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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Book in which a man who's been poisoned is saved by a princess using a snake that absorbs the poison
I need the name of a book. I read the first of a series 20 years ago.
The story is about a young man of the streets who falls in love with a princess, he is poisoned and she saves him by making her ...
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Book in which a father and daughter wake up on an abandoned spacecraft after spending hundreds of years in cryostasis
I read a book a while ago about a father and daughter who were cryogenically frozen until the cure for the daughter's disease was found. But it turns out they were frozen for hundreds of years and are ...
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Fantasy novel involving mythical creatures on a farm and two children staying with a relative for the summer
Mythical Creatures on a farm (unicorns, basilisks, etc.).
Relative having two children come to stay for summer.
Children's book.
Pre-2010.
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Novel in which the far future remnants of civilisation are visited by other descendants who left Earth long ago
I remember reading a novel from maybe the 80s about a village on Earth in the far future, after the Sun has gone red giant. The protagonist discovers that an 'alien' visitor is a descendant of humans ...
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French sci fi novel: political chaos, VR technology, Islamic professor
Back in the 1990’s, I read a French novel that blew me away… but I cannot recall its name nor its author.
From what I remember: the world (France) was on the brink of political chaos. Extremisms were ...
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Fantasy novel with plague turning out to be weight loss magic gotten out of hand [duplicate]
I think I read this in the last five years, but I also think it may have been a reread. It was a full-sized novel, I think, with a set of magicians (healers?) dealing with a deadly epidemic in their ...
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Book involving two siblings and a magic sword called Excalibur
I'm pretty sure it involves two siblings fighting crime whose catchphrase is "let's blow this popsicle stand" (or "...soda stand"). There's also а magic sword called Excalibur, I ...
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SF book with alien planet, whose plant life lacks chlorophyll / is not green and is being outcompeted by Earth plants
Does anyone happen to recall the title or author of a science fiction novel with the following major plot elements?
My recollection, not a quote:
On an alien planet, whose plants are not green (...
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Story of a human going to school to learn magic in space alongside kids from different planets
In this book there was a human boy who went to school in space with kids from different planets. He had 2 friends a girl and a boy. The male friend gets sick with some sort of virus early on in the ...
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Book about an amnesiac protagonist who sucks the life out of anyone nearby if he dies near them
A book about an unkillable, amnesiac protagonist that wakes up in the introduction of the book, after being killed in a children's playground, looking up at a fake dragon children's rocking horse. ...
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Medieval fantasy book about a boy who finds a rock in a cave or something like that. He keeps it in his pocket 24/7 and it hatches into a dragon
Okay so I read this book, I'm pretty sure it was a book series as well, in 6th grade, so late 2010s.
What I can remember is that this boy (I think?) -- it's set in more of a medieval fantasy type ...
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Book about crowns that enhance mental abilities
I am looking for a book set in the future in "outer space" where children wear different colored crowns that enhance mental abilities.
The book starts at a boarding school where the kids are ...
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Manhwa in which the male lead sends the main character back in time?
I'm looking for a manhwa where the male lead sends the main character girl back in time and we find out about it in later episodes. I guess the main male character was the main character girl's ...
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Girl taken from her village and trained in magic in a tower
There's a book about a girl who's taken from her village and is trained under a magic person (?) while being away from her home (and living in a tower?)
I think it's a one word title and I know the ...
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Novel about a man who was taken by aliens and used as an ambassador because humans used to be the galactic diplomats aeons ago
I remember reading a book ages ago (25-30 years or more) about a man who was taken by aliens and used as an ambassador because humans used to be the galactic diplomats aeons ago. At one point, he ...
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YA novel about a clumsy boy who learns it is actually his talent
The book title was definitely the boy's name with a subtitle. The story that I can remember is that the boy is constantly bumbling and breaking things and feels like he can't control it. On his ...
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Novel in which a research team investigates a rip in the fabric of space
I read this sometime in the late 80s.
