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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 read this book when I was 11/12 1988/1989. A girl and her sister live with their parents. She takes the bus to visit her grandmother occasionally. Her family was multi cultural Jesus/ Christian. She has a best friend next door. The girl plays an instrument. I remember loving this book and would like to have my 10 yr old read it. It’s driving me nuts.
I’m looking for a fantasy novel I read like 7 years ago.The cover is purple.it’s about a knight who loved the queen.His name starts with T. There was war in the kingdom and he helped the queen escape and hid in the forest.Later they went back to the palace and someone tried to stab the queen but he was the knight was the one stabbed instead
Hey!! So if anyone knows this book series of a like rich family of brothers and one of them is called Caleb and he uses this lady who starts with the letter r who has powers to find his sister but it hurts the r lady doe he finds her to apologise and when he does she needs protection and he helps her. There are other books in this series And I thought it was by Rebecca Zanetti but I couldn’t find it…. please help! I do know it’s an adult book for sure
I’m looking for a book about this boy who has an alcoholic father who spends his rent money on beers and the boy meets a girl who kinda like acts like a bird and uses her hair to make nests and then in near the end of the book this guys says he wants to record her beautiful voice but steals it
Judging by the description, I believe you’re looking for Okay For Now
The book is about this girl and guy their friends they talk on ham radios then a couple bad guys drive through and kidnap the girl she’s held hostage in a cabin in the woods were she tries to talk to her friend to let him know she’s ok she finally gets the word to the cops and they surround the cabin and she lives
Please please help me it’s driving me crazy I have to find it
(I’m not 100% if I’m right but this is all that I remember.) I’m looking for a book with two girls, I’m pretty sure are southern. One of them wore a blue dress and the other one wore a yellow dress. I read it in second grade and it was a level K. The two girls were sisters and one of them was named Maybelle. I don’t remember if it was a book series or not but some of the plots I do remember from the book was that, Maybelle and her sister got lost while riding around in a carriage. Another plot I remember is where they had to perform in front of people, but the performance was bad so they got tomatos thrown at them. I also think the cover of the book was yellow. I hope this is specific enough!
I’m looking for a book I read years ago, set in England around wartime. It’s about a wealthy girl named Amy who becomes a nurse and has an affair with a married man below her status. She also has a sister who ended up in a asylum after having a baby and trying to smother it. I also recall that she had a gay brother. Her father was a English lord and her mother was an American.
looking for one about a girl who is Albano and has a magic talent to make things colorful and is looking for her dad in another world with her friend who can do magic and was in the world before.
it’s a kids book
can anyone help?
I’m trying to temper a book, where 3 men get conned by someone. These men get together and plan 3 different way to trick him to recover their money.
That sounds like, “Not a penny more, Not a penny less” by Jeffrey Archer
im looking for a book about 2 girls and mystery is going they are emo and soft and one of the girls name is Amy
Werewolf romance, about a human girl who had a photography career I think, and a wolf shifter and they ran into each other I think. The girl hates just guts or at least that’s what she says and then they almost maybe have s*x on a old couch k. Not sure but any help would be greatly appreciated thanks is advance
I’m looking for a book about a girl, who goes to this place and there’s this really odd man and he’s really tall and in the end he’s kind of like the devil
Looking for a book I read but can’t remember the title nor the author. What I remember is the character was ex military and jogged with very heavy backpack. He was being asked to do something he wasn’t real keen on doing.
I’m looking for a book it’s about a girl who moved into a new town to stay with her uncle because her parents had died in a car accident and she ended up having to be protected by vampires from the devil who is their father because he wants to impregnate her and as she’s being protected she ends up falling for one of them and he likes her back but it is forbidden for them to be together
I think the book series is called The Marked. The first book is Inception. You can try it.
Hiya I’m looking for a book which had a brown/ yellow cover with like a mechanical ship on the cover and it was about all these rich people and they had a son who became friends with the slaves who weren’t allowed to talk and in the end he helps them escape even tho the rich are his family that own them
I am looking for a children’s picture book. It’s a humorous book about a girl walking through a forest. It’s a funny book and throughout the book the author gives facts about animals in the forest. I thought the author was James Marshall but I think it someone else with his style of drawing. It has a black cover
I’m looking for a book but I can’t remember the name of it or the main character. It’s about a guy who wants to go to Harvard university but ends up working for a drug dealer to save up money, he working with his friends. One of the friends name is scooter, they have a lesbian friend and a guy the call boss that is a friend. The main character ends up meeting a woman named Ashley who went to Harvard and works for her father’s company but she ends up getting strung out on heroine and is r—- by a coworker. The drug dealer that the mc works for has a green Mercedes Benz that he ends up giving to the mc at the end of the book. Oh the drug dealer the mc works for ends up in a wheelchair after getting shot by a rival.
