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Peculiar family mystery from the back shelves of my primary school Hi all, hope you re all well! I have a book that has been in the back of my mind for years, and i remember enjoying it thoroughly. I think i read this book in year three (ages 7 8) and the target reader was probably around that also. I believe the cover was dark blue around the edges with light blue in the middle ( kind of like a night time theme) and if i remember correctly which i may not the author had a t or an s in their name. Now onto the content. (Some of this may be wrong as it has been well over a decade now but hopefully it will jog some memories). The story was of a bizzare family community who lived in a large house surrounded by a high wall. I believe the protaganist was a young girl who was quite brave as she ended up having to solve this mystery. I think some people in the family ended up having been murdered and she had to find out who was doing it. I remember that more and more people ended up dead so it was a kind of race against time. I know all of their names were peculiar and modelled around their personalities. I don t recall much else aside from them finding a hole in the wall and their being a fight on the roof. I hope this is enough to remind someone! Thank you!!

Book where a girl begins seeing ghost after her best friend dies From what I remember, in the very beginning of this book, the main character is driving with her brother (Michael?), her best friend (pretty sure it's Jenna) and maybe someone else. At one point Jenna turns around to look at her (mc) and at that moment their car is t boned and they get in a huge wreck. As the girl crawls from the wreckage she sees Jenna's ghost, as Jenna had been killed (I believe instantly) in the crash. After this day she begins seeing more ghosts, and her brother suffers from claustrophobia becuase he was the one driving the car? I believe most of the story takes place on a trip their family takes to England around a year after?

Children's picture book about a mouse looking for a place to stay This was in my 1st grade classroom back in the early 2000s, but I have no idea when it was published sorry. I remember the cover being predominantly green and featuring the mouse mc. IIRC, the story followed a young boy mouse who was looking for a new place to live. He might have been moving out of his family's house or running away? He comes across multiple potential houses but either gets chased out by other animals or discovers it has some kind of unacceptable problem. One of the places he found was a china teapot that might have been partially broken, but I believe he was chased out of that one. He also found a lamp post but had to run away when it got dark out and the light bulb turned on. There may have been a moth in that part too. There might have also been some kind of box, maybe a matchbox or sardine can? I also vaguely remember him having an unusual name, but take that with a grain of salt bc idk what 1st grade me considered unusual. I've tried finding this on my own several times over the years, hopefully one of you know! TYIA!

Book about a teenager whos friend was madeup as a trauma response or something but helps her cope with high school I read this book about 4 5 years ago i think. its about a teenager in high school going through and dealing with high school dramas like eating lunch alone. i remember predominantly her being in the theater area of the school. its about a girl and her best friend until one day she finds out her friend isnt real and she was created as a trauma response. she reads like an article about her being dead and then realizes it. please help!

Book about a kid who goes to a factory that has a eye on it. The factory controls the different parts of sleep I also remember a part where to trick his parents that he is asleep or to trick his teachers, he has a inflatable body double that deflates when he steps on its foot.

Looking for LitRPG GameLit book Looking for a book in which the MC "wins" a contest set up by his favorite streamer to win a VR pod game. The MC's female best friend knows the streamer and persuaded her to have MC win the contest, as well as use her username in the VR game to try and build a relationship with the MC without their friendship getting in the way. Think the streamer's username is Sky, Skye, or something similar. Almost positive I found it on Kindle. It isn't an apocalyptic story or anything like that as the VR pod is left and returned to throughout the story. The MC chooses a mage class while his best friend and the streamer choose a fighter and ranger. The MC begins to be able to cast his in game spells outside of the game by the end of the book.

Coming of age novel about 4 teens in North London (specifically Camden) I remember parts of this book so specifically each chapter was from one of the main character s point of view and the title of the chapter was a song title there was a gay character who was friends with another girl main character and he was bursting to explore what it was like to be gay in London but was kind of shy and I think maybe fell in love with a straight character they were either at a college or some sort of extra curricular drama group thing there was a part I remember vividly where the gay character described how he couldn t stomach to see his friend s mum smoke so incessantly, first thing in the morning despite being a smoker himself along the way, the friendships that were established at the beginning change and evolve as the book progresses I m pretty sure it has a black background on the cover I would have read this as a teen, so going on mid to late 00s (which is sad for me to realise...)

Nobility must wear masks, body disposed of in urn jar amphora I read a part of this book about 20 years ago. I don t even remember if I finished it. Basically, all nobility must wear masks. I don t remember if this is all the time, or only when around lesser castes, but I think that the nobility may also have been regarded as minor deities. The main character was the son of a nobleman who was raised on a harsh coastal frontier of sorts where this rule wasn t as strictly followed. The only other details I can remember is that the main character got sent to the capitol, and started a relationship with one of the princes or similarly high ranked man and at some point, someone got murdered and stuffed into some sort of large urn like container. Solved! Solved! Solved! Many Thanks to u julieputty

story about Ballet dancers from Italian Renaissance hunted by poltical pedophiles. I don't remember well but i was reading a book in which there is this group of politicians who are pedophiles and usually go to a see ballet almost frequently where the politicians are said to have interest in ballet dance but they rape the children. the location of the story is based in France at the time of Italian Renaissance.

kids teen fiction book loosely based on Jack and the Beanstalk Okay, I remember reading this book from my elementary school library. I read this book around 2010 2013. I could be off by a year or two. The book was part of a series. I vaguely remember the plot being that this girl was transported to this fairy tale world where she met Jack, like from Jack and the Beanstalk. I think they started off hating each other, but then they eventually became friends. They teased each other a lot. They met some other fairy tale characters and creatures. I remember the book cover having this beanstalk on it and the two characters were hanging onto it around the top of it. You could barely see them, they were so high up. They were looking down. I distinctly remember there was this one word that took up almost the entire book cover. I cannot remember if that word was the full title or not. Towards the end of the book, there was like a picture of them on a boat with a horse as a hint towards their next adventure. I appreciate any leads!

Aliens come to earth looking for warriors This is a science fiction book. A trilogy I believe. Read the first one probably 20 years ago and cant remember the name. Starts out with a guy on his boat in the Caribbean. He is visited by friendly aliens. This group of aliens is fighting another group that is lead controlled by aliens that have mind control powers that dont work on humans.

Nostalgic book about various plants I was around the age of 9 10 11 when I read it (2010ish). Never bought, was a hand me down. Interactive, educational hardcover book about plants (trees, mushrooms, fungi, mold, etc) with a plant on cover. Old publication date, maybe 1960s, 70s, 80s, etc. Had stories about witches and night mushrooms (?) and about how pigs help sniff out truffles. Also had an interactive maze map trail of trees and their leaf types that you (reader) had to go through and name them to get from start to finish. Had beatiful images of Japanese gardens in it. I also remember an image of a moldy orange towards the end of it. Around 30 50 pages total. Any help or tips are greatly appreciated!!

Short fiction where main character overdoses on a drug that kills their ego, leaving them with a completely different personality after recovering consciousness I remember reading a PDF of a short story that was floating around the rationalist community that was really intriguing. Here's what I remember Length It was fairly short, 30 pages or so. Single column PDF i think. Could have been from a scifi magazine site? The drug The story revolves around how there's a drug that induces dissociation ego death (i forget the name of it, had a name with a flavor like "slip" or "ego k" or something, idk) When taken once or twice, your conscious mind stops working for a few hours and your body just walks around on automatic impulses, letting you live for a while without having to consciously control yourself. However, if you overdose, your conscious mind begins to lose memories and time, and with heavy use, you might not ever "wake up" cause your ego can't "find its way back." The brain, naturally doing what it does, then builds out a new personality out of thin air to take control. Folks who OD'd on the drug go into a comatose period and then wake up completely changed, with different personalities, value systems, different preferred names, and feel little resemblance to their former selves. I recall vividly how the story was written from the main character's point of view after OD'ing. They remembered their previous name, and they still shared memories with their previous self, but there was a strong sense of derealization that their former memories weren't "theirs." Their parents were trying to take them to therapy to "recover" the old child they knew, but this was a source of conflict because the new self feels they should be given a new chance to live without former expectations. I forget many details about the character. I think they might have been a well adjusted young girl before their experience? and then after OD'ing on the drug, the author drops subtle hints that the main character probably prefers to present a more masculine identity after (eg. the character cut their hair short, asked to be called a different name, thinks of themselves either as more butch or more masculine). Their parents were very unsupportive of "losing their nice young daughter," which becomes a source of resentment and conflict. I think at the end of the story, the character chooses to run away from their parents maybe. There are very strong queer trans undertones for a reader who's attuned to picking up on that sort of thing. IIRC the therapist in the book uses a metaphor to describe the drug. The therapist describes your personality ego as a self important duke (or drummer? or some monarch?) that attempts to rule over the subconscious, and the way that the drug in the story works is by "blocking" the duke from being able to access the palace for a while. So, the kingdom runs normally. But, after intense use, the therapist describes how the duke gets lost in your mind somewhere, and so a new duke (personality ego consciousness) eventually rises to power. I had read this book after dabbling around the chaos magic or rationalist community? I had probably searched around for fiction related to terms like ego, superego, consciousness subconsciousness selfconscious, ego death, MDMA, that sort of thing

