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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A book where a woman adopts children from the woods and finds out they are shifters
She is a park ranger or something like that. She then later meets a guy who also turns out to be a shifter.
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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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Young adult series about a boy who travels to a planet of intelligent dogs
There was a series of YA/kids books I read in grade school (late 70s, early 80s) about a science curious boy who would get into a series of adventures with his friends. I think these adventure were ...
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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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Book about a girl who cannot touch people
The book was about a girl or perhaps princess who could not either touch people or be touched. Then later she meets a boy and they fall in love then accidentally end up touching but nothing ends up ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Book of Irish fairy stories, including a story about a girl who rescues her father from selkies after he harms one
When I was young I often listened to books on tape during car rides. One that I have fond memories of was an audiobook with a collection of Irish folk/fairy stories. I was hoping someone would know ...
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