Questions tagged [novel]
For questions about a book of long narrative in literary prose, in order to distinguish it from other types of story. Do NOT use this tag for every question which happens to be about a novel. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the novel and its form in other media.
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Fantasy book about a girl raised as a boy by some kind of monk-warrior society/enclave that is situated apart from the rest of society
Here are details I remember: the main character doesn't know she's a girl; she's being raised by some kind of monk-warrior society/enclave that is situated apart from the rest of society.
There is a ...
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Novel. I think by James P Hogan. Has humans studying flying alien wildlife. These animals are passing on learned behaviour in their genes
I read this book about 20-25 years ago. It was a long story with lots of other things I have forgotten.
The part that really stuck in my mind involved human scientists studying flying wildlife on an ...
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Thriller/horror book about someone whose soul had taken several people's bodies in order to survive/escape (?)
Please, help me with the title of a book. I read it a few months ago and it's quite new, I think. It's something between a thriller and a horror. I remember very little details and I'm not sure they'...
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Sherlock Holmes retelling. Fantasy/SF novel. Dr Watson character, John is a trans man
I read this novel within the past ten years. It seemed to be written recently.
The main characters are very obviously Holmes and Watson but they have different names. London is not called London. They ...
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Looking for one of my childhood fantasy books with a group of girls in a different world
The story was about a group of girls, I think 5, that all lived by a tree house or some sort of well. They all got coins in their mailbox and by using them they went to a different world. I don't ...
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Book about kid going to Mars and communicating with his friend
A few years ago, I read a book that was about this kid going to Mars with his father and communicating with his friend. It also describes what it would feel like to leave the atmosphere in a rocket, ...
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1970s novel in which an ancient spaceship is unearthed and flies to alien worlds
Trying to identify an old paperback:
An alien spaceship is excavated and found to be very old (millions of years?). While investigating, it unexpectedly takes off with a few people aboard. It travels ...
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Fantasy novel read in the 80s or early 90s. Protagonists visit a land where people only speak by quoting their holy book
The way language works in this country is explained to the visitors. The person teaching them says that here only children speak language in the ordinary way. Amongst adults, many never speak at all. ...
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Looking for a sci fi story with bio augmentation and hoopers
I think I read this as a young teen many decades ago (I am 54)
Two men were doing space adventure stuff. He's bio augmented but can only activate it for short periods and a fungus is mentioned that ...
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Book about a character who stores time and can re-live the stored time
I'm looking to find out the title of a book I read in my final year of junior school.
I'm not sure of the exact plot, as this would have been in 2000, but from what I can remember, the story focuses ...
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Online novel: boy has two lives, one when he is awake and another when he sleeps
I read a novel on Royal Road where there's a normal guy who awakens on a futuristic Earth where people have abilities. His gets put on 'D' grade or similar. His friend gets to go to some islands where ...
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Book about a boy and girl who join a team of people who use robots that are connected through their eyes
I read a book a few years ago. It's about a boy and girl who join a team of people who use robots that are connected through their eyes and when these robots are killed in any way the human is driven ...
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Fantasy Novel. One character can always pull an orange from his pocket [duplicate]
The other characters are puzzled by this ability for a long time. Then he explains that there is a small magic portal between his pocket and a fruit trader's storehouse. It comes out by a very large ...
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Novel read online.about 2018. Prophecy a leader will gain a son. Adopts a lizardlike boy of another race
I think the father is the chief of a nomadic tribe. There is a prophecy he will soon gain a son.His wife is pregnant but the child is stillborn.Maybe both mother and child die. He adopts a lizardlike ...
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Generation ship. People live in separate villages. Not allowed to intermarry. Society based on South or Central America before Europeans came [duplicate]
The story starts with everyone witnessing a priest digging a sharp instrument into a young girl's brain and killing her. The priest says she is free now. Our young male protagonist thinks to himself, ...
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Book where a brother and sister fall into a book of fairy tales
I read this around 5-6 years ago, so the details I remember are really vague.
What I remember:
There was a brother and a sister (I think the brother was Connor and the sister, Alex).
The sister finds ...
