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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Fantasy book about a brother who becomes a warrior and a sister who goes to magic school
There was a book I read when I was in middle school. It is a brother/sister fantasy book.
The brother becomes a warrior, goes to a battle school, and then joins an elite group of soldiers that need to ...
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Trying to find a series I read in the 90s about a boy who finds other world and overhears plot
He’s visiting a house, I think his uncle's, for the summer. He finds a way to another world in a chest? He finds himself in a room. While there he finds other world creatures and overhears them ...
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Galactic Empress with nude female guards book
I read a SF book many (40-50?) years ago but I can barely remember any plot or characters.
Only one thing sticks in my mind, there was like a galactic empress and, chained before her throne, she had ...
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Post-apocalyptic sci-fi book about a man with metal spikes in his head, like a crown of thorns, who is worshipped by rats
More than a decade ago, I began reading a book. The book got lost before I could finish, and I only remember very few, vague details.
I'm pretty sure it was set in a post-apocalyptic climate. Most ...
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Book I read ~23 years ago about slaves mining something that gave them telepathy
After reading through the Mistborn series, the slaves mining atium reminded me of a book I read ~23 years ago.
It was about a slave in a mining camp that was forced to mine a mind altering compound ...
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Looking for graphic novel series with a bunch of quiche pies
I read this series around four to five years ago. The publishing date was a few years before that.
What I remember:
The main character is drawn kind of like Snoopy, but without the ears
The main ...
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Male protagonist with prosthetic arm, vampire girlfriend, female barbarian under a curse — late 80s–early 90s?
The book is set in a medieval world and features a male protagonist named Jonah, who has a magical prosthetic arm. There is also a female vampire named Emma, who is his love interest, and a barbarian ...
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Looking for a Fae book that includes the Cú Sidhe
What I can remember from the book is it was in a modern setting with a portal that took the main character into the fae world through a graffiti mural?
The cú sídhe were involved towards the end in a ...
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Looking for a possible trilogy from the 2000s which starts with siblings who are put under a spell to fall in love
The first book is about siblings who are put under a spell to fall in love. The brother finds out and is horrified. The girl is a redhead and is very powerful. There is some kind of rebellion and a ...
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Book about a boy who befriends a Gruffalo-like monster
The book is about a boy who leaves his village, and goes on an adventure where he encounters several beast/monsters/creatures. One of the monsters he meets is a lot like the Gruffalo and also becomes ...
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Looking for story about a group of Pegasi with the main character set to be killed, also with a seagull that winds up dead
I read this story six to seven years ago. It's the first book in the series. The series has 3 or 4 books, I don't remember the exact number. The cover featured a midnight pegasus looking at something.
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Book identification in which a girl inserts chloroplasts under her skin
In the story I’m thinking of, the girl turns to inserting chloroplasts under her skin in a secretive act, becoming greener. In the book, she seems to struggle emotionally. She eventually becomes a ...
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The Aquanauts, series of books in a post-apocalyptic future
YA post-apocalyptic novel from 60's or 70's, quasi-military organization that patrols the oceans for threats both human and animal.
A trio of friends embark on a voyage to discover the remains of the ...
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Looking for story where there is a virus making kids have powers
I read this book around a year ago, but I have no clue about the publishing date. It's part of a book series with 3 or so books (unsure about the exact number).
What I remember:
The main character ...
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Story about a mortal champion of a warrior god
I'm trying to find a book I read in the late '70s or early '80s.
In the book, the gods were active in the world, through their mortal champions. The gods
spoke directly to their champions, and gave ...
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2005-2015 YA: Science Fiction/Romance: Book Set In Future. Augmented Reality, Teens Wear Headpieces That Display Messages Directly To Their Brains
Published 2005-2015
The main characters (teens) wear devices on their heads that are a brain-computer interface to display messages directly to their brains. The teen goes to a fancy party where there ...
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In the Starship's Mage series, where did the plotline with the Extravagant Voyage happen?