A science experiment causes a rip in the fabric of space. A being (person?) joins a research team that goes to investigate by creating a scion of themselves. They ...
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What is this story I'm trying to remember, set in an alternate black and white dimension?
I read this book, when I was young, about a kid getting trapped in an alternate universe. The alternate universe was a mirror image of the real world, but in black and white. The kid remained in ...
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Young adult novel in which the protagonist is a young woman and her family turns to stone
I'm looking for a fantasy book I read as a kid. The protagonist is a young woman and her family turns to stone. She befriends a griffin that is very well spoken and intelligent. One of the parts I ...
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Fantasy Novel with Alternate Arthurian Mythos, Knights Magic Sentient Swords, set in Alternate Late Middle Ages
I'm hoping to finish a book I borrowed from a library in college half a decade ago, but can't remember its name. Alas, I only got halfway through it before I had to return it, and then I couldn't ...
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Manga where a guy has a system where he levels up his exes. Winds up with a daughter made from his mana
The Manga where the mc progresses with a system picking up girls along the journey only for the system to learn and gain emotions along the way falling in love with the mc and finally leveling up and ...
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A book about a girl who experience murders in her dreams
I read it a few years ago, and I really just can't remember the title of the book. I probably read it on Google Play books/Play Store for free. It's about a girl who experiences real murders in her ...
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British novel about a group of high school teens who develop powers, and are taken abroad to be trained or experimented on
I think this was a series.
What I remember is there is a group of high school teenagers who begin to develop powers. I believe they were experimented on in-vitro by a company, but I could be wrong.
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A time loop manga or manhwa where mc is an office worker and the world starts to change and when he goes out he finds a Minotaur and dies
It is a black and white manga or manhwa it wasn't coloured.
The main character (MC) is working in his office and talks to a girl and some other people. The world starts to change he then goes outside ...
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Sci-fi, mid-grade/YA novel about a girl in a wheelchair beta testing the world's first fully immersive VR program
I read this book when I was nine or ten, so back in the late 90s (no idea if it was new then, but probably based on the subject matter), and I really want to try to find it and recommend it if I can.
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Can any one help me with the title and author of Fantasy novel series with wars between good and evil waged by human champions of various gods
So I remember there being wars between good and evil being waged through wars with humans and some humans being the champion of a god and some being chosen by more then one god. Roughly medieval time ...
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Glass submarines, sea serpents and aliens at the bottom of a deep sea trench
Trying to identify a book I read at school back in the early 1980s. It featured small glass submarines, elusive sea serpents, and once the sea serpents were tracked down, aliens hiding under a force ...
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Novel where sick children are transported to a world with three types of machines controlled by the villain
I strongly remember reading this book, including large chunks of the plot and setting, except that I can't remember the author or the title. After fruitlessly wrestling with various book searching ...
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Trying to remember an older planetary romance novel
I am trying to remember a book that I read fairly recently, although it was much older (from the 1970s at the latest). I probably found a copy of it online somewhere like the Internet Archive. It ...
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Novel from around 8 years ago about kids staying young and being loaned to infertile parents
I don't remember the exact details of the book, but I read it around 2008/9, and believe it was quite new.
I don't remember the title, but I was under the impression it was called Hunted or something ...
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Short novel about artificial infertile girls coming from Venus to marry men and eliminate human race
Short novel about artificial infertile girls coming from Venus to marry men and eliminate the human race through infertility.
There was a "happy" ending (quite questionable) - men just ...
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Space station commander previously a hostage in an embassy
My memory is playing tricks. I'm trying to remember a novel I read probably late 90s, early 2000s.
Set in roughly modern day. Space station orbiting Earth is a secondary objective in the plot because ...
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Help identifying a story about siblings and ghosts
I'm looking for a book that was vaguely described to me, so the information I have is only secondhand. I've attempted to find it on my own, but have had no such luck. Here are the facts as they were ...
