Books like 'A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction'
Readers who enjoyed A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King & Shlomo Angel also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Press Here by Hervé Tullet, Christopher Franceschelli
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsGreat for toddlers, preschoolers, and early readers to learn about cause and effect in a simple and engaging way... -
![The Dantes by Day Leclaire]()
The Dantes by Day Leclaire
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“My favorite author!” Amazon Reader “What a story! I loved it!” Amazon Reviewer “I started this book hoping for something different and I got it! I loved it! I can’t wait to read the rest in the series!” Amazon Customer Some blazes, once ignited, can’t be extinguished. Just one burning touch connects a Dante with his soul mate. Book #1: Sev's Blackmailed Bride. He'd do anything to have her .. -
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Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSet in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women... -
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Aylak Adam by Yusuf Atılgan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHer şeye "karşı" duran, "karşı" çıkan, "karşı" olan bir adam... Aylak Adam... Bir adı bile yok. "C." diyor Yusuf Atılgan kısaca.İnsan her şeye bunca "karşı"yken kendine de "karşı" olmadan nasıl sürdürebilir bir "karşı" yaşamı?C., sıradanlığa, tekdüzeliğe, alışılmışın kolaycılığına hiç mi hiç katlanamıyor. Hem farklıyı hem doğru olanı arıyor. Çabasının boşuna olduğunun da farkında üstelik... -
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![The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates]()
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRichard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation... -
![Sırça Köşk by Sabahattin Ali]()
Sırça Köşk by Sabahattin Ali
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSabahattin Ali’nin 1944-1947 yılları arasında yazdığı hikâyelerden derlediği Sırça Köşk, hayatını altüst eden, kendisini ölüme kadar götüren o keskin devrede yaşadığı ve hayatını şiddetle etkilemiş olayları da yansıtmaktadır. Ayrıca Sinop Cezaevi’nde karşısına çıkan mahkûmun başından geçenler gibi Rıfat Ilgaz’ın emniyetteki bir sorgusu da bu hikâyelere girmiştir... -
![Charming My Broody Billionaire Boss: A Hot Romantic Comedy by Jolie Day]()
Charming My Broody Billionaire Boss: A Hot Romantic Comedy by Jolie Day
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s the devil himself: Damon Copeland (he practically carries a pitchfork).Fiery-hot and a killer smile (if he ever smiled).He’s also the top dog at my father’s company,And my brother’s best friend.Oh, and someone I accidentally slept with.In my defense, that was before I knew who he was—And before he hired me.Now, my one-night stand has turned into my boss.What’s worse, he’s Mr... -
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Hot Mess by Ava Gray
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMeeting a hot Hollywood heartthrob might be a dream come true for some. But for me, it was an absolute nightmare.A nightmare that I didn’t want, especially during the holidays.I knew it was over for me when I gazed into Nick’s eyes at that Hollywood party.I instantly regretted my decision to come to LA, and I was right…Spending the night with the playboy led to trouble... -
![The Vegas Accident: An Age Gap Surprise Pregnancy Romance (Forbidden Temptations) by Sofia T Summers]()
The Vegas Accident: An Age Gap Surprise Pregnancy Romance (Forbidden Temptations) by Sofia T Summers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s hard to keep an accidental marriage a secret when you end up pregnant.Yes, we were stupid in Vegas.But the stupidity didn’t just end there.It continued after the trip was over and Luke became my temporary roommate.Luke… as in my brother’s best friend.As in my new husband.My accidental husband.Did I say baby daddy yet?Luke is way older than me.Basically, he’s everything he shouldn’t be... -
![His Secret Baby by Natasha L. Black]()
His Secret Baby by Natasha L. Black
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s a simple arrangement. He needs a green card. I need a scandal. The wedding was strictly for show. I’m used to pretending all kinds of things. I’m an A-list Hollywood actress, after all. And Gael? He’s a lead stuntman on set. Big biceps, piercing eyes, and an arrogant tone. I’d be crazy to fall in love with him. I only need Gael to salvage my reputation... -
![Secret Baby for the Boss by Josie Hart]()
Secret Baby for the Boss by Josie Hart
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy brother's best friend.My new boss.And now my baby daddy.Never get pregnant by your brother's best friend.Parker Conrad owns half the properties in L.A. and offers me a job that will skyrocket my career.We immediately spark a connection and I'm not just his best friend's sister anymore.His gaze sizzles and his touch lights a raging inferno inside me...Categorized as:
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![The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank]()
The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBegun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity... -
![Short Stories by Anton Chekhov: The Bet and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov]()
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov: The Bet and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis volume of Chekhov stories offers a unique selection each touching upon fundamentally important subjects such as the purpose and value of life, what it takes to be human, eternal life and higher objectives of human life, happiness, guilt and romance. Through the eyes of Chekhov's characters we see Chekhov's own views on life... -
![Odyssey by Michael P. Kube-McDowell]()
Odyssey by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA man without memory, stranded on an icy asteroid. His only chance for survival is locked within a band of mining robots who are dutifully searching the surface for a mysterious object known as the Key to Perihelion. His name is Derec. His journey will take him to a city different from any he has ever known. A fantastic metropolis beyond his dreams: Robot City... -
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![The Caboose Who Got Loose by Bill Peet]()
The Caboose Who Got Loose by Bill Peet
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsKaty Caboose is tired of being last, and one day an accident allows her to realize her dream of peace and solitude... -
![The House of a Thousand Floors by Jan Weiss]()