In book 13 of the Starship's Mage series, "Nemesis of Mars," there is a large timeskip and what feels like a recap of past events. One of these events is the capture of a facility by Roslyn ...
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Fantasy story of a girl, a black king and a white king, and a mirror
I've read this book and cannot remember its name. It's fantasy obviously. There is a girl who gets approached or saved by a glittering creature who gives her a key on her tongue through a kiss (he ...
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Book about a good dark lord, think "not Sauron"
I started reading this book earlier this year at my library and haven’t been able to find it again.
It is about a “dark” lord who was once part of a group of gods? Godlike beings? I think there were ...
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Book about a dog who is an alien that is adopted by a little boy
I don't remember the title of the book, but I think I can describe it pretty well.
So the book follows this young boy who wants to have a dog but can't because his father is allergic to dog hair. Then,...
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Looking for a book about tattoo magic where a young woman is an apprentice to her uncle
Teen girl/young woman is taken on as her uncle's apprentice in the art of magic tattoos and begins learning. Gets her first tattoo. Her uncle's name could have been Gage. Something happens and they (...
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Sci fi book about a character with an implant/enhanced capabilities who was hired to assassinate a member of elite society
As per the title, I can't remember the title of this book that I read some years ago (10ish I guess).
As far as I remember, the story starts with the protagonist being hired to kill some member of ...
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Short sci-fi book about aliens coming to Earth and challenging humans to a game
I'm looking for a sci-fi book. It is a small book, about the palm of a hand, and has fewer pages, about 17. It was part of a short series of sci-fi books just like it.
The only two things I remember ...
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Book about two guys who are captured by dwarves or goblins, and build Icarus-like wings to escape with
When I was a kid, I used to read this German book (but maybe it also exists in English) where these two guys would travel a lot and search for something (I don't really know what they searched for, ...
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Book about a girl who goes to a kingdom and makes a fake friend who is turned old and imprisoned
I’m looking for a book I read in high school that I very vaguely remember.
The things I do know are that a girl goes to a kingdom and there is another girl that makes fake friends with her. They wear ...
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Sci-fi book, pre 1980, about a man who invents things while asleep or blacked out
He invented a machine that could dig a hole while making holographic thread.
He makes a hoop that leads to other worlds or dimensions and when he throws it onto the floor, a women gets transported ...
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YA book - kids detective / mystery book where they travel into the computer / web
I’m searching for a YA book I read back in primary school in Australia in the 1990s (so I’m a bit fuzzy on details).
The book itself had a metallic silver cover. I remember it being a computer mystery ...
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Sci fi - 60s/70s [closed]
Trying to find the name of a book or series from the 60s/70s about the future when mankind had spread to multiple planets outside of this solar system - and the government (a little totalitarian) was ...
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Looking for a story featuring Pegasus, two boys and a girl
I read this book 6-7 years ago. It was a series with over three books.
What I remember:
There was something about "the Flame of Olympus"
The main character is a girl
The setting was most ...
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Book I read 26 years ago where the protagonist visits a therapist and talks about dreams and trains
I have very little recollection of the book other than the general theme (augmented humans fight across space and possibly time). On particular thread in the book was the protagonist's recurring ...
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I’m looking for a 3-book science fiction series about human encounter and battle with aliens that happens on a submersible aircraft carrier
The three book series takes place on a submersible aircraft carrier which starts to have strange encounters with unknown creatures swimming in the ocean. As they continue to investigate, they ...
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Young adult novel with cat-aliens and dog-aliens, turn out to be basis of biblical angels and devils
This question reminded me of a book I read in school in the mid-nineties. In today’s terms it was a young-adult novel, with an adolescent protagonist (?male), initially in a fairly-realist modern ...
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Book saga: the cover of each book had the main character on it, surrounded by circles or symbols on a plain blue background
I don't remember much, but the cover of each book had the main character surrounded by circles or symbols, and each book had the main character on the cover and the circles of the discovered ...
