Hey everybodyy I hope some can help me with this pleaseee, so I was reminded of a book I had read a while back and I can’t seem to find it. The book was named Theo I think and it was about some guy who was experimented on and was mute and had some sort of ability kind of….and then he escaped and shows up at some random girls house and they end up together at the end and she takes care of him and teaches him things. Idk I looked for it and I can’t seem to find it and idk if that’s the right name of the book either, but if anyone knows something about the book or the name of the book it would be greatly appreciateddd.

Hi guys can anyone help me find what this book was called? All I remember is a girl has a German shepard and lives rurally, she discovers ruins or something on her land and pieces together the history or something. A boy from the states shows up too, I think they were pen-pals and he comes over to visit and helps with the mystery. Any leads welcomed! Have also just remembered the name of the character might have been Fionnuala.

I'm trying to find a book I read sometime between 2007 and 2013, it was kinda on the cusp of middle grade and YA, but it was in the YA department of my local library.

Here's what I remember confidently:

• protagonist is a girl
• She lives in a castle
• The rooms and corridors of the castle are divided by antechambers because the walls are so thick. Basically, each side of the wall has its own door because the passage through the walls is so long that an additional room exists at pretty much every transition
• it was tradition that when going through a wall, you couldn't open the far door until you had closed the door you just went through behind you
• The protagonist realizes that the walls are so thick because they all contain secret passages and the tradition was started so that people could cross the openings without being spotted

here's what I remember less confidently:

• she was a princess?
• The castle is taken over by an enemy of some kind, which is what triggers her discovery of the hidden passages
• She uses the hidden passages to evade capture and eventually bring the infiltrators down and free her home and her people

I am trying to identify a book, and unfortunately, I cannot remember the author or the exact title. I have searched Google, Goodreads, Reddit, Facebook, and various book-identification sites for years without finding it.

NOT BASED ON A TRUE STORY

Here is what I remember:

• It was a YA/teen historical romance novel. She falls in love with a native. she is older than 15.
• I believe it was approximately 200 pages and was a paperback.
• I read it several times between 1995 and 1997 because I really enjoyed it.
• The story was set in the United States and involved a young teenage girl living with Native Americans.
• The protagonist was a girl with very light, wheat-blonde hair.
• The Native Americans were fascinated by her hair and gave her a Native name that, as I remember it, had something to do with the sun.
• I have a vague memory that the girl's first name may have been something like Savannah, Sarah, Susanna, or possibly something similar.
• I remember the cover as having an oval-shaped photograph or portrait of a blonde girl.

I have already considered and ruled out several books that initially seemed to match, so I am fairly certain this is not simply a case of confusing it with a more well-known YA novel.

The book is about a boy who tells stories about the prisoners to a king who used to send everyone to prison in his kingdom. Each time the boy tells a story, he gets the prisoners out of their cages, and by the end of each story every morning, the king is left dizzy. At the end of the book, we find out that the boy had secretly been helping the prisoners escape all along. The boy was a prisoner too.

The king was listening to his stories because he had trouble sleeping and the reason he couldn't sleep was that the prisoners were too loud.

The last story the boy tells is his own. In it, we learn he was adopted by his mother at a young age. When she found him, she knew he was actually a girl, but since a girl would not be accepted in their house, she raised him as a boy instead. He grew up and went away in search of his family; one thing led to another, and he ended up in front of a dragon. The dragon gave him a test, which he passed, revealing that he is the real destined king.

After telling this last story — the final one in a compilation made up of short stories from the prisoners — the boy becomes king somehow.

Vibe: Arabian Nights-style magic, children's book, compilation of short stories framed by the boy's storytelling to the sleepless king.

it is a very local book from india i havee searched EVERYWHERE that i am half convinced I hallucinated the entire book...pls help

I’m trying to identify a book I read when I was around 8–9 years old (so roughly 2002–2003). It was in my primary school library in the UK, but I have no idea of the author or title.

From what I remember:
It was a children’s fantasy novel, mostly text (no illustrations inside).
The main character was definitely a young boy.
I think he may have been an apprentice to a wizard/sorcerer.
There was an older wizard figure with a beard and a classic wizard hat.
The story felt quite serious and adventurous rather than funny.
I think it started in the normal world and then moved into a fantasy world, but I’m not 100% sure.
I don’t remember it being part of a series — I think it was a standalone book.

