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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Sci-fi book about a boy who finds a portal to another dimension in his neighbor's playground set
I'm looking for a book that came out when I was in middle school from 2010 - 2014.
I remember it being a humorous sci-fi book about a boy who finds a portal to another dimension in his neighbor's ...
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Book series with multiple pantheons based on historical Earth religions and a final war
I was hoping someone can help me remember a book series I read sometime between 1986-1988. A friend lent me the book so I don’t remember if it was published then or if it had been around for many ...
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Book where an Earth woman travels with human-like aliens to their planet, where all men are bald
I vaguely remember reading this as a child in the late 90s or early 2000s.
What I remember is that a woman either agrees to go or has to leave Earth under dire circumstances with an alien woman (these ...
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Book series where soldiers or pilots from Earth are teleported to a world where they learn how to use crystal magic technology
I read a series as a kid about a group of soldiers/pilots who were teleported to a different world where they had to learn how to use the crystal magic technology to fight off a great invasion. They ...
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Book about a boy picking up a magic book that stabs him in a library
I read this book in the early 2010s, when I was 11 or 12. It was a physical book, no idea about the cover. I read it to my younger sister, and now we are looking for it. It was a young-adult fantasy ...
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Corporate Dystopia book from the early 2000s
I read a book in the early 2000s (which is when I think it was published). It was set in a near future dystopia where corporations had taken over all public services. Poverty was outlawed and being ...
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Book about a girl(?) who lives in an underground house. Something happens to her family and she ends up wandering on the surface
I'm looking for a book I read as a kid in 2009-2012.
I don't remember a lot of details because I was only about nine when I read it, but the book follows a character (pretty sure it was a girl) who ...
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Fantasy book(s) with magic powers gained from rose gold rings
So I don't have many memories from this book, and I've looked over the internet quite a few times before trying here.
The core information:
There's not a lot of magic holders in the story, and it's ...
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Looking for a children’s book where a kid makes a fake mainframe and hides inside with a typewriter answering questions
From the sixties I think? A series character I thought was Homer Price but isn't. The mainframe has a name similar to Univac. [edit: identified by Buzz as “One for the Computer” or “One for the UNIVAC”...
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Book series about a boy who becomes a Space Emperor
I read a series of books back in the 80's about this family that was escaping from one of Jupiter's moons. They met up with some pirates, I believe the Daddy was killed then they arrived to safety. ...
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Story about Jesus being kidnapped by the church
I remember very little about this book (actually, I do remember pieces, but I know that I tend to misremember and mix books up that I read, so I will omit the details that might lead you down a wrong ...
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A boy who becomes a sorcerer only when he falls asleep
I remember reading this book around 2003 when I was in middle school. I believe it was a bit older than that, however. I'm sure it was about a boy who becomes a sorcerer when he falls asleep and ...
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Military and Strategy smart and clever female lead winning wars
I stumbled on a book recommendation on youtube that I can no longer find. The plot is about a female lead I believe was discovered or hired (I cannot remember) by the male lead ( I think) and she was ...
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Book about aliens coming back to Earth to recover a lost spaceship
There was a book I listened to a long time ago about an alien ship traveling through deep space to come to Earth. The premise was that there was a ship lost on Earth around the time of the great ...
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Looking for title of old Star Trek TOS book where Spock is captured and gets earring
Two decades ago I read a lot of the old TOS novels. There was one novel where Spock was captured (on a planet iirc) and made prisoner of a female person/ alien. She equipped him with accessories like ...
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