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Have you ever lost track of a favorite book from your childhood because you can’t remember the title or author? Do you have the story on the tip of your tongue? Can you explain the plot, describe the cover, or know the era, but just can’t remember the one detail you need in order to actually find the book? We’ve been there and know exactly how frustrating this can be. Below are a few tips we’ve used when searching for a lost book we love.
Tips to Find a Book When You Don’t Know the Title or Author
If you’re currently suffering from a case of book amnesia, try some of these tricks to see if they can spark your memory and help you remember more than a vague cover image or a quirky side character you loved.
First, Wrack Your Brain for Book Memories
When it comes to finding a book you have only a vague recollection of, you need to fish out everything you can possibly remember about it from your memories. Answer the below questions to see if they help you recover any additional information about your book.
- What did the cover look like? Do you only remember a fuzzy image that’s predominately one color? Even that is a clue! If you think hard, do you remember any elements on it? Was the author’s name in large print, or was the title large? Any of these details can be the difference between success or failure.
- Can you remember a phrase, quote, or a particular paragraph of the book? Sometimes you can remember lines you felt were funny or meaningful or just plain weird. Write them down as best you can for your search. Odds are that same phrase may have stood out to someone else too.
- What can you remember from the plot? Even if you’re not entirely confident, write down what you think you remember. You might find your memory looks something like “boy gets kidnapped. Girl best friend says she’ll find him. I think she becomes a detective at some point or runs into him later in life and they fall in love. The boy may be involved in drugs or something sketchy when she runs into him. I think at one point he wakes up in a dumpster.” Even though you’re not one hundred percent certain, you can try different searches with the elements you think are there and hopefully in one combination, you’ll get a hit. Or, hopefully your details will be close enough that someone else can piece the elements together.
- Can you remember any characters’ names? Remembering one or two of the characters’ names will also be a huge help in your search. Even if they’re side characters and not main characters, write them down.
- What genre was it? If it was fantasy, do you remember any details to narrow it down to a subcategory of fantasy?
- Do you remember any other story-related details, like a city name, street, location, pet, era, etc.?
- Do you remember any details related to publishing? Do you remember whether your school or library that you got the book from often bought books from a certain publisher? Do you remember when the book was published? For example, if it was a book you read from your childhood, then you know you can exclude any recent publications. Or, perhaps you remember that it was a new book that came out when you were in high school, then you’ll know to look for books published only in those few years. Do you remember any other similar authors that people seemed to also read if they liked the book you’re trying to remember?
Remember to write down as much information as you can, and maybe you’ll remember some more details in the process of finding your lost book.
Google and Other Search Engines
When you first try to search for a forgotten novel, you probably turn to Google or a similar search engine. Unfortunately, your average search may not be able to get you the results you’re looking for. Because of the vast volume of novels with similar plot elements and various SEO tactics and companies skewing the search results to favor their products, unless the book you’re searching for happens to be one of the most popular books of its kind, you’re going to have to do a deep Google.
Let me explain. If you’re looking for a book about mermaids, but you’re definitely not looking for something super popular like Disney’s The Little Mermaid, you may become frustrated that no matter what variation of “mermaid” search terms you try, you still find Little Mermaid results popping up on top because Disney can afford to pay people a lot of money to make sure their products stay on top of the search results.
So when searching for a forgotten novel, you’ll often have to use all the different details you remember from the book with Google’s different search functions. For example, quotations will be your friend to make sure Google doesn’t try to eliminate distinguishing details. The addition symbol will be useful for linking multiple elements into one search. Try using the Advanced Google Search Page with filters like subject, publisher, language, and publication date as well. Another tip is to always check the image results. If you’re on the right track, then sometimes an image result will appear more quickly than general search results. There are other advanced Google search skills that you can give a try too, like excluding specific keywords or using the wildcard operator to guess the name of a character.
Google Books Search
The Google Books Library Project now makes it possible to find books by searching through their text and content. The Books Search reference page also displays book specific information like various covers, tables of content, common terms and phrases, and popular passages from the books. You can quickly view sample pages to ensure that the book you’ve found is the book you’ve been looking for.
There are several other book databases you can find as well, such as Book Finder, Word Cat, LibraryThing, Book Sleuth, Goodreads, Amazon’s Advanced Book Search, and Library of Congress. However, if you haven’t been able to find the book you’re looking for with a Google search, you probably don’t have enough information to find it in one of these databases either. If you want to give some of these a try though, these are some of the ones we find the most useful.
- Book Cave: This site has the unique feature of being able to search through a rated books database. So if you know a book was a children’s book, you can avoid any adult rated book. Or if you know it’s an adult rated book you can exclude anything milder.
- The Library of Congress: This the biggest online library in the world and has a search engine capable of combining search parameters with keywords. There’s also an interesting option called “Ask a Librarian” where you can send an email and try asking for help in finding your book.
- Worldcat: Worldcat is a catalog of over 70 thousand libraries in 160 countries. Here you can look for a specific keyword, and you’ll get a list of book titles in various languages. There’s also a “Fiction Finder” section where you can search for a book by a character or place in addition to a keyword.
- Big Book Search: If you can only remember what the cover looks like, try this cover-search tool.
- If you can remember just one word of the title, use the search function on Goodreads or Library Thing to find long lists of titles with a particular word.
- Goodreads’ browse-able lists of titles that readers have shelved in unique categories, such as authors’ professions or decades of publication, may also be helpful.
Turn to Reddit or Other Popular Book Forums
Is there anything that the people of the internet don’t know? If computerized searches fail and you need a personalized touch, there are thousands of fellow book lovers out there who would love to help you out. Places like Reddit, Tumblr, Goodreads, and several other bookish forums have book sleuths that seem to be able to solve even the vaguest of mysteries. Reddit in particular has several dedicated sections such as Tip of My Tongue, What’s That Book, Books, and PrintSF for when you can only remember the cover. Just take a scroll through the book section of Reddit to find a thread that best meets your needs. If Reddit isn’t your thing, check out some of these other book forums and groups:
- Goodreads What’s the Name of That Book? is a group that will help solve your book mystery after you’ve done a valiant effort to first find it yourself.
- LibraryThing’s Name That Book is another place where you can post about your forgotten novel. Just follow their instructions and try to wrack your brain for as many details as you can, and fellow readers will do what they can to find your book.