It was a book about a werewolf shifter girl who’s dad was the leader, and she was in an arranged marriage, she also liked someone else but she couldn’t be with him because of the arranged marriage. it’s a series I think
A girl goes to a theater camp with her old best friend to follow her crush but then falls in love with The best friends ex boyfriend. On day they were about to do a play but it was raining and they started singing songs from kid shows like Dora the explore. The girl and the ex boyfriend go’s to the desert to take pictures of sometime (maybe very old trading markings). And at the end the best friends ex boyfriend is mad a her so she goes out and improvers and the other characters see what she’s is doing he and follow along. In the end the boy forgave her.
I can’t remember the name of anyone or the title.
It’s for young adults by the way
it’s a book for teen girls i read a few years ago, it was a series of books about a blonde girl, it had pictures of this blonde girl on the back on each book, the photos were from a photo booth. i remember something about her dad being famous and she met a boy in it. i would love to read it again but i cant remember what it’s called
I read this book mid seventies while in 4th grade. Scholatic book, I think, about some boys who find a language translator. They camp out, and eat Bottle Caps candies, and meet some aliens. In the end of the book they have to return the translator to the aliens.
i only remember the beginning. a girl who was found in the ocean and works as a maid for a wizard who is going to sell her. she escapes with the wizards apprentice only to get captured by pirates or something like that.
Its this trilogy. I cant remember the name, but the main character is called luke and when his dad dies (his dad never lived with him) he suddenly inherits his money but along with it a specific number of ghosts. they all kinda obey him but 2 or 3 don’t then there’s this girl who can see the ghosts an they become close. There is also this green book called the book of eight but i swear every time he tries to read it he like goes unconscious or something. Also in the last book, i think he makes a deal with the devil and is waiting to pay his debt but he ends up defeating the devil and taking his place instead… maybe not (i cant remember) Oh and his girlfriends name starts with a H, maybe its hilda or helga but there’s definitely a ‘h’ in there. pls help lol
FOUND IT (that was quick) its called 13 days of midnight for anyone wondering and the girls name has no ‘h’ whatsoever her name is elza. lol 🙂
this book about kids who could use their imagination and certain things as powers to fight and this guy could control paperclips and they were kidnapped and taken to a good place where it was very nice and like every teenager’s dream
Please i dont know the name of it
Please help me find this book,the story was about a woman who’s husband left her an d she moved to live with hers aunt her aunt was in a old folks home, so she moved into her aunt’s house with her dog, her aunts cat and parrot she found bones on the property and solved the mystery
Book has a chapter titled Floran’s Children Florian is a revolutionary. Setting rural France?
Don’t know the name of the book
The book is about an Afghan girl and her family (mother and sister) who go to the UK to avoid the Taliban and she meets a boy who’s father has something to do with something illegal. He drove a van. At the end there was a promise to go to Trafalgar Square
Looking for a book from kindle unlimited about a married woman named Eden who is lonely in her marriage because her husband works all the time and doesnt appreciate her.she meets a man names Graham Sinclair while playing an online word game on her cell phone and they become friends.Grahams wife Monica gets a new job and he becomes lonely when his wife works all the time and his teenage daughter is gone with friends all the time.Eden and Graham meet in person and later fall in love and decide after months of sneaking around to end their marriages to be together.things slowly change in their marriages and they meet up one evening in a thunderstorm at a park and decide to make their marriages work they leave to have one more time together and have an accident with both taken to the hospital.their spouses then find out about their affair and decide to forgive them and make things work.they say goodbye and move on
Looking for a book I read. Set in England 1800s to 1900. Twin brother and sister Barely making it low on money. Brother parties and gambles. O e night her gambles the rest of money to a Lord who I think is a rake or something. Sister finds out and to save him she goes to this lord and offers herself as payment. The Lord Agrees with Conditions.
looking for a book about two girls starting middle school, and the cover has their toes on it. thanks
I am looking for a book thats set in 1990s/2000s. This girl is walking away from a town on fire on the cover, maybe with a dog or a younger brother. She was in her teens. I think she runs from the town or fights them or maybe just a group of people. She stays on the roof of the school for the duration of the “war”. Her name is maybe Riley.
