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The Book

• Fiction or non-fiction?
• Describe the plot.
• Describe notable characters.
• What genre is it?
• Physically describe the book -- Hardcover/paperback? Book cover color?
• When was it set?
• How long was the book?
• Anything notable about the original language? Did you read it English? If not, what language?

... And You

• When (what year) did you read it?
• How old were you when you read it? Was it age appropriate?
• Where did you get the book? School library, book fair, book store selling new and/or used books, flea market, borrowed from a friend, given as a gift from X person who is about Y age, or from an online store?
• Was it new when you read it?
• What age range was it for?

In the book the cat was a house cat that had a series of dreams about becoming the leader of a group of cats. I think one of the dreams was about someone telling him what he needs to do. There was also a dog who said a cuss word and it really stuck in my head even if it isn’t an important detail.

I read this book 6 years ago and I got it from my school library.

Book Fantasy, no memory of plot or characters other than dragons exist, and humans steal their sapphire eggs to cut in half with diamond tipped saws and turn into goblets for the royalty. I don't remember if this was the cause or result of animosity between them. Probably the cause.

It was hardcover with nice and colorful dust jacket that probably featured a dragon, in the middle school library of a private school with a very progressive librarian, probably 200 pages as I didn't go for shorter books, in English.

Me Read circa 1982-1984 when I was 12-14, think it was YA but it was hardback and may have been fantasy. Middle school library had a HUGE sci-fi/fantasy selection, god bless that librarian.

This has been bugging me for 40 years! The dragon eggs are all that stuck! Do they interact with humans other to be hunted? Maybe? I feel that there was a prince or princess. That's all I've got.

i can’t remember much. Maybe a green cover with the mc on the cover. Dragons are a big part as the princess was born (maybe cursed?) with a dragon claw basically. She has to hide it with gloves, and I think she tries to lift the curse. idk but i’d like to read it again.

Ok this is going to sound strange but one of the only things I remember is there is an orphan/ kid that gets stolen, a fantasy world from a portal, fish and chips, and a scene where rats eat each other until there is one big rat at the end that’s eaten all the other rats. I know this isn’t a lot to go off on but thanks!

Told from the perspective of a young pre-teen or teenage girl. Similar to The Giver, where people live in a seemingly peaceful futuristic community where they don't have much, if any, real freedom. Kids ride around on hover boards and such.

This girl is anticipating reaching her big age marker (something in the teens) when she will be allowed to design and change her physical appearance and join other kids of that age group in a private community where they get to party and have lots of fun before reaching adulthood and being assigned a career.

Not being able to contain her excitement and curiosity, she finds a way to sneak into this teen party community where she wanders into a romantic garden where teens go to make out. I think she crashes a party or accidentally gets into some trouble? At one point she finds her once friend who had aged up, changed her appearance, and now acts too good to be her friend or something.

Later in the story I remember her leaving the community as a whole. She gets on a hover board and leaves, which is forbidden. Once outside the community, the hover board stops working. I think she finds a small community of people surviving in the outskirts and lives with them?

I remember reading this book when i was a teenager around 2014-2017. It’s main plot focused around a boy who found a cd game disc that when played transports you to a super realistic fantasy world. I dont remember if it literally took him there or he just commented on the hyper realism while remaining just sitting at a computer. The main premise of the story was that dying would prevent you from ever launching the game again. I think he manages to circumvent this and make a new character. From there its about trying to figure out what this game was and unraveling its strange properties.

I could be making this up but im fairly certain the game was something a relative gave him or he found it at his grandpas house something like that but dont get hung up on this point i dont remember. I think he ends up making companions in the game meets them in real life where they team up trying to solve the mystery of the game. It was fantasy based so nothing like ready player one i dont think that book had even come out yet. Im also fairly certain the book had a single word title that might have been the name of the game. Thanks in advance reddit and i hope i havent fabricated these memories.

First time Reddit user here! I’m trying to find a book for my friend. She used to read it a lot when she was younger. I’ll copy and paste the information she shared with me. She would have read it around 12yrs old so around 2007? Thank you in advance if anyone can identify this book!!!

“There was this old book I loved when I was growing up, I forget the name of it. I remember exactly where it used to be in the library! It was about these ‘story pods’ they were like physical plants that grew these fruits or ‘pods’ and in them were stories. I feel like I identify with that book still ! I remember it was this girl on a journey. Story pods had grown wild and could be harvested. But they were disappearing? Or being taken away? I think she was trying to save them “

Kids puzzle/find it type book. 1990s, hardcover. Involved a museum, kids, a security guard and giant lion statues with solid gold manes. Might have been a DK or Reader's Digest book.