- Stump the Bookseller is a blog run by a cool indie bookstore in Ohio that offers a $4 dollar service to help readers find lost books, specifically childhood books. Plus they have large searchable archives that you may find helpful as well.
- The Fiction_L listserv is another place where you might be able to get some help, although they don’t seem to have a section dedicated exclusively to finding lost books.
Ask Your Own Social Network and Community
Post on all your social networks, reach out to friends from the time when you were reading the book, and ask a local librarian or even old school teachers. You might be surprised to find that your personal community is the missing link needed to find your book. Communities often have similar interests, so the books you enjoyed as a child might be the same books your friends and others in your town also enjoyed and borrowed from the library.
Your own circle may be especially helpful if you can remember the time that you read the book. If you know you read the book in junior high or high school, reach out to your friends from that era and see if they remember anything about the books you were reading back then. If you’re like me, you probably have a whole friendship circle of readers and you probably not only told them about every book you read but also offered to let them read it as well so you could talk about it. You never know what odd memories a person may be able to recall from their past.
When All Else Fails
If you’ve gone through all of these things and still aren’t able to find the elusive book you’re looking for, then you may have to accept that it’s not going to happen or even that you may not be remembering it correctly. I remember one story about a person looking for a particular Danielle Steele book who later realized the book she was looking for was actually by Daniel Silva. These kinds of close but not quite recollections are understandably frustrating because while you’re confident you’re looking for the right thing, in the end you were actually going down the wrong rabbit hole the entire time and may not even have realized it.
Another consideration is whether what you’re looking for is even real. There have also been times in my life that I’ve been convinced something that happened in a dream was real life, and oftentimes my dreams take up various elements of books I’ve read. Could you possibly be remembering a detail wrong or combining several different books from your past? Whatever the case may be, hopefully you can at least be somewhat cheered up by the list of books you’ve uncovered in your search that at least have many similar elements to what you were looking for.
Happy reading!
I am desperately trying to remember the name or author of 3 novels with the same character. I think the author was an x lawyer or investigator. Genre is crime, thriller. I think the 3 novels were his only publications. Character was a guy who grew up in the Bronx or Harlem and became a lawyer. He got an innocent African American off death row and the 2 became friends and business partners. It’s not John Grisham or Peter James but similar style. I read them about 15 years ago so must have been published around the early 2000s. Someone asked me my favourite books and these were it because after i read the first one i got the next two and holed myself up until i finished them which i have never done before or since. I have tried google but no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can anyone help me find of childrens scarey storied that included,’ who stole my hairy toe’ and ‘in a dark dark house’
The book series is titled “Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark” by Alvin Schwartz.
A big friendly giant and a girl go and there are bigger giants that are mean and eat little children
Are you talking about BFG(Big Friendly Giant)
Thanks so much for the suggestions! I was able to find a beloved author and book from my childhood just by putting a quote into a search engine.
I am trying to find a book that I read about 15 years ago. I believe that it is part of a series of books. from what I can remember, some children were sitting on a fence & notice that some cars had changed number plates. they then try and solve the mystery
im looking for this book i read a few years ago and only remembered when i was listening to the song dandelions!! it had a cover of a dandelion and a few things i remmeber are, it was a pov of a schoolgirl, and sumth related to her grandma dying or mum and hospitals, and sum secret i have no idea
Hi im looking for a book I read when I was in 5th or 6th grade in 2010 about a girl living in a grey town and everyone was grey and Im pretty sure she was an orphan and then something happens and I think she went a boat and was at a place full of color and she finds out that she’s meant to be there. Please help
the father and son live in a car . father worked at oil station . and one day both gone to rob chikkens of a party
I think that’s a Roald Dahl book
It’s Danny, the Champion of the World
anyone nows??
Yes I do
In the 1970s, I came across an adult black-and-white comic book while traveling through the Midwest with my parents. The magazine might have been “Creepy” or “Eerie.” I was a child, and my folks wouldn’t have bought me a comic book intended for mature readers. Standing in the store, I didn’t have time to read the whole thing, but I can still recall a sequence where a scrawny, long-haired man enters a young woman’s home — possibly a secluded cabin in the woods — with an enormous blade. He slices her belly open and pulls out a new-born infant. I remember how black and sticky the blood looked. Does anybody know what that was?
I had Tamil language book in the name 4000 year old man ,it was a translation from Russian language it was with me till1979 and i lost the book.its a wonderful book for children.I am searching for it either in Tamil language or in English.Help me find it,thank you.
Hi, to anyone reading this
I’m trying to find a graphic novel in black-and-white from my earlier school years, but can’t remember title or author.
The parts i remember aren’t necessarily consecutive, but in order from the start to end. The (?) means that i can’t actually remember the specifics or not certain of detail. The [skipping pages] means that i skip through the book, so the next detail that happens isn’t automatically after prior detail.
It involves genocidal robots, and is set in a modern/futuristic setting, that transits to a ruined city/desert.
During an attack on a city/town(?), one of the robots was left in a critical condition. Nearby, a young boy on the verge of death was lying there, facing upwards, and is shown with most of his right side of his body crushed/gone. Searching for a means of survival, the robot assimilates with the young boy’s body, as the boy black-out from the pain wondering what was going to happen.
The robot, possessing the boy’s body, then uses his metallic appendages to “fill” the right side of the body, assuming the form of his right eye, right hand, and right leg, making up the right-hand side of his body, with the excess trailing behind him as metallic tendrils, similar to other robot tentacles, as his upper body is mostly exposed/shirtless.
Haven taken control of the body, the newly defined “cyborg” then heads towards a certain scientist/engineer’s home, then proceeds to take his life. Having regained consciousness, the boy’s will breaks through the robots dominance and tells the scientist to flee, but the robot then regains control and crushes the scientist with his robotic hand. After the assassination, a young girl, presumed to be the daughter of the scientist, oblivious to the murder, was found by the cyborg. Unlike the scientist, she was spared, and followed the cyborg, side-by-side.
As for the young boy, his consciousness taking the form of his original body, was trapped in a “mental jail” with the robot’s intact mental form standing there as his warden(?), but the boy unable to regain control of his body, in spite of his pleas towards the robot, as he ends up swallowed (by chains, memories or darkness, that part is hazy, with the next part).
