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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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Novel about a woman who henches for a supervillain. No powers, but very good with spreadsheets
This one popped into my head tonight, and I just can't quite place where I read it. The protagonist is an adult female in a world with superheroes and supervillains, with the primary superhero being a …
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Looking for a novel involving an agent/assassin who might be a chimpanzee
The worst part about this is that I found the title of this book several years ago, even tracked down a copy and read it, but it's slipped my mind and my prior queries don't seem to exist anymore.
I …
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Novel with a scene where a mother is compelled to pile blankets on her newborn
I have a newborn son who's having a harder time with thermoregulation, and it made me flash back to a book, a fantasy novel I think, where a character finds his wife sleepwalking and piling more and more …
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Paperback YA novel where protagonists assume ghost's unfinished business is charity clothes ...
I read this somewhere in the 1990s, almost certainly as a Young Adult paperback, in English and in the United States. I might have gotten it from the library. There was a ghost that the main character …
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Novel where a woman is able to shake off mind control due to a broken microwave
I read this about 5 years ago, as part of a series. I remember the main character was an investigator, I think of the private variety. He was a fairly grounded individual, but over the course of the b …
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Fantasy novel involving a mall security officer who prevents a man from blowing up the mall ...
You would think that a fantasy novel with a main character who is a mall security guard would be easier for me to find. … The plot of the novel had a night watchman at a mall somehow getting involved with the supernatural. …
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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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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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Book involving a young boy who fights with nunchaku for reality show entertainment [duplicate]
I read this somewhere in the late 80s to early 90s as a hardback book in Ashland, KY. The main character is a boy, but severely jaded. He fights with plastic nunchaku (he makes a point at some point t …
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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 involving children traveling between alternate worlds via switches
I know I read this after 2012, I think as an ebook. The cover depicted a knife switch by itself, I think closed with the handle up. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist, a boy, is told by hi …
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Son of a superhero is stashed at the Antarctica base, which is attacked by a villain. Escape...
I read this in the last five years, I'm pretty sure, probably more than two years ago. I believe it was a complete book, not a short story. I don't remember if it was a paper book or an ebook. I'm pre …
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Fantasy book about a man with a magic box and something involving divine destiny
I read this as a paperback around the 90s in English, part of a collection of the shelves of our house (so it might be older). The cover has the protagonist considering the box, which I remember as ha …
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Novel about teleportation and a child assumed to be the savior of the galaxy
It's a Sci-fi novel, involves the last member of an alien race saying that a particular child will be a savior of the galaxy. …
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Book series where women gain superpowers based on menopause symptoms due to Chinese medicine
They seemed novel length, about 200 pages each, at least a trilogy of books. I have too many books in my Kindle history to really browse, so that hasn't helped. …
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