Help me find a kids young adult book? It had the word cringe as part of the title and I m pretty sure the main character s name was Amaryllis. Basically she finds her family cringy and stuff. I don t know how else to explain it coz last time I read it I was 10 (16 years ago) lol. Pls help

short story fiction where health nut mom gets cancer and daughter is a baker This story I remember reading in junior high I think either as a story in my English textbook or as something my teacher printed off and gave to everyone. So it was read between 2014 2017. The plot is that this teenager who likes baking has a health nut mom and stuff. One day, the mom comes home while the daughter is making something unhealthy (the only time the daughter can eat unhealthily is when her mom's not home). The daughter expects the mom to be angry but she just asks for some. This is very out of character for the mom and the daughter hesitantly gives her mom some. The mom loves it. I also remember peanut butter banana something. So maybe the daughter was baking something with that included. Anyway, the mom then tells her daughter that she just came back from the doctor's and found out she has cancer and despite eating healthy and trying to stay healthy, she still got cancer. It ends around there with the mom and daughter eating the daughter's baked goods.

Trying to remember a book around the idea of burgers and shakes It might be a dream or a movie I watched but I remember reading a book or short story when I was in elementary school. It was about a boy and his brother going through a trial or ritual to become an adult (something around those lines). They had to survive with other boys for a 7 day period and then they can come home. The boy came across a diner, snuck in and ate a burger. The owner thought he was a criminal but over the 7 days, fed him burgers and shakes. In exchange, the boy washed dishes. I just remember at the end of the story, whenever I stopped reading it, the boy's parents asked what he ate and he responded with "burgers and shakes". This might be way over the top and somewhere deep in my memory but I hope I don't seem crazy.

YA fiction dystopian book about the Gulfstream catching ash spreading it all over while a family flees to a cabin I read this book around 2010, paper cover, I don't remember what the art looked like. story is from the perspective of a young male on the east coast. An eruption happens on the west coast and ash goes into the Gulfstream going all over. He visits someone in a hospital care center as well before the family beings to flee to a safe cabin.

A man followed by rain uses it to charge cities for rain, or no rain. I m nearly certain this is a side plot in a novel by Chuck Palahniuk or Neil Gaiman, but essentially there s a guy (who I think is a salesman) who has been followed by rain his entire life. He keeps a notebook full of different names he has for types of rain, from drizzle to downpour and everything in between. He finally comes to the idea that he can charge cities to end their droughts or water their crops or NOT show up during a parade. For the life of me I cannot remember what book this is from and my internet searches have been no help. I thought it was from Lulliby, but I don t have that book anymore and none of my searches could confirm that. Does this sound familiar?

A book about a young ghost boy who plays the fiddle? I remember reading this book back in grade 4. it was above my grade level, maybe about grade 7 8 level reading but from what I remember, it was a collection of short stories in the horror section (if I remember correctly, there was also a story about a babysitter?). Anyway, I've been trying to find this book for about a week now and I'm completely stumped, the name of the author feels like it's on the tip of my tongue. From what I remember, there's a little ghost boy who played the fiddle in his room (I think he'd sometimes cry, as well) while the rest of his ghost family played outside? I honestly don't know if I'm getting this right, all I can tell you for sure is that its part of a collection of scary stories, and the MC would watch this ghost boy play the fiddle. As I'm typing this, I think I've remembered another thing she woke up from a dream in tears and it had something to do with the death of the fiddle boy. This is probably the worst explanation ever, but I'm trying my best. This book is super important to me, I hope I can find it soon.

Children's book about a girl and her pet tiger I read this in the early 2000s but got it second hand from my older siblings so it couldn't have been published any later than the mid to late 90s. That being said, a lot of our books growing up were given to us by my grandma who used children's books to teach ESL classes so it could have been made before the 90s if that's where we got it from. It was an illustrated children's book about a girl and her pet tiger. I believe the entire plot of the story was the girl going through her day with the tiger. Don't remember much of the story but there was a point where the tiger gets excited and spills jam (or jelly) on itself and has to get a bath. As far as visuals go, I'm pretty sure the illustrations were inked then colored with watercolors. The tiger was anthropomorphic in a sort of childish cartoony way and acted really goofy. I also remember it being bipedal and roughly the size of the girl. Books I've already checked that weren't it Emily's Tiger There's a Tiger in the Garden The Tiger who Came to Tea (Possibly close to what I'm thinking of, but the art is not the same.) The Dancing Tiger When You Trap a Tiger Tiger Wild Gracie Grabbot and the Tiger My Mum's a Tiger Goodnight Tiger Calvin and Hobbes

YA Kids novel about a young girl that i think moves to hawaii super vague i know, my memory is not the best. i remember the cover art having the main character (young girl) in a blue floral hawaiian outfit? the title was something like starring .as herself . i read this in elementary school so around 2009 maybe, i really dont remember much but i very much remember a scene where she is eating lunch at her new school and they are serving spaghetti but she absolutely hates spaghetti and has to eat it anyways because thats all she has for lunch. i remember this novel being set older as well, like 40s or 50s? i worry i may be confusing for something else though. fully understandable if this is too vague to find but i remember really enjoying it and i would like to explore it again, thank you much.

Children s picture book about a mouse who goes sailing, is shipwrecked and saved by a whale I read it in the mid 90s but it was already quite an old book, maybe as old as the 60s. The mouse later saves the whale when he is beached, by recruiting some elephants. It s a really sweet book that I d love to find again

Horror novel about a haunted demonic apartment block with internal garbage chute. I read this one about 10 years ago in a modern horror compilation on my Kindle (with a few Brett McBean novels as well). It's set in the modern day (post 90s), and details a public housing block which is feeding on or murdering the residents. It is not a house ala Amityville Horror. Possibly set in the UK. I can vividly remember a deep and cavernous garbage chute or septic tank where several victims met their demise. I believe the novel opens with a pet (cat?) going missing. From memory, the climax of the novel occurs in a storm or power outage, with one of the characters either braving a snowstorm or dying of hypothermia. Thanks for reading, hope one of you remember it (because I barely do).

Children's book about a peanut butter monster. A boy runs out of peanut butter and has to join forces with a peanut monster to find the peanut butter mountain. Everyone must yell "I love peanut butter" in order to get access to it. Please help, this is driving me insane I need to remember what the title is.

A man moves to a small town and finds that something mysterious is looking out for him. From what I remember this guy was depressed, or downtrodden. He moved to a small town and found that something or someone mysterious was guiding him or looking out for him. This wasn t a fantasy type book more about a man finding meaning in life again. The mysterious thing was never figured out but I remember vaguely that he would see signs of her in the juke box at the local diner or in the phone lines that hadn t been set up at his new house. That mysterious figure may have been what guided him to that town in the first place but I can t remember if that s exactly true or not. Any information or suggestions would help, thank you!

A book where the main character is hit by a flash of light and shows up in a different place planet. I read this book 9 years ago. Basically the main character suddenly gets hit by a flash of light and shows up somewhere else like a different time period or planet. There was another person from Earth like the main character who also gets hit by a light and ends up there. I also remember the main character being male.

