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 Identification: Gamebook about a kid stuck in a science museum after closing
I remember reading this book as a kid, so it must have been published before 2012. The book is a choose your own adventure style, or a game book where you choose the next step in the story by flipping ...
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Looking for dystopian novel with a terraplane race [duplicate]
I have a memory of reading a book (in English) in school in the UK during the mid-90s (probably '94 and definitely no later than '96), that was set in a dystopian future, but can't remember the name ...
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1970s teen underground city book
I read this book as a young teenager. It was about a scientist who developed a machine that could tunnel underground they made it so far and they discovered an ancient civilization. The civilization ...
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Fantasy story in which a woman weaves patterns that cause magic
Medieval society; sword-and-sorcery. The woman in question is one of the primary adventurers, but not one of the most important. She could tie ropes in patterns or even hold knotted string stretched ...
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Looking for a SF book about an initially invisible and radioactive spacecraft landing in America, but also Russia [duplicate]
Apologies for my scatterbrained vagueness, but this is my first time doing something like this.
Back in high-school in the mid 2010's, I picked up a sci-fi book from the library that had a 70's sort ...
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Sci-Fi book series where a man awakens to find his brain inside a space probe launched into space
This is a trilogy about a man waking up with his brain implanted into a space probe. His eyes and ears are the sensors. He travels through space learning about the universe.
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Story about two long haul spacecraft traveling parallel
I can't find the name of this story, any help is appreciated. It has two long haul spacecraft traveling parallel. Each is mostly self-sufficient with a small crew. The story is about the events during ...
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Looking for novel about a living museum
I am looking for a book that I have a vague recollection of reading in English at school (mid-1990s, so definitely no more recent than 1996) in the UK, though I am not too sure of many details. Here ...
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Fantasy book series with each book being about a different colored dragon?
Hello I'm looking for a book series that had a different colored dragon on the cover of each book. The background was tan and the dragon was in the center. The ones I remember were red, green, silver, ...
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Children's book series about siblings going on adventures and running from enemies [closed]
I don't remember much other than the cover. I mostly just remember the cover being a beige border, and in the center, a green archer possibly riding a horse chasing after a boy and girl (siblings). I ...
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Book about a boy traveling to another world through a bag
Looking for a book where the main character, a boy, has a satchel/book bag made of leather maybe, and travels to another world through it. Also another entrance to the world is through this old man's ...
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YA book about girl who goes to an alien exchange school
I read this book on my Kindle so I have no memory of the cover, but I read it in 2015 or 2016 (I was in the 6th grade). It's about a girl who is suddenly uprooted to go to an alien school as their ...
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Looking for a book about the end of the world
I'm looking for a book, it's about the end of the world. They find a crystal pyramid underneath a pyramid in Egypt, the ocean goes solid they find Atlantis.
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Scifi fantasy book - miniature people riding insect shaped vehicles
I read this book when I was a teen, in the early 2000s. It is a book about a boy waking up and suddenly he is in a society of miniature people. This society of small people ride advanced vehicles ...
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Kids book about children who discover they can manipulate elements with their minds
Here's everything that I remember about it since it was a long time ago:
It was a kids book, probably middle school level
It was about kids of a younger age who find out that they can create certain ...
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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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Book with black and white witches
All I remember is that there are two sides. Pretty sure they were something to do with black and white witches
One of them is half white half black
All I remember is he kills a lot of people and ends ...
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Book about a boy and girl in a city with evil gods
I can't remember this book title but I really want to reread it. It has a blue and gold cover and was published in or around 2019. It has a pretty short title from what I remember.
It is about a boy ...
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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 [closed]
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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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 ...