[this was the first half of the graphic novel i can remember “clearly”, this second part is nearer the second-half, mostly near the end. I don’t know any details, so i can’t say why for the events that happens next]
Wandering the sand-like wastelands, the two come across a gang/clan of motorcycle riding scavengers, only about 5-to-10(?) years older than the boy, with a woman/young lady as the ringleader. The cyborg also seems to have no ill will(?) towards them, and he, the girl, and the gang travel together. As they go, the young boy, unable to affect the robot, watches(?) as he is unable to reassume control.
[skipping pages]
After a while, a piggybank-sized piece of debris from the ruined buildings fell on top of the young girl’s head as the bike leader cries out. The debris hits the young girl, causing a nasty dent in her head. Then unexpectedly, the damage just automatically healed, with the young girl’s chirpy demeanor unchanged, despite the shock on the multiple biker’s faces.
It then turns out that, unbeknown to the cyborg, the young girl was an android human, created by her “father”.
[skipping pages]
An genocidal robot, hunting down the “defective”(?) robot that makes up the cyborg, then confronts and procedes to “terminate” the cyborg, as the cyborg fights back in an “self-presavation” manner, as the boy cries out for control as the physical pain (?) from the confrontation, shocks the boy’s mental body.
In a moment of rage, (half-remembering a quote: “sometimes all that’s left is power”) the boy jumps on the robot’s mental body, wrapping it in ink-black shadows, causing the robot’s control to cease.
Immediately regaining control of his body, the boy plunges his left human hand through the hunter robot’s body/frame and as the oil sprays from the hunter, (may be misremembering this next part) his mental body and physical body say the same phrase: “I won’t let you take control anymore!”
After the confrontation, the cyborg’s mental world shifts roles, as the boy’s mental body stands before a chained-up robot, as they exchange words. As the boy’s mental body turns to leave, he notes to the robot that the robot’s speech pattern has started to resemble more that of a human.
Parting ways with the bikers, the cyborg and young girl/android continues to wander together. (This should be on/near the last page of the graphic novel) The two, standing on top of the dunes of sand, looks towards the horizon. As the young android maintains her upbeat look, the cyborg’s dull eyes gives no indication of who is in control. (last panel)
And that is all the main details i can recall, while i’m unsure of this being the start of a series, or just a stand-alone book, i am certain that this book should have been published before the year 2013.
This novel stood out in my memories due to the internal conflict of boy and robot, as they share a crude fusion of their bodies. I’m also about 80% certain that this is a graphic novel, as opposed to manga, due to the reading direction of left to right.
It may be a version of The Night Before Christmas. Santa is standing in front of a fireplace with his bag of toys. There is a Christmas tree and a little dog.
This book had seven? main characters and each character had a tattoo of a planet on their wrist. Each character also had a power. I remember one had the powers of a seer (she was female), one could create power balls and sense the energy or aura of a person (also female). Normally the one who could sense auras would see a cloud like substance around the person she is looking at and it would either be white, light gray, dark gray, or black. But she comes across individuals that have other colors in their aura such as green, yellow, red, blue, etc…these colors are from science experiments that changed the seven individuals genes? DNA?
Six of the individuals had found each other and were drawn to the female who senses auras, whom they found walking? on the side of the road. The young woman had hitchhiked to a town? I’m not sure. And she had accidently left a bag in the mans (the person who had picked her up) truck.
She was told where the man lived and started to walk there, which is where the group of six had found her. They dropped her off at the farm and waited while she asked for her bag, but when the door opened to the farmhouse? she fainted.
That’s most of what I remember. Oh, and the young woman had a strange connection to the man who was one of the six. She and the other six had lost their memories, were given money, ID’S, and stayed at different hotels. But the woman was known to sleepwalking and had sleepwalking into an alleyway a few blocks? from the hotel she was supposed to be staying at.
Also this book is one of a series and is a Kindle fantasy fiction book.
This book was about man and wife, last name angel . There was a train wreck. A family on the train, parents die , they had several children. The angel Gabriel is worker at the train site. The Angel can’t have kids end up adopting kids on train
So I’m from the UK, England to be specific (might make a difference!).
This was 100% a short story, or an extract of a story that was edited into an anthology of short stories for children. I’d say between say I was between 7 and 10 which would be in the late ’90s and early ’00s. I thought it was the puffin “Stories for 8 year olds,” but I don’t think it is. So I’d be over the moon and ever so grateful if you know what it is called! We don’t have the book at home anymore so I unfortunately can’t just go and look it up anymore.
So the story was about a Mum who was really silly and scatty. I vaguely remember that the beginning of the story was the young girl was trying to get to school (I think it was school) on time as she was always late, and I think it was winter. The girl was all wrapped up in their winter coat with hat, scarf, and gloves etc. She was waiting by the front door and calling up the stairs to her mum saying hurry up! When the mother eventually came downstairs she was wearing summer clothes. I have a feeling that it was she was wearing a sparkly silver top with spaghetti straps, a short (bright, maybe yellow) skirt and strappy heels even though it was snowing outside and they had to walk to get to the school. The mum may have even had just one shoe bc she couldn’t find the other shoe. Maybe it was the shoes that were silver and sparkly instead of the top. Or even both! It was basically a role reversal where the girl was the mum and the mum was the child. So the girl made the mum go back upstairs and change. I have a very vague memory of her wearing a woollen scarf, but it was really eclectic and mismatched. It was homemade and made up from lots of different sizes of wool, so many colours that made no sense and looked like the scraps and leftover bits had just been thrown in there. There were bits of wool poking out where the ends of the cut wool hadn’t been tucked into the scarf. I think it was made up of different pieces which were different widths and lengths then sewn together. But it really seemed to represent the mother and her scatty, creative, oddball self! In my opinion anyway. There may have also been a baby in a pushchair possibly wearing like a winter coat onsie thing and mittens and hat etc, but it could also have been the girl when she was younger, I really cannot recall. I think it was a sibling though as I think I remember her saying that the baby was getting too hot so she needed to get ready quickly.
Lastly, I thought that there was an extract of “The Diary of a Killer Cat” in the book too; I want to say it was one of the last stories, but throughout my many many attempts at Googling this, I cannot seem to find it ever being part of an anthology type children’s book. And if it was in a collective book, it may not be the same one that the mum/daughter story/extract was in.