Romance novel about a young woman sent by her uncle for corporate espionage. She botched her interview but still ended up sleeping with the ceo unbeknownst to her. I m trying to recall the book I read in the early 2000 s. I don t recall the cover at all, name of the author or the characters. The story was that the young lady s father got laid off from the university and she stepped up to help look for a job to not lose their house. She ended up reaching out to her uncle who sent her to his competition s office to apply for a job to leak info so he can outbid his opponent. She intentionally bombed her interview claiming she wants to be the president of the company as her goal. On her way back, she tripped and landed on mud dirt and the CEO helped her treat her injuries but she assumed he s a maintenance guy. She went to a party with him and ended up sleeping with him. She gets hired and finds out he s the CEO and tried to ignore him. In turn, he tried to make her jealous and she decided to quit. He of course wouldn t allow it and finally admits his feelings. Just when things were going well, her uncle asks for info or else he ll expose her as his mistress. She falsifies bid numbers but was caught on camera by security passing info therefore accused of being a spy. The CEO casts her out refusing to listen to her. She walks in the rain to a mutual friend who owns an Italian restaurant who believes her. And drama, drama, drama... In the end, everyone tried to show him he was wrong and he needs to get her back. Ending, he goes to her house begs father to let him talk to her and apologize. Happy ending and the end.

Novel about a man in an upstairs room (maybe attic) writing a book, whilst watching a ship on the sea out of his window, only the ship and sea may not exist and he might be going insane (or possibly already insane and imagining the writer's life whole book up to the point of discovery). I think I read this about 20 or so years ago, either in England or in Canada, borrowed from a library. The main character was male, he may have had a female friend who tried to visit, but I don't think he let her in? Or he did at the end and that was where the reveal came? Very possibly set somewhere on the Mediterranean, but I could be mis remembering. It's also possible the ending left it up to the reader to decide if the main character was unhinged or not. Or maybe not, as I remember it being a twist.

Historical Romance Novel with Pink Purple Haired Heroine I posted all this 7 months ago, but maybe I'll get lucky this time around! I remember so much about this book it's annoying I can't find it online. TW Abuse The book was blue with a purple gem on the cover. I read this in the early 2000s, but was probably from the 90s. The main character, despite this being a non fantasy story, was continually mentioned to have hair with purple pink highlights, or that shown mahogany, that sort of thing. The story was that she was escaping some Duke Lord OtherTitle that was her stepfather or something. Who had a penchant for castrating his enemies and wanted to do horrible things to the herione. Once her mother dies she was sent to live with (with her maid) some gentlemen who turned out to be gt !the actual Duke, but whose position had been usurped by the terrible man mentioned above, after the hero had been left for dead after a failed castration. His right hand man was not so lucky, as he was castrated (but lived). Of course said heroine falls in love with said actual Duke. And hey! I think the maid ends up with the right hand man. Happy endings for all. Cept the baddie of course.! lt Other things I remember There was another girl in the book who had three moles on her top lip and thus was considered very sexy.The Hero can't find the heroine after he meets her, until he sees her painting in a gallery. The painting is called something like "The Street Charlatan" because she refused to sit unless she was paid for it. The painter painted her from memory. Edit Removed the crosspost bit as I did the link all wrong.

Fantasy Graphic Novel about a maid disguised as the princess Studio Ghibli vibes The book was in a series but I only read the first one. It s a full color, fantasy graphic novel. The main character is a maid servant who is dressed up as the princess, they both look very similar (East Asian, long black hair, very pretty). The real princess uses the maid to fill in for her so she can go have fun without anyone realizing she's missing. One day the princess comes home and wakes up the maid (who spends most of her time sleeping in the princess' bed). The princess sends the maid off on an adventure to fight a war try to stop it. The book is set in a fantasy land with magic and talking animals (I m pretty sure the maid has a frog companion). I can t remember much about the plot but the artwork was beautiful and very colorful, it had a similar style to Studio Ghibli. The author was East Asian, I don t think they were Japanese but I can t 100 remember. I read it 10 years ago when I got the book for Christmas, it's hard to describe a graphic novel because I remember the art style and characters, but I can't copy and paste the pictures from my memory Edit the maid and the princess are childhood friends SOLVED It's Neotopia

Book of man living past lives The details are a little hazy, but there was an older book I read about a man in England living through his past lives in a dream like state. The cover had something resembling a hypnotic wheel illustration on the cover. Among the lives were him living during Atlantis as a God, being a soldier during world war 2, being an egyptian king, and also being a female warrior who wanted to be a man. I believe this book was published in the 60's 70's.

Book about ghosts that haven't passed on (Not Everlost or Deep Dark and Dangerous) Hello! So I remember a lot of details about this book, including the name, the problem is the name is super generic and I can't find it. It's called Ghost, so you can probably see why this has been difficult. The book takes place in a house, where five ghosts reside. One of whom is slowly sucking the energy from the other four, trying to extend her 'life' in the real world. The four ghosts she drains from are a young man, woman, boy and girl, I know that far, no names sadly. In like the first or second chapter a single mom and her son move into said house. I know that the son has asthma, and can also see the ghosts. The one who is draining from others can directly talk to the son, and I think possesses his mom at one point in the book? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

1980s Kids Bedtime Stories Collection Here is what I remember about it Oversized, thick book. Normal heavyweight paper for the pages. The base color of the cover was white, but had a number of characters from the stories on it Title had "365" and either "Bedtime Stories" or "Fairy Tales" in it, though I think it might have been "Bedtime Stories" The majority of the stories were VERY short, sometimes just a few paragraphs. Seemed to have lean toward English folk tale types, with a Scandinavian type ones as well (lots of gnomes and dudes with pointy hats) I don't recall a lot of magic or supernatural stuff, just sweet, simple tales with a moral. NOT religiously oriented, no Bible stories. Likely published in the early 80s, maybe late 70s (I was born in '82, and I remember it from when I first started to read) Please help! I've looked everywhere that I can think of and I am getting nowhere. I'd love to find a copy for my youngest stepson.

Sci Fi book. 30 years old maybe older. Moon colony, male main character returns to earth, finds his dad finds out moon people are lied to. Posting for a friend. The problem is, that he doesnt has much information and details are blurry ) I already searched around and gave him links that help finding books too, but thought i ll give this subreddit a chance! Friend is from a german speaking country (not sure if this helps). Says the book is probably not very famous known. STORY Moon colony people believe something happened to earth, thats why they moved to the moon. Main character has to go back to earth for some reason, finds out that its probably not like he think it is got told. finds his dad and then maybe revolution starts(?)... update with more info my friend said, though this might be "propaganda". its not the earth people lying to moon people. Its rather that there is something wrong on the moon society. If i get more info from friend, i ll update.. UPDATE paperback book. not very thick. friend thinks its a male author. book was read in 1990ies, could be first published 1970 80 or maybe even older...

Thrill Mystery book about a kidnapped girl who wakes up without being able to remember anything. Her kidnappers ripped out her nails, she believed her brother was dead because her kidnappers made her touch a dead chimp. I believe this is what caused her to lose her memory. She finds a boy at the mall who helps her, I believe his name was Ty. I read this when I was about 11 13 so somewhere between 2013 and 2016. It was a short book, no more than 300 pages. Al i remember extremely well is that it ends with her kissing the boy that helped her in the cold air. I hope we can find it )

Neo Nazi Jewish girl in concentration camp Thinking of a book where a neo Nazi and her boyfriend are on a motorbike and crash, the girl is in a coma and slips between her neo Nazi ideals and into a Jewish girl who is caught processed and tried into a concentration and almost death camp. Ends happy, the Jewish girl is rescued at the end of the war and the neo Nazi girl......stops being a neo Nazi

Teen Boy whose parents were spies and the villian has metal plates in his face. My brother and I remember this comic in middle school in Canada in the 2010s. It was quite graphic and was about a blonde boy and he goes on missions and has gadgets. One incident he is on a boat when he gets attacked by a shark, another he goes to a soccer game, and he also gets kidnapped by the villians and they strap him to a conveyor belt with a grinder on the end. He gets away and the protagonist and the 'mentor' defeat the bad guy by crushing him with a giant magnet.

Fiction novel about survivors of a plane crash I read this book in either 2007 or 2008, and I really only remember a few details. There was a plane crash with a handful of survivors, I think including a little boy and a doctor. The survivors made it to a cabin on a mountain. There was a woman who ended up having a piece of the plane embedded in her side from the crash and they had to perform emergency surgery to take it out and save her life. I distinctly remember they had to numb the wound with snow because they didn t have anything else. I think she got the injury trying to protect the little boy when the plane blew up.

