Questions tagged [books]
Use this tag on [story-identification] questions when the work is a book series or when the written media is unclear but use a more specific tag where appropriate e.g. [novel], [novella], [short-stories], [anthology-book], etc. Use this tag to indicate the question is about the book version or adaptation of a work. For differences between the book and other versions, such as a movie, use [adaptation-comparison].
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Book series involving a girl in Scotland who finds out she's special, and a boy with Celtic symbols on him who helps her hide
It's about a girl in Scotland, I believe, and she finds out she's really special and she needs to be hidden because people want to take her and use her. (I forget what for; I think her blood is ...
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Book about a boy who becomes a sorcerer
I'm desperately looking for a book series about a boy he, I think, becomes a sorcerer. He goes to a Christmas party with his family and finds a man waiting for him, again I think. His father is absent ...
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Sci-fi book series about a teenage detective, possibly named Diamond, with a floating AI assistant
This is a book series I read over a decade ago, probably sometime from 2008-2013. I'm fairly certain the target audience was young adults.
The setting has many of the hallmarks of a dystopian future. ...
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Book about a guy playing a simulation game
Trying to track down a book I read in middle school (23 now), about a guy/boy playing a simulation game. I don’t know much else, except that he played that simulation game. In the game he was like a ...
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Urban fantasy book/saga about a boy with many phobias who found out he belonged to a group of people with powers
I picked a Spanish translation of this book up in the library 6 years ago but I can't remember the title or the author. I am pretty sure it was a male writer, though. The saga it belonged to had a ...
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Book series c.2000 where the main character has the power to communicate with and manipulate plants
For many, many years I have been scouring the internet looking for a book series I read when I was about 8 years old which really started my love for fantasy. What I remember is below:
The MC is in a ...
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Book about an orphan girl who found out she's from a different world/realm and can't tell her mortal boyfriend/friend [closed]
All I can remember is that there was a an orphan girl who found out she's from a different world/realm. She can't tell her mortal boyfriend/friend.
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Book in 90's (?) about rewriting your own genetic code
I read a book in the 90s about a group learning how to rewrite their own genetics and teaching each other... calling the ability learning how to "read" or "write". they were ...
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Female lead book series with Chinese dragons, superheroes, and shadow powers
I read the first two books in a relatively new series nearly a decade ago about a world with super heroes and one of them was a British character named something like Mr. Mystery (but not that) who ...
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Young adult urban fantasy series, teens given artifacts that grant unique powers per artifact, monsters want those artifacts
I read a series of books in sometime between 2016-2020 where there are specific artifacts that whoever holds them and is the "owner" of them both can make use of its abilities and become ...
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Fantasy book with three stories in it, including one about a monk indebted to a dark force and one about a warrior imprisoned in a slave camp
This book had three different stories running in it. One was of the monk character who became indebted to this dark force that made him a killer. Stones were not to be stepped on in their belief ...
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Book in which the main character is a female wizard who can read minds
I think the main character started as a young girl, but may have switched to a guy's perspective at times.
She was a wizard, and when learning the magic process, she was taught that she had to ...
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A kids book, there were 3 or 4 kids being main characters and each had a wand that controls an element
I don't remember much about it. But these 3 or 4 kids get a wand, and when they split the wand, each piece controlled an element. I also remember that an antagonist was a giant with 3 pairs of eyes, 3 ...
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Story with a character called "the Haitian"?
This was somewhere in the 2008-2009 time frame. I'm pretty sure my dad gave me this book after he read it, and he read a lot of Clive Cussler-esque books (i.e., adventure possibly including sci-fi ...
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Novella about the accidential creation of a time machine, creator and two kids end up centuries in the past
Not a great read, but the author showed promise and I'd like to track this down...
Paperback from the 1990s(-ish).
An experimental physicist unwittingly builds a time machine that sends himself and ...
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