Anyway, so unfortunately that is all I can remember. I hope it’s enough and someone knows what I’m going on about! This has been bugging me for so long and I’ve spent hours and hours and hours looking for it with no success. I think I’ve found every childhood story in the world bar the one I desperately wish to find! I just remember loving the story so much and would reread it constantly, so I would just love to know which story I was so obsessed with as a child! So yeah, if you can help I would be so so grateful! Thank you!
My husband went to Sacred Heart School in the Bronx, remembers being read a story by nuns and it was about a moth searching for the light….the moth was always so busy and did not follow when the kings and all the other animals followed..so now the moth is always wandering looking for Jesus. I would love to find out the name..Perhaps in the late 60’s?
Need help looking for book, any help appreciated
– For about 8th graders
– about a man who created a monster (not Frankenstein before you you suggest it lol)
– the monster is misunderstood when he tries to connect with civilians
– throughout the novel the monster and the creator are fight and argue bc of their feud
– the monster wants a companion
That’s all i can remember, Thanks!
I am looking for a book that had a sort of blue colour and it was mainly hardback. It had 4 or 3 children on the cover and there was an aeroplane flying above them in it. The story was about some couple of kids that messed around in a house, they drank some toilet water because they couldn’t find any other source of food and said that it tasted of crystals or something, i can’t remember properly. There was this Pilot as well who got injured and then out of the 3/4 children, there was one girl who helped stitch up his wound and I can’t really remember anything else, except that the next book in the series had a red-coloured book.
Trying to hunt down this book!
Here’s what I have:
Childrens book
Olive green, matte finish hardcover w/o dust jacket
Letter size (8x11ish)
About teddy bears. Whole variety of teddy bears – I vaguely remember a punk or goth bear (dressed in black biker attire), frizzy bear, smooth bear…basically every type of teddy bear.
Book is 90s or earlier.
I’ve almost given up. Help!
It’s a girl who loves this one band and she met a girl over social media who is also a big fan of them. The band organized a concert in the uk and the girl decided to go there with her friend she met on the internet. She ends up inviting some guy who was interested in the friend and pretended to like the band. In the band was that one guy who had some issues i think and some people revealed who one of the guys was dating.
I remember the cover was yellow and had tiny people on it.
Here’s a challenge. I posted thison Oct 3 2015. It’s not on earth. It’s not Anne McCaffreys talent series (pegasus in flight specifically keeps being mentioned.) The main character is Twilla I believe PIF has a female named Tirla but it isn’t the same book.
I read this book around or slightly before 2008. It was a paper back. Everything I know/remember is in this Goodreads link. I’ve even tried the library of Congress but nothing came of it.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/17518800-he-s-37-and-ruler-of-his-lands-she-s-17-was-abandoned-by-her-family-sh
Was it a Piers Anthony book? I think the characters name sounds familiar to me
No ma’am it wasn’t in Xanth. Or any other Piers book. Would have been amazing tho. Love him.
I don’t remember the title but the opening lines are: ” Some years ago while writing a book about Spain during the Golden Age.”
Rivers of gold by Hugh Thomas?
O.o I just woke up. I’m sorry. I just realized this is something different. Change that to I’ll look to try and help you. I’m pulling special today.
I’ll look into it, but it was not written on planet earth o.O however doesn’t matter I will look and follow up with you. Thank you.
She would like fall sleep and go to another world of have a premonition her mom drank alot and she knew one dat age was ganna be blind
thank you
I can’t really remember the title or author of the book.
A young college teacher (by college, i mean high school.. the beginning of the story is based in the UK, so yeah there they say college) who was probably 21-25yrs old. She worked in an all boys college. The boys had to wear uniforms. There was this one “popular” boy who was well-known, well educated, handsome and all teachers liked him, and he had a ‘crush’ on that young teacher. I think the teacher also had a crush on him, but I’m not sure..
After a lot of misunderstandings and confusion, they spent their first night together (both were virgins, i believe) in an cabine/lodge/inn.
Their relationship was kind of a mess but they fell head over heels for each other.
The young teacher got pregnant (but the boy didn’t know). Oh oh i forgot to mention, he has a crooked tooth.. the author always seems to mention that.
She decides to break the relationship between him and travels to another country(i don’t know where but i believe somewhere in Europe).
She gives birth to a daughter, the meets another man who is rich and loves to handle with antiques and goes to antique auctions a lot. They start a relationship. The three of them are happy together but.. she can’t stop thinking about the crooked tooth boy.
Time passes and crooked tooth boy and young teacher meet again, she gets pregnant again with his child, a boy is born. The rich man knows about her relationship with crooked tooth boy but is not mad? And he even doesn’t say anything about it.
In the last few chapters, the rich man dies of stress and old age.. but then i can’t remember anything thing else. Please help me find this book. I can’t stop thinking about it..
A lebanese book.A guy talked about his lover and his family in lebanon and he mentioned some lebanese words and eventually it turned out he was dreaming
Anyone know of that series thats very similar to the series Cleopatra in Space in most ways, but is only a 2 or 3 book series?
A book about an author (possibly of Irish origin) moves to a small village and rents a big house, meets a man at the local pub for a date. Her younger sister is getting married.
this summary is going to be confusing but that is because i have not read the full novel. it’s only 42 pages and is self published. my english teacher reads pages to us as a joke in our creative writing class and im desperate to find it so i can read it myself. the story is about a girl from canada with a police officer as her dad. dead mermaids keep washing up on shore and of course she wants to figure out why. the mermaid king is a horrible man and replaced the main characters father a long time ago. apparently the dad is thousands of years old. he was the merman king but left the ocean to “follow jesus.” towards the end of the story the merman king tries to kill the dad, but jesus shines through his stab wound and heals him…..if anyone has read this or heard about it PLEASE LET ME KNOW. a quote i remember from the book had something to do with scars or cuts looking like “lines from a squishy zebra.” i’m sorry for the vague explanation, i really wish i knew more. i have looked absolutely everywhere but have had no luck whatsoever
I am looking for a book that I read when I was younger (early/mid 2010s) that I’m pretty sure is part of some sort of series/triology. From the remnants of my memory the cover had pink stripes and ??I think an illustration of a young girl?? The book is set in France and is about a girl living with her aunt and siblings/cousins. My memory is really foggy, but I clearly remember enjoying the book. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you 🙂
I saved a male mermaids life and he took my body by Force that is a line from the book can any body help pleas i so the title on Facebook for Goodreads
I think it’s The Mermaid That’s Sweetest by C. Swallow if I’m not mistaken.