90s 00s Middle Grade Fantasy a quest, a fairy, and bread (???) All the details I remember I read this around middle school so I d guess at mid 90s early 00s for a pub year fantasy book with wizards some sort of magic folk coming of age story for sure MAYBE part of a series??? I have a vague memory that there was a prior book that launches straight into this one and middle school me was overwhelmed with so much action back to back (I felt for the hero can t they just rest?!?) there might be a sidekick?? I m thinking of a male main character who starts the book solo but eventually picks up a female companion who annoys him initially but during their journey they become companions, these roles might be reversed though Plot points the hero (maybe a boy? But I m not sure) has to leave their home to go on a multi step quest which is somehow linked to saving their mother, maybe from a sickness I think they re gathering rare magical items to make a medicinal spell the hero has to complete several trials in the different cultural areas of whatever land the book takes place in (so I d bet there s also a map at the front) one of the trials is that the hero has to find a way to keep a fairy will o the wisp type creature alive in a harsh environment and they decide to carve the creature a cage out of stone it s taking a long time and the hero is getting frustrated because time is of the essence they resolve to just let the creature go on the grounds that it probably knows better how to care for itself than the hero ever will this is the right answer and they pass the test another quest takes the hero to a town famous for their fortifying magical bread, which they must learn to bake. I remember the bread being described as the tastiest thing you ve ever smelled or eaten in your life, and the dough itself is almost ambrosial and looks more like a thick golden liquid than proper bread dough I want to say that passing this test rewards the hero with a flask of the dough to take with them This all I have for now, I ll add anything else I remember I m working on building a library of all the books I loved when I was young and I think about this one all the time but have never had any luck finding a title

YA sci fi people who live in trees and don't have a word for kill All I remember is there is a child who lives in the treetops with her family. Her brother (?) gets mad and says "I want to DEAD you" because they dont have a word for "kill". At some point in the past, there was some kind of civil war and it turns out a bunch of people got banished to the live underground in the roots of the trees... I want to say the child was a girl and she was also telekinetic... Book was 1980s or earlier.

book about girl donating her organs and becoming a ghost it s this book I read a couple years ago it definitely had a blue cover and it was about this girl who died in a car accident (I think she was coming from a party) and her organs were donated and the people that receive her organs she was able to kind of be a ghost in their lives and see them. towards the end of the book they all end up meeting and I m not sure if they realize it was each other or not but I remember one girl who received her liver had a medical emergency was in the hospital and she had talked to one of the other people online and they became friends

Chapter book about a boy trying to figure out the secrets of a magician. All I can remember about this book is that it was a part of a series (3 4 books maybe). One of the covers was a dark grey smoke with a tealish purple background. There was a hand on it. I think another book in the series had a red black theme. But the story centered around this boy finding letters and clues about this magician hiding a dark secret. The book was most like written around the early 2000s. The book was written in English, but the writing was similar to Ronald Dahl ig. The author used made up words and some of the story was nonsense words drawings of the clues the boy found in the book. Maybe had something to do with a top hat??

Scifi book about an interstellar war with an aggressive alien race that bred and ate humans like cattle on captured planets. Fiction, several hundred pages, paperback, pretty sure I got it from the library sometime between 2008 and 2014. Humans were seemingly losing the war to these tentacled abominations but through analysis of enemy ships they encountered, the deduced that they were encountering ships produced from like 5 shipyards over the course of the last few decades and that it was just a large stockpile fleet and that our ability to build new ships was far outstripping theirs i think. When this race captured a human planet, they subjugated the population and literally treated them like cattle, massive corrals and pens for herds of humans, forced breeding because children were a delicacy. My best recollection of a description to the aliens was a mix between a lymphocytic macrophage, and an octopus. This also decribes how they ate humans, alive and whole. I know the method of interstellar travel had either something to do with a wormhole network or something similar because several battles involved minefields around said wormholes and missile barrages through said wormholes, like attacking the gate of a castle. Humans and aliens both used antimatter based ordnance, humans had fighters and shuttles as attack craft. the fighters could be equipped with repeating laser weaponry for dogfighting or to be more effective against capital ships, they used single use antimatter fueled beam weapons that would cut through shields, and hull and anything else that got in their way. The aliens used suicide tactics to extreme effect because a single small shuttle sized craft, packed with antimatter, could cripple or destroy a capital sized ship and then at one point, the human pilots of the shuttles specifically pointing out how high their casualty rate was already, begged to be allowed to at least die usefully and commence such suicide tactics themselves. I don't remember a single character, but i think the protag was male, not 100 sure...

ya novel about a boy who had an accident on the swings and it resulted in photographic memory? i read this book maybe 4 years ago in elementary school? i remember him finding this girl from his childhood when he moved to a new school. i think he moved with his mom because his dad or someone was after him?? at some point im pretty sure someone forced him to copy down credit card numbers or something because of his memory,, any leads are appreciated!!

YA book where a fat girl ends up in a skinny girl body, not body swap just wakes up as a new girl? I remember the scene where she eats an ice cream in front of construction workers and gets catcalled and she likes it, because old fat her got dirty looks for being a slob before. I think she gets a job modeling? She never goes back to old fat life, and she didn t swap lives with anyone, she just woke up skinny amp pretty one day

70s 80s kids book...miss worth (?) lady in a dress walking at night on cover Okay help me out please. I am trying to find a book I used to read in elementary school, in the 80s. I want to say it was Miss Shuttlesworth or Miss something worth but I can t find anything in google. It was short like 14ish pages, had pictures, and on the cover it was night time, the lady was wearing a dress. It was nighttime on the cover, she s walking down the street and there are 2 buildings.

Fantasy (?) Novel where a character is heavily implied to be D B Cooper At one point the main character gets stranded out in the equivalent of the alaskan wilderness (there weren't many region names, and I don't think the planet was named in the book, so it may have been supposed to be literally alaska or canada or such. wintery forests year round) and was rescued by a man named only Dan, who brought them back to an abandoned army fort where he lived alone with his sled dogs, never seeing anyone except for once every few months when he'd go to the nearest town for supplies. (this was the book's excuse to keep the main character there, both to heal and that he'd take the MC into town next supply run.) There were hints at Dan being D B Cooper all over, casually mentioned as minor details that intrigued the MC parachutes used as supply covers, Dan referencing being out there decades, that he's wanted by the law, plenty of money for supplies despite never working or leaving his home base (so much that he didn't know what to do with it out there), and when the MC finally headed out, he sent them with a large packet revealed to be a lot of cash, with the note to be careful where he spends it. He's never actually stated to be though, nor is D B Cooper ever brought up, I just remember going "hey that all sounds like it fits together" and googling D B and being shocked at how blatant it was. I don't remember much of any of the overarching plot or setting of the book unfortunately, or even anything about the main character, not even their gender. I feel like was one of those books that I should have read ages ago but only got around to in the past year, but take that with a grain of salt, a bunch of the books i read in 2020 were like that so i'm not completely sure. Definitely young adult novel at the oldest age range, although it could be slightly younger. Title says maybe fantasy because i can't remember if it was fantastical or just fictional, most books i read have some element of Fantasy fantasy, but i don't remember anything fantastical happening during the MC's time with "Dan" (and i also recently read the golden compass for the first time, similar winter forest fort vibes so it could be throwing me off)

YA Children s Book about haunted toys and dolls About 10 years ago I read a book in elementary school about a young girl who received a toy catalogue and ordered a toy from the catalogue. I remember the toy or doll being creepy and alive and she wanted to return it and returns weren t allowed. Then more toys began arriving from the catalogue. I m pretty sure it had a long title but I have no idea what it was called.I m pretty sure it had something to do with the name of the catalogue company.

Help me find Cinderella "spin off" book My sister and I both remember reading a book when we were young (I believe it was actually owned by Disney) and the plot was about Cinderella and a cake making contest at the palace. Her stepsisters wanted to win the contest and used all of the ingredients and made a mess that Cinderella had to clean up before making her own, smaller cake which had cute little flowers on it (I also remember thinking it looked delicious as a 4 year old) and I think she won the contest. We've searched all over google for it and no luck!

Hard cover, navy blue color with illustration of bones on cover, scary, ghost story plot line. Hello, I ve been going crazy trying to recall the title of a book I read in elementary school around 2014 2015. I remember it being super scary and the POV of a child living in an old house where the floor boards are creaky and there s a ghost of some kind the child is concerned with living in the house. I can remember vaguely a part in the book where the door on the child s room was locked from the outside. It would be great if anyone could help me out thank you ) !