The Girl who owned a City?
I am looking for a book. I probably read it 5 to 7 years ago. I know it is a 2 part series about a girl and 2 guys. Girl is working for a cater and 1 of the guys is the lead chef maybe. Girl is broke and needs a place to live and moves in with chef. The chef is dating a guy who’s family is wealthy and wouldn’t approve of his relationship. When the girl moves in with the chef the 3 of them become lovers. Wealthy guy is in an accident and family won’t them see him or he doesn’t doesn’t want to see the 2 of them. Girl finds out she is pregnant and leaves country but still in contact with the chef. I know that is where 2nd book picks up. Does anyone know the book or author?
Her name is Gemma,a teacher that travelled to Italy with one of her students,I think Mary,whose mother was not available at the time.While she was having a walk with Mary a car almost ran her over,turns out the owner of the cacar was a wealthy and famous artist,he does a lot of sculpting,paints etc.At the long run they got married separated and United again.i’ve read it about 9 years ago,please help ,I’ve searched everywhere for it
The book I’m looking for is about a group of people who have taken a drug that transforms them into what they truely are. For example one couple, the man turns into a small fairy with wings like a moth and his wife turns into a giant amazon who dies by the leaf of the mother in-law plant. Another character turns into an African mythological creature who rides a type of wild boar that has a bone shape object on its back that she connects to to ride. There are about a dozen different people. They are in an enclosed lab like place during this experiment. I believe the main character is trying to decided whether or not to take the pills(?) and change and then leads a revolt against the main protagonist who is the small fairy with moth wings and his wife the giant amazon. I think the book was written between 1950-1990’s. I think the cover was a face with a moth over it and the eyes were the spots on the wings. I remember reading it around 2005ish from the library in Northern CA. Vallejo Main Library to be exact. Thanks for any help.
Hi im trying to find a book….it was one of the first books i enjoyed reading and was probably like 10 to 15 years ago that i read it.
Its a Christian romance more contemporary style about a yound lady who someone attacks and she hits her head or something….she runs away and ends up on this i believe horse ranch with these 2 brothers i think… And one of the boys is constantly having to take care of her as she’s always getting hurt…one of the times she is riding a horse and falls off breaks her arm and then the other is she ends up renting an apartment and gets sick and doesn’t take care off herself he comes to check in on her and ends up carrying her back to his truck and takes her back tho the ranch….eventually they realize she was abused by someone as a child and the attack that happened in the beginning of the book brought it all back and they catch the guy that attacked her….any help locating this book would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you so much
It was about this teenage girl who was in high school and finds out her boyfriend was riding to school on his motorcycle and crashes and dies. But suddenly she has this feeling to go for a walk and she ends up outside of town at this abandoned house, and it’s night time by then and she goes in and he appears and tells her what happened to his bike that someone cut his breaks. & other ghosts live there too. But when morning comes they disappear. & she goes back and they reappear.
The book I’m looking for is about a woman that wakes up on the floor in someone else apartment in a younger woman’s body. She tries to figure out who this young woman is and what happen to herself. The color of the book I think was red and orange. I do remember that the photo on it was in black and it was maybe the back of a woman’s head but if you look at it you could see two women’s face outlines.
The book is about a teenage girl who’s boyfriend dies in a motorcycle accident.
& he lives outside of town in this abandoned house with other ghosts but she can only go see him at night because he disappears when it’s morning.
The book cover is green, it has the drawing of a woman made out of vines and branches sinking in water.
It’s subplot is about an island that every year makes a witch made of or vines and so forth and every year they push her off the cliff to sink in the sea
maybe the greenwitch part of the dark is rising series by susan cooper.
Hello! I am in search of a book, from my childhood. (1968–1978). It was a Scholastic book, from a book club. The front had a tall, rock, bridge, with a deep cavern below. The story was about travelers. Each character was a fantasy-type person. One of them was a “snake-man”. That’s all I can remember about it. Thank you!
VERY DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A BOOK IM TRYING TO FIND!
