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Houses that are bigger on the inside, rooms that wander, strange cities, liminal spaces, etc. (Adult books only, please.)
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Piranesi
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Invisible Cities
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House of Leaves
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Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 193,489 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 76,869 ratings
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The Sundial
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Moonwise
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4.08 avg rating — 168 ratings
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From the Dust Returned
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3.74 avg rating — 6,458 ratings
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The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3)
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4.03 avg rating — 9,834 ratings
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Bryony and Roses
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4.06 avg rating — 10,719 ratings
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Slade House
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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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H.G. Parry (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 7,207 ratings
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Deep Secret
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 557,089 ratings
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Ombria in Shadow
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The House on the Borderland
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3.58 avg rating — 10,417 ratings
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Little, Big
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3.81 avg rating — 12,164 ratings
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The Bell at Sealey Head
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4.02 avg rating — 2,782 ratings
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Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
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Edwin A. Martini (Editor)
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
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Alec Nevala-Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Japanese Zen Gardens
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4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Cathedral of Mist
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4.11 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Awaken: A Norse Dark Fantasy
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Vanessa MacLellan (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Archaeological Oddities: A Field Guide to Forty Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and Other Strange Sites in North America
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3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Ritual Space (An Obscure Magic, #4)
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Viola Grace (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Coup de Grâce
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Sofia Ajram (Goodreads Author)
3.07 avg rating — 2,729 ratings
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The Last Castle
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Denise Kiernan (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 12,957 ratings
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The High House (Evenmere Chronicles #1)
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James Stoddard (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Arcady
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Michael Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.02 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Architecture's Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
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Hugh Howard (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Fred, the Vampire Accountant, #1)
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Drew Hayes (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 17,096 ratings
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The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 19,325 ratings
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The False House (Evenmere Chronicles #2)
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James Stoddard (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Starless Sea
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Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 229,198 ratings
score: 98,
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The Knife Drawer
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3.92 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World: Man of Visions Now on This Earth
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4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Heart Mate (Celta's Heartmates, #1)
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Robin D. Owens (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 4,875 ratings
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The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
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3.62 avg rating — 4,903 ratings
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Evenmere (Evenmere Chronicles #3)
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James Stoddard (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Underground Man
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3.73 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
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Valencia Noir - The Beautiful, The Fantastic and The Grotesque of Valencia, Spain
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined
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4.30 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The House at Sunset (House, #3)
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4.22 avg rating — 777 ratings
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The Wizard's Butler
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Nathan Lowell (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 10,583 ratings
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Palimpsest
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 5,234 ratings
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Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
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Stefan Al (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 306 ratings
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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
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Earl Swift (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,869 ratings
score: 94,
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
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Will Hunt (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 2,637 ratings
score: 93,
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Od Magic
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3.99 avg rating — 4,532 ratings
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Bellefleur
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3.78 avg rating — 2,721 ratings
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Urban Smellscapes
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Jerusalem
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 3,227 ratings
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Underworld: Exploring the Secret World Beneath Your Feet
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4.08 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Viriconium (Viriconium, #1-4)
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3.82 avg rating — 2,668 ratings
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Atlanta Underground: History from Below
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“When All of Rome Was Under Construction”: The Building Process in Baroque Rome
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Sacred Places of the Lowcountry: Lost Photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Sacred Places
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3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896,Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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Annalee Newitz (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 7,200 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,661,494 ratings
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Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
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3.97 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 9,715 ratings
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The Secret Language of Churches & Cathedrals: Decoding the Sacred Symbolism of Christianity's Holy Building
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4.15 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Thief of Always
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Clive Barker (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 36,584 ratings
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The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple
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4.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Perilous Gard
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4.10 avg rating — 9,045 ratings
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The Secret Language of Sacred Spaces: Decoding Churches, Cathedrals, Temples, Mosques and Other Places of Worship Around the World
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3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Wylding Hall
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3.79 avg rating — 8,359 ratings
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
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3.57 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Small Architecture (Bibliotheca Universalis)
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4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Tree Houses. Fairy-Tale Castles in the Air (Bibliotheca Universalis)
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3.97 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Vanishing America: The End of Main Street Diners, Drive-Ins, Donut Shops, and Other Everyday Monuments
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3.77 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture
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Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America
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The Moundbuilders: Ancient Societies of Eastern North America
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3.94 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Indian Mounds of Wisconsin
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4.30 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Emergence of the Moundbuilders: The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio
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Crystal River: A ceremonial mound center on the Florida Gulf Coast
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Mound Sites of the Ancient South: A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms
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Le Tombeau de Menna
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The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
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Maya Architecture: Temples in the Sky
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Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries
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4.25 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders
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3.63 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Pyramid
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Motel of the Mysteries
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The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse
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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced
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3.91 avg rating — 241 ratings
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The Magic and Mystery of Westville
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The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
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Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town
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Mysteries of the Mall and Other Essays
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
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Bill Dedman (Goodreads Author)
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
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Dark Emu
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Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator
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3.62 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Labyrinths & Mazes: A Journey Through Art, Architecture, and Landscape (includes 250 photographs of ancient and modern labyrinths and mazes from around the world)
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list created September 16th, 2020
by deleted user.
BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...)
5441 books
64 friends
64 friends
Mary
4149 books
199 friends
199 friends
Stephen
1279 books
39 friends
39 friends
Barrita
4143 books
78 friends
78 friends
Saturday's
2227 books
67 friends
67 friends
Polly
2925 books
15 friends
15 friends
Amy
2950 books
2 friends
2 friends
Bbrown
1515 books
230 friends
230 friends
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