Me too!!! Have you found anything?
Any feedback, I’m looking for the same
Did you find out the answer? I am searching for the same thing. Thanks
Children’s hard paged book about a mother cat that wakes up and her kittens are gone all 5 of them
I bought it in 1984
Each short story in the book has a different animal involved in an adventure with nature or a family
A very old book about a spider who was taught to knit a Web by his mummy spider. It’s a very old book
Fantasy, possibly YA, read around 2010, a girl ends up in a castle and thinks she’s the only human there but finds a wolf there and decides to stay up one night and hides a candle under her pillows and discovers a man instead
It’s kind of similar to a Beauty and the Beast story but it’s not a disney themed one. After the girl sees the guy I know she wakes him up and he’s super angry about it and talks about a curse. I think she needs to love him to break it, but I don’t remember.
i think the book you’re looking for is called echo north, its young adult fiction
Hey any one know name manga?
It about high schools trip in airplane suddenly disappeared to strange Island
Boy (I forgot all names) only one at first he keep walking until he met other survivors and they met strange tiger beast with long tooth, and large bird that should not exist in long history dinosaur eta, they kept walking until found crashed landing plane boy was worried looking his childhood girl who is waiting in room with blanket covered they cried Reunited together, they decided look other survivors (all high schoolers, and adults)
They faced all danger in forest of island, especially dinosaur times.
sorry but i do not know can you help me out; in this book a boy has to leave his family for some strange training because his parents don’t know but robots are going to invade earth .kids who got informed where to be sent for training. also he has a kind sister and brother who he is scared of.
Hope that helps! Also, it’s not robots but alien beings.
Hi
I read this book two years ago and the cover was light blue with a boy and girl on it, it about a boy and a girl and when and the boy would fall asleep out of no where the girl would wake up and the boy can see what the girl is seeing and same the other way around.
That is all I can really remember please please help
Hi! I’m looking for a book whoses pages aren’t in order. Also the story took place in 1930s-1940s.
Hi,
I read a book and would like to find it,
The book has a blue and gold cover and is about a shipwreck called the Kraken and then the boy and his dog join the theater the book is half in pencil drawings
thank you!
I am looking for the title of a book about a young African American girl trying to get money for a bus ticket to visit her mom in prison to sign a permission form for her to get into a magnet school. Can anyone help?
Hey, are you talking about Standing Against the Wind by Traci L. Jones? I was looking for the title of this book myself. Hope this helps!
Hello, I read a book in 6th grade and I am looking for it again. It was a series, and I remember the cover. The girl had red curly hair (which was often mentioned in the book). She had a symbol on her hand which I remember she was scratching in one scene. She had powers because of this symbol. She is visited by a handsome guy who is often said to look “golden.” She stands in front of a gate to a mansion on the cover. She also had to stay in the mansion after a family member dies. Also, the handsome guy was evil and his name started with an A I believe. A scientist guy dies in a hospital scene too. Please help! I can see the cover in my head but I can’t think of it!
um i think thats the doll graveyard by: lois ruby
i think
Nope, but thanks for trying.
I recently read a book that I found would be great for my daughter to read. The book Is a E Book has 15 chapters. It was about this woman who has written 24 or 25 books. In the book It talked about this man and woman that knew one another and were friends. He went into service where he lost one of his arms but he didn’t let It bother him. And years apart this woman had a friend that had twins and was on drugs and ask her friend would she take care of them. And later she had an accident with the twins with her and her long lost guy friend came to her rescue and right now Is all I can come up with. I’d love to find this book!
Fiction Book is over20 years old. Starts with husband getting shot in the front yard and woman has to run for her life. Through the woods. Thought the title was something about “no where to run” does have romance at the end
This book is a work of non-fiction. The author’s parent move from place to place. Dad did not always had a job. Some time family will be hungry, there is no food in the refrigerator. There were 4 siblings. Author is the 3rd in the line. With hard work and luck, she ends up in New York. and then her two older sister and brother moved there. Eventually Parents move to NY, and going thru trash cans finding food. Author happened to find a place in Park avenue or 5th avenue. Any help is appreciated.
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
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I am looking for a book in which a lady is looking for her lost sister that was kidnapped and taking to a brothel house without her consent she then meet a man who was initially sent to spy on her but fell on love with her
And the guy wears a bowler hat?? I have been trying to find the title of this book since I read it in the 90s, lol
I read a paperback in the late 70’s I enjoyed and can’t remember the title. If memory serves there was a young female (unsure if girl or young woman). Seems like she was sent to or went to, possibly in hiding/escape, a different planet. There was a large creature, long hair, possibly mammoth or elephant size. I recall imagery of long billowing golden? grass/wheat that the creatures ate. I believe it gave them abilities? I think she was able to communicate telepathically with the creatures. Possibly teleport also. Please help… it’s driving me crazy lol. I’ve searched every which way I could think of.
Lord of the Stars? MC is male but there is a girl side character who is fairly prominent. Telepathy, different planet, animals etc.
Thank you for your reply! I’m trying a search for this book with a fuller description of the plot. So far, the small bit I’m able to find doesn’t sound quite right. I’m sure it focuses on a female in the story.
I want to fing a book in where the main character has to raise his niece after a drug addict kills their parents and in the process falls in love with the teacher who turns about to be the sister of the murder but also the only one that can connect with the child please, help me find it
I’m looking for a book a read a couple of years ago. It was a young adult romance novel and I remember the boy would always say how the Latina girl’s eyelashes were very long. She worked at a gas station (I think) and saw him robbing his own grandfather who messed himself, but he was wearing a face covering so she didn’t discover it was him until later.
