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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!
Im trying to find an audio book about a boy whos father was a detective who had died and left him his car and taught him that if someone who wore glasses was found dead from an apparent suicide but the they still had their glasses on were murdered. He worked for a bakery and met a girl who was richer than he was. They eventually broke apart even though she still said she wanted to be with him. Around the that time he recently met a rich guy who he accidently had a minor crash with. the rich guy eventually became his friend and he wanted him to go to school in his sons place and when in school he made it into a major club on the campus called the sevens club.
Okay so I’ve searched for this book for the longest and can’t find it so I see this so why not since everyone is finding their books lol
Alright so it’s like….
She doesn’t have any family she’s kinda poor and she gets job at this casino and she was asked to go to the boss cause he wanted a drink so her and her coworker go up and as they went they see no one but the main character saw a painting and was amazed by it. Then the boss appears from behind they’re startled the main girl and boss stare at one another because they have the same eye color and as they was leaving the coworker says he likes her and she’s the only one he spoke too.
She went down in the basement and something shifted and she got scared and ran they found her and dragged her back to talk to the boss. They shot her but she woke back up spitting the bullets out and they soon find out she’s one of them. So the boss took a liken towards her and trained her himself.
Then skip…………..
She was sleeping when she woke up hovering in the air……..
And that’s about it can’t find the author or the title and I’m sad because that was my favorite book. It was on kindle but if you find it somewhere else please comment bck
Its a story where this girl 20-ish and her family and friends build up a house while girl is out getting supplies this baby/toddler is in the house in his unfinished room, when they come back they find his dead body and find out he messed with the open wires, they have a funeral and thats all i remeber can anyone help me its for a project.
Could it potentially be Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson?
Hello everyone,
I found this place after trying desperately to figure out if there’s a book, movie or television series about the below.
After waking up this morning I was stuck with an image and what seemed like the tail-end of a mystery/horror-like story in my head and by gum, I swear I have read or seen something about something similar before somewhere.
Okay, here is the story:
“” A group of young girls and guys are somewhere near a lake at a boathouse of sorts. maybe a get-together, drinks whatever.
The guys fool around and want to get the girls to, y’know, but the main girl of the story doesn’t want to, which somehow aggrivates one of the guys.
here the story turns dark.
The girl gets chained to a wooden raft or float, or something and the guys take it out into the water with the intend of scaring her into submission of sorts. however then some weird accident happens (collision with something) and the guy gets killed, leaving the chained up girl on the raft which slowly starts to sink.
The end was a close-up of her face with a expression like “finally this nightmare ends” without screaming she slowly drowns… fade to black. “”
The ending image is what got stuck in my mind, the closeup of the girl in what I remember as white/beige rags, chained to a wooden frame behind her, eclipsed within black. For some inexplicable reason I swear this could be the cover of a book or movie.
Does anyone know if there’s such thing? or is my imagination going rampant on me?
I was wondering if anyone could help me with this book I’m trying to remember. So in the story, this girl dies and this other girl (who is seemingly unrelated to the first girl) receives an email from the dead girl (even though, hello, she’s dead). The other girl then has to solve who killed the dead girl and why she’s the only one capable of finding the answer. It’s a young adult mystery and if you’ve read it, I would be grateful. Thanks!
I have been looking for this book for so long that I feel like I am making it up or it was a dream. I read it some time back in middle school I think. It was about a girl who attends a ball as a lady-in-waiting I think, but the whole plot is that all the girls invited are going to be turned into flowers in the garden by a set of evil hosts. This girl in particular gets turned into a dandelion because she “is as useless and boring as a weed” or something like that. I can’t remember if she saves herself or if her love interest does. All I remember about him is that he can turn into a raven and isn’t disappointed that she is a dandelion, as dandelions are beautiful too. Since I can’t find it through google cause of the Raven Cycle books, it feels like a fever dream from ages ago.
You unlocked a memory I forgot I had! I read that book back in elementary school, and had completely forgotten about it. I thought that I had made it up until I saw your post. I have no clue what the name of the book is, but I hope you find it!
Hello everyone. 🙂
Though i would give this a try after searching for over a week for this ebook i had last year and deleted for some reason. Thing is… i cannot remember the name or author…. ugh! If anyone has any ideas of title or author…. please let me know…
Firstly, well… it was adult in nature. I remember it was about this orphan girl who had been saved and trained by some organization to hunt fairies? Or elves… i think it’s fairies. In this book they put spells on people and drink there blood. I remember her mother was seduced by them and they (insert adult stuff here) until she lost her mind. For whatever reason… she hunts them.
I remember in the first part of the book she finds one in a museam. And it tries to seduce/ kill her. She has an amulet or something so she can see through their spells. And then later she somehow accidently bonds herself to one of the kings. But that’s about it…
I believe the cover was all one color…. green…. or red? Don’t remember much unfortunately…. If this rings a bell for anyone, please let me know.
Thanks 🙂
Am not sure but i think it’s The Fae Chronicles
Book 1:Fighting destiny
I’m looking for a book about two people (a woman and man) who are decaying together underground after dying. I think it’s written in a journal form, with different memories and recollections of the two people at different stages of disintegration.
