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Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 28,911 ratings — published 1991
Bel Canto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 323,238 ratings — published 2001
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,875 ratings — published 1994
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 5,574 ratings — published 1997
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 98,656 ratings — published 2010
Billions of Bricks: A Counting Book About Building (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 675 ratings — published 2016
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 832,349 ratings — published 1989
Iggy Peck, Architect: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
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avg rating 4.42 — 6,421 ratings — published 2007
Lee & Low Books Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 620 ratings — published 1996
A Lust for Window Sills: A Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble Dash (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 62 ratings — published 2009
The Victorian House Explained (England's Living History)
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avg rating 4.22 — 67 ratings — published 2005
How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 635 ratings — published 2008
The Dutch House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 560,109 ratings — published 2019
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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avg rating 4.42 — 5,450 ratings — published 1977
Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 563 ratings — published 2004
Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces: Art for the Traveler (Rick Steves)
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avg rating 4.39 — 176 ratings — published
Fix That Clock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 311 ratings — published 2019
Builders and Breakers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 305 ratings — published 2018
High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 160 ratings — published 2004
Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 428 ratings — published 2015
This House, Once (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,115 ratings — published 2017
1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die: The World's Architectural Masterpieces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 154 ratings — published 2007
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 12,679 ratings — published 2005
School's First Day of School (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,050 ratings — published 2016
Rice's Church Primer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 76 ratings — published 2013
The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings (TED Books)
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avg rating 3.75 — 600 ratings — published 2014
Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 95 ratings — published 2014
Rooftoppers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 17,722 ratings — published 2013
The Visual Dictionary of Buildings (DK Visual Dictionaries)
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avg rating 3.62 — 24 ratings — published 1992
Look at That Building: A First Book of Structures (Exploring Our Community, 2)
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avg rating 3.52 — 71 ratings — published 2011
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 454 ratings — published 2009
Spectacular Vernacular: London's 100 Most Extraordinary Buildings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 31 ratings — published 2006
Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Famous and Important Skyscrapers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 228 ratings — published 1996
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 28,226 ratings — published 1999
Ghost Roast (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,856 ratings — published 2024
All That Life Can Afford (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 30,935 ratings — published 2025
Skylark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,903 ratings — published 2026
Nine Lives (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2026
This Is a Love Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.23 — 12,960 ratings — published
Happy Wife (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 29,457 ratings — published 2025
The Death Row Club (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 126 ratings — published 2026
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Believe in Angels: 101 Inspirational Stories of Hope, Miracles and Answered Prayers (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 93 ratings — published
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 445,957 ratings — published 2021
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Is In the Air: 101 Stories about the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.14 — 95 ratings — published
Best Offer Wins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 34,244 ratings — published 2025
Sandwich (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.55 — 189,838 ratings — published 2024
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Home Sweet Home: 101 Stories about Hearth, Happiness, and Hard Work (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 53 ratings — published 2014
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 160,483 ratings — published 2009
Where Only Storms Grow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 121 ratings — published 2025
“[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!”
― The Bonfire of the Vanities
― The Bonfire of the Vanities
“The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.”
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