I’m looking for a book that starts off with the dad beating his daughter and telling her she better not tell anyone. She takes a shower and lets the water wash the blood off her back from the beating she just got! She gets dressed for school. She was born with blue hair. She is bullied at school. She doesn’t talk, she sit in the back of all her classes. She sits by herself at lunch. The teachers don’t even say anything to her. She wears her hoodie pulled over her head to hid her face. Then one day 3 new boys come to the school and she thinks she may have a friend. But she fines out that’s not the case. I would like to know the name of this book. Please
Dads, geeks and Blue haired freaks?
Im looking for a book with a word shadow in it and a blade/dagger/sword, and it gets darker outwards the edge of the book. If you know what book im talking about pls reply
Theres 5 best friends, two girls, Three boys, two of them are brothers the third boy is dating one of the girls (main character). They are each in a car and they get into an accident. One of the boys die which is the main characters best friend and also one of the brothers. The main character gets a bunch of scars and gets really insecure (she named her scars, one of them was called idaho”. The main characters boy friend cheats on her with the other girl. The brother that is still alive moves away and the main character and him start talking and emailing each other. They end up getting really close and end falling for eachother. He ends moving back and they hang out for the summer. The Ex boy friend and Ex girl best friend try getting her to talk to them, in hope of becoming friend and boy friend again. Brother and main character get together. Main character has this stuffed animal that had all her secrets in. She has a summer check list that she wants to end up finishing before the summer ends. 1. to wear a tank top in public 2. to drive a car again 3. to go to the fountain of youth 4. to kiss a boy without flinching. She goes to the junk yard almost every morning and hangs out there. Her and the boy end up together and he helps her with her checklist. Her secrets start to come out of her stuffed animal and get mailed to her. She gets really sad about boy best friend being dead. The two brothers family and the main characters family end up going camping together along with the ex boyfriend and ex best friend. They go paint-balling together and the main character starts arguing with ex boyfriend. They end up going to fountain of youth in the end of the book. Please get back to me soon
I’m looking for a book where a group of teens decide to go to a haunted house that was actually used to kidnap and sell them in a different world via a long ladder. I also remember the main character had a teleporting sword.
Try Five Kingdoms: Sky Raiders
I am looking for a short story i read in Grade 8 or 9 in which a man is pursued by a robot (alien?) that matches his speed until he overcomes his victim. But by the time this man is caught he lost too much weight so he was let go. This is fairly old because i read it about 35 years ago but the story has always stuck with me. I appreciate any insight you can give me
I think this is one of the short stories in Ray Bradbury’s collection “Golden Apples of the Sun”. I certainly remember reading the story you describe.
Looking for two children’s story book
The first colour is kind of dull brown yellow,I thinkthe boy was being chased by trolls(am not sure)at the ending part of the story the meanest troll was about falling into a bottomless pit when he beg the boy saying “help us” even though he was the only one about to fall
He fell though ,the boy didn’t save him he wasn’t that naive.
The second story is about a bear (not sure) and the books contains different chapters on different lives of the bear there was this this chapter he was with a man smoking a cigar this story is a bit colourful compared to the first one,there was this chapter where the bears(I think the main bear and other members) were hanging upside down on poles and this particular chapter was all green
I received both books as a gift around 2008
I’m looking for a short story about a husband who’s wife (iirc) sends an assassin to kill him. The man goes into his safe for some reason at which point he subtly manages to get the glass the assassin was drinking from into the safe. The man says to the assassin that if he kills him, the police will be able to find him using his fingerprints found on the glass that’s now in the safe. The assassin accuses the man of bluffing since there were two glasses. We can’t be sure if it actually is the assassin’s glass in the safe or not. Anyway, the man turns the tables and essentially gets the assassin to kill his wife instead.
It was called, “A Time to Die”.
This was one of the stories in the TV series, “Tales of the Unexpected” . Most, if not all of the stories were written by Roald Dahl.
Im looking for a book about a teen who goes to a swimming club that was basically Christian, i think. He deals with a bully and a bunch of his cronies. I think they break his goggles and as revenge he and his friends fill his swimming bag with mud. The climax is that the bully falls into the pool and he is panicking and drowning and the main character saves him and they become friends
Looking for a book that in late 1970’s in which a young girl was having difficult time getting along with her mother and she is traveling on a train and falls asleep and wakes up and discovers she is in 1940’s and meets young girl who was her mother and learns to understand her mother and their relationship from the experience.
Any help on this title is greatly appreciated!
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Hangin’ Out with CiCi, or My Mother Was Never a Kid, by Francine Pascal
I’ve been looking for a book that I read when I was 14 (more than 10 years ago), I cannot remember the name and unfortunately, I remember very few things of the plot.
The cover has a sword and I believe the title has something to do with knights but haven’t found anything related on my search in google.
The book is set on the medieval age, there’s this ‘boy’ that wants to become a knight and helps young Arthur (this i’m not entirely sure) with his quests to become a royal knight, at the very end there’s a plot twist in which the main character is not a boy but an undercover girl. I remember enjoying so much this book but forgot the name completely.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Alanna: The First Adventure?
Hello Justin!
Thank you very much for your guess but I found it a couple of days ago!!!
The title is: sword of the rightful king
hey you seem smart how did you find the book you were looking for
So there was this book I read once but I forgot the name but it was about 3 teenagers, 1 girl and 2 boys and they were all around the same age. They escaped from the police and their family because they were going to be sent off to died in pretty sure and they came across each other. At first they all didn’t trust each but then they grew on one another. The girl and the oldest guy started falling in love. I also remember a part about them being at a airplane graveyard with other teens like them.
There was a book I read in high school, about eleven years ago. I cannot remember the title or the author but I remember a few vivid details. I recall there being a serial killer targeting women. A man with no association to the killer whatsoever (becomes entangled with the killer by chance) sees a beautiful redheaded woman on a train/subway and this woman happens to become the killer’s next target. There is a climactic ending to the book with the main character being injured, but he survives, and I think the redhead does as well. I feel like I remember the main character owning a bike or a motorcycle of some kind.
I read a fiction novel in the early to mid 80s. It was about a human teacher and her daughter moved to a small town. (One of them was named Nicole). The teacher taught night school for vampire children. I don’t recall the rest, but really want to find it and re-read it.