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Book about a young girl with a special necklace who time travels to England during the reign of Henry VIII
Can you help me find a book my daughter read in 2020?
It was a chapter book.
Pink cover.
For kids of middle school age level (I think).
About a young girl who has a special necklace and she travels ...
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Boys' Love novel where the main character is reincarnated into a beastkin world
When he was reincarnated, he turns into a baby and is taken in by a cat guy. Overtime, as the main character gets stronger, he grows up in a rapid manner too.
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Trying to remember the title of a sci-fi fantasy that involved a golem?
It was a fantasy sci-fi story. It had a female protagonist. She was a student. I think she was related to royalty and was banished to being a commoner.
There was a battle where they built a hot air ...
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Alien book that involved humans being tested in structures
I can't remember the name of the author or the book but there was a sci-fi book I read in the early 2000s that was about aliens setting down these structures on Earth and throwing some people in them ...
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Book involving a boy who somehow gets on an alien ship and has star powers
Looking for a book I read years ago, probably around 2014-2017.
It was a futuristic/sci-fi setting, and there were two species; humans and this other alien one. They had this weird thing where the ...
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Prince who was either a robot or a human who needed another heart
The book as about a girl who worked in a bar or something similar, I'm not sure. There was also a prince who was either a robot or a human who needed another heart. His heart needs constant ...
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Book set in a New Zealand or Australian future society where the rich and poor live separately. Includes a character named Billy, short for Billy Goat
Read this book in the 90s.
Future society where the rich and poor live separately.
Poor live in hundred-storey towers with no working lifts.
Community leaders organise able-bodied people to carry ...
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SciFi story about random teleportation to frozen alien planet
Can anyone help me identify what novel this might be?
From what I can remember it was about a group of human colonists who leave earth using some kind of teleportation technology with their ship. Some ...
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Trying to remember a science fiction book about a man on an alien world [closed]
All that I remember was that in the beginning of the book he meets with someone and they give him wine that they state is new but it’s already been opened and then he ends up on an alien world. I ...
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Novel (probably a Kindle eBook) about an alien who possesses someone working a retail job (coffee shop?) who hates the body and his job
I was reading through some recent story-id queries when I suddenly had a book I read, probably a good decade ago, run through my head, or at least as much as I read at the time. My wife had pointed me ...
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Novel - Disguised alien Tock Von visits Earth, meets a girl, gets committed to a psychiatric hospital
I bought this as a new paperback in the early 1970s in the US. I believe there was lots of drug and sex humor I didn't get because I was like 12. I also remember thinking it was the weirdest thing I'd ...
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YA novel where a thief meets a disguised princess
So its been a few years, but its a fantasy series where there is a thief who lives in the city (His mother and sister died traumatically) and a princess. The princess decides to go into the city in ...
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Sci Fi book about a man travelling through portals from one dimension to another through who ends up in a place where mind control is prevalent
I read a book in the late 80s about a man travelling from one dimension to another through portals that are "right around the corner". He ends up in a place where mind control is prevalent ...
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Series of sci-fi books from the 80s featuring a Jedi like character [duplicate]
I've been trying to recall a book (or books) I read many years ago. It featured a main character that was a highly trained martial artist, part of an order of Jedi-like warriors.
I can only remember ...
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Fantasy book with a man and woman; the man is being "trained" by the bad guy but it's really the girl who has magic
Read a book a while back. Can't remember title or author, only some of the plot.
There was a girl with magic; she meets a man after leaving her village, I believe. She then draws the attention of the ...
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Invading aliens transforming inhabitants in the process
I read this some 40 years ago.
A colonised planet, largely inhabited by humans, lies on the fringes of the galaxy. It forms part of a powerful multi stellar-system civilization, but lies far from the ...
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70s/80s/90s YA novel, civilization ends, language falls apart
I read so many dystopian novels from the school library in the 90s ...
In this one a group of people survived some catastrophe (perhaps nuclear).
There was a young girl, maybe she was the narrator. I'...
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I am looking for the title of a book about parallel universes, one with unicorns [duplicate]
In this story, one of the main character, I believe the name is Sheen, travels through portals between worlds, in one of them she meets a unicorn. It is part fantasy, part sci-fi. The character ...