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Story about children sent into space who return for revenge
I vaguely remember a story (novella?) about a group of children with enhanced intelligence shot into space at relativistic speed where they develop almost mystical powers (at some point they use the I ...
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Book with a tiny black hole on a planet
I remember reading this book in a library around 2011. I suspect it was probably decently old at the time.
A central point involves a tiny black hole on the surface of an alien planet. I have a mental ...
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Boy moves to a town with sinkholes and a tunnel society
I don’t know when I read this book, but it was a book about a boy who moved to a town with a sinkhole problem.
He ends up meeting a girl who introduces him to a tunnel society where they use items to ...
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SciFi book about kids who live through a time where a plague/virus kills and takes over humans while keeping their memories
Read 2017-2020
Science fiction book about kids who live through a time where this plague/virus takes over humans.
The virus basically kills the person and takes the form of them but has all the person'...
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Far future story where space travel and alien conquering has split the human race into distinct breeds [duplicate]
The story takes place very far in the future. Space travel and alien conquering has split the human race into distinct breeds. There are humans who live on some moon in the solar system (possibly ...
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Searching text about school girl growing wings and trying to hide them at first
I am looking for a book for young adults. I have read it in the past and that must be some years by now. I guess I read it 2010 to 2015.
The plot is about a girl that first gets some "bumps"...
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Looking for the title of a novel about a divine/heavenly being turned into a dog
I read the book about 19yrs ago (2003/2004). I think it was published by Orion books as I seem to remember a dog-looking-at-stars logo.
In it, a being is maybe banished from the heavens...either was ...
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I read this novella before 1970 -- kid is befriended by alien kid who has a spaceship?
This was definitely aimed at YA or even earlier because the age of the main human character I think is pre-teenager, maybe as young as 9 or 10.
Anyway, the alien has a spaceship which can accommodate ...
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Old scifi book title about a woman learning psychic powers from aliens
I recall that the aliens all have telekinesis and use it to unlock their doors. The woman is learning to use that same power. I can't recall why the woman was on the alien planet, but it was ...
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Old "double" book; one of the stories involves an alien childbirth, with the mother's womb and digestive system detaching from her body
Many years ago, I came across one of those "double" books, like the ones Ace and Tor used to publish. I don't recall the publisher, just that both stories were science fiction and that the ...
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Book series read 20+ years ago. At least 4 books. Each title included a person's name and then a gemstone, like 'Owen's Opal' (not a real title)
It's a sci-fi story where this guy travels to different worlds and saves them. All I specifically remember is that on each world he goes to, the people had differently shaped ears; I think in the last ...
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Series read on Amazon where a girl's guild is doing a raid against a new boss, and after blacking out the guild leader wakes up as her golem character
I'm looking for this series I read on Amazon where this girl's guild is doing a raid with minimal players against a new boss that was released in the game. As they're heading up to the game, everyone ...
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Alien plant from another planet moves around a spaceship during the night and finds a sleeping human body to take root in
A man takes an alien plant from another planet into his spaceship. But what this man doesn't know is that the plant has its own mind, and it moves around during the night looking for somewhere warm. ...
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Young adult book series about a teen who goes into a Texas prison while fighting aliens
I read this about six years ago. It is a trilogy, I believe. The story starts off with a girl who is surviving on her own, trying to find her family. Later in the book, she joins a colony where she ...
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Sci-fi book; nuclear bomb destroys the Panama Isthmus
Book probably from between 1950 and 1980. A nuclear bomb destroys the Panama Isthmus. The Gulf Stream stops, disastrously changing the world's weather.
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1980s or 1990s art book about future of human evolution, not Man After Man
I'm trying to identify an art book about possible future evolutions of humanity, all of which were heavily modified or adapted to a specific environment or condition. It is similar in concept to "...
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Scifi story about a world with a portal in the center (things fall off the side and reappear in the center); materials with light-to-thrust ratios
I was chatting to a friend-of-a-friend in a bar and he mentioned a series of books that he was reading. I wanted to read the series, but I cannot remember the name of the book, and I have not been ...
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