1985-1987 novel blue cover and don’t have author or title only read last 5 pages and male character in a rage strangles a female character who doesn’t resist as she turns cyanotic and onlookers cannot rescue her. He ends up in mental institution. Could involve Hollywood/Broadway 1920s-30s . Reverse engineering plot victim may have saved another couple from the villain she schemed with and knew that she might would probably be killed for betrayal but for redemption and and justice she sets it up in public with witnesses to assure he receives appropriate comeuppance.
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The plot has the woman acting as an assistant to the assassin but she is the assassin herself. In one of the assignments, she uses balloons filled with some combustible gases I think for some birthday party and the detectives roll out the roof to save the target and a bunch of others. Darn!!! I don’t remember the thriller’s name … It could be Agatha Christie, Clive Cussler, Ludlum, Wilbur Smith, … I don’t know…. Any help folks?
I am looking for a book where a daughter goes home expecting a promotion to detective but instead her father gives it to a man. she quits as a deputy working for him and goes to another county. then when a murder happens she has to work alongside her father as 2 counties are involved.
I am looking for a book, in this book there was this girl who was sent to a rich boarding school by her parents(her mother also went to the same school) she later found out that her grandmother owned the school and her uncle took drastic measures just to become the owner of the school. Her uncle kidnapped her?? Invaded the school?? She fell in love with one of the boys who would climb her window at night. They found out one of their teachers was an insider for her uncle.
I am looking for a book.it is about a n active girl who was the cream on the top in her organisation who was killed by one of her colleagues while on a mission.she resurrected in a rich woman body who was about to be divorced.the woman has give birth to a boy.the boy nickname is”sun” i think.i guess this is all what I can remember about the book
I am looking for a book about a young girl, I think she might’ve been adopted or was in some type of mental hospital. There were three books to the series, the first has a blue cover with her face on it, the second has an orange cover with her face and a boys face on it, and the third has a purple cover. I think her name might have been Jodi if I am remembering correctly.
I am looking for a beautiful hardbound Christmas book that my uncle bought for me sometime between 1965 and 1970. It had stories, poems & recipes with old fashioned Christmas pictures.
Can you remember anything else? Maybe like some of the stories in it?
I don’t. I just remember that there were a few recipes in there with the poems and stories and the pictures were of an old fashioned Christmas.
ah, dang. I hope you figure out the name though!
do you guys know a book about a 14 year old boy’s journal on how he traveled to the hudson river with 2 captains in the 18’s?
I want to reread a book that I read a long time ago. A man comes home early from a business trip and brings home take out food that has been cooked in peanut oil. His son has a little friend spending the night. The man gives the little boy a drink of water in a glass that has a trace of oil from his fingers. The boy dies of a peanut allergy.
read many years ago, book was fantasy/sci fi style and has something to do with travel thru time or maybe dimensions i can remember a deck of cards was very important but not why and something to do with doors…. I remember something about the character near beginning being attack by some kind of animal like hell hound or tiger or something similarish. I have been trying to remember this title for YEARS. read in the mid to late 90’s……
This is a childrens book. Large title I remember. There is a sketch like picture of a tall, thin, hunched over tree like creature. I want to say like a folklore thing?
Can you please say what the book is about? Someone may remember the name but not what the book looks like. There is also the possibility that there are different looking covers for the same book
I do not know anything about what the content of the book is… the picture on the front is what I remember. It is a long story… but need to show someone the picture for a reference to a true haunting of a family in Central NY.
I’m looking for a book my sister told me she’d read a long time ago I think it’ll be a nice Christmas present for her if I find it. All she was able to remember about the story is that it centers around 2 sisters whose parents are on the older side and emotionally distant and one day they get nanny but it turns out to be the spirit of their dead oldest sister that they did not know. In the end it brings the whole family closer.
Looking for a book I used to read my daughter, in the mid 90’s. It was shaped like a heart and was pink. I still remember the words, it started
“on Valentines Day I gave Sally a card, she gave me some chocolates some mushy some hard. I ate all chocolates, they tasted so fine. I gave none to Sally. Why should I their mine” I can actually dictate the whole book……….really want to get this book for my grandaughter. thank you!!!
I remember reading this book and it was about an Indian boy who got blamed for stealing laptops in his school and he got sent to a military school and then he got bullied and then he goes into a time freeze and then he finds other people of his military school and he saw velociraptors and then him and his friends get a drone that you can ask questions.
The story is from the point of view of a white boy during the civil war era. He runs into a black woman that used to live in his town and her young mixed son. The woman dies in childbirth and makes him promise to deliver her son to his white relatives. I remember the boys got split up for a bit because the white boy gets hit in the head with a gun during a riot and is laid up in bed for two weeks. The white relatives end up not taking the mixed boy and I think he ends up living with a group of runaway slaves at the end. I read the book in either middle school or high school.
I am trying to remember a book I read as a teen so my teenager can read it too. It’s about a teenage girl returning back to her hometown where her mother mysteriously drowned in the lake. It’s a mystery thriller, she has a necklace that begins to tighten and choke her, there’s a rope that ties in a knot and at the end of the book she get hit in the head and falls in the lake. It’s almost like a Nancy drew book
I think this is the book I am searching for too. Was she in a garden? I am not sure if I am confusing two books – the necklace is the bit that stands out.
The book i’m looking for is called Treatment or the Treatment about a family who are being poisoned by someone living in their attic, pretty sure it was published before 2007.
While she was only a chapter i’m his book, he was her title.
What does this mean
Unrequited love.
Thank you:)
I remember reading this one book. So basically this girl ends up in the woods, and finds a stream of water under a pile of rocks. Before she drinks this guy stops her. Im pretty sure he has two brothers or something like that. They explain to her that your immortal after you drink from there, its a curse and stuff. You cant die no matter what. ANd they proceed to walk her out of the woods where he house it or smth. I know she ends up meeting with them again and falls in love with one of them. He gives her a tiny bottle with the water and says its her choice to become immortal to stay with him. He then goes away cause of a crime or smth. He comes back years later to see if she did it and realized she died in a house fire with her mother. And i know theres something crime involved cause they said hey can never be caught and if they were and got hung, they cant due and they would be found out
im currently reading a book like that, although it isnt exctly the same, is the name perhaps “Tuck Everlasting” By Natalie Babbit?
there’s this book i read a while ago and all i can remember is the books cover and that its fantasy. the cover has a girl with wavy ginger hair and shes holding up a dagger, the book also has something to do with winter.