I once listened to an audiobook, the main character comes across a dog that can communicate with him. Talk to him. I thought it was by Dean Kontz but after searching, I am probably wrong. I think it had a single-word title. I am pretty sure the box it came in was blue and black.
This sounds like it could be “Watchers” by Dean Koontz? How did the dog communicate and was his name Einstein?
Could it be Devoted by Dean Koontz with the main character being a kid named Woody?
Ooh I’ve never even heard of that one! Sounds good…Now I’m going to have to look for it. haha
I am desperately looking for a book I read maybe 10 yrs ago. It was a Christian/Catholic fiction. About a man that wakes up in a dark cave, violent thunderstorm raging outside, horrible flying creatures. He eventually leaves the cave to find himself in bleak landscape, meets a few other people, but one man in particular …the “woodcutter” . There is a huge canyon that can only be crossed on a huge tree that this woodsman fells across it, to reach this beautiful city on the hill. I love this book but can`t remember the title, author…poss published early/mid seventies???? Anyone recognize it? Please.
Hi,
5 years or so ago, I’ve read this romance book about a rock guy and a girl. The’ve knew each other since high school, she was supporting him and all that. He started a band, she- I don’t remember what. They got engaged. When the band started getting famous,he started ignoring her. The end came when he brought her to a party and said smething like: bro before ho, or something(his friend was a total jerk). They’ve met again when her father died.
i read this book about 2 years ago and its about these kids who go in this backyard and theres all of this old furniture. its not their house though and the people that live in the house what to sell all of these bugs that live there but the kids don’t want to. anyways so then a mother and daughter come in and the mum is the bad guy right and then all this stuff happens then it turns out the dad of the main character (who went missing) is one of the bugs and then they all get bugs and the bad guy is half bug and so is the daughter ( who is good). i also remember the missing dad is a Rhinoceros beetle and one of the main characters is a girl called Virginia and the other kids are 2 boys but i cant remember their names.
I am trying to find the title of a novel, whuch features a woman named Fleur, who latches on to wealthy widowers, claiming to be a friend of their recently deceased wives at the funerals. Fleur is amoral and ruthless.
A
I’m looking for a book series about a teen girl called India she loved from Ireland with her family to live with her aunt. Her best friend back in Ireland is called Erin. That’s all I can remember, oh and she moved to England not sure what where though
I read a book long time ago… Can’t remember the author
The story goes like this…. The guy was a preacher his name was Tom, a baby was left at his door step, the welfare wanted to take d child away…. She came to the preachers house for the kid…. immediately she carried the baby he stopped crying the little baby’s name was Tommy.
The preacher married the judge Hannah so they could keep little Tommy since she was divorced & didn’t have a child with her husband during the period they were married……
Hi! Im trying to find this web novel, but i forgot it title. Can anyone help me? It’s about a CEO who had a one night stand with an unknown girl. She tried looking for her. Even offered a reward. But she escaped. She got pregnant with triplets or quadruplets i think. She left one of the kids with the ceo and ran away with the other 3 kids. She came back as a doctor and coincidentally treated the kid she left with his father.
LOL. Thats what i remember from the first few chapter. Can anyone help? Please… thanks in advance!!
I’m looking for a book that I read on Wattpad years ago. A girl with purple eyes and is studying to be a doctor, has a big family with lots of brothers, and she use to have cancer when she was younger. She gets kidnapped by a group of guys. these guys were in debt to a doctor that saved them after they got into a car crash. The doctor forced them to kidnap the girl. One of the guys fell in love with the girl. Then at the end the guys save the girl from the doctor who they found out is the same doctor that treated her cancer.
Story about a girl in a town and it would not stop raining. People went to the top of a hill because houses were starting to flood. The girls brother and grandma would not get out of the attic. They ended up dead. They meet people along the way. She finds her German cook. They find a little boy naked that she takes care of.
Wow, sounds interesting. Let me know when you find it.
I’m looking for a book I’ve been looking for for years!
It was about 2002 time, had a baby blue cover with flying pigs on and was about a witch.
It was an adult book
I’m trying to find a children’s book I read when I was about 6/7 years old, back in the early 2000’a. It was about a girl who went inside the mall during Christmas and she saw this store owner wrapping gifts so beautiful but after wrapping so many she ran out of wrapping paper so the girl had the brilliant idea of using recyclable newspaper to wrap presents and still make them beautiful. Owner went with it and everyone had nice wrapped presents.
Hey so I was literally just looking for this book too (and idk if you had found it again already), but I finally found it! It’s Katie Kazoo Switcheroo: Holly Jolly’s Christmas!
I read a book maybe 15 years ago. The main character is a teenage girl who lives with her father. She wants to become an actress like her mother who died when she was a child. The story revolves around her teenage years and I vaguely remember that she used to love to go swimming to a public pool but her classmates making fun of her and also that she is poor. I remember that she works after school at a beauty salon and something about saving money for a photo-shoot that can help her in becoming an actress. Somehow she loses the money but ends up getting a free photo-shoot at the salon. She is described a having “swimmer’s arms” and that a halter dress looks good on her. There also might have been something about her resembling a famous Hollywood actress in her looks. She later on runs away to Hollywood where she ends up finding more about her mother and discovers some kind of connection with the famous actress she looks like. She ends up returning home and getting married to her love. This was set in older times, maybe sixties or seventies.
