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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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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Tiny book about a planet full of man-eating sunflowers
I'm trying to find information on a book I have read in my youth, or at least on the story it contained. I bought this book in a German bookstore somewhere around 1985-1995. It was one of several &...
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Short story about a Mercedes Lackey style honorable mercenary company tasked with unethical orders, such as attacking a village
I'm looking for a story I remember, either a standalone short story, or an episode in a longer book, about an honorable mercenary company that is somehow contracted to an unethical leader. They ...
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2000s YA sci-fi book, male protagonist, only one in each world who can travel between dimensions through the 4th one, everyone is him but different
I'm trying to remember a YA Sci-Fi book, probably from the 2000s, about a boy who is randomly attacked by what looks like wizards and robots. He is then saved by someone who appears to be an older ...
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Book in which a boy finds a trap door in an old man's garage that leads to a secret land
I'm trying to find a book by the plot: a young boy rescues an old man from a heart attack, makes friends and looks after his dog. There's a trap door in the old man's garage that leads to a secret ...
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YA Book about two siblings and their uncle, who built a magical cabinet
This has been bugging me for years. I read the first book of a small series (maybe only two or three books total) a few years back. YA fantasy, that I'm trying to remember correctly.
I believe a ...
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Female protagonist who discovered some new species of creature that lived in the atmosphere [duplicate]
The book was about a female protagonist who discovered some new species of creature that lived in the atmosphere and she discovered it because it moved slowly across the stars at night blocking light ...
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Book about a man who is at the age where a lottery is taken of the elderly and he's chosen to be "put down", leaving a sad grandson
A man and his grandson are very close. When someone turns a certain age (70 or 80) they are put in a lottery of sorts and whoever is picked must be put to death, supposedly to control population. It ...
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I'm looking for a specific dragon book I read a few years ago
I have been searching for this book for a while now. I can still remember how it started.
It was about a woman, the main protagonist imprisoned in a psychiatric ward. She was there because someone ...
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Fantasy book about a group of teens who escaped from a prison guarded by ogres, then found a civilization of elves
I remember that a group of teens (don't know the species) were kept in a prison guarded by ogres (I think). These teens would eventually escape into a desert. Only a few would survive and then find ...
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Book about humans on alien planet that has a regular mass extinction event
Do you know the name of a book about humans using technology to adapt to a planet where most life is regularly killed off?
The species on this planet behave like insects. They mate like cicadas such ...
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Elemental novel where a boy is shown he can control elements and ends up being really strong at the end
I read this book a while back, before quarantine is all I know.
It was a book that began with the main character accidentally destroying a cafeteria table. It's explained that it was because of his ...
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What’s that book reimagining the whole Helen of Troy story? [migrated]
So I remember reading this book when I was in 8th grade. I can remember the main concept of the book and the cover. The story is about two schools with a long standing rivalry. There’s this girl, ...
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YA book series about an orphan girl with violet eyes who finds out she has powers
I read this series probably 10 years ago. It has been driving me insane ever since wanting to reread it now.
It was about a girl with violet eyes whose parents had died. She thinks she's an ordinary ...
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