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Quote from Discworld about Ankh-Morpork tolerance and greed
In one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, he writes something along these lines:
The residents of Ankh-Morpork are willing to welcome everyone. No matter what sex, what species, and what race: ...
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YA/Children’s 2000s sci fi novel featuring a female spy/assassin in a world with flying cars and aerial highways
I’m looking for a book I read about 12 years ago, I’m guessing it was written in the early 2000s but not positive.
I don’t remember much but it took place on a futuristic planet that had some sort of ...
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Sci-fi/fantasy fae book about a girl whose family place a geas on her, causing her to be unable to escape the town
I'm looking for a book published between 2013 to 2019.
At the beginning of the book, the kids are all sitting around looking for someone they'll fall for, who they'll live with for a year and, if ...
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Book about people who are taken through portals all over the world and wake up in a strange world
I read this book in 2019, it was a paperback and I believe the cover was green. It wasn't very thick.
It starts with a man waking up in a forest and he finds others after that. They are attacked in a ...
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Old sci-fi novel about the last survivors of the human race working as mercenaries
I’m looking for and old science fiction title, probably from the 1970s. A small group of humans who are the last survivors of the human race are working in space as mercenaries and fighting for Aliens....
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Solid state drug addiction
I’m looking for a book from the 60’s or 70’s, about a post apocalyptic world. Some characters in the book are addicted to “the wire” i.e. electric nirvana is achieved when they hook the device into ...
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Book about humans stuck in a wormhole where reality is shaped by alien fungus; queer woman main character
A small group of humans has settled on a world where reality is shaped by thoughts, via a strange alien fungus that responds to the thoughts of the life forms around it.
The humans are stranded and it'...
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Do The Puppet Masters duplicate people?
In the story The Puppet Masters (not the movie, I've never watched it) we have a scenario early in the tale where they visit the Des Moines news office, the director "Barnes" proves to be ...
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Why Kansas City in The Puppet Masters?
In Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters" the protagonist realises that the Masters don't need to be directly attached to the base of the spine. That makes it easier but they can control you from any contact....
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Scifi book with teenagers growing in a spaceship, which crashes when landing on a new planet
I read only the first 10 pages of a scifi book in 2020.
There is a spaceship with teenagers, but they have never been awake: in order to not endure the stress of the journey, they are growing in a ...
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Book about a boy who doesn't believe in magic after his older magician brother disappeared
Like the title suggests this story I'm looking for is about a boy who didn't believe in magic after his older brother who was a magician disappeared. The boy ends up getting framed for graffitiing his ...
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Book about a character born in-between time on some sort of timeship
I can't find the name of this book! I believe it's YA. I read it at least 5 years ago, probably more.
The main character was born in between time on some sort of timeship. His mother had gotten ...
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Book about a girl who dies in an accident and is brought back to life by her parents in a robotic body
It's about a girl who is in an accident and her parents bring her back to live in a robotic body that they uploaded her brain to. Nobody at school will talk to her anymore because they're creeped out.
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Manhattan, time traveling mist wall, a flying white horse and a bridge of light to heaven
I remember reading this book in the late 80's or early 90's. It was a - sort of - semi SciFi contemporary fairy tale.
It was set in Manhattan in contemporary times, near future and (I think) late ...
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1980s novel series about teens in Georgia who learn magic [duplicate]
I'm trying to find a series of books I read in the 1980s about a group of teenage friends living in (I think) rural Georgia. They somehow encounter supernatural forces, maybe drawn from Native ...
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An old novel about a sentient planetary organism, but not an ocean, so not Solaris [duplicate]
Recently I asked a question to identify a novel which turned out to be Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem. That reminded me of another novel, clearly different, but with some analogies.
I also read it long ago,...
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Very old novel about a planet with a living ocean [duplicate]
I read this novel more than 40 years ago, but I believe that it is much older than that, it was already a classic.
I don't remember much. There is a scientific station there, to study an ocean that ...
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