A teen girl moves to a new town with her parents. she might have some mental health issues or grieving as a relative may have died (idk for sure). In her room is a teen boy ghost who died there. she doesn’t notice him at first but he slowly manages to communicate with her (i think with touch) and using her energy he begins to become a little more ‘human’ and they are able to talk, and she sees him. the girl also goes to a new school and has barely any friends, until she meets a guy there. she hangs out with him more and catches feelings. Then at some point, the popular girls invite her over for a sleep over or something like that and i think it doesnt go down well. she also catches feelings for the ghost in her room, and they often sneak out? I’m not sure. the ghost has this special place by the sea (like a cave) which he has fond memories of from when he was alive. the girl helps him move on to the afterlife, but when he says hell leave she tries to kill herself to join him. but the ghost tells her not to and it ends with her dating the guy from school and the ghost having moved on. this chapter might begin with from the ghost’s point of view, waking up dead and seeing the girl enter. if you could find this book ill be so happy, been looking for it for a long time!! thank u 🙂
Omg I know this book but I too do not remember the title or the name of the author. All I remember is that it had a greenish cover and two people (a man and a woman) If you do find it, please tell me too. I really loved this book
wait this is similar to the book I’m looking for, does the girl and the ghost have blond hair? was the girl controlled by her mother? did a girl die in a room or attic trying to hide from bad men? if so I am also looking for that book!!!!
Idk if this will help too but the title I think, is one word
ok so i found the first book i was looking for its called ” The girl in the locked room” i hope this helps although I’m still trying to find the other book when the girl has a ghost friend and all that in my other comment.
I’m not sure what book you are looking for… but there is a book called Circle of Secrets where a girl has a ghost friend! Sorry if this was no help whatsoever.
Oh my gosh… That’s it! That’s the book! I can’t believe we can literally name everything that happens in that book but not the name. I’m heartbroken. I hope someone knows the name.
so i’m trying to remember this book i read a few years back, it was about this girl who was from out of america, shed lived in a village. she went to america to take some college classes, and was kind of in an arranged marriage with a man from the US. the woman was taking college classes, the man had a real job and the woman couldn’t speak english well. the man thought she was weird, but they fell in love and got married at the end of the book. the man also had a best friend that was in love with the woman. this is a terrible summary but it’s all i can remember. someone please help??
This is hazily remembered from childhood in the 1980’s. There was a book in which the animals in a petstore talked to each other at night. The one I remember the most was the story of an ape who was a transformed princess or something like that. At the end, the ape/princess still has a ring which is used to pay for something.
Trying to remember a book from a ghosts POV I believe, I don’t remember much but I am dying to know what it is! It’s a female girl that is driving and comes to a turn that is a cliff and she goes off of
It and dies. There might be other ghosts down there with her and she tries to stop other cars from getting confused and going down and that’s pretty much all I remember..
Hi there, Im looking for a book which I read in elementary, I remember that there was 3 main characters 2 of them were boys and one of them was a girl I think the girls name was Lucy but then again I read this in elementary so I don’t remember much, I know they went though paranormal experiences at the school one of them being lucy going into a locker which lead her somewhere and another being one of the boys having to skate on ice to save his friends on the cover of this book I remember the boy who was skating going towards the camera while skating away from the school with his friends by his side and behind him on the ice he was skating on there was a shadow of a hand chasing after them. I think the book might have been a comic but i’m not too sure
I will say the bailey school kids or the calendar mysteries
a to z mysteries maybe?
I will say the bailey school kids or the calendar mysteries
the last part where I was describing what it looked like was one of the books covers which was either the 3rd of 4th book I think
Hi. I have been desperately trying to find a book from my childhood. I read it all the time and it was my favorite! My aunt took it to goodwill after we had garage sale at her house and since I left i accidently, left it behind she assumed it was part of the sale and that was that. I do not recall the author, nor the title, nor do I even remember how it came into my life. Was it a family members (like a great grandmothers? great aunt? did someone buy it for me? did i get it at the school book fare. I have no clue) I do know it was before 1987, but again, it was from anytime before that, so it could have been anytime between 1920s or so all the way to late 80s. All i remember is it was about a dog, a cat, and a pig that went on an adventure. I remember them coming up on a circus and the only other thing i remember was the picture of the cat standing on the huge ball in the circus tent. I know it’s not The Incredible Journey that homeward bound was based off of. There was no pig, that was 2 dogs and a cat. This specifically had a dog, pig, and a cat. Every used book store i come across i literally spend hours in there looking at every book in hopes to find it again. If anyone remembers this book I would be so grateful. (Also the sporadic pictures that were in it were in black and white). Thank you for your time
I believe this was 3 mini stories in one. The one that really caught my attention was the one where this girl is sick and dying. She needs a heart transplant and this guy had been dating her. And something happened to him and he dies and later finds out it’s his heart.
book about a young girl living and surviving in a cave I believe around Danbury, CT during Revolutionary times. Father tarred and feathered. other family member captured by Brittish.
