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Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Castle or Palace in the Title

658 books — 40 voters

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by Fiona Carnarvon

Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders

Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph Gies

Castles, Great Estates and Homes of the Royals, the Aristocracy and High Society

295 books — 28 voters

Rome's First Frontier by David Woolliscroft

The Northern Frontiers of Roman Britain by David J. Breeze

The Drove Roads of Scotland by A.R.B. Haldane

Around Crieff and Strathearn by Colin Mayall

Excavations at the Black Spout, Pitlochry, and the Iron Age M... by David Strachan

Local History and Archaeology of Perthshire and Angus, Scotland

8 books — 1 voter

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Dragons

1,790 books — 2,544 voters

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Burton Raffel

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Knights And Chivalry In Days Of Old

31 books — 16 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Castles on the Cover

213 books — 62 voters

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― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

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