I am trying to remember the name of a book that I read in a college course, specifically English 1102. This is what I can remember of the plot: A jazz/some sort of musician who was famous passed away, and upon his death his wife goes away to their vacation home for some peace and quiet along with some letters that he left for her. She wanted to be able to mourn his death away from the press, as he was a famous musician. The police found out from the autopsy of the husband’s body that he was transgender and had been binding his breasts. The son of this couple finds out about this and becomes upset that he did not know his father “was a girl” and distances himself from his mother. The transgender musician in this book was based on a real person, but the character went by a different name. If you have any idea what this book is please help me out, thank you!
Hey, sorry might be a long shot but I just looked up “transgender jazz musician had a book about” on google and the first result that came up was a book called ‘Trumpet’ by Jackie Kay which was fiction but based on Transgender Jazz Musician Billy Tipton hope this helps 🙂
I am looking for a book I read back in 2010-2014. It’s set in a very rural area of scotland. Wolves have been reintroduced but there is a very severe winter and the wolves attack the people living in this rural area because of lack of food. I remember a farmer wants revenge on the wolf pack but I think the farmer dies as well. I’d be very grateful if anyone could help with suggestions please and many thanks
I am trying to find this book that she believes she’s human that she doesn’t have a wolf. Her grandfather has kept her homeschooled and she is just now going to college and she has to go to the party to help the alpha find his mate. She turns out to be his mate and she runs away from him he finds her and then he keeps pushing her away. She gets kidnapped by her father who turns out to be a warlock it turns out he r**** her mom and then erased her memory of it did some spell to where she couldn’t get rid of the baby and then she kills herself after giving birth. That’s as far as I’ve gotten in the book and I cannot find it. Please help me.
I forgot title of this book that I read the first few pages of. It starts of with this man living by himself in London when, a hitman/murderer enters his home dressed in all black to try and kill him. The murderer apprehends him and while he is left unconscious the killer begins to tie a rope to a wooden beam across the ceiling. Much to the guys luck as the killer makes his strangulation seem like a suicide, the beam breaks and he’s able to get some air and he leaps out his large window and starts running. The killer follows him but the guy manages to catch a bus in time where he then falls unconscious and ends up in a hospital where he pretends to have amnesia as he doesn’t trust anyone. He says the only thing he remembers of the killer are his eyes. That’s as far as I can remember, I’ve tried to search it with the few key points but no luck. Hopefully someone here might know what it’s called. Thank you in advance and I’ll keep looking on my end too.
Book name was found:
Pendulum by Adam Hamdy
Im tryimg to find a book thatwas read to me at school in the early 2000 about a weird troll guy and lives in a shell and when kids listen to it he gets them and puts them in a drum.. anyone???
I used to read a book to my granddaughter 33 years ago about getting ready for bed, brushing teeth, going up stairs, about the moon. Can you help me find it? It had pics showing the steps.
I am looking for a book that would probably be considered a teens book. It is about a boy that loses his father. His father is in the military and goes missing. I’m pretty sure the father is found in a cave under rocks or something like that. He is missing for days and the media is covering the story but the boy doesn’t know it. His mom has been acting strange and his aunt comes to stay with them but he doesn’t know why. The boy has his electronics taken away from him and is grounded but decides one day after school to turn on the television while his mom isn’t home. He sees the news about his dad and how they are announcing how he has been found. His mom walks in and it’s confirmed that it’s his father. I remember that he was really interested in planes and particularly helicopters. Him and his dad put models together I think. I think the cover looks like you’re looking out a window on part of it. There may be a helicopter on the other part. I wanna say the cover was like a blue green but I don’t know for sure. I would so appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right direction!
I am searching for a novel in which a girl of a rich family get married to another rich family after she losses her memory from an accident but few years laters they got divorced and after the divorce the girl again get her memory back by going through another accident and become the best hacker and also start to plan how she get back the things she losses . The genre of this novel is modern romance
I am searching for an herleqiin book in which wife returns home from somewhere nd saw a women naked at home …husband was on another floor….nd he exaplained that she was his secretary nd they got wet in rain ….can somebody pls help me
I am looking for two books. The first one I can only remember how the cover looks. It’s a dark cover (maybe black) and on the cover there is a very detailed mirror with faces/skulls or vines looped around it and coming out the mirror is a hand and maybe a witch (I’m not sure) but for sure a hand is somewhere in the cover. It’s a middle grade scary book I believe. I read it around 2012 or 2013. The other book is most likely also by the same author (not positive though) and it’s about this family that goes to visit this farm type of place where people ride on these carriages that takes them around the farm and the parents are offered this cider and once they drink it they go on the ride and something happens to where the parents can’t leave the place or they are frozen in place and the only people that can help the parents are these kids so they escape the farm type place and go around the town that it’s in and try to break the curse that is happening to a bunch of more people and I think there is an evil witch or something of that sort involved and is trying to catch those kids. Plz help.
There are two books I’m looking for
-The first one is an arranged mafia marriage. A girl gets married to the son of the boss of another family after her sister dies but we come to know later that her sister didn’t die but was alive and helping FBI. Moreover, the wife knew that her husband had a mistress, whose mother was their housekeeper.
