A Book About a Building

A selection of books that fulfill the criteria for the UBN 2024 category of a book about a building.

Updated February 9, 2024
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At home : a short history of private life
Bryson, Bill.
From one of the most beloved authors of our  time--more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone--a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. "Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up."  ...
The residence : inside the private world of the White House
Brower, Kate Andersen.
A remarkable history with elements of both In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into...
Beneath a marble sky : a novel of the Taj Mahal
Shors, John
In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, consumed by grief over the death of his empress, Mumtaz Mahal, ordered the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. Against scenes of unimaginable wealth and power, murderous sibling rivalries, and cruel despotism,...
House
Kidder, Tracy.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings "clarity, intelligence and grace" to the tale of building a home in this New York Times Bestseller (The New York Times Book Review).   It's 1983 and Jonathan and Judith Souweine are ready to...
Cabin : two brothers, a dream, and five acres in Maine
Ureneck, Lou.
Inspired by his From the Ground Up New York Times blog, a beautifully written memoir about building and brotherhood. Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come in middle age-job loss, the death of his mother, a health scare, a divorce-Lou Ureneck needed a...
The midnight library
Haig, Matt
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."--The...
The house of the seven gables : a romance
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
A novel which deals with a decadent New England family and Holgrave, who rents a room in their seven-gabled house.
The shining
King, Stephen
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror. Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook...
The haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley
The greatest haunted house story ever written--the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series! One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been...
PARIS ARCHITECT
BELFOURE, CHARLES
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "A gripping page-turner...a riveting reminder of sacrifices made by history's most unlikely heroes." --Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who...
Piranesi
Clarke, Susanna
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a...
Slade house : a novel
Mitchell, David
The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Guardian Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British...
The library book
Orlean, Susan
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realised this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, 'Once that first stack got going, it was...
The Gardner heist : a true story of the world's largest unsolved art theft
Boser, Ulrich.
"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." --Vanity Fair
The Museum of Extraordinary Things : a novel
Hoffman, Alice.
Mesmerizing and illuminating, Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things is the story of an electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the twentieth century. Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the...
Monticello : a daughter and her father
Gunning, Sally
From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter--Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph. After the death of her...
The not so big house : a blueprint for the way we really live
Susanka, Sarah.
Ten years ago, Sarah Susanka started a revolution in home design with a deceptively simple message: quality should always come before quantity. Now, the book that celebrated that bold declaration is back in this special 10th anniversary edition featuring a new introduction and 16 additional pages...

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