Looking for Suggestions

Remember that I'm eclectic?  One of my absolute loves, maybe even one of the things I'm most passionate about, is architecture.  I draw houseplans to relax, I take photographs of things like rooflines, roof overhangs, windows, eaves, porch ballisters, doorways, etc.  Wherever I travel I memorize the housing details.  I do a lot of the same things with landscaping, but not to the degree that I do with architecture.  I just love the story that architecture tells about the time period, the way that people lived and built, the reasons for things being built as they were.  Maybe it comes from growing up in my great grandfather's American Foursquare, "The Old Plantation", or maybe it just comes from my love of symmetry and aesthetics.  But whatever the reason, I'd love to have suggestions about books relating to architecture that are also good reads.