-The second book is actually a duet, in the first book, a women leaves a convent after some problem with them about her student loans. She comes to live with her best friend and finds a job in a local gallery, but during the interview she finds out that gallery is owned by her high school sweetheart whom she tried to kiss back then but he didn’t meet her halfway, so she left and joined a convent.
Hi I’m looking for a book about a girl that lives with her father and brother I think and she struggles with leaving the house but she finds out that her friend is missing so she goes on a trip with her friends ex to find and help her
I know that’s not much but thanks I never got to finish and I keep remembering it and I really wanna finish it
This book was published in the late 90’s. I keep thinking it was called Red7 or 7Red, an autobiography of a very troubled man who was mentally and s*xually abused as a child growing up in Florida. I can remember a picture of him sitting on his grandfather’s lap either on the cover or inside flap. This picture looks like a newspaper article with yellow/ red tone to it. I believe he mentions a girlfriend named Susan and her parents also.
A book about a boy who moves to a new town and he has a mean principle and he pranks alot it has a blue and red cover pls help
I am looking for a book that I don’t know the name nor the author so I can’t really sure if I remember but their was a book on a cover that was really pretty it has a title in it and they were 3 girls on it too but I cant sure why I don’t remember their appearance idk if that makes sense but I think I remember a girl in the middle has black hair I don’t know her name second brown curly hair, and last blonde?? I can’t tell but I did remember their was like 2 other books that was the same girls but different story I guess? I remember seeing creatures, fairy, and etc and I guess those 3 girls are in a band together I think at the back of the cover guess the second book I was reading in elementary in 4th grade I’m really not sure.
I am looking for a book that a vaguely remember reading in 2015/16. It starts with a Woman’s other half being abusive, he calls her ‘Mouse’ and she leaves to a ranch and then I don’t really remember much. I know that there is a sub character called Reid/Reed but that’s all and I am SO desperate to read it again. It was quite steamy too
I think the book you are looking for is the problem with forever
It trigged my mind because of the name mouse so yeah the name of that book is
The Problem with forever.
I’m trying to find a book that I can’t remember the title nor the author of the book. It’s (if I remember correctly) a romantic comedy about a girl searching for Mr. Right. I believe the character’s name is Emma. The cover is all white with a frog wearing a crown, and I believe he’s sitting on a purple pillow. Can anyone help me find it. I’ve tried a couple of Google searches with what I could describe in the search engine.
I read a book where an Earl was killed for his title and money and his heir, a daughter, hides from his attacker at a bakery where she meets a gentleman who wants to marry her even though he thinks she is a nobody. The gentleman is a 2nd born son and his mother has a book where she keeps track of a females wealth and lineage. I really liked this book and would love to read it again so if anyone knows the name and author or even if you can add a little extra words like character names or lines I would appreciate that information.
3 books published in 1980’s about a prudish magic wizard who inherits father’s immoral wizard realm
Hello ! I read a book a good few years back and it was about a family who fled to Libya from Italy during the fascist regime and the story followed their life in Libya, in particular the son in the family. It was about how they lived along side the Arabs and there was romances and violence in it. The start of the book began with a young Arab girl walking along a path from her employers house to her own home which was a shack and she never arrived and her body was found having been r—- and murdered. In the end the family had to return to Italy when Libya gained independence around 1943. The story was fiction but based on the facts that was going on in Italy/Libya at the time. I think it was written by and Italian author and translated into English and there may have been two books – very vague I know but if it rings a bell with anyone I would love to read it again, it was a wonderful book !
I’m looking for a book that I start to read but I never finished it it was about a Italian mafia boss who was trying to hide for a while and live a normal life Without money ,he fall in love with a simple girl but her family do not accept her boifrend because he could not offer her e good life after that she left her family and married him but after the wedding night he end up dead in a motorcycle accident …after that she is alone and try to work hard for buying a grave for him .. then she try to kill her self but her bestfrend save her ..she finds out she is pragnent she move in france ….and after some years he is back for her and find out he have a son … this is all I remember I’ve searching for the book for a month now but I couldn’t find it ..
I red it in wattpad
I’m looking for a book I read about ten years ago,it’s a vintage and romance novel concerning a lady named Hallie who impersonated someone she befriends on a sailing ship,her Friend died and she took over her friend’s place and got married to the friend’s cousin who was also her fiance. The guy’s name was Ross,his sister’s name was Amy and ty their younger brother Evan who later got married to Lucinda (lulu)
I don’t remember what the book was called or the author, I read it in a book club in 2018 and I never finished it sadly. It’s about a family, and they don’t have a mom and the dad guess off to war I think. The oldest a girl raises her siblings I think their is 3 of them(siblings) one of them gets polio and that’s all I remember please help if you can. I’ve been searching for this book for months and I need to know what happens!! Thank you for your time!! 🙂
I found it, it’s called blue 🙂
I am looking for a book that I read some time ago… based in the Caribbean it is about a young black girl, who loves swimming in the bay (can’t remember the bay) she falls in love with a serviceman ww2 who is injured and she helps look after him in hospital he has to go away on a mission and is gone for years she marries another man who is a drunkard…she wants to become a nurse but there is a matter of her colour she does finally become a nurse and as the story goes on she meets the service man after years but he always has to leave but comes back she finally sleeps with him and becomes pregnant but never ends up with him as he has a family…he dies and in the end I’m sure his daughter looks for her as he tells his story… can’t remember names either.. hope someone can help thank you
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I’m looking for a novel about a woman who keeps shifting between two different realities every time she wakes up. In one, she is married and has a family. In the other, she almost met her husband but never did, and did not have a family with him. The fantasy of a life without her family is a way of coping with a disaster that she can’t face, an accident in which she loses loved ones (maybe her parents). I think the novel was popular, and it’s not that old. Maybe published after 2000. Aspects of the first-person style, the gradual revelation of what exactly the mystery is, are similar to Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson, a novel I found while hunting for the one I can’t find. But although the husband is a focus in each, the actual story is very different.