From blood and Ash?
This one book I read back in 6th grade I don’t remember much but I think it’s about this group of friends that sneak into a guy’s backyard or some where they’re not supposed be but then they find one of the friends body’s in an ally please even if your not sure just throw out names you might think it could be that’s all I remember
Maybe published in 80’s to 90’s. Nonfiction. Daily readings for self-care and well-being for women. Unique in size and color: hardbound, pink with front cover title printed as a white “label. Size was tall and narrow, about 1” thick. I bought the book at Borders or Barnes and Noble.
Could it be Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach? The cover is exactly as you describe. Awesome book, by the way.
Yes! That’s the book. I felt this author wrote something I need right now in my life. Thank you very much.
My Body, My Self
My Body, My Self for Boys
I think later a title came out for men.
I’m looking for a book about a teenage girl hooking up with a boy at a party, but then realizing he had a part in her sister’s murder.
One Small Thing by Erin Watt
I was once reading a book but now I’ve forgotten the title and author.the book is about an Indian man had a sick cousin .he kidnapped an American woman who was a healer and asked here to come with him or he would have to kill her dog
A book that a young lady in her 20’s that was a nurse taking care of the wounded soldiers. One soldier she really fell in love with.
What is the name of the book?
What time period was this written in? Can you remember what war? Where was the location?
Looking for a book I read about 8 years ago. I don’t remember much about it but here it is:
A boy was thrown into water off a cliff of some sort by I believe his brother, to die. It then turns out he has some power, and he is able to separate the oxygen molecules from the hydrogen molecules in the H2O and he survives. I believe he ends up realizing he has telekinesis. That’s all I remember but I’m almost positive the title had something to do with the word freak.
Looking for a book I read at 12. Dark cover with things like wands around the perimeter. (Same type of style as the hazel wood) about a girl who gets kicked out of Catholic Church and has to work with her mom at a mansion. There are Roumers that the wife who owns the house is crazy. She’s always locked in her room and complains about the food being salty, however a lot of special sugar is always added to her food.
Long story short, It turns out that the husband was on purpose giving his wife this “sugar” which turned out to be something very salty and if taken in high doses (which the wife was) can make the person very dependent on it and kind of kookoo. The young girl found ways to communicate with the wife by hiding in the dumbwaiter, she ended up helping the wife escape and they confronted the husband, who they blackmailed to leave this state and go under a different name.
The wife was the technical owner of the house, as it used to be her fathers. I think the husband wanted to own it but I’m not sure. There was some stuff about pomegranates involved greatly but I can’t remember why. (Searching my brain rn for any other facts) the girl used to help the cook make the food and give it to the wife but she forgot the “sugar” once, which made the wife that was dependent on it go on a rampage, after that she wasn’t allowed in there and had to
Clean instead. She wife used to be very popular, I think she was either a model or actress. The young girls mother was in love with the husband. There was a servant dude who was Italian or French. I think he was some infamous person who was either an assassin, or hes bombed some places. But he went under a fake name and that’s how he got the job.
Did you find the name of the book? It sounds good.
unfortunately no, haha im actually hoping that someone responds with the name, since for some reason I can’t remember for the life of me.
Im trying to find this book i read when i was around nine, it was a novel. Light blue cover with either black or right writing, but im pretty sure it was black. It was known, back then, this was around 2015-16. I only remember it being very deep talking about life, it had an almost dazey feeling to it, but that might just be because of my dazed memory.
I read this book when I was around 12 and I haven’t been able to find it since. it was a little paperback novel. couldn’t have been no more than three to four hundred pages the cover I remember was black with metallic dark blue writing. The beginning of the novel was about a child who had recently moved to a new place with his parents they were building a home and as they were digging the ground for the basement I do believe these little creatures would come out at night time and the creatures killed his mother. I lost the book before I could read past the third chapter so I don’t know any more about it hopefully somebody has read it and could point me in the right direction.
I’m trying to find a book from my childhood but I think it might have been a graphic novel. It was a series about a kid who went on adventures with his friends named after animals for example Monkey and Rhino. They also had a friend or rival who was a girl that did ballet and a specific memory of the book was when They said she took nibbles of her toast so she can still be skinny. I remember from one of the covers was them carrying a rolled up carpet onto the train. Another memory was when the main character was trying to do something nice for the mom and tried to soak her feet with hot water but ended up burning her.
Fantasy novel where genius mc falls in love with extremely beautiful but cold sister. Would appreciation the help…..
book is between 1970 to 1989
Father lost daughter in a poker game.
The man was trying not to fall in love with her
I believe he may have been a pirate
Novel about 80 some year old ww1 veteran who has flashbacks and starts killing people
It was a trilogy series I think. It was set in ireland or the highlands I think. The main character’s name was rose. The boy that her and her sister fell in love with was named Jamie. But rose’s sister tricks jamie by seeping with him so he and her sister cannot be married. I oved it but never got to finish the second book. I want to find it
Trying to find a book, by the son of a famous comedian.
Futuristic, United States pays off some of its debt to China, by giving California to them. And medical bills are so tremendous. And a woman has to spend the rest of her life paying off her father’s medical debt.
TRYING TO FIND A BOOK ABOUT sister who runs to help her other sister who then abandons her sister with a niece she never knew about and a bar owner helps them.
So my husband has been talking about a book from his childhood but he cant remember the title or author!.
Its about a city full of wizards who get kickced out of the city if they have no magic, the main character gets kicked out as it apears that he has no magic but it turns out that jis magic is based on luck, for example if he where getting chased by a giant he would fall over just in the right place that he did not get trampled on.
My husband cant seem to tell me more than that, just its a book about wizards who get kicked out of the city if they have no magic.
I know its a long shot but thanks in advanced anyway!
So the story is about this girl who as I recall was popular I believe and she gets pregnant. A guy and this girl meet and this guy has trauma over believing he killed his bestfriend when they got into a fight on the sidewalk and the friend fell into the road and got hit by a car. Since the girls baby daddy isn’t in the picture anymore since her family would be dissapointed by who the father is this guy offers to be the father as in the girl tells her family he is the father. Throughout the story this boys mom or sad knows that he isn’t the father. The cover as I recall was a red cover with an illustration of the silhouette of a boy and girl sitting on a bench with a stork in the air.