A fictional novel in which the MC is somewhere in the American west, possibly traveling, with multiple references conversations about the 'world turtle' The 'world turtle' is a myth in a few different cultures that says that the world is carried on the back of a large turtle. That also makes the earth 'turtle island.' I believe there was one particular world turtle conversation that was pretty lengthy and I think it took place in or near some sort of studio. It was near the end of the book and I think it was meant to act as a sort of revelation turning point for the main character. There also may be another character the MC is with who is sort of a mentor guardian figure??? They were wise. Thematically, the book has a lot of native american influence (mesoamerica and or native american) but it's set in a modern time. I THINK there was also something about a shop with dream catchers in it somewhere in maybe Arizona. I also remember that on the front book jacket summary the author used the word 'piss' or some variation. The book cover is a deep yellow yellow orange with a circular mandala esque design of what I remember to be very mesoamerican design elements. The title had a long word in it that I think was a name from mesoamerican mythology. I first read this book eight or nine years ago, give or take some years. It was definitely published before 2013 and it was likely still a newer book between 2010 and 2012. I know my description is scant, but any help in finding it would be greatly appreciated!

A fantasy book where a male school aged protagonist is caught up in another world dimension through a portal magical tower that had "every architectural feature." I remember some memorable lines... a female character saying at one point they had a "frog in their throat," but like, in a literal sense. As well as a part in the book where the protagonist is stuck in a dark pit, and he encounters a being that gives him advice on how to escape. The being was suffering an eternal punishment where its eyes would be gouged out every day at the same time, only to grow back by the next day. At the start of the book, there was some exposition of these stalwart beings defending something in another dimension, possible time related. There was possibly a clock face on the cover of the book. I was just a kid picking up a random book at my local library. I think it was a bit beyond my level at the time, but I powered through. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be eternally grateful. amp x200B EDIT SOLVED. WHAT THE HELL. I'm not sure if this was just a "gimme," but I have been STRUGGLING to find this for the longest time, and I was sure my young memories were not nearly sufficient to find it. Awesome lol. Thanks to u linden214 this was definitely "Mister Monday," of the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix.

Space exploration leads crew to a space ship of unknown origins. I started to read this book when I was in 8th grade 2004 2005. It was in my English teachers library. The setting was in the future and took place in space. Started on Earth did the character intros and then went into the plot of the book. It starts off with a meeting with a the person they want to be the pilot, not sure of his background I think he was retired military. He then meets the rest of the crew.( I don't remember any details of the crew.) The next part is the crew traveling around known space to the one of the planets that they visit has a race that resembles ewoks. (I don't know if I made the connection to them being like ewoks or if the book did. It was not a Star Wars book.) The next location that I vaguely remember is a planet with two dead giant bodies in a house like structure. The last location is a deserted unknown space ship with a passage way that didn't have a floor walls or ceiling that caused someone to fall for a while till they hit something and broke their leg. I think the falling part was like the infinite falling loop from portal, not sure if it was though. Only got through half to 2 3rd of the book.

YA? fiction. Blue cover, special school, snowdrop imagery, trauma recovery I think I read this book in 2017 or 2018, purchased from Big W YA section for any Aussies who might find that helpful. It had a bright blue paperback cover, maybe with a snowdrop on the front. I think it also involved a special school, possibly for acting or art or something similar. The main character experienced some trauma, vaguely remember it being an attack? at a museum or art gallery. There was imagery that stuck with me surrounding snowdrops as the first flower of spring. I would have been 17 or 18 at the time and it was age appropriate, if a little heartbreaking. It was a novel, probably around 300 400 pages. This has been bothering me for literally weeks if anyone else has read it I would be so grateful lol.

SciFi novel prior to 1975 about cowboy or soldier who either finds a cave or falls into a hole to find a society with fragile scientists ruling over primitive slaves entire underground Update Solved. I believe the story I read was one of Richard Shaver s Mystery stories. I haven t found the exact one yet (there are quite a few) but from reading a couple I am sure of the match in style. Thank you u Microscopic cat I remember reading this book sometime before 1975 (date given to exclude newer books only). Here are the only details I recall A man who is either a old west cowboy or a soldier (civil war era) becomes lost during a battle. He stumbles into a hidden cave or falls into a hole of some kind, not sure which. The upshot he is rescued by some folks living underground, completely I know and separate from the rest of the world. I can t recall how which group he encounters first but he discovers a society living entirely below ground. The ruling class are these frail scientists, in wheelchairs and what not, who have some moderately advanced tech. The other class are the workers who are normal but not scientifically advanced and are essentially enslaved by the scientist rulers. He is a man out of time and place. Of course there is a damsel who falls for him. He eventually sides with the enslaved, damsel included, to help them overthrow the scientists. At the end he finds a way back up out. I could have misremembered some elements but those are the basics. Any help identifying this book would be most welcome and appreciated. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Dystopian book about evil leaders convincing humanity s remains that the outside world is dangerous and air is poisoned. YA Fiction, protagonist is a girl, kind of dystopian? Basically, humanity is divided so they all live in massive concrete cube like houses. Children, teens and adults all in their respective groups. Protag is around 17 18, soon moving to the adult wing. She also has a girl friend who isn t very positive about their ways of live, just as the protag. The leaders say that they are in the cube like houses because the air is poisonous. This turns out to be a lie. There is also a boy in the house that turns out to be from the outside. Every morning they all stand in line and take a pill that kind of makes them go numb unable to think for themselves, aka lack the ability to critisize their way of living. Protag girl and mysterious boy from the outside manage to escape. Ends with the protag girl living with some guy on the outside ( unclear if it s the original mysterious boy ). In the end they want to go back to the cube like houses to free more people. Read around 2016 2017 but unaware if the release date was way older. Book is translated to different languages, example swedish. Also unclear if it s actually a movie? Just overall very unclear. Thank you in advance!

YA Children s book about girl making friends with troubled neighbour Long shot but does anyone remember a book about a young, sheltered girl who makes friends with a girl who lives nearby with a lot of behavioural difficulties? I think the neighbour girl has an unusual name (possibly the book title?), and at some point drowns some kittens. Neighbour girl has an abusive father, and her and the main girl eventually fall out. Neighbour girl I think burns their house down in the end. It s pretty dark. Setting is fairly rural, I think neighbour girl lives on a farm or something? She uses a lot of weird phrases that the main girl comments on the one I recall specifically is I ll catch you bald headed . I think it s implied she s learned these from her abusive dad. I read this book in early 2000s but I think it probably came out in the 90s. Paperback cover was black with an eye on the front made out of flames. Female, relatively famous author I think? I m UK based and think the book was also set in the UK, but could be wrong.

Pirate novel, begins with a fight between ships. Main characters are 2 men amp a 16 yr old black girl named Selena, I think. In the first chapter, someone gets part of their elbow cut off with a sword, like the top of an egg, as it was described, mid battle on deck. I think the girl's name was Selena, or something similar. She becomes an outlaw. She's also mistaken for a prostitute amp is repeatedly called a whore by the main character when they first meet. She's attacked by her childhood friend's father at one point amp it's really disturbing.. I think it may have been the reason she became an outlaw, I can't remember if she accidentally killed him in self defense..? The book wasn't pleasant, honestly P but it annoys me to not remember the name! Was too dark for my taste amp none of the characters were really interesting or likeable tbh. Can't remember the plot at all.

YA Novel (?) in which there was a group of people who had each dedicated their lives to memorizing a book because a good portion of world knowledge had been squandered I cannot stop thinking about this book, but all I can remember about it was that there was a vaguely cult like group of people that I believe the main character encounters, and each of them had an entire book memorized. The reason they memorized the books was because many books had been destroyed, I'm pretty sure by some kind of fascists, and also I think because they didn't want the knowledge to fall into the wrong hands. And each of them were working to stay safe and alive and everything and keep these books memorized so they could eventually pass them on if needed. And there were like, apprentices who were learning a book from one of the people in the group who was close to dying to make sure that the knowledge was passed on. Anyway, I'm pretty sure this was a subplot and had little to do with the main part of the story, but this is going to bother me until i figure out what it is. Any help is appreciated!