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Hey, so I am looking for a book that I read sometime either in middle or high school. All I remember is that there was a boy who stayed in either a nursing home or a psychiatric facility, but I think it was a nursing home, while his dad was away. I believe his mother is deceased or something. His dad was some kind of scientist or explorer or something like that. When the dad comes home, when he leaves for his next trip, the boy goes with him and they end up on a boat where the dad’s new girlfriend is with them but the boy does not realize they are dating until later in the book. The last thing I remember is that they were stopped somewhere and the boy saw a man watching them I think and at one point they get attacked. Does anyone know what book or reading I am referring to??
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I’m looking for a mystery book. I don’t remember much about it. Only the fact that the cover is very simial to “Where The Forest Meets the Stars”, but I know for a fact that’s not my book. My book is about some type of rivalry between detectives, and I’m pretty sure a lady is found dead by an alley or by one of those giant garbage bins. I also remember someone’s wife is murdered, and most of the characters are rich or part of the upper class. There is also a small girl who cried because her parents are going through a divorce. I don’t remember much, but I believe the cover is a big help. It’s dark blue with trees with a starry night sky. Mainly a mystery and detective book.
There is also a major trial that goes on between the two rivaling detectives or lawyers. Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure they were lawyers, it’s all very foggy. Please help.
I’m looking for a friend of mine, she’s looking for a fav book from her childhood and she’s about 70 now and this is what she recalls of it.
So, this is very far-fetched, but when I was younger we got this book from Goodwill, but I honestly have no idea where it went; All I know is that it was a YA graphic novel horror story. It might have had supernatural themes but I don’t remember. It had a fake leather cover, and it might have had fake blood spatter. It also might have been multiple short stories in one book. I distinctly remember it having curse words in it, and possibly, like, gray-tinted pictures, but was colored.
on the off chance someone here has read this:
looking for a book i read a few years ago, its most likely a YA Sci-fi genre novel.
about a girl that has this telepathy power and while at her barista/waitress job, gets recruited by this man who takes her to a program/dormitory where theres a group of other teens with abilities. i know there’s one possible male love interest in the book too if that helps. i can’t recall any other details but i need to know i didn’t just make up this whole book lol.
if it helps, i think the title had something like ‘normals’ in it, like supernormals, abnormals, etc.
hiii!! im pretty sure youre talking about the naturals by jennifer lynn barnes
looking for a book about a young boy who gets into a fight in the school playground and punches the boy to the floor. when he lands he hits his head and dies so the young boy runs away.
there is a magical flying hot air balloon involved and something about a doppelganger maybe
ty in advance
Looking for an old book who’s protagonist is called Lucky, he is a cat who acts like a human. It’s a Choose your own adventure book and he gets into situations where he can go to a rich boarding school or a poor one, he can become a farmer or work at sea on a boat, he gets trapped on an island with cannibals and many more situations. I believe he is swinging on something on the cover. It’s a realistic looking cat with human personalities.
Hi I’m looking for a book about a woman whose husband/ boyfriend dies and she lives in the snow and she talks to a man over the CB radio and they end up falling in love
This book I found in a 5th grade library was my favorite, finding it would mean the world to me and help regain some old memories. So this books cover was black splashed with white, had a pencil and apple on the cover, either had crumpled up paper or a paper airplane on the front, was paperback. The story itself was of a girl who’s classmate (I think) tommy or something like that liked her and made her a pie out of sweet berries and that he later dies. I can’t remember the rest as it was 2017-2019
I’m looking for a book about a Greek prince who went to America to search for the woman who broke his younger brother heart to marry him (his brother) by force but found out he took the wrong woman, he then later falls in love with her.
The beast i called my husband
I am looking for a book I don’t know the name but it was about a high school girl who falls in love with high school boy that is a werewolf and the girls dad does not want her to date home the girl becomes friends with his sister
i am looking for a book about a kid that gets sent to a lighthouse prison in the middle of the ocean for burning down his house (i think) and all the adults die so the kids are in charge and there is a secret celler that is a library and they have to get off the island because it is slowly sinking so they get off by going with the mail man
its ok i found it by copying and pasting what i just wrote
I’m looking for a novel (published prior to 1960) whose main character is named Mary Beth. This is all of the information I know about the book.
