Secret room/staircase behind a bookshelf

Ooh. It'd have to be one that's not useful, intriguing or an enjoyable read, otherwise house guests would be opening that door all the time.

My vegetarian recipe book from the eighties. It doesn't even have a spine. Who's gonna read that dingy purple book that looks like it was made at Staples?

Any book that not even I would bother to read... which means, any of my law books would be the chosen one XD

Mr. Maxwell and I have a 5 book set of dual Chinese/English translation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms epic. I'd pick book 4. It looks good on a bookshelf, doesn't stand out as out of place because of the set, won't pique curiosity like a blank spine or utterly terrible book might, and honestly, if someone's willing to read through books 1-3 first, they're the kind of person I wouldn't mind finding my secret lair.

Hidden room?

I don't know nuttin' about any hidden room.
No sirree. Not me. Huh-uh.
And don't go sniffing around my siggy either,
'cause it sure isn't there.

I would tempt fate and choose The Secret Shortcut, a children's book by Mark Teague.

On a high shelf, along with other boring accounting books, 'Essentials of Auditing'.

MM

The Phantom Tollbooth. And yes, I aim to be clever, but I don't think I'd mind awfully if my guests found my secret room. I like to share cool stuff.

I'd keep a book on my desk and have putting that book back on the shelf as the trigger for the door. #thinkoutsidethebox

I'm thinking it would have to be three books, one for the actual mechanism and two for the casing used to obscure the mechanism lest a book outside of it reveals the mechanism. With that:

Protector left: Canadian Income Tax Act, 1952
Mechanism: Canadian Income Tax Act, 1963
Protector right: Canadian Income Tax Act, 1959

Methods of Non Euclidean Geometry, 3rd Edition. Of all the books on my shelves, I think that one is the dustiest...

Xelebes said:

I'm thinking it would have to be three books, one for the actual mechanism and two for the casing used to obscure the mechanism lest a book outside of it reveals the mechanism. With that:

Protector left: Canadian Income Tax Act, 1952
Mechanism: Canadian Income Tax Act, 1963
Protector right: Canadian Income Tax Act, 1959

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Nope. If I saw that on the shelf, I'd have to try and re-arrange them so they were in chronological order.