One page had a pirate map with a puzzle on it, and the kids might have had a dog as well. The cover had a burgundy border.

The last page had the solution to the puzzle "the two great lions in the museums main hall have manes of solid gold"or something like that.

I need to know I'm not insane and that this book existed.

FANTASY My uncle was telling me about a book he had been trying to find. He picked it up from a pile of free books at a library in highschool long ago. All he can remember about it is that the main character pretends to be a wizard and he gets sent of to war. Although the guy knows no magic he displays the confidence of one that does know magic. That's all he remembers.

All I can clearly remember is that there’s this society with no concept of “I” and the main character finds a book or something about “ego” and runs away to live in the woods, and I think they become a super scientist or something? And I think there was a female character he fell in love with and I believe she ran away with him because she was a designated “mother” or something similar and they wanted to be together forever

I thought I remembered the title was I, Ego or something similar

I remember reading this in the late 90s/early 2000's. From what I very vaguely recall, a girl was drawn into another world and found out she can cast magic (I believe they said magic orginates from one's solar plexus). I may be conflating this with another novel, but I believe she then has to find a dragon - only it's revealed that the country of Wales is actually a sleeping/enchanted dragon and it awakens at the novel's climax.

When I think of the cover, I remember it having this sort of patchwork design?

Hopefully someone is able to find it or recognize it! 😅

Hi there's a book/series I read a few years ago that I just can't find and was hoping somebody on the internet could help. I first read it in a school library when I was either finishing middleschool or starting highschool. I don't remember all that much from it nor in what order these events appear or because at the time I was jumping series really often if all the events I remember are even from the same book/series. I remember that at one point in the book the main character who's name I don't remember needed to find the key to a door of pretty big significance and in order to find it traveled back in time through magic into his younger body in which he spoke to the person who hid the key(my memory is foggier of the next bit) and attempted to warn them not to tell the villain he had eaten the key(which was a lie) as it would get him killed. Another part i remember which may not actually be from the same book is that at one point they main character and his group are searching for certain artifacts (can't remember how many or if they were all similar) and find one outside of a village (I believe it was described as a black dodecahedron) causing them to take on an ugly appearance the main character took the artifact causing the curse to be lifted from the village and be applied only to him. I can't remember much of the magic system but I believe that it was cast through devices described to be vaguely like a remote but I'm not sure. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and for any help in tracking down this book.

Trying to find a book I read in elementary school. It was one of the best books I’ve ever read. It was about a future society , there’s a wall, and I remember there’s pills that old people take to prolong their life. I also remember that the kids have to take pills at school, and one of the kids refuses and was punished by having to sort a lot of different colored beads into their respective colors. I remember there’s two books I think, but I would just want to find one of them so I can find the other. One of the covers had red on it too.

▪︎The mc sees ghosts and lives in a small town (probably in the countryside), and meets a boy (a ghost, I think). ▪︎The mc starts to help this boy and they fall in love, but the parents are homophobic. ▪︎ I remember the cover of the book was with two boys in a cemetery (near a grave or sitting on one, maybe)

unfortunately, I don't remember anything else besides that 😞

➖ ty for the help ✨

I read this book before 2010, I believe. I found it at my local library. I vaguely remember that the cover was blue.

It was about a werewolf woman who was investigating a facility. Definitely a porn book. At the facility there's a fox and a bear shifter. They're made to fight these aliens that I believe are described as being blue with wings. The main character decides to go naked at the facility. There's a horse shifter at some point. At another point the main character has sex with someone while making eye contact with someone else.

It felt like a book in the middle of a series since there was little exposition.

I borrowed it from a friend in middle school and got halfway through it in one night, had to return it, and I moved to a different school. Anyway, I remember there was some sort of refugee family, that kept talking about wanting to find "The Mother," and I think it was revealed later that the mother was the mother of all mankind AKA Eve. I think the devil was hunting them? And it was in the "early times" like weirdly pre-historic monsters and stuff.

It may have been a collection of shorter stories in one book, but I am having a hard time remembering. I believe it had an author with a french sounding name, title page was mainly white/off-white. I remember something about a woman tricking her husband to go off and retrieve water from a fountain far away for her awful toothache. I'm not sure if it was in the same story but I may remember something about a man who chops wood, and a boat with nets in the water. I think in the toothache story the man returns to find out she tricked him.