Looking for a short story about a demon haunting a man who ignores him till the demon goes crazy.
looking for a book about a man who is suffering from consumption, who moves to Bloemfontein in South Africa to recuperate.
Looking for a book where this guy breaks up with his gf then gets in an accident and he gets amnesia and she spends the whole summer to get back with him. I think it had “Summer” somewhere in the title.
forgotten summer love maybe
Looking for romance book about billionaire that hire red headed woman ( i think is katherine) to find who has stolen money from him, they fall in love she has miscarriage then she wants another baby but he doesn’t, his mother took him to different child pyscologist as a child and he has a niece Nicole who he goes to get her from a club drunk, he had made a s*x video with 3 women that got on the internet
Name of book about class with teacher who was absent, but kids didn’t let school know and took over the class. One girl names Rachel in the class who has stopped speaking.
Flying Solo? Ms. Nelson is Missing?
Flying Solo by Ralph Fletcher
I am looking for a book I read can’t remember the author virmillion it’s about two sisters in the Florida keys one of the girls had orchid garden or growing orchids that is about all I can remember I read it between 1994 and 1996 if you can help me find this book and author thank you
I’m looking for a book where a few friends that go to college, hang out with each other. One of the friends went missing and was found by the main character. The killer cut out the friend’s heart. The killer also sent a package to the main character and inside was a pig’s heart. The killer sent notes to the other friends as a threat. The killer was the main character’s brother.
I’m looking for a book in which a girl disappears into the corridor of their school and the boy who loved her and another girl saw it. They knew that no one is going to believe them. So they tried to save the girl by themselves along with another guy whom they were able to convince about the story. The main guy plays a harp with which he can control others.
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I’m looking for a book about a girl who fell pregnant with a one night stand and ditched the guy, wrote on his mirror with a lipstick and took his necklace then left. Two years later she works for the guy but she doesn’t remember him. Only to find out that the guy’s brother has the same necklace as hers.
Hi!!!! I’m looking for a YA-Adult rated book about solving a murder. I’m pretty sure the cover has crime tape on it and the title is on the tape. The cover may have had a blue cover with that yellow tape but I am not sure. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes?
Hi, I am looking for a book. I remember I read it in elementary school. It was about a boy who couldn’t go outside at all. Their family had a house by a farm and they made their money with crops. At a certain point of day, they had to use the window shaders so people couldn’t see the child. I’m pretty sure his mom taught him school. But one day he tried to run away and he ran to his neighbors and I’m pretty sure he got caught, and the police got called on him even though his father was a policeman which made people suspicious of him. They decided to make the kid have a fake id and run away. Please help me find this book it was so interesting. Thank you.
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I am looking for a book that is a young adult romance novel. It is about a girl and a guy who fell in love and the guy had anger problems. One day the guy’s landlord got fed up with the guy’s dog and started to abuse it. The guy got so mad that he beat up the landlord with a six-pack of sodas and went to jail. The guy who went to jail was training a dog and the dog was adopted by the girl. There is a character named Camile and she died her hair crazy colors if that helps. The cover had a dog behind a fence. Can anyone help me with finding out what the book is? Thank you.
I’m looking for a book I read about three years ago. it’s about this girl who gets in a car crash and goes into a coma. while she’s in a coma she meets this guardian who takes her to past memories but her time is running out and she needs to get back to earth but she falls in love with the guy but he gives her a necklace and when she wakes up in the hospital the necklace is at the window.
I’m pretty sure it’s fiction, young adult, and sad romance
The title begins with Smart. It’s a political book that they cannot sell in Walmart The authors first name is Jack
Thank you so much.
I finally found the graphic novel I’ve been wanting to read all these years. It was a graphic novel I read in my elementary school library. The book was “Cats Cradle: The golden twine”. One less thing to keep me up at night.
Helo,this book is about a girl who has always been in love with her best friend’s older brother and works for him in the family hotel chain until he becomes engaged, then takes a job in another city and is kidnapped to pay a friend’s gambling debt. , is rescued by a friend of the hotel owner and falls in love with him, and the other tries to reconquer her, is the mmf romance.
Hi, I’m looking for a book that I read when I was younger. So it’s about a boy I think, there was n hole that was covered with planks and his mum always told him to stay away from it and one day he was near the hole and he heard something behind the planks, anyway he put an apple there or something and someone took the apple from inside, they bonded and after a while he went in the hole and he and his new friend walked, and then the other people that was inside started throwing rocks at them,and that’s all I can remember
How can i find the story (i fell inlove with my uncle)
I am looking for a thriller-suspense book. It had a blue cover. It’s about identical twin sisters who switched identity for some reason (no it’s not “ The Switch” ). Then one of them was murdered in a bathroom and for a while after, the one still living was confused with her identity. I want to say the title had the words, “The (something that started with a B) Girls.”
I do not know this excact story but it is these 2 twin girls who switch places and one gets kidnapped it’s called “beautiful lies” by Jessica Warman
Thank you for your response! It is not the book I’m looking for, but I am planning to read “beautiful lies” now.
I’m looking for a book I think is about a girl looking for her dog or stuffed animal around a mountain. I only remember a picture of a very long tunnel and a mountain surrounded by many awesome things. I don’t remember anything else about it.
I also think it was published before the 2010’s, because I was about 8 or 7 when I read it.
I remember another thing, It had a blanket in the final scene!
Hi, I’m looking for a book or rather a series about two sisters who own a flower or candy shop.
The first book is about the one sister who falls for a guy with a motorcycle and I remember the guy makes a joke and sticks his head under her t-shirt while they are in the hospital (I think one of them hurt their ankle) and talks to her stomach and she thinks there might be a baby in her belly but he makes a joke and says the freckles on her stomach looks like a face of a baby.
The second book is about the other sister where she has a crush on the dentist in town and accidentally chips her tooth and goes to the dentist to fix it and they fall in love. She also has a orange cat.
These two books/series is really funny. Please let me know when you find it??!!
I don’t remember much, but the cover was dark purple with a shadow of two detectives and a cat on it. I know the end of the book took place on a train that I think the characters and the cat were trying to escape. I also remember they got out of a car at the end and were taken somewhere. The cat also told stories about its life leading up to where they were. Please help!
I also remember there was a male and female protagonist if that helps.
I also think it had Lantern in its title.
A little sister feels left out when her older brother and a friend builds sand castles for a competition she ruins it for him by leaving a sandwhich on the castle and the dog demolishes it when he eats the sandwhich. She gets grounded from the fireworks.
The book was about dragon riders. In this book the man char was a boy who was pretty much the Cinderella. In the story there was a cave where dragons would lay their eggs, and every year kids about a certain age would go into the cave and an egg would hatch for them. Basically choosing a rider. Well there was an egg that would never hatch and I can not remember if it was larger then the others, but it had hatched however for the kid everyone bullied and was thought to be worthless. I really want to pick this book back up and reread it. It was a book from when I was a child and it may be a children’s book but I don’t care.
I’m looking for a book I read about a year and a half ago,
It’s a 21st century type scene
In this world you get skin brands if you lie, cheat, steal etc. There’s 5 brands you can get. I remember 1 was on the plan and one was on the tongue. I don’t remember where the other are. If you get a brand you have to wear an orange armband.
The female lead. Is dating the mayors son, and she ends up helping this old man with an armband.
She ends up going to court and after much guilt and lying confesses to everything making her guilty of all 5 brands.
The mayor being mad gives her a 6th brand in the center of her back.
The last scene in the book is one of the judges giving her a business card.
That’s all I remember hope this helps!
Oh I also remember that it is a series. At least a second book.
FLAWED BY CECELIA AHERN?
Yes this is the book!! Thank you!!
A story about a man forcing her daughter to marry a vampire in order to pay for her mother illness. The father was brainwashed by her wife into hating her own daughter but the vampire ended up falling in love with the girl.
A chick lit book about a family who had everything. Children went to private school, but had to leave. The family lose their home and end up on a council estate, they begin to build their lives back up and make friends realising the old friends who turned their back on them werent really their friends after all. The wife gets a job in a jewellers-I think! I wish I could remember the name of this book it was such a good read and would love to read it again. I do remember I got 2 books at the same time, the one I cant remember and Mum on the run-so Im assuming they were out at the same time
the book is about a young girl who was a Asian girl wearing a red coat and pigtails who has animal oragami friends and she goes to school with them and one day at school she is on a roundabout and all of the animals fly into the air.
Lissy’s Friends by Grace Lin? also reminds me of the book
A young lady goes out in NY and Mets a guy and has a one night stand…or so she thought. She ends up pregnant and does not even know the guys full name. Her and her friend go back to the bar and to the hotel where they went trying to find him.the other girls finally gets his phone numbers to him about the baby.she:Mets him the next day and tells him. He shows updates her apartment saying hexadecimal her a drs. Appointment. She did not want Togo, but he more or less makes her. He acts very stranger and I think he is a wear wolf.he takes her to his man Iona day gets a calandras to leave.he finally takesherhome. He is a billionaire and his(house is a mansion that is as far as Igor. I really want to finish it. Can you helpmefind the name of this book? Thanks Joy
There is a jewish family living in prague and they have a successful paint business, one of the sons goes to uni and when the germans invade they make him work as an engineer on materials suited for warfarem ships etc. Once the war is over he emigrates to Argentina and marries an Argentinean lady and they have a daughter together and he becomes a very successful business man but his daughter knows nothjng of the atrocities he suffered during the ws r and he had a son Michel with his girlfriend before leaving prague, he is very jnterested in watches and clocks, after he dies his daughter finds papers of his history during world war 2 and goes to prague to find out more and then writes a book on her father, what is the name ofbbthis book
Looking for a book where a girl breaks up with her bf and catches a train to her auntys apartment (dont remember city or country) might be paris or england.
Her aunty lives next door to a hot man who is into BDSM.Pretty sure she masturbates on the couch where the man can see her.
She works for an older dodgy man i think cleaning his artwork and lots of drama goes down with that man at a nightclub.
Sorry its all i can think of ive been searching for ages.
It is dark night and it’s raining and lightning a girl is there in a house there is only a light of candle and in flash of lightning she saw a man who is staring at her and drops of water is falling from his hair. I only know the book cover color was deep blue
I’m looking for a book I believe its like a small town romance novel. Its a girl who’s leaving her town n breaks down in the middle of no where she goes to the house and uses a little old ladys phone and ends up staying with her helping with her garden. She ends up falling for the hot neighbor next door. Towards the end the little old lady dies and leaves the house and everything to this girl.
I am looking for a book that I read in the 90s. It was a YA book about a boy who lived in the city with his mother after having lost his father. (All details are very fuzzy) The cover is what I remember most vividly. It had a sepia tone, scratched canvas sort of feel (it reminded me of the cover of The Downward Spiral). There was the protagonist boy sat down with his head resting on his knee. The book was a huge bummer, and everything that happened was depressing. I also maybe remember a connection to a single flower, or a root structure? The flower was a metaphor for the boy, the single beautiful thing growing in the horrible, poverty stricken environment. If I remember right…
I am looking for a book I read when I was a teen around 2016-2018, all I can remember is the girls name was moss and she used too sneak out of her village too go meet with this boy I believe and she lived with her father, I also remember it being set in the Victorian era I believe. If anyone can help from that small description I would love it
I am looking for a book I read when I was a teenager (2006 – 2010). The book was about a teenager who went to school and he was a bit lonely. Then one day he befriends a girl from a popular group. They have a great time together. They talk and have a lot in common. He trusts her and shows her what he finds in the park. He has found a nest with eggs in it. He is waiting for them to hatch. They check on them regularly. After a while they have an argument and stop talking and the girl goes back to her old friends. The guy has a broken heart and doesn’t come to school for weeks. She tells her friend about the eggs in the nest. After a few weeks when he goes to check on the eggs by himself, he sees that they are broken. She tries to tell her him later in school that it wasn’t her that it was her friend, but he doesn’t listen, and he never finds out the truth.
Hi,this book is about a girl who has always been in love with her best friend’s older brother and works for him in the family hotel chain until he becomes engaged, then takes a job in another city and is kidnapped to pay a friend’s gambling debt. , is rescued by a friend of the hotel owner and falls in love with him, and the other tries to reconquer her, is the mmf romance.
I’m looking for a book I read back in the 90s. A police thriller, featuring a Female detective who has returned to her hometown for Christmas. Set in North America, the plot is around someone who is murdered (Electrocuted) whilst giving a speech on ice. Possibly skating, ice hockey or curling, I can’t remember.
There are lots of references to The Lion in Winter, on Video, and someone who thinks she is related to Eleanor of Aquitaine. I have searched for ages to find this book, and I would be so grateful if someone knows it.