YA fairy caste system based on magic ability, born from sprout pods? The main character is a teenage girl, I think she lives only with her mom. I vaguely remember that there is some opening scene related to a fairy other magic teen boy took a strand of her hair out of her hairbrush and it was significant for some reason. Eventually she learns that she is either half fae or a changeling and that she is actually a rare type of fairy and maybe she was the last one left of her type of magic. The magic may be seasonal or elemental? She might have been an autumn or spring fairy, and the queen is one of two winter fairies? She goes to live in the fairy world to be trained. I think maybe they wanted her to make a potion of some sort because she knows a lot about plants. She lives in a castle and has a roommate who is fascinated by mortal fashion The types of fairies are divided into castes and the lower fae can t walk next to or speak to their superiors, and this really bothers the protagonist because her new boy crush is lower than her and refuses to act as an equal or even walk side by side. There was a scene where her crush took her through a market place where the lower fairies sold some jewelry they make, but because she s upper class they have to give it to her for free when she said she liked a hair clip thing. She s upset, she argues about this. Another similar scene is when her crush takes her to a performance and he doesn t want to sit by her bc he is supposed to go to his own section, but she makes him sit with her and it s uncomfortable for everyone around them. The fairies are born as sprouts or pods I believe, raised in a nursery until their powers develop and they are assigned to a family of the same type of magic. When they die, I believe their spirits join a big tree, and maybe this tree is in danger and that s what they need the potion for? Other info I read this some time between 2010 2015 and around the same time I was reading series like Wings, Need, Trylle, etc. I think my description is the first book in a series. Please help I m going insane I can t sleep.

This was 100 a fiction book I read in the early 2010s. A brother and a sister with divorced parents go on a plane trip to I presume visit their parents. The plane crashes, and they end up in this fantasyland where they each have their own houses and anything they want. Alright reddit, I come to you in a time of need. I loved this book when I read it, and have for the life of me not been able to find anything on it after years of searching. The book starts out as the title of the post says. Picking up after that something happens and they lose their houses. I think it had something to do with starting to doubt the whereabouts of where they are, but I could be wrong. They fall into this underworld like area full of vagrants and such, and meet this other character who I believe was female. The female underworld character gives the brother and sister clocks that each are counting down. They don't know what it's counting down to, but they don't like it. They go on this wild goose chase for about 150 pages on trying to stop the clock from hitting midnight, and it ends up leading them to this abandoned building with a whole bunch of people riding segways around it, as well as a pile of people with clocks that have all hit midnight. They recognized one of the men in the pile as a man from their plane, (They only refer to him as the man with green socks), and it gets fuzzy from there. I forgot how they managed to escape from this dreamland, but I do remember that the book ends with them waking up in a tree at a rural farmhouse with their dog after they escaped. They contact the locals, make contact with the local police, and are reunited with their parents after they are told that their plane had crashed. So really the book was about them trying to escape death in a way? I dont know. Thank you for your time guys.

A disturbing alien sex novel with a five word title that might only be published online I was given the title of this online novel on the back of someone s business card at an event in 2012. I googled it and regretted it immediately because I remember it being extremely disturbing and x rated. I couldn t understand why the person gave me the title or why I was meant to read it, but whatever. I d let it go but because I can t remember how to find it I m really curious if anyone knows what I m talking about. The title was definitely five words. The Something of Something Something. For some reason I remember it having optimus prime or something similar in the title. But I ve got no hits! Help appreciated ) would love to investigate this again.

Children's Chapter Book Girl finds shoes in her Locker, shoes are magical? I read this book between 1994 2000, I believe. Something happens when the girl puts on the shoes I think she becomes invisible, but I may be wrong on that. I remember the shoes looking like genie pointed shoes with bells, but my sister (who also read the book) remembers jelly like shoes that looked like glass slippers. She stored the shoes in her school locker, and I believe that's where she originally found them, as well. There was a cat (mysterious, magic, or something) that featured prominently, as well, and I think it was black. It's possible the "bells" I'm remembering was the sound of chimes being heard when the cat was around? My memory is pretty fuzzy! Note It is not "What the Witch Left".

Looking for a book about famous women throughout history where one to two page were dedicated to a different woman and there were illustrations I read this in about 2007 when I was 13. I think it was a YA book for older teens. Each page was about a different woman in history and it featured women who committed evil acts pretty heavily. Most of the pages were illustrated with a drawing of the woman the page was about. Sorry I can't remember much more and thank you in advance.

Fantasy series set in a world where a cycle took place of one species enslaving another and then being overthrown. The current cycle is humans and dragons maybe called drakes? The dragons were royals and could assume a human type form when needed. I can't remember much more but I know I read it in the 90s.

Book about a Fat Southerner who Loved the Middle Ages The title says about all I can remember. It was something about a fat slovenly man from I want to say Louisiana or Arkansas who hated modern culture and loved the middle ages and writer's from that time period. Hope that's enough info.

Novel about a cellist who was gestated in an artificial glass womb, a doctor whose father practices Chinese traditional medicine, and Andreas Vesalius The story jumped back and forth between modern day (the cellist and the doctor, who were both women and I m pretty sure in a lesbian relationship) and Andreas Vesalius, before and after publishing his first book. The cover was black and may have had a fetus on it but I don t really remember. Got it from a yard sale brand new about 8 or 9 years ago. I was probably too young to really get it at the time but would like to give it another shot. Thanks!

Novel with a main character that can draw doors on a wall and make them open I read this book I believe a couple of years ago? I remember a lot of the setting specifically, as well as an awesome scene from the ending, so there are BIG spoilers. Ok so In this story, I remember there being two main characters, both with magic superpowers, one is a girl(?) who can draw doors on any surface with chalk and they will open to wherever she wants to go, and one who I believe can fly. They are orphans living on the streets of a world that hates magic because of a tragedy that happened when they were kids, so they are in hiding and live in a little pocket dimension the protagonist can open. The great tragedy was the violent closing of a portal that used to lead to another world where magical folk came from. They had had a trade relationship for centuries but the magical world was collapsing so they sailed hundreds of magic children through the portal and then blew it up. That basically had an effect of a nuclear explosion so there is now a giant wasteland in the middle of the city surrounded by a wall, containing a bunch of unstable magic. Also sometimes people turn into zombies around it. So the kids find a Cool Adult Mentor who was on one of the ships with the kids and she takes them inside the wall, only it turns out she is the villain and is using them to try and blow up the city. The book is mostly their journey to the epicentre of the explosion as well as running from the city police? which are coming after them as well as trying to stop the Not Cool Adult Mentor. Along the way, they fight a giant spider, and at one point the door kid portals away only to find themself on a pirate ship that can apparently fly, where a bunch of the magic kids have been hiding out. The kid goes back for the friend and gets caught again so they go on to the centre of the wasteland. There is a giant pillar there topped with a massive ball of energy that will basically blow up the city if released. The villain is out of the picture for some reason at this point, so the flying kid takes them both up to the top, then flies away. This is the scene I remember most vividly the door kid stands on the pillar and siphons away all the unstable magic into creating thousands of doors. Since there is so much energy she they doesn't need chalk or a wall, the doors just appear in the sky, and they lead to all sorts of places, like mountains forests you name it, there's a door, and it is EPIC. And of course, this is when the police arrive. And of course, the kid used all her energy and can't make any more doors, so she can't get off the pillar. And then the pirate ship shows up disguised as a cloud and whisks away the kid and the police are baffled, the end. Hoo boy, this is a lot of stuff, but it seems to be a lesser known book at least in that I can't find it anywhere else on google. I leave this one in your capable hands, Reddit!

A murder mystery thriller, a big house and a young girl who drowned there, involves siblings. Posting first a friend, here's what she wrote "it s a murder mystery thriller type story, in which the main character for some reason visits a big house, and part of the story includes a young girl who drowned in a river lake on the property. The book is about finding out what happened and tells the story of the siblings, one who retreats to the attic of the house to be alone."

Fiction book about stars and gods. Hello all, I read a fiction book about stars that I really enjoyed, there were only some vague details that I could remember Boy is separated from his mother, turns out he has the ability to turn into something related to heat. There is a black hole (disguised as some sort of weird wolf by the book) that goes around eating the stars . The stars are based off of gods and related to them somehow. The boy is actually called Lucifer, the star of destruction (or something like that). Any help is much appreciated, thank you!

Childrens thriller story about a boy who goes to live with his far relatives (?) And finds out that there's other kids that are locked up inside a kids tv show that he and the other kids in the house watch every day This was a series but I only ever read the first book, and it still haunts me, I need to know how the story ends. I remember the main character being a boy that found out that there was a blocked off wing in the house that no one could go, I remember him going to the closed door or something and hearing voices or sounds. There were other kids in the house that just mindlessly watched the TV show. It could be that there was something with the word 'raven' in the title of the book.