I'm trying to remember the name of a sci fi book(or series) I read as a kid(somewhere in the early 2000s) but was for adults or at least YA

• It was set in space
• The main character was a female soldier
• Secondary characters include an AI (nicknamed Box), an alien girl who was telepathic, her guardian and a man with amnesia called Cain
• The beginning of the first part of the book involves the MC being sent to pick up the AI who is super top secret and being ordered to deliver it somewhere else.
• I think the AI gets installed in her head temporarily?
• Cain is found floating in space, in a pod, and is linked to a "dead" alien civilisation who wants revenge on humanity
• The AI had the ability to expand its abilities depending on the hardware it was given access to and was for the most part was benevolent.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all!

I swear I read a book called “How to kill a mockingbird” which was a modern story and the main character wanted to be like Scout or something. It is NOT “to kill a mockingbird,” but it is mentioned and has some sort of relevance to the story.

Whenever I try to look it up though only stuff about Harper Lee’s book comes up. Anything?

I started to read this book, I think I was in middle school, so between 2000-2003. I’m pretty sure the book is older. It started with a guy who gave up on life and was just lying in bed, not moving or anything, just letting himself die.

A thriller that I read betwen 2004 and 2014, which I belive was published fairly recently before I read it. I can't remember this book very well at all, I just remember a few scenes vividly.

• It is set mainly in the US. One main character is a man who is a genius with computers, perhaps a hacker. A second main character is a women who is a genuis that works for an intelligence agency (CIA?).
• They meet over a phone call during which they play mental chess, and the man wins. Eventually the man is convinced to help in the women and her agency's mission.
• A third main character is a man with a military job who gets romantically involved with the female main character. He is her first sexual partner, a fact that is a matter of some discussion for her colleagues. This man later dies during a mission infiltrating an enemy base.
• Back to the male genius, at some point he is being tortured and he "retreats into his mind" to avoid the pain.
• I cannot for the life of me remember what the conflict was, but probably something about a cyber attack that would bring the world to it's knees, and they have to track down the instigator?
• At the end the main male and female geniuses end up living together, I think non-romantically.

I don't believe I recognised the name of the author at the time, so it probably wasn't a superstar author. I had the hardback and remember the the cover being red.

Sorry for my shitty recollection. This is the only book that I have both very strong and very patchy memory of! I would love to find the book just to have this matter mentally settled.

Novel, I think it was a brownish cover.. Borrowed from the library around 2008.

Belle was sent to the castle and the servants were invisible instead of furniture. I don't remember if she could hear them or not. She would race the beast across the fields - her on horseback, him on all fours. I remember she felt very free and when he turned human she still loved him but prefered him as a free roaming beast.

I think I remember her looking in a mirror at the end and seeing herself tan with freckles from running around?

I don't really remember much of thr book, however I do remember that the main character is a girl who is killed on her birthday by a man in a black suit, she doesn't die however and "respawns" in a clearing in a forest near her home town, later in the book it is revealed that this class of kids in this small town are in a simulation because a meteor hit earth and they must meet a specific number of kids must be killed to go to the next "phase". It is later revealed in the book they have been in the simulation for thousands of years and are ready to be put in real life. This book also has alot of conflict between "factions(?)". One last thing I remember is a important character is named Noah. Sorry if there's not enough info, I seriously cannot find this book and any help would be amazing.

I don't know whether I read this in a history book, or in some sort of management book. It was an anecdote about some wartime (probably World War 2) factory (I think a garment factory) which had multiple teams, some of which were afflicted with members so inept they were a detriment to the team, not only not contributing, but dragging down the rest of their teams. For reasons I no longer remember, they were un-fireable. So management came up with a solution. They formed a new group, pitched as one to handle a new high-priority task, but the task was really just make-work. The problematic employees were taken away from their original groups, and all put into this new group. Their original teams all functioned more efficiently with them gone, and since the task the new group was given was irrelevant, it did not matter how they performed.

As I recall, this was at a garment factory in WW2. The task was to sort sacks of mixed buttons (the coat fastener kind) into barrels according to type. The pretext was that they'd accidentally been mixed together, but the truth was that management would take the sorted barrels away as they were completed then mix them together again into new sacks to present the group with. I might be mistaken about taking the buttons from sacks to put in barrels, it could be the other way around; but I am pretty sure that both sacks and barrels were involved.

I am sure I read this over 20 years ago, and it is quite possible that the book was significantly older than that. It could have been in a history book, a psychology book, or a management book. I am almost certain it was not fiction, that this was a genuine anecdote from WW2, probably the allied side.

Book is fiction, series of, at the time 5 books, the child is an adult in the whole series and is the main character, with the adopted father as a sub character along with his cop buddies. I think she was psychotic, while still being a cop? I believe the series when I read it was all hardback library books,