What's the Name of That Book???
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By Ann aka Iftca… · 1 post · 13749 views
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Resources to find books - Please try before posting!
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By Kai · 1 post · 2 views
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Romance, part of a series, younger male high school baseball player/older female college student who works in a bar, she has to leave school to return to hometown because of her mother, he comes after her
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By Vanessa · 1 post · 4 views
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Middle Grade book about a young girl in rural Appalachia, set in the 1920s or '30s, with lots of dialect
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By Rainbowheart · 89 posts · 1056 views
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By Mish Molly · 6 posts · 48 views
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By Della · 1 post · 4 views
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By LJF · 6 posts · 22 views
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By Mary · 232 posts · 2409 views
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By Kate · 1 post · 2245 views
last updated Jun 15, 2012 11:12PM
Adult Regency Romance novel about a man who masquerades as an earl/duke/etc
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By Vina · 6 posts · 105 views
last updated Aug 12, 2025 05:44PM
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By Matt · 5 posts · 438 views
last updated Aug 12, 2025 05:42PM
Children's book about 3 siblings stranded during snowstorm.
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By Vesmé · 22 posts · 388 views
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Sci-fi: Space explorer returns to Earth and, because of time dilation, finds that years in politics and culture have passed by. He always leaves to go back into space, coming “home” more and more infrequently.
By Words · 9 posts · 138 views
By Words · 9 posts · 138 views
last updated Jun 29, 2025 07:12PM
SOLVED. Fictional animal book written in the 80s, maybe similar to Watership Down
By Rose · 13 posts · 30 views
By Rose · 13 posts · 30 views
last updated 12 hours, 13 min ago
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By Jasmine · 4 posts · 20 views
last updated 16 hours, 26 min ago
SOLVED. Adult Novel: Plane crash with pregnant woman, child survives and is raised by father and subsequently abused.
By James · 6 posts · 23 views
By James · 6 posts · 23 views
last updated Sep 04, 2025 10:23AM
SOLVED. Adult SciFi Space fiction - Starts on planet that is not Earth, male protagonist, sent as undercover agent with female agent to Earth. Read before 2011.
By Christopher · 6 posts · 21 views
By Christopher · 6 posts · 21 views
last updated Sep 01, 2025 10:18AM
SOLVED. Adult Supernatural-ish Mystery about a found relic or fossil that contains an angel or a god set on cleansing or destroying the Earth. Spoilers.
By Julia · 2 posts · 22 views
By Julia · 2 posts · 22 views
last updated Aug 31, 2025 08:46PM
Dystopian YA Where Teens Escape a Medical Experiment Camp
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By Bethany · 7 posts · 34 views
last updated 9 hours, 25 min ago
SOLVED. Children's Picture Book (maybe 1990s?) about two kids who accidentally discover a mystery floor while riding the elevator
By Emmy · 10 posts · 20 views
By Emmy · 10 posts · 20 views
last updated 12 hours, 6 min ago
SOLVED. Children's book about the uniqueness of people. Read around 1990's.
By Siobahn · 6 posts · 31 views
By Siobahn · 6 posts · 31 views
last updated Sep 04, 2025 09:42AM
SOLVED. Childrens/ YA fiction set in post-industrial future England, only roads and a few cars remain
By Emily · 35 posts · 280 views
By Emily · 35 posts · 280 views
last updated Aug 31, 2025 04:45PM
British Children’s/YA book, dark atmosphere. Young male MC, set in/near woods/forest. Male author, published 2002-2008.
By Autumn · 9 posts · 48 views
By Autumn · 9 posts · 48 views
last updated Aug 30, 2025 05:57PM
SOLVED. Children's book of Cryptozoology 1980s-1990s?
By Emmy · 14 posts · 18 views
By Emmy · 14 posts · 18 views
last updated Sep 04, 2025 01:38PM
SOLVED. Greek & Roman Myths, legends and origins. Read around 2004.
By Andrea · 3 posts · 22 views
By Andrea · 3 posts · 22 views
last updated Jul 02, 2025 07:33AM
SOLVED. Adult Nonfiction Memoir about buying a falling down castle in Italy. Read 2000-2005.