Is it “in five years” by:Rebecca Serle?
That’s not it. Thanks for the suggestion. There is no premonition about the future or shifting in time (to five years in the future, according to descriptions of the book In Five Years). In the novel I’m thinking of, the woman is shifting between two present-day versions of her life: one in which she married her husband years ago, and one in which they never married. The life without her husband and children turns out to be a fantasy that protects her from knowledge of a terrible tragedy.
Children’s fiction book. I think I read it in grade 4, 5, or 6 in the late 1980s.
I think they may have been on a class field trip. The main character of the story was a boy who started a number of businesses. The first was small, and made just enough money to start the second, which made just enough to start the third, and so on, with each business being bigger than the previous one.
One of the ventures, the boy rented a cow from a farmer, then sold city folks one minute to milk the cow. The people who paid to milk the cow worked really hard for 1 minute, then were disappointed at the end to see how little milk the got, and so bought another minute of milking time. The farmer joked with the boy that these city folks didn’t know that they’ll never get much milk in just one minute.
At the end, I think the boy entrepreneur got caught by his teacher (I think they were on a field trip) and had his profits confiscated. Once he could get away again, he started back with his first business again. And that was the end.
If you know what book this is I would really appreciate it – I’d love to have my kids read it now.
The book is about a boy who is a secret agent, spy or something like that. The cover was orange I think.
The first paragraphs are a summary of what his job is. I believe it starts with a short story of the main character getting close to a boy who he played baseball with, and he kills the boys parent.
The plot is in summary, he has to go to a private school ( I think ) and get close to this specific girl because he believes her father is evil. He slowly falls in love with her.
Turns out he finds the father is innocent during a party and the girl is evil.
This is a series book I believe. I think the second book takes place at a military base or something.
Thanks in advance
I can’t remember the title and just a brief sumarize of the synopsis…. I tried google but without any results
It was about that if you read it you might die after finishing it (like, for real) the cover was kinda beige like some sort of old book and there were no words or title (as far as I remember) beside that brief synopsis…. can someone help? I tried to buy it at that time but I couldn’t and when I got back to the library it was already sold…
I’ve been looking for this book for a while now, I read it when I was younger. I forgot which dynasty it was in, but I know it was ancient China. I believe the woman was a princess or some type of royalty, but I am not too sure. There was a festival, where she met a man and wanted to marry him. She ended up dying, and her tomb was left unmarked, so she was forced to roam purgatory. When in purgatory, she found out her sister ended up with the man. I remember scenes when they made “cloud and rain,” and younger children had to bear the pain of foot binding. I never finished reading the book, and now I am looking for it all the time. If you know which book I am talking about or think you know it, please let me know.
Woman marries her sisters fiancé at sisters request only to find she was set up so family could get her 4 shares of their compant
the book is about main character (teenage boy) who finds out that he is a clone of his parents first child who was perfect in everything. in search of the this truth he goes to his ‘elder brother’s’ college and finds his friends. he found about his brother’s existence when he goes through an album kept in the attic of his house.
the book’s cover is dark blue or black with different color lines and some lines written over it, like “i cannot be him”
I’m looking for a book, I read it a few years ago but I can’t remember the title ♀️
It’s about a family. A man and a wife who have children. 3 girls and 1 boy. The boy though is a nephew of the man so the family sort of adopts him. The woman is a horrible mother and she mistreats her children. Beats them up and gives them all types of odd works to do around the home. She also hates her husband and doesn’t really accord him the respect he deserves as the man of the house . At some point the young boy dies (I think his name is Shay, I’m not quite sure though). To cut the story short at the end the lady gets arrested together with the husband coz in a way he helped her in some of her sick plots.
Can anyone identify the book please and tell me the title.
Kindly.
The story starts off with ” My father sold me…”
Sounds like you can find it on wattpad
Was he sold to a vampire?
I read a book when I was younger but it was destroyed in 2008 in a flood but it was a big book of animals and my mom says it called my big book of animals but I know the cover is blue and it has a tiger and I panda and a few other animals on it but I want to get another book but I can’t find it please help
I have looked it up and it never is the book I know
Hello, I read a book as a child (around 20 years ago), all I can remember is it involves a sausage dog who wants to be longer, he either has a dream or gets a wish that he becomes long and in one picture he is wrapped around a tree. Does anyone know the title of this book? Thank you
Right i read a book in 2009 it was published in the uk. It was about a clairvoyant who could see various ghost some werent nice, she had spirit guide who was quite vulgar and she woukd have flash backs about her terrible up bringing. I swear black or dark was part of the title.
So i remember this book is really popular amongst young adults it was about these kids that were tested on like created in a lab and one of them had huge beautiful wings and they were escaping the people that had them in this lab… gosh that’s all i can remember but i really want to read this series!!
Is it the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson?
I remember a book I read in the early 2000s I bought from the Scholastic book fair. There was a girl on the front and I want to say she had red hair and purple shoes that were too big. I remember reading that she found a suitcase under her dad’s bed and she tried them on. They belonged to the woman her dad was cheating with. Cannot remember the name for the life of me. Paperback YA book but more preteen age.
I’m looking for a book with a female wolf shifter rejected from her true mate and was bullied by her pack and abused by them and then the wolves shadow wolf god comes and takes her and they fall in love, she makes friends with an angel with robots serving food in a cafeteria and there is a big magical library and they release a trapped shadow realm and they have wisps/shadow beings that help them. Please this is all I remember helpppppp.
Shadow Beast Shifter series by Jaymin Eve 🙂
I’m looking for a book about a kid who died in his sleep or at least they think he died in his sleep. I think it was from natural causes or from diseases or may have committed suicide but a guy felt guilty because he had been mean to him. There is a girl that the kid liked but she did not like him back. He once baked a cake or something for her and her mother received it. After he died she was watching a crime show or something and heard the words: You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to remain silent. It switched perspectives between the characters. Before he died he was not been popular but everyone new him after he died. She stopped speaking after that for a long time. The book I had a black cover a paper airplane and a red apple. I might have been called Flyed but I have not been able to find it.
Never mind i found it it’s called flying solo by Ralph Fletcher
I’m gonna check this out omg
I’m looking for a book where I only know the plot and the book cover but I can’t remember the exact title of the book. It was night and a girl was stitching something and her younger brother went into the room to watch her stitch. Soon after that, they began to feel cold because the window was open so she stood up to close it and they heard a thunder strike. She told her brother not to panic and ordered him to go get a flashlight. When the lights came back, his sister screamed because she found that the cat she had been stitching was gone. The two of them asked each other if they were dreaming or not. Long story short, they found that a black cat with three yellow stripes on it’s left side was sitting on the window. The cover at the end of the book was of a black cat escaping a picture frame because the girl managed to stitch back the cat.
There was also a scene I remember where a woman had to dress up as a cat but as soon as a cat entered the room, she began sneezing because she was allergic and her line was, “Wid Sumbudy get me a tishoo?”
I remember a chapter in the book being called, “The chase in the carnival.”
There was also a dog involved, a Doberman whose name was Luthor.
The genre would be Mystery/Adventure. I can’t remember the title of the book though as it’s been so long since I’ve read it.
The two siblings have been chasing the cat around for the entire book
ANY HELP WOULD BE REALLY APPRECIATED
I am looking for a harlequin vintage romance. It depicts a young woman who lives with her mom and brother. They live in a house where they have a bakery. They live in a small town inw
She learns that a cafeteria close by the bakery, and she decides to pay a visit, bringing along some fresh rolls. She met a handsome young man, who is in charge of the place. He is a single dad, who has a lift,e daughter, whose name was Debbie.
I am trying to find a book that is about a high school girl named Victoria that is dying from cancer and a high school boy named August!
ALSO, AUGUST WAKES UP IN THE HOSPITAL BED NEXT TO VISTORIA AND SHE HAS ALREADY DIED. HE FINDS HIS PHONE WITHA VIDEO THAT SHE RECORDED FOR HIM WHILE HE WAS ASLEEP. HE GETS UPSET & MAD AT HIMSELF AND HE STORMS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL AND GETS INTOO HIS CAR & DRIVES AWAY AND WRECKS HIS CAR KILLING HIMSELF SO HE CAN BE WITH VICTORIA.
IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME OUT WITH THE NAME OF THIS BOOK, I WOULD SO APPRECIATE IT
August
by trickology this is it i found it!!!!!!!!
im also looking for this!!!!
Looking for a Childrens book from the 1970’s that featured illustrations of Japanese/ geisha characters. I believe there was more than one book by the author. I can’t remember any of the characters names. I don’t believe there were very many pages to each of these books.
I can’t think of the name of a book I’d like to read again. A stranger opens an antique store and everyone who comes in finds exactly the object s/he is looking for. The owner gives them the object but requires the to agree to do whatever he tells them to do in the future.
Stephen Kings’ novel Needful Things perhaps?
YES!! Thank you so much!!!
okay this will be very help full thank you
a book about a kid and a group of people in new jersey while a war is going on and they escape from a school and end up at a place in the woods and they find a key to it under a rock and go inside to find shelter and then they hide in a trap door under a table after getting chased and then go through a tunnel then run through the woods.
That’s all I remember so far I really want to find that book because it’s really exciting.
im looking for a novel about Charles Rennie Macintosh & Margaret Macdonald & Glasgow school of art and Margarets willow tree design
I read a historical romance book in the late 90s or early 2000, about a set of male twins, who love visiting brothels. They were distinguished gentlemen with titles. It was based in London in the 1800s. The twins were very eligible bachelors who had women fawning over them constantly. I believe one of their names was “Harm”. If I am remembering correctly, the book had an orange cover and was paperback.
