's Ladder
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3.60 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Stairway
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The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps
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Long Way Down
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Tales from the Infinite Staircase
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Echo on the Stairs
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The Upside-Down Medicine
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Stairway to Danger (Rick Brant Science-Adventure Stories, #9)
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Little Girl Lost (The Secrets of Stoneley, #2)
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Floored
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Where the Staircase Ends
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Steps Going Down
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Darcy Downstairs
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The Iron Staircase
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High Altitude Leadership: Small Steps to Get You to the Top of Big Mountains
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The Mystery of the 99 Steps (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #43)
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Falling Up the Stairs
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Climbing the Stairs
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The Crystal Stair (Gom, #3)
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4.15 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Elevator Girl
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The Shadowed Staircase
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April Upstairs
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Concrete Centenarian-the Life and Death of Calgary's Canadian Government Elevator
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A Step Towards Falling
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Staircase
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Willie Bryant and the Flying Otis
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The Vertical Ladder and Other Stories
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Love Rehab: A Novel in Twelve Steps
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Upstairs at the Party
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A Game of Snakes and Ladders
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Soul City Downstairs
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Upstairs and Downstairs
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One Step Too Far
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Stairway to an Empty Room / Terror Lurks in Darkness
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The Staircase Cat
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The Corpse Moved Upstairs
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The Maid's Tale
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The Third Elevator
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Halfway Down The Stairs
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I've asked Wendy, under her list here, why she added two SF books that have titles which don't seem to fit. Does anyone know how I remove them if she doesn't explain?
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Clare wrote: "I've asked Wendy, under her list here, why she added two SF books that have titles which don't seem to fit. Does anyone know how I remove them if she doesn't explain?"I can remove them for you, if you like (if they are still here).
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
