going up? going down...

Falling Awake by Jane Ann Krentz
Soaring: the Diary and letters of a Denishawn Dancer in the Far East by Jane Sherman
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

Rising of the Moon by Gladys Mitchell
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt

Stairs, by Rein Jansma
New York on the Rise: Architectural Renderings by Hughson Hawley 1880-1931, by Janet Parks
Georgian Summer: The Rise and Development of Bath, by David Gadd
Rise and Fall of the British Nanny, by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (the touchstone comes back to the book's other title, The Unnatural History of the Nanny)
In Adam's Fall, by Lois Morrison

The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
Up the Junction by Nell Dunn
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Imperial Sunset: The Fall of Napoleon, 1813-14 - R. F. Delderfield
White Knights, Dark Earls: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty - Bill Power
The Destruction of Knossos: The Rise and Fall of Minoan Crete - H. E. L. Mellersh
The Fall of Winter - Jack C. Haldeman II
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke - Per Wahloo

Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
When True Night Falls by C.S. Friedman
Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind
The Fall by Garth Nix (or Albert Camus)

Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber
Carry Me Down
The Thirty-nine Steps
The Decline of Deference
Falling Angels

Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCraken
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
The Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder
Flight of the Gin Fizz : midlife at 4,500 feet by Henry Kisor
Down Among the Dead Men: an Inspector Henry Tibbett mystery by Patricia Moyes

Strapless: John Singer Sargeant and the Fall of Madam X
Snow Fallling on Cedars
Chariot: The Astounding rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Rising sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton
After the Fall by Peter David
Fallen Angel by Peter David

Salem Falls Jodi Picoult
Shout Down the Moon by Lisa Tucker
Rising Moon by Lori Handeland
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Ascending by James Alan Gardner

Ascending by James Alan Gardner
Raise the Titanic by Clive Cussler
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
Up Front by Bill Mauldin
Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine

The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
Down The Nile: Alone In A Fisherman's Skiff - Rosemary Mahoney
River Of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway Of Exile, Death, And Destiny - Jeffrey Tayler

Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down Nicey
A Slipping-Down Life Anne Tyler
Onwards and Upwards Arabella Weir
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Steve Martin
Room at the Top John Braine

Going Up:
Hung Up to Die by Dolores Johnson
Up Jumps the Devil by Margaret Maron
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Maj Sjowall
Stand Up and Die by Richard and Frances Lockridge
I Am Not Going to Get Up Today by Dr Seuss

Going Down:
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
Sold Down the River by Barbara Hambly
Till the Butchers Cut Him down by Sharon McCone
Murder Down Under by Arthur Upfield
Downriver by Loren D. Estleman

Watership Down by Richard Adams
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons
Rising From the Plains by John McPhee
Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenter by J.D. Salinger

Krispos Rising by Harry Turledove
Casilda of the Rising Moon by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler
Shadows Fall by Simon Green
Darkness Falls by Les Martin

Stand up for your life Cheryl Richardson
Lie down in darkness William Stryon
Up the sandbox Anne Roiphe
Every thing that rises must converge Flannery O'Connor
Down all the Days Christy Brown

Roltrap naar de maan : Nederlandse kinderliedjes vanaf 1950 voor kleine en grote mensen by Hilde Scholten means: Ascelator to the moon : Dutch childrens songs since 1950 for young people and grown ups
Opwaaiende zomerjurken by Oek De Jong means: Summerskirts blowing up
Vloed = Flood by Susan Smit
How Do You Lift a Lion? by Robert E. Wells
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick

See You Later, Escalator by John Foster
The Rope Ladder by Nigel Richardson
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous
Trap en trede : houten trappen in Nederland : een bouwhistorische beschouwing by H. Janse means: Stairs and step : wooden stairs in The Netherlands: a historical vision
De hele dag maar op en neer: over heien, heiliedjes en hoofdstedelijke muziekgebouwen by Emile Wennekes, means: The whole day up and down : about driving piles, pile-songs, and metropolitan music theaters

Bezonken rood = sunken red by Jeroen Brouwers
Five Go Down to the Sea by Enid Blyton
De laatste duik van de dag by Adriaan Jaeggi means: The last dive of the day
De man die de trap afging by Tjeerd Adema means: The man who went down stairs
Designs on the Land: Exploring America from the Air by Alex S. MacLean

Bear in the Air
by Susan Myers

Thin Air
by Robert B. Parker

Up the Down Staircase
by Bel Kaufman

Down Town
by Evan Hunter / Ed McBain

The Troubled Air
by Irwin Shaw

Falling Out of Cars by Jeff Noon
Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Down-East Murders by J.S. Borthwick
Up From Liberalism by William F. Buckley
Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich
A Fall of Water by Elizabeth Hunter
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Climbing the Stairs by Margaret Powell
Down the Garden Path by Beverley Nichols
High Rising by Angela Thirkell
Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh

Fall on your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor
These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer