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The Name of the Rose
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Invisible Cities
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
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Saving Angel
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Glenn Morris (Goodreads Author)
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Obligation for Justice
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Glenn Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,846,238 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
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4.44 avg rating — 33,678 ratings
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The Fountainhead
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3.89 avg rating — 336,300 ratings
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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4.02 avg rating — 216,703 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 293,617 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 273,798 ratings
score: 468,
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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4.50 avg rating — 1,111,657 ratings
score: 465,
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Loving Frank
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3.77 avg rating — 101,417 ratings
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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3.87 avg rating — 597,181 ratings
score: 392,
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 275,751 ratings
score: 390,
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Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
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4.10 avg rating — 14,887 ratings
score: 380,
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The Glass Room
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3.93 avg rating — 12,606 ratings
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Cathedral Of The Sea
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4.18 avg rating — 64,094 ratings
score: 298,
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The spire, William Golding : notes
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3.60 avg rating — 601 ratings
score: 295,
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Angle of Repose
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4.24 avg rating — 61,873 ratings
score: 295,
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The City of Falling Angels
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3.56 avg rating — 17,286 ratings
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The Paris Architect
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4.05 avg rating — 64,376 ratings
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From Hell
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 44,461 ratings
score: 291,
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Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 23,523 ratings
score: 288,
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Little, Big
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3.81 avg rating — 12,270 ratings
score: 287,
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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,666,079 ratings
score: 287,
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Hawksmoor
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3.46 avg rating — 4,911 ratings
score: 284,
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The House of the Spirits
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 315,041 ratings
score: 281,
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The House of the Seven Gables
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3.45 avg rating — 42,816 ratings
score: 279,
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 212,700 ratings
score: 270,
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Seven Days in the Art World
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3.61 avg rating — 70,912 ratings
score: 200,
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The Dutch House
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4.10 avg rating — 547,774 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 200,835 ratings
score: 196,
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Paper Towns
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 1,480,854 ratings
score: 195,
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The Master Builder
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3.81 avg rating — 4,601 ratings
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A Doll's House
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3.77 avg rating — 162,536 ratings
score: 192,
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The Library at Night
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Alberto Manguel (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 3,958 ratings
score: 190,
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
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3.44 avg rating — 11,254 ratings
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Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
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3.91 avg rating — 12,632 ratings
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The Alhambra
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3.64 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Book of the City of Ladies
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3.80 avg rating — 4,404 ratings
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Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple, #12)
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3.99 avg rating — 52,129 ratings
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The Dykemaster
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3.38 avg rating — 9,708 ratings
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The Far Pavilions
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4.20 avg rating — 45,023 ratings
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The White Castle
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3.48 avg rating — 16,721 ratings
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Balancing Act
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Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy (Goodreads Author)
3.23 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 100,
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Fathom
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Cherie Priest (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 658 ratings
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The Belly of an Architect
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4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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City Of The Mind
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3.68 avg rating — 795 ratings
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The Fall
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4.03 avg rating — 132,975 ratings
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
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4.26 avg rating — 4,026 ratings
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Publieke werken
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3.82 avg rating — 2,720 ratings
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Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
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Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 54,555 ratings
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Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
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3.92 avg rating — 93,868 ratings
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House of Leaves
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Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 197,700 ratings
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Bruss. Brussels in shorts (Brussels in shorts #1)
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3.45 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Theseus
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3.34 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
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3.55 avg rating — 10,595 ratings
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La casa de papel
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3.73 avg rating — 9,586 ratings
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Unknowable Death
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Ghostbusters
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3.99 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 182,777 ratings
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The Possession of Sarah Winchester
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3.47 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Khufu's Wisdom
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3.75 avg rating — 4,060 ratings
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The Museum of Innocence
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3.78 avg rating — 37,330 ratings
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Sarum: The Novel of England
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Edward Rutherfurd (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 46,192 ratings
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The Phantom of the Opera
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3.96 avg rating — 274,371 ratings
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The Library of Babel
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4.31 avg rating — 11,567 ratings
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Painted Moon
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Karin Kallmaker (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
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Deep Within the Morning Glory Blue
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Prague
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Arthur Phillips (Goodreads Author)
3.06 avg rating — 4,053 ratings
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Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 16,807 ratings
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The Dead Fish Museum
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3.93 avg rating — 1,725 ratings
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Adventure of the Norwood Builder
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Villa Aurore
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The Phantom of Manhattan
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Does The Two Towers (#15) have 'architecture as the theme', as the description says? There are a number of books on this list that I've read and I voted for them, I have to say, but I have strong doubts about these books having 'architecture as the theme'...
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