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 set in the future on a spaceship
In the late 90s when I was in secondary school I read a series of books, potentially 3. They were set in the future and the story was set on a spaceship. The characters had genetic memories of modern ...
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Book about a boy who fights aliens by bringing TV commercials to life
I'm trying to find this book I read when I was younger (about 20years.) It was about a boy who brings TV commercials to life to help fight an alien invasion. Super weird, but it pops back into my ...
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90s or 2000s book about a young girl who somehow found she could access a magical realm
So this is a long shot, as I unfortunately don't remember many details, but I am trying to find a book I read about 20 years ago when I was a kid. I read it in my local library (in the UK) so it would ...
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Young adult murder mystery book series about a cop's daughter who works in the morgue after school
It's about this high school girl. She's a cop's daughter and she works in the morgue after school. Everything is fine until dead bodies start coming into the morgue looking fine on the outside but ...
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Novel with a college age protagonist in a world where something is causing people to be violent
I recently read a blurb somewhere about a book involving a college age protagonist. Something happens to make people turn violent (signal, virus maybe?) and he is forced to run. He is trying to get ...
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series about a boy who has a chip in his brain- he is taken in and hooked up to machines, to be used for years and he loses his memory
I don’t know much about the book, a friend told me about it a couple months ago. But what I remember is that people had chips in their brains and this one character has certain abilities. There’s some ...
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Book about a kid sent to a magic school; the magic system might have been plant-based
I read this book around 2011-2015.
The book had a little kid (unsure of gender sorry) who lived with some kind of older family member, not a parent, who was sent with provisions off to a magic school. ...
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Teen space Sci-Fi book/series that was turned into cartoon, copyright issues with Star Trek
My co-worker is looking for a book/series from probably the 70's or 80's that was turned into a cartoon in the 80's or 90's but both the book and the cartoon ran into copyright issues with Star Trek ...
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YA novel about a male character who discovers he is the son of Lucifer/Satan
This wasn't my question at first, but I'm intrigued about the series, so I'm asking for this person and myself.
There are at least 5 books in the series, and the 5th one was released in 2018. There ...
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Book where the populace is split between two sects, that of the “hand” and that of the “mind"
I am searching for a certain fictional book. In it the populace is split between two sects, that of the “hand” and that of the “mind.” Modern technologies and things that could be considered ...
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Book series about a guy who is saved from an assassin by a crew, taken to their lair and taught magic, before being sent back in time
Looking for a series of books featuring sci-fi, time-travel and magic that I read around 10 years ago.
Plot points I remember:
Book opens up with the MC having a family and living in a well-guarded ...
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Science fiction book about a world where bioengineered animals are used for common functions
A novel/book from the 90's. Society used genetically modified animals to perform basic tasks. For example, birds were genetically modified to be large enough to carry passengers like our passenger ...
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Sci-Fi book about an Indian warrior on a mission in a post apocalyptic earth
I read a Sci-Fi book about a post apocalyptic earth. An American Indian singer became very popular and made billions of dollars. He invested his fortune into indigenous people of earth. They were ...
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Sci-fi book I read in 1989 where most people live in arcologies, but some people live outside clinging to the tower grapples and harnesses [duplicate]
I read this book in 8th grade, it may have been an young-adult novel.
I think the main character makes their living by recording 'news' on the outside, and by maybe being a courier.
The key features ...
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Dystopian book series about teenage girl who didn't die on her "death date"
I read a series of books around 2020 (the latest one was released whilst I was reading).
It was about a teen girl who lived in a world where you found out the day you died, your 'death date'. There ...
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