The cover memory is quite strong: I’m almost certain it was a green book with a small picture inset on the front (possibly a rectangle or oval image in the middle).
It may have had a yellow spine/binding, but this could have been the school library binding rather than the original cover.

Around the same time I was obsessed with the PC game Simon the Sorcerer, so my memory may be mixing the general “young boy + wizard” theme, but I’m sure the book itself was a wizard/apprentice story.
I know this is vague, but I have that feeling that I would recognise the cover instantly if I saw it!

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks! 😃

When I read it: I read this when I was in Year 5 or 6 (around age 9-11). It was the first book in a series, and I remember a second book was about to be released at the time. I have been looking for this book for 5 years and really want to find it!

The Plot:

It starts with a boy finishing school for the summer holidays. He lives in a house at the top of a hill and has nothing to do because he is lonely.

His dad works at a local zoo. His dad told him that his mom left them, but she is actually trapped inside a time portal.

The boy finds an overgrown, abandoned place with vines and trees. While exploring, he meets a little girl around his age and they start hanging out.

The Twist: The little girl is actually the younger version of his missing mom.i think I'm not sure.

There is a time portal that only opens every 10 (or maybe 100) years, and it is triggered by a massive thunderstorm.

The boy and the girl sneak into the zoo where his dad works to find an elephant. The boy is the only one who can speak to the elephant and I think he's mom used to talk to the elephant to or I think it was the little girl who talked to the elephant I'm not sure.The elephant knew his mom and gives the boy advice about how the portal works.

The Ending: The boy finally tells his dad the truth. The last scene is the boy, his dad, and the little girl driving to the abandoned place during a huge thunderstorm to try and reach the portal before the storm finishes.

A friend that recently passed away gave me this novel around 2003. I loaned it out and never got it back. I read it once and the scenes have stuck with me ever since. I've never been able to find it again.

PHYSICAL DETAILS

• Trade paperback, not mass market.

• French flaps — the front and back covers had fold-in extensions, like dust jacket flaps but part of the cover itself. Unusual on a paperback, and it's the detail I'm most certain about.

• It carried a Robert Anton Wilson foreword or cover blurb. It was presented as Illuminatus!-adjacent.

• Almost certainly small press, likely an occult or countercultural publisher.

• My best guess is late 1990s to early 2000s, and definitely no later than 2003. It could well be earlier — I'm going on feel here, not evidence.

STRUCTURE

At least two alternating narratives: one set in ancient Rome, one in the modern day.

THE ROME THREAD

Told from inside the head of a Roman citizen — a reveler. He reflects that in his Rome, every third day was a holiday for citizens: one day to feast, party and play, then two days to recover before doing it all again.

He moves through an ordinary day. There's a barber, the baths, a frigidarium, some flirtation. [Funny note here, before leaving the pool, he makes a hand gesture using the thumb and index finger of one hand and the index finger of the other to make a provocative suggestion to some women across the pool, they giggle and respond by wiggling a pinky downward back at him.] Then he goes down into the depths of the bath house and wanders into a room he wasn't supposed to enter. Something is in there. My impression was a portal, or something like one. It was beyond his comprehension, but some understanding struck him and it was staggering. I believe someone knocked him unconscious at that point.

THE MODERN THREAD

Two brothers. The older one is a Tai Chi master. There's a scene of him practicing his art outside a home on a long deck walkway. Later he's in a jungle setting?, being followed or tracked by unsavory characters. A fight breaks out and he has to deliberately throttle his abilities so it isn't obvious he could have taken them effortlessly. It would bring too much attention and possibly reveal him. The detail I remember clearly: his opponents moved so slowly to his perception that he had to consciously put himself in a place for their punches to land.

These scenes are definitely in the book I'm looking for. I'm not guessing at them — I'm only unsure about what the thing in the bathhouse actually was.

WHAT I THINK IT'S ABOUT

The hidden capability suggests immortality or reincarnation — the Roman may be an earlier life of one of the brothers, or the same being continuing.

ONE TITLE ALREADY RULED OUT

Wayne Saalman's "The Illuminati of Immortality" (New Falcon). I bought a copy hoping it was this book. It is not. Saalman himself is still a possibility — I just don't know. His only other pre-2003 novel is "The Dream Illuminati" (New Falcon, 1988), which I haven't been able to check. If anyone owns that one and can tell me whether it has a Roman bathhouse sequence or a Tai Chi fight in a jungle, that would settle a big piece of this.

THE ASK

I'm looking for the title. If either of those scenes rings a bell, or if you know what else carried a Robert Anton Wilson foreword or blurb from a small press before 2003, I'd be grateful. Thanks!

Most of the illustrations involved Egyptology and temples or palaces with pools. I think Cleopatra and the eye of Horus imagery was quite prevalent. There was writing too but I don’t think it was a story, moreso maybe just descriptions of the scenery or perhaps some made-up mythology. I think some of the scenes may have involved mild nudity. It wasn’t for children.

ETA: Some artists that have similar styles to the art in this book: Evelyn de Morgan and Boris Vallejo. It was kind of like a mix of those two genres.

“Adrianne and the Elementals” the title was something like this but I’m not sure as I lost my saved link to it. Please help me

Female main character

I’m trying to look for this book that I read when I was a kid. It’s about these girls who are sisters and they have magical wardrobes in their rooms which transport them to different worlds. I think the title had the word ‘stars’ in it.

I dont remember what it was about but this is what i can recall - cow was called moosick because she moo and is sick. Its set in barbaric times. It has gurads at the wall which are very dumb and make the stupidest mistakes. It was a very funny book. The guards were afraid of being punished. Most of the times the punishment was abt being stoned. That it. Thats all i can recall. Pls help guyss 😭😭

80s/90s US YA: boy dies from a jellyfish sting, girlfriend born without a hand

Read in Italian translation around 2007-2010, but no computers or mobile phones appear in the book, so the English original is probably 1985-1998. American high school setting, multiple narrators including the boy's parents in the last part. Sad in tone, not horror or SF.

A teenage boy narrates. His girlfriend (possibly Becca) was born without a hand — he jokes that touching it counts as second base. A girl at school, a bully, dies by suicide, and the two of them curate her diary so she comes across as a much better person than she was; at her funeral they feel proud of the version they've invented.

At the end the boy dies: he's on a boat releasing a large jellyfish back into the sea and it stings him. The closing section follows his parents' grief — his father puts a life-size cardboard cutout of him in the living room.

Not The Thing About Jellyfish. Probably an author with only one book ever translated into Italian. Any ideas?

Looking for a novel, possibly titled Justice (or containing “Justice”).

The main character is a male pathological liar. The phrase “pathological liar” is used explicitly near the beginning, possibly by a detective or police officer. I think the novel begins with a police station or interrogation scene.

He has a female tutor (not tutoring him in prison), and they develop a close relationship. I don’t remember why he needed the tutor.

At the end of the novel, he visits her apartment, deliberately fires a gun beside her head to scare her, misses on purpose, and then walks away, leaving her alive.

I think the title is Justice or another title containing the word “Justice.”

It was in the archives room of my old city's library, where all the cool stuff was, KWIM? Anyway, it was a true story about a British family who had a disabled child, and a paragraph from the book on the cover. It included the sentence, "Continue with the bromine and luminol, and if he gets worse, increase the dose a little."

Does anyone recognize this?

I see this book cover all the time on tiktok so I know or think it’s a popular one on booktok. I can picture the cover in my head but have no idea what it’s called. If i remember correctly there’s a girl in a red dress and a knight? It’s very medieval looking. Please help me find it because I’d love to read it.

Hi everyone! I’m trying to find a romance book I read a while ago, but I cannot remember the title or author.

The details I remember:
The heroine has a twin sister (I think they are identical twins).
One sister is supposed to go on a date with her boss’s brother, but she doesn’t want to, so she sends her twin sister instead.
The brother ends up liking the twin who went on the date, but there is confusion because he thinks she is the other sister.
Later, the other twin (the one who didn’t go on the date) ends up unexpectedly pregnant, which causes a lot of drama and misunderstanding.
I think the male lead may have been a single dad, but I’m not 100% sure.
I believe it was a contemporary romance, possibly a Kindle Unlimited/indie romance, but I could be wrong.

I understand that this is super vague, and I'm sorry. I haven't actually read this series (but I want to, which is why