War Book Recommended To Me So, when I was a teenager a lady at a book store recommended a book to me. But I didn t get it for some reason and I regret it. So it takes place during world war 2(?) and its from the perspective of three women, but it s a different world where they re allowed to fight. I m sorry I don t remember more

A scifi kids book about an adventure into space. I have very little to go off of. I know Easton Press did a run on the book, and that's where it caught my attention. They had a beautiful rendition of it, and apparently it's an old scifi kids novel. I'm pretty sure the art included a kind of air ship that these kids traveled into space in. It's not in their store anymore, and I didn't know how regularly they cycled their books. It's got a very specific unique title as well. I don't think I'm able to give enough to truly help, its just last ditch shot in the dark. Any question I can answer, I'll do my absolute best.

Children s book about clay horses I remember a book that I read as a young, horse obsessed kid (this would ve been late 70s early 80s). It was about a Native American boy that made two horses out of clay at a river bank. One red, one blue. The horses came to life for the boy. I loved this book so much as a child that I recently bought a painting I found at an art fair that reminded me of the horses in the story but can t remember the name for anything. Can anyone here help? TIA

Fantasy Sci fi mix with dragons and time travel A girl inherits a dragon egg from her grandfather's museum but two twins come from the future where dragons have taken over the earth to stop her and help her. There are organizations that the twins have come from that assist them. Her mother supposedly killed herself but she is still alive.

YA book about teens from different realities joining together? I don't remember much from the book but I do remember one specific scene. One of the kids is chilling at his house and talking with his friends in vr. He logs off later and asks the house for a strawberry milkshake (the house is done kind of futuristic smart house run by an AI). He ends up realizing that he hasn't gone outside basically ever and can't remember what it's like so, despite warnings from the house, he decides to walk out of the house. He walks around for a bit before realizing that every house looks the same and he's completely lost. At one point he even walks into the wrong house and it threatens to call the police on him. He walks some more and comes upon a prison labor camp where I guess prisoners work to keep everything running. Then I believe the ends up getting chased by the police and that's when he gets transported to another reality.

Book about young girl and her single mum who later gets cancer I don't remember much but I know it starts off with the girl getting new magazines because she likes scrapbooking. In that same store her mum won the lottery. I don't really remember why or how but her mum leaves home with her. They settle somewhere else and she starts going to school there. I think she has a difficult time settling in. Her mum gets a boyfriend who's younger than her and in one scene the girl describes their kiss as wet and sloppy. I'm sure it was the boyfriend who realised her mum had cancer. The girl remembered her dad abusing her mum and asked someone (I don't remember who) if that was how she got it. I don't remember how it ends....

Fantasy book where death is recorded on each page of a cursed book... And the main character is asked to tear out a specific page and burn it. They don t for awhile. They use it to consult this person, and eventually destroy it. Destruction of the page causes pain to the subject, if I recall correctly. I am a huge fantasy fan. I can t remember which specific book this was. I can t take it!

Can t remember a romantic erotica book title or author. Was about an old castle and the title had beauty and dragon in it. So I think it was called The beauty and the dragon and it was like .. this prince living in his families old castle after his father was murdered, and everyone thought it was a dragon. So they sacrificed the villages Virgin to him and he marries her(???) It has some sex scenes in it. I can t for the life of me remember the name

YA book about knives and magic I don't remember much but here's what I do. Book had a female protag The protag lived with her father, I believe her mother died she went to some private school and lived a boring life until one day her dad took her out of school in a panic and got shot in the head. The protag then discovers some family secrets that had to do with a knife (?) I think there was religious aspects too Protag also had a close friend who may have gotten harmed EDIT NOT His Dark Materials. Was made somewhere between 2000 2018 Help is appreciated greatly!

2008 2010 YA fantasy series. There are two protagonists, a boy named Max and a girl. Max is from a poor, country background and the girl is of royalty. They fall in love but in order to unite a different nation and defeat the antagonist the girl marries someone else. Magic, elves, dwarves, etc. I think Max and the female protagonist meet in the town at a market somwthing. Max is there selling things for his family and the female disguises as a regular townsfolk. Later they discover they have magical abilities (?) and are destined to save the land and unite the separate nations. To unite the one distant nation the female protagonist must marry the prince of that nation, and she ends up falling in love him too when they're trying to unite the Dwarven (?) nation. The book switches point of view between Max and the female, and I think the protagonist too. There is a prophecy of some sorts and Max dies in the end. There are 3 books in the series. The cover of the first book is black with a sketched pair of eyes on the cover. I'm pretty sure the author is from Colorado and was published in the 2008 2010 range. Edit I was in middle school when I read this and it was a new book at the time. The books are paperback and not terribly long, I'd guess around 300 pages but I can't remember exactly. The author is female.

Book about sports officiating as a spectator. Supposed to change the way you watch sports Someone told me about this book once but I didn t buy it and have since forgot what it is. I think it was something about the psychology of officiating and trends that you can see as a spectator. I was told you re able to start predicting exactly what refs are going to call in certain situations. Anyone know what I m talking about? Can t seem to find the right keywords to find it on Google.

Book about 2 friends who become bloodbrothers by pricking their thumb and pressing it together. One of them is a dragon and something happens which leads the other to become a dragon as well. The title says most of what I can recall. I believe it was a graphic novel and wasn't a long story. I also remember when the 2 boys pricked their thumb and pressed it together, I believe a mom or someone tells them that they will get sick by doing that.

I need help finding a sci fi transhumanism book! Here's what I asked on a Discord about a year ago "from what i can remember, since its been, like 9 years aliens (or other humans?) almost kill all humans, who are then forced to flee and live on a planet, and cannot use technology or they'll be tracked and hunted down but there's this android girl who has the soul of a human on the planet too and she's gotta take down the planets corrupt government, i think" I've tried searching around recently and found Ancillary Justice, but thats not quite what I was looking for. Any help would be appreciated!

YA book about a gay teenage boy who takes pills to make him straight I read this book in a Children s Lit class in college in 2016, but my guess it was published somewhere in the 2010s? I could be off there, though. What I remember from it the protagonist is a teenage boy who is gay, and has a crush on a male peer, but is insistent on making himself straight. He enters into a relationship with a girl, and takes experimental pills (I think?) that he was told would cure his homosexuality. By the end, he realizes that they stifled his attraction to men, but did nothing in making him attracted to women. I also have a vague recollection of an ending scene where a building (maybe a science lab?) burns down in flames.

A girl who wakes up in a field and doesn t know where she is and finds out she was dead the whole time read this book around 2012 about this girl who wakes up in a field and doesn t know where she is and all these other girls and boys have just woken up there too and she tries to figure out where she is and finds out everyone there is Dead and it is the afterlife. Also she couldn t remember anything from before she woke up (before she died) and she gets little flashbacks in her memory about her life and she doesn t know where it s from. and no one else can remember anything from before they woke up in the field.

Fantasy book about witch solving murder. I only remember the introduction of this book and even that is very fuzzy. It took place in winter (I think) in closer to medieval times and the main character was a witch investigating a murder. . . . of someone. Probably some knight, or some couple in love. It looked like the dragon killed him her they (I think?). I remember there was also a dragon character turning into a man, who was obviously very handsome. And that's pretty much it.

YA? novel about a disease that breaks out near a boarding school that turns living things into metal zombies I read this book my sophomore of high school and can t for the life of me remember the title. I believe the cover was grayish but can t remember what was on it. The main character is a boy that discovers a metal bug that bites a classmate and turns them into a metal zombie, and does the same with the groundskeepers dogs. The kids and a few teachers end up barricaded in the upper floors of the school and the love interest (I think) gets a cut that starts spreading so they cut it out, but it keeps spreading she hides it until they eventually realize and have to leave her behind. For some reason she s resistant to fully turning and joining the hive mind and saves them all in the end by sacrificing herself.

I read a scifi novel as a kid about children that could telepathically communicate with computers and were persecuted by the government if it was discovered. I think it was something with failed sleeper agent experiments. It was about a girl maybe 16 that discovered her abilities and about a guy from a poorer part of the city. The chapters alternated between their pov's until they met in the story towards the end when they're both chased by the authorities and it ended with a cliffhanger iirc.