The House of a Thousand Floors by Jan Weiss
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe House of a Thousand Floors is one of the earliest science-fiction novels in European literature, published first in 1929. Besides being a pioneer in its genre, the book is highly regarded for its general merits as psychological literature. The novel tells the story of a dream in fever of a soldier wounded in World War I... -
![The Maharaja’s Fake Fiancée by Alisha Kay]()
The Maharaja’s Fake Fiancée by Alisha Kay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA scandal-averse Maharaja.A free-spirited actress.What do you get when throw them together and add a fake engagement to the mix?Depending on whom you ask, you either get a match made-in-heaven or a royal disaster. Nivy Sharma knows exactly what she needs - the freedom to be herself and follow her passion. Guess what she doesn’t need? A tailor-made husband... -
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![One Monday Morning (Reading Rainbow) by Uri Shulevitz]()
One Monday Morning (Reading Rainbow) by Uri Shulevitz
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe king and the queen and their growing entourage return each morning to a tenement street until the little boy they have come to visit is home to greet them... -
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The Adolescence of P-1 by Thomas J. Ryan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is the story of P-1, the most charming--and frightening--literary "child" since Robert Heinlein's Mycroft Holmes, and a tour de force in the literary exploration of artificial intelligence.A young college student writes a self replicating computer “virus,” programmed to survive, that becomes self-aware. The program grows and makes mistakes and learns... -
![A View from the Bridge / All My Sons by Arthur Miller]()
A View from the Bridge / All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, "A View from the Bridge" follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, illegal immigrants from Italy, arrive in New York... -
![Maybelle the Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton]()
Maybelle the Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMaybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy... -
![The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest by Po Bronson]()
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest by Po Bronson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDazzling and outrageous, Po Bronson's "The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest" is a knowing, eye-opening, and unrelentingly funny insider's look at the ultimate millenial adventure: the gold rush in Silicon Valley. It is a novel that brazenly opens up the American dream and lays out its twisted circuitry for all to see... -
![The Friend of Death: A Fantastic Tale (Classic Reprint) by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón]()
The Friend of Death: A Fantastic Tale (Classic Reprint) by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExcerpt from The Friend of Death: A Fantastic Tale A shabbily dressed youth of nineteen, tall, thin, sallow, with fine black eyes, an intellectual brow and the most beautiful hands in the world; haughty in his bearing and melancholy in his disposition - such was Gil Gil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks... -
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![Twilight in Delhi (New Directions Paperbook) by Ahmed Ali]()
Twilight in Delhi (New Directions Paperbook) by Ahmed Ali
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet in nineteenth-century India between two revolutionary moments of change, Twilight in Delhi brings history alive, depicting most movingly the loss of an entire culture and way of life. As Bonamy Dobree said, "It releases us into a different and quite complete world. Mr. Ahmed Ali makes us hear and smell Delhi.. -
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![Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms: Two Novels by Truman Capote]()
Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms: Two Novels by Truman Capote
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTogether in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote’s extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy. Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite... -
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Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsParis Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character development--Paris Peasant is, in the author's words, -a mythology of the modern... -
![The Trouble With Tycho by Clifford D. Simak]()
The Trouble With Tycho by Clifford D. Simak
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsProspecting on the Moon was grim, dangerous and usually unrewarding. Only most of the green-horns who came to try didn't find out until after they got there. Chris Jackson was no exception. He put everything he owned and could borrow into this, and he'd be ruined if he failed. His only chance meant going into Tycho - where three expeditions had already disappeared... -
![The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac]()
The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon... -
![Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E” by Ernest Vincent Wright]()
Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E” by Ernest Vincent Wright
Rated: 2.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWritten from the perspective of a self-deprecating narrator, 'Gadsby' is - at its core - a tale of a town in a state of concerted rebirth. In an effort to reverse the plight of the place that he calls home, the protagonist organizes the town's youth. In doing so, we watch as the small piece of suburbia becomes a shining beacon of what towns can - and perhaps should - be... -
![Prague Tales by Jan Neruda, Michael Henry Heim]()
Prague Tales by Jan Neruda, Michael Henry Heim
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA collection of Jan Neruda's intimated, wry, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of nineteenth century Prague. Prague Tales is a classic story whose influence has been acknowledged by generations of Czech writers... -
![New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker]()
New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker
Rated: 3.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible."A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker...Categorized as:
classics urban fiction 20th-century female-author literary-fiction anthologies contemporary
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