For my third nomination I wanted something that was a classic. I'm going to nominate
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. This book is about other tragic characters, not just Quasimodo, and it's very much about the Cathedral. One of Hugo's objectives in writing this book was to highlight the value of the Gothic architecture which was often neglected, destroyed and replaced with modern architecture during that time period.
From Goodreads:
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This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo's brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description
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