Crime thriller very similar in style to James Ellroy writing A book I read back in middle school many years ago, I remember reading maybe the first few pages and there were two characters sitting in a car, one of them was talking about and or eating cheeseburgers and I think they might have been cops on a stakeout. (Yes I realize it sounds a lot like Pulp Fiction, in fact watching Pulp Fiction in my high school years only reminded me of this book haha.) I know for sure it isn t LA Confidential, it might have been another Ellroy book or something within the same genre. Sorry I couldn t provide more detail, I was really into it before my English teacher told me to put away the book. ( This might be false memory but I think the name of the book on the cover might ve been in neon, it was definitely a two word name. Edit Sorry it s Crime Fiction not Crime Thriller And also it might have been a 3 word name

This might be a long shot but husband dies amp sees the future I read this when I was a teenager but it was an adult book (I say adult because it was not YA) but it s about a woman who meets her husband while in high school and she lived with her alcoholic father and mother ended up dying because she was sick. The girl and the guy date and eventually get married, I remember one specific scene where the girl was sitting on their couch and he had entered the living room and proposed to her with like a cheap wire ring and he said something like I was going to wait until I had a better ring but I was just looking at you sitting on the couch and I just needed to propose right away, you re so beautiful ((something along those lines)). The husband ended up making it big by inventing amp owning a juice company that became really popular and the book goes over how divided their relationship became after he made money and then he died, but was dead for a few minutes and came back to life. Afterwards, his attitude completely changed and became dedicated to building his family as he didn t care about his company anymore. He knew he was going to die in 3 months again (I don t remember the time frames) so he would constantly live life as if it s his last moment, until the day he died...again. I m sorry if this doesn t make sense, please help! The cover (if I remember correctly) had a woman sitting on a bench with her back facing the cover (so we can t see her face). She s wearing a black dress.

Children's book that is black and white and possibly about sewing? So I sent my girlfriend a video on instagram about "What is the nicest thing a guy has ever done for you with you having to ask." Long story short she describes her favorite childrens book and how she couldn't remember it. But her boyfriend found the book two times! So my girlfriend says to me that her childhood book would be a little harder to find. In my head I'm thinking, "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!" Here is the description she gave me. "I can't remember much about it. It's in black and white. I think it was based in a city, and there was something about someone being pricked with a needle. The size was probably 9 x 13 and I feel like there was people on the cover but I'm not sure. I think the people on the book were really skinny though. Gosh I think it had to do something to do with like thread or sewing in a factory. The entire book is in black amp white including the cover and the illustrations are dark and weird. " She's 24 years old so I'm assuming the book can either be from the late 90's to 2002 ish. I could be wrong but any possible leads will be greatly appreciated. Think it would be an amazing anniversary gift for her. Update so my girlfriend has a terrible memory but thanks to some amazing folks they were able to pinpoint the book! You guys made my anniversary. Sleepless Beauty (1996) Thank you guys!

Humor Book with Abstract Shapes and Funny Interpretations When I was younger (think 1970's or early 1980s), my uncle had a series of humor books with the following format On each page was a black and white drawing, rather simple, geometric or abstract. Below the drawing were several funny absurd interpretations of the drawing. So, for example, there would be a circle with radiating lines, and it would say something like 'Door handle with hair'. I think the physical book was paperback, maybe 3 to 5 inches in height and maybe 8 inches in length. Maybe 50 pages long.

The Mystery of the Pickle Nose Dream Book (And The Millenials Haunted By This Book) Across the internet, myself and other thirtysomething nostalgia monsters are being eaten alive trying to remember a very strange book that we all had and have forgotten the title of, and most of the content, except for one page, which describes a child who has a dream that their nose turns into a pickle and they break it off and (possibly dip it in mustard?) and eat it. The book is not ABOUT a child who has a dream about a nose turning into a pickle, that is just a page. If I remember correctly it did not have a specific plot, but was a series of pages with illustrations that talked about night time or dreaming or getting ready for bed in different ways (I assume in an attempt to help a child get comfortable with dreaming bedtime night time?). I distinctly remember the pickle nose page, but I also remember another page's illustration, it's a view of a lone house from far away at twilight, and the exterior of the house and the landscape is dark, but the house is illuminated from the light in each window. It is very beautiful, the illustration style was very unique and stylized, almost similar to the "Stinky Cheese Man" style. The book was a hardcover in dark midnight blue with a dust jacket, similar in size and shape to Graeme Base's "Animalia." It could have come from a Scholastic book fair from 1991 1994, since those years my mom was big in getting books from the book fair at our school. This isn't the first time this query has shown up in r whatsthatbook nor is it even the first time I've posted about it, but the thing is GNAWING AT MY BRAIN and others too! Here's some previous queries about it across Reddit Here ( and Here. Apparently it also had counting sheep or a flying bed, so that checks out with each page being different, they also remembered the beautiful illustration style. And the one I sent into Loganberry Books "Stump The Bookseller". And someone else is looking for it THERE too! It is likely from the 1980s or early 1990s (based on my age, it could be older if it was still in print in that era) Please....someone....anyone....remember this book? Anyone know a genius librarian? Anyone know a wizard? This is driving me, my mom, and my sister nuts as we struggle to remember the title or even what the other pages were about. My mom saved ALL my childhood books and this one managed to slip through the cracks OF COURSE.

Six Teenagers Run Away From Their Evil School This book starts off with two girls that are pretending to be fraternal twins. A war is going on and it becomes dangerous near their house so the girls are sent off to this school. There are two schools next to each other, one for boys and one for girls. The school seems completely normal besides the fact that the different genders aren't allowed to communicate with each other. The "sisters" end up befriending another girl and they secretly communicate with a group of boys by things like waving during gym. The longer they stay, the more messed up the schools gets (can't think of any examples. just know they were planning on doing something to the students) and so the 6 of them (3 girls, 3 boys) decide to run away. I believe it's a trilogy where each book is from a different girls perspective. The only other detail I can think of is each girl is in love with a different boy and the school is chasing them down.

YA book includes abusive father? And digging I read a lot of books during COVID so maybe I am confusing some plot points together, but can t find the name of this book anywhere. I remember there being a girl who had an abusive father and as punishment she would have to dig in the backyard. At one point he made her lay down in the hole and almost buried her alive? I think there was also a pet she got from a neighbor teacher who was moving want to say it was an unusual animal, maybe a rescued skunk that couldn t spray? She didn t think her dad would let her have it but he did, and later he ended up killing it. Feel like I m going crazy trying to remember and might be a movie I saw? Thanks for any suggestions that might fit.

An adolescent boy steals laboratory equipment for a shady scientist living in an alternate dimension. Said scientist is a member of a race of slavers who operate a mine that produces some sort of volatile mineral. An excerpt from the story was included in a literature textbook that my sixth grade class used (in the '90s), but I believe it was a standalone novel. The aforementioned scientist was studying the mineral in question, which he referred to by a name like "soarite."

I m 22, I had a fictional children s book that seemed to only have vivid illustrations of classic cars driving at night with red ambient lighting in the cars. Recently watched Justin Bieber s music video for Peaches...and the car in the video is exactly what I m describing. It s so on point I feel like the book was JB s inspiration for the car being in the video.

A cute romance novel from the early 2000s maybe Try as I might, I CANNOT remember the title or author of this book I read years ago! I loved it and would like to read it again surprisingly I remember a lot about it, just not the title or author It s about a woman who was a snotty, vindictive person in her hometown when she was young. She comes back home after her rich way older husband dies (whom she actually really did love) to find her inheritance I think her aunt left her? It was a painting by a famous painter, who had been rumored to be a lover of her aunt. She s grown up and become a good person, and all her money was going to keep her disabled (older than her) stepdaughter in the facility she was in that she had been in forever and loved, and she needed to find that painting to make ends meet. She falls in love (maybe again?) with a man from the town. Anybody have any ideas?!

Virtual augmented reality themed book So I read this book in middle school (about 5 4 years ago) when it first came out, and I m pretty sure a sequel was made since then. It was about some girl who was like a bounty hunter or black market thief or something similar, who hacked into this big virtual reality game world and stole something. During this, she got caught by like the creator of the tech and they became friends. In the end I m pretty sure it was revealed that the creator of the tech was planning on putting everyone under his control to make a peaceful world using tech advanced contacts. I m pretty sure the title included the word game along with another word.