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Very faint memory of a book featuring a one man predator
A long long time ago, about fifty years I read a book or novella in the UK.
I can't recall much of the plot, some guy leaves Earth and is out in the big bad universe and meeting/interacting with ...
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Romance Wattpad book involving an ordinary girl, a floating island in the sky occupied by dragons, and a dragon shifter male lead
I read a Wattpad book a couple years ago and want to reread it but I can't remember the name.
The story is about girl who's quite ordinary but their world becomes disturbed by a floating island in the ...
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Military science fiction book where the main character and his group lost contact with Earth long ago; they encounter another ship that is from Earth
I'm looking for a military science fiction book. What I specifically remember is a certain scene. In the scene, the main character is on a ship traveling through some part of the galaxy. They ...
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Novel from 1980's-1990's. Young girl with special gift for growing things. World changes abruptly with nuclear missile launch [duplicate]
The story starts with the mother and child leaving an abusive spouse. They are driving through the corn belt of America when they spot a gas station/grocery store in the middle of nowhere. There is ...
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Book in which a rogue AI infects a ship captain with a virus which turns her into an insect-like creature
Looking for a novel in which a malevolent, rogue AI infects a ship captain with a virus which turns her into an insect-like creature.
This rogue AI is being hunted - possibly it has a price on its ...
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Novel where a man reincarnates after destroying his world, then kills his new family, then kills everyone in a sect he joins
This is either a Korean, Japanese or Chinese novel.
In it, the male protagonist cultivates to become so powerful that he destroys/kills his whole world subsequently drawing the wrath of a heavenly ...
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Short novel where a backwards nation invades the U.S. to lose, but wins [closed]
Thirty years ago, in the 1990s, when my father was a kid he read a book that he has never found since - he describes it as a very short novel, maybe about a centimeter thick / 80 pages long.
It's set ...
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Novel in which the main character is reincarnated into a novel as a saintess. There's a white-haired male lead who is a priest at a church
The main character gets reincarnated into a novel as the saintess, where there's demons and dungeons. There's a white-haired male lead as well that works at the church as a priest.
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Sci-fi book about a boy who develops powers and bends a large coin between two fingers
Back in the early 80s, I came across a book where a pre-teen or teen boy began to develop powers. For the life of me, I cannot remember the title. It was definitely published prior to 1985...I never ...
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Novel of an interstellar traveller returning to a post-plague Earth
A man returns to Earth after leading an interstellar trip with a small crew. He left a twin back on Earth. During their absence, a plague killed most of the older folks on Earth, and the remaining ...
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Book with teens who have super powers and need to fight membrane like aliens [duplicate]
A few years ago I read a book and a bunch of teens gain super powers. They go to this facility to train, I know one becomes super smart with technology and one becomes super strong, and one of the ...
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Sci-fi/fantasy book in which the main character and his friends could manipulate reality because they were a group of beings called celestial entities
So I don't have a lot to go on. It was a book I read in a middle school library around 2011.
I remember the main character would go to a skatepark with these friends and it turned out he and them ...
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Short novel about a generation ship run by a group of elders
It's a sci-fi/fantasy novel I read some years ago and I can't find it.
I don't know the title or the author.
It's about a multi generation star ship that is run by a team of 10-12 elders. They are ...
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Novel about a female detective investigating a crime in a society where mind reading through brain scanning is done
I remember lines in the book describing the dark neural paths of the criminal being investigated and the female detective describing that she enjoyed the hunt through the twisting pathways and maybe ...
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Novel written in the 1960s or 1970s about pyramid exploration on Mars
A team of astronauts on Mars discover an inverted pyramid buried on Mars. They explore it. Towards the end I found someone had torn out the final pages. The copy I read was a plain yellow cover ...
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Help identifying a novel about repeated doomed expeditions to a deadly alien structure [duplicate]
Years ago, there was a sci-fi novel that I read about a series of ill-fated expeditions to explore an alien structure in space. It popped into my head for some reason, and it's been driving me crazy ...