Literary Trope: imaginary rooms

[da]

I've read three books in the last year that have used a similar plot device in passing: an invisible room.

That is, a room that exists only by convention.

In Little, Big there was the Imaginary Study, where Auberon spends time by himself in his tiny one-room apartment shared with his sweetie.

In Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close there are Nothing Places, which serves nearly the same purpose.

In a Donald Westlake potboiler called Trust Me on This, there are Squaricles, lines drawn on the floor in an office too cheap to give its employees Cubicles.

It's occurred to me that I enjoyed all three of these books, so I'm wondering whether anybody knows of other books with some similar element, since I'm looking for more fiction to read. Oh, and no mimes. :)

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[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes.

Most of the Dortmunder series (probably all, it's tough to keep track). My home collection is "trust me on this," plus "castle in the air," "don't ask," and "help I am being held prisoner." I've read more, but the titles escape me at the moment.

Maybe we should do a temporary prisoner-exchange, since we are stuck in the land of heathens and all.

d. can't stand his writing, for the most part. Sigh.

[kraig.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever read any of those except Trust Me. (And Dortmunder stuff, of course, I think I've read most of those.) But sure, that sounds like a plan.

I have:
Kahawa (thriller)
Good Behaviour
Trust Me On This
Killing Time (mystery)
Drowned Hopes
...

I thought I had more. I know I've read a bunch. Our local library used to have a pretty good collection, I guess I just never bothered acquiring them since I got a disposable income measured in tens of dollars rather than dollars.