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I can’t find a book. It’s a bout a girl who runs away and goes to a casino and meets a bit with blue hair whos family runs the casino. She ends up being a sleeping beauty simulant and he a Blue Beard Simulant and his best friend is her prince. But she ends up with Blue the boy. Help
I read a book at school during 1960’s. Set in London during WW2 it is about a little girl who befriends an old man who lives in same building. He has some beautiful blue dessert plates which fascinate the little girl.
A man possibly called Adam bought an Australian outback station. His wife came to the station thinking he had a house somewhere and while searching died in a sinkhole. There was a police officer who was murdered and an aboriginal girl.
Three sister one runs the ranch. One sister falls in love with an native American.
I think the book you are referring to is Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
So I read this book a couple of months ago on the books app in the apple store . it was about a girl who moved with her dad and her step mom is mean and her name was becky . she met a vampire who was apparently a angel or something and becky was sleeping with a werewolf and she doesn’t remember it . i think her dads name was kyle and her boyfriends name was dylan but i can’t be sure . her best friend got turned into a vampire and she had red hair . i’ve been looking for this book for months
The book I’m looking for is about a guy who comes back from college to live with his dad who is divorced from his mom. He meets a kindergartener or 1st-grade teacher who he meets at a cafe reading a book and they start to converse. She was reading a book. He later installs a chip in his head called fun or happy bot that is meant for playing games and entertainment. He and the Girl disagree as she doesn’t like prefers to stay in the real world while he tries to persuade her to get the ai chip implanted. He later thinks that his father is sleeping with her because he finds panties somewhere in the house and learns that they are in a town play together. In the end, they break up or never get together (i think can’t remember which one) but now they have reversed roles as she is invested more in the ai chip she drifts into artificial reality and he got the chip removed or turned off and now to lives in reality.
it was a book about a high school kid who moved into a new school with dorms and lied to impress a female who had a chinese tattoo on her chest.
he also had dreams of him fighting demos the when he got to the core of his dream it was him
i remember i read it on wattpad it is about a girl decided to respond to a mail order bride after her fiance cheated on her with the daugther oh his boss he was a doctor ;;;she traveled on the train for 7 or 10 days and rested on a motel till he married her ,,,he has 3 or 4 kids and was a rich man ,,,,they hated her cause she didn’t meet the conditions wriiten on the post ,,she didn’t know how to cook or wash or any hosewife thing,,,,she learnt everything he fell in love with her and the kids loved her too,,than she got sick and got a surgery but the doctor said it was too late and she died,,,,but she was reborn to the day when she read the mail order bride post and decided to return to her husband mand get a surgery before it is too late,,,i don’ remember the time but i think it is in th e 80S,,idk
This book is about a girl named Kate on the yearbook team at high school. A boy named Gage I think gets shot. Gage texts her on her phone but it’s not actually Gage. There is a boy named Henry who actually killed Gage. Kate falls in love with one of the hunting boys. Her mom is a lawyer or a judge that is helping with the case. It is in a small town. She has a best friend. I think the cover had red and maybe deer antlers.
Looking for a werewolf book. Kas was a characters name when she got her wolf her eyes turned purple. Hair started turning sliver. Her bedroom was in the dungeon. Alpha Gram would beat her.
The book is called forever in the past and forever in the future. I think the only place you can read it is on buenovella
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I am looking for a book series, it is a biography of the authors life in 1950’s Ireland, cover is a black and white picture, it stars as the author being a child and very poor, she steals butter to make money for the family, she writes as she speaks ” me Ma and Da” Thanks for any help
I meant to write “Ma, He sold me for a pack of cigarettes” and not “Me” sorry
Could it possibly be part of the series by Martha Long? The “Ma” series or however you’d call it. It does sound very much like “Me, He sold me for a pack of cigarettes” or one of those books.
It’s written in that sorta way too, example
“The ma makes sure I go everywhere wit Jackser an then tell her if he was lookin at women or talkin te his friends about them, or maybe if he was seein one. I always tell her he was doin nothin. I learnt me lesson good an proper when he nearly threw Charlie over the banisters. So I’m not tellin them anythin tha will start a row. I tell them nothin about anythin, and Jackser beats inta me tha I’m never te tell anyone wha happens at home. So I don’t answer questions people ask me, like, where’d ye get the black eyes, or, wha’s them zig-zag blue marks on yer legs an arms an back? I say nothin.”
Yes that is it! Thank you!
I am looking for a book about a 12 year old girl visiting grandparents at a beach and she meets a 15 year old ghost boy with a ghost brother named John?
I don’t remember the title of this book, or the author, and I think the cover was like blue, maybe a beach or a sky? I remember it’s about a tween girl who is visiting her grandparents at a beach area, and she goes out for runs a lot. Then she meets a 15 year old boy who she thinks is kinda cute, and they eventually start going out for runs together. He even tries to guess her name at first, I think. At the end of the book the girl finds out that he’s a ghost who died in some shipwreck (I think), and he has a younger brother named John who is also a ghost. At the very end of the book he kisses her while she’s at a hospital for some reason. I don’t remember the title, but I read this in 2018. I don’t know when this book was published, If you know what it’s called, please help! Thank you. Oh, and also she writes to her mom and dad a lot (they don’t live together, I think?). And the plot might have been that the girl was looking into a ghost memorial, and the boy hung out with her in hopes to find his ghost brother too. If you know this book, please help me! Appreciate it!
This is probably not the book but your description reminds me of a book called TJ’s ghost that I loved as a kid. I don’t remember much other than it took place on the Oregon coast and there was a lost ring involved too.
I’m trying to find a book where the (4 or 5) main characters are sent to an institution on an island that no one else knows about and they get powers. Evil organizations are looking for treasures.
I don’t think that’s a very good description, but here’s more from later on in the books:
At some point, the main characters get lost in ancient Egypt where time moves slowly compared to the real world. They also at some point find themselves in Greece where at some point a statue comes to life.
Sorry if it’s not that great of detail, it has been a long time since I’ve read it.
YAY! I found the dog story I have been looking for: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (P.S.) Paperback – Deckle Edge, September 8, 2009
by David Wroblewski (Author)
I need help locating a best selling adult fiction (very long story) about a farm dog and his boy, written by a male, his first published I believe. Seems like the cover is a muted watercolor pastoral scene with a barn and farm house. Hardback Published 2001-2005.
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Hi, I’m looking for a book that I think was pale blue, about the author’s child s*xual abuse by her stepfather. I think I read it over 10 years ago and I remember her stepfather called the abuse ‘dusting’ or some other chores so that it wasn’t detected. It was also abuse involving her siblings and I think the author’s surname was Fox or something. Thank you!
probably written 2008-2015
cover had the main character swimming underwater and it was blue
main character is a teenage boy who plays football in upstate New York
he has a girlfriend and they go on a drive and she refuses to have s*x with him and he makes references to the moon and blu* b*lls (it was a strange book)
A strange alien or something notices him at a diner and he is “found”
he figures out that his parents are not really his parents and he is special
his dad and him go on the run from the aliens and his dad is killed and the main character escapes on a boat
he arrives in New York City and becomes acquainted with a gorgeous college girl who takes him to her apartment
The girl turned out to be one of the aliens and chains him up to a bed
he meets a telekinetic dog there who becomes his friend
The main character is kidnapped and is forced to fight a masked figure every day
The masked figure turns out to be a girl that was put in charge of training him and they develop a strange bond and eventually kiss
they are ambushed and she is presumed dead
all I remember for the rest of the story is that the guy and the dog meet some bikers and there is a big show down on a remote island at the end
i’ve been looking for years and haven’t gotten anywhere♂️
“them” by female author. maybe written late 1930 or 1940. something about younger people opposed to older people.
i am answering my own question: suddenly remembered the author was marya mannes and the book was not Them but They. well i was close. LOL. thank you
I’m looking for a book that I read in the early 2000’s. It was about a group of four or five housewives who were friends for life. They may have been military wives. Close to the end of the book, one cheats on her husband and becomes pregnant with a child who inherits Huntington;s disease from his real father. It isn’t Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons, as I have read that three times thinking I had found it.
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im looking for a book I would Read as a kid coming up to 24 and feeling old and with my sister carrying my first niece or nephew I want to get a collection of old books we used to read as children. I cannot remember for the life of me this book name but I would always pick it up, it would be about a boy who had to stay indoors and because of that he was sooo bored he lined up all house items around the house in a row, every room he would line all the items up. anyone have a clue??
I’m trying to find a book hard back about a mystery murder that happened up in Bellingham years ago cause my grandad’s name was in it
Book about a woman, whose husband left for younger woman. Daughter is grown and in college. Man’s (Ford) car breaks down in front of her house. She hires him to do work on her house to sell. His family is in a shelter and eventually moves into the woman’s house.
I’m looking for a book I read in the late 1960s about a girl who rode a dolphin to a secret island
?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins
I am trying to find a book my mom would read to me as a child. I was born 1994. The book is about a little girl finding a doll in a store and buys it for her grandma. The doll is a blonde doll and with a ribbon in her hair and the store keeper fixes up the doll making it brown hair with another ribbon (blue or red I think). When the girl gives it to her grandma she finds out it is the grandmas old childhood doll. I NEED to find this book! I have searched for years and can’t find the name. My mom remembers the book but not the name also!
I came across an amazing story advertisement on Facebook,it was about a girl who is cheated on by her boyfriend who sleeps with her roomate. Then another guy enters her life when she accidentally sleeps with someone in a drunken state. That guy has a sibling whom she tutors.
Looking for a fiction book about a long married couple that have a love hate relationship. They stop talking to each other and have beloved pets: cat and bird. They both destroy each others pets and wife finally leaves him but husband can’t accept separation and tries to find her.
I read a book several years ago and would love to read it again! A woman “drowns” and her husband goes thru the grieving process only to discover it was a “reality show” where they would win $ if he can go a year without marrying someone else
I am looking for a christian book about a boy who was living in a camp that was attacked and he ran away but was take and had a bomb strapped to him until he escaped and was found by an orphanage. Please help! I don’t remember the author or title, I read this book when i was 9 and haven’t found it since then . Your help is appreciated