By thefourthvine · 4 posts · 32 views
By thefourthvine · 4 posts · 32 views
last updated Jun 26, 2025 04:01PM
SOLVED. Adult Travel Memoir, Non-fiction. Young pianist (slavic?) quits New York to travel to the far east (Tibet?). Lives with Buddhist monks who argue alot with eachother and drinks butter tea. Read ~2010.
By Miriam · 3 posts · 25 views
By Miriam · 3 posts · 25 views
last updated Jun 01, 2025 11:40AM
SOLVED. Adult Non-fiction. Microwave Cookbook from the 1980's. Make a cake in your own microwave. Hardcover, about 60 pages. Read in 2009-2010.
By Elizabeth ♛Sm… · 18 posts · 626 views
By Elizabeth ♛Sm… · 18 posts · 626 views
last updated May 28, 2025 05:37PM
Fantasy book about a girl who travels to another world. She comes to a crossroads in the beginning of the book. The direction options are "lose your heart" "lose your mind" and "lose your way." She chooses "lose your heart." Read 2013-2018.
By Scott · 3 posts · 18 views
By Scott · 3 posts · 18 views
last updated Sep 02, 2025 07:01AM
SOLVED. Fiction, romance?: an author releases a book that flops everywhere except Mexico. He goes to Mexico for a book tour and it turns out that it's a hit in Mexico because the (female) translator made it so much better.
By Amelia · 6 posts · 142 views
By Amelia · 6 posts · 142 views
last updated May 01, 2024 04:45AM
SOLVED. YA Fantasy. Girl gets a doll that's like her. Doll slowly starts to replace her in real life. Read around early 2000s.
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By Kristina (see… · 13 posts · 1399 views
last updated Jan 21, 2024 08:42PM
YA Fantasy Historical. Teen boy plays cards in NY. Young Asian escapes human trafficking situation with the use of fireworks. Devil at the cross roads theme. Read 2015-2019.
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By AWALL · 3 posts · 116 views
last updated Jan 12, 2024 06:19PM
Husband has amnesia, resents & dislikes wife, they have a child. His PA (personal assistant) has feelings for husband. Wife is pregnant.
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By Rosalind · 5 posts · 78 views
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By Juels · 9 posts · 76 views
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last updated Mar 03, 2017 12:46PM
ABANDONED. YA Fantasy, monster hunting siblings learn that their dad is missing and go on a monster hunting adventure to find him. Spoilers ahead.
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By Katie · 9 posts · 963 views
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ABANDONED. Kids book about a cow and a hot air balloon
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By Sam · 28 posts · 1517 views
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ABANDONED. Middle Grade/ Children Spooky book. Daughter (around 11-14 years) and mother move into old, creepy house with stepfather/ uncle? who might be bad. She starts hearing or seeing things re: haunted house? Read in 1990s.
By Alice · 17 posts · 914 views
By Alice · 17 posts · 914 views
last updated Aug 28, 2025 09:59AM
ABANDONED. YA or Children's novel about a girl and her cousin? The girl narrator describes her female cousin's great beauty in detail (see comments), maybe she's jealous? Possibly spending summer with her cousin in a small town.
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By Aimee · 24 posts · 1540 views
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By deleted member · 4 posts · 793 views
last updated Jun 28, 2025 01:26PM
ABANDONED. YA Fantasy. Boy with cancer escapes to world where they wear masks, cover is purple or blue, title might have masquerade in it. Spoilers.
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By deleted member · 3 posts · 68 views
last updated Jun 28, 2025 12:44PM
ABANDONED. New Adult Romance. Bad boy and good girl (young 20's) in tumultuous relationship. After a fight, he goes to a bar looking for her and another girl tries to make the heroine jealous. Spoilers.
By deleted member · 3 posts · 72 views
By deleted member · 3 posts · 72 views
last updated May 29, 2025 09:46AM
ABANDONED. Historical naval romance series set in the Caribbean and Georgia shortly before and/or during War of 1812
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By deleted member · 2 posts · 41 views
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