Start with high-confidence history of architecture books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital
David Ovason
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
On Architecture
Vitruvius
The Edifice Complex
Deyan Sudjic
Architecture and Abstraction
Pier Vittorio Aureli
From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe
Castles
Charles Stephenson
The History of Western Art
Janetta Rebold Benton
Sacred Geometry
Miranda Lundy
Architecture
Jonathan Glancey
Homebuilding and Woodworking
C. Keith Wilbur
Stone
Richard Rhodes
Neoclassicism and Romanticism: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing
ROLF TOMAN
How to Build a Haunted House
Caitlin Blackwell Baines
