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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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Kindle EBook about a boy who finds a smartphone that lets him cast spells
I read this as a Kindle book, although I think as an Advance Reader Copy rather through the Amazon interface (there was a time when I had a surfeit of spare time and volunteered to help proofread in e …
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Paperback novel where a female kendōka kills an opponent because her sword is magically repl...
I was answering a question about Kendo rules on the Martial Arts SE, and it led to me suddenly flashing back on a book I read as a child.
I read this from the library in Ashland, KY when I was a child …
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Fantasy novel involving deep language immersion and the phrase "wrapped in maps" to describe...
I was looking at the TVTropes entry for The Mirror of her Dreams and I found myself suddenly recalling bits and pieces of what I think was a different novel that I read at the same time (so somewhere in …
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Alien visitor to planet forced to carry warrior's intestines in pilgrimage
This one is another one of those vague memories that keeps coming to me in maddeningly scarce detail. It was a paperback book that I read in English in the United States, probably in the mid 1990s. Th …
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Fantasy novel involving a contest with mounts and targets, and eventually a confrontation in...
I believe that I either read this, or listened to it as an audiobook, somewhere in the last three years (2017-2020) due to me associating it with a particular commute on the Pittsburgh public transit. …
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Book about a castle full of portals to other dimensions, everyone there has some magic
I read this as a paperback in the 1990s in Ashland, KY. I think the cover had the eponymous castle with various characters seen in it. I think I later learned it was the second book in the series. The …
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Book series about a Southern debutante teenage girl demon slayer
I think I read this about 5 years ago as an ebook from the library. Unfortunately, there's a lot of books in my history and I haven't noticed it on my list yet. The protagonist is a girl in high schoo …
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Book about a set of parents who undergo a body swap with their kids while traveling through ...
This one is on the tip of my tongue... a recently married couple is embarking on their honeymoon along with their children from a prior marriage. While on the trip, their boat travels through a fog ba …
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2000s novel with a journalist trying to stop a Bill Gates character from taking over the wor...
I was reminded of this when I saw the title of SciFi / fantasy book from 80s about Jesus, present-day New York, time travel and the Dead Sea scrolls, but somewhere in the early 2000s, while I was work …
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Novel with a young boy whose father creates custom pets including a "Godzilla" and a mammoth
I initially marked this down as a YA novel, since I read it as a kid in elementary school, and I don't think it featured any sex, but it had a decent amount of violence, including people dying in front …
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Fantasy novel where a pair of sisters, trying to evade a loveless arranged marriage by their...
I think I read this about four years ago (about 2016), although I didn't actually make my way to the end of the book. I think I acquired it as either an eBook or audio book from the library. The setti …
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Book series about a torturing doctor on a starship
I searched for, and found, this once before, but I've since lost track of it. The protagonist is a "doctor" on a ship, except technology has largely automated health care, so the title is actually giv …
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Earth taken over by aliens who treat humans as livestock. Protagonist is fully sapient, but ... [duplicate]
I read this in the 1990s, I think as a paperback. Aliens have taken over Earth. The main character lives with the aliens and does not consider himself as human, but as an oddly shaped alien. Somehow, …
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Fantasy comedy romance novel, set in medieval times, involving a siege, a nun, and enchanted...
I read this around 2015, I think, as a Kindle book. Sadly, I have quite a history of books to work through. The protagonist was a nun, not quite at final vows. Her monastery was known for its pickles. …
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Fantasy series set in World War I Europe featuring an aristocrat mage [duplicate]
The series had at least five books, I think, that I borrowed as ebooks from the library. They were written in English and might have been intended for the upper side of Young Adult. The main character …
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