Strange Buildings, by Uketsu

Book 18 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! On track with my reading! My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. It says a lot about how much I enjoy Uketsu’s writing that I went out and bought his most recently released book, Strange Buildings (2026), the day after I finished his previous book Strange Pictures. This is the longest and most ambitious of Uketsu’s “Strange Books” to date, looking about twice as long as Strange Houses, yet I still finished it within 24 hours! Like his previous two books, Strange Buildings is a story of a sinister mystery told in a significant way through images. In Strange Houses, it was largely through architectural floorplans; in Strange Pictures, it was through cryptic drawings. Strange Buildings returns to an analysis of architecture but ups the complexity of the puzzles and the secrets behind them. The book serves as a meta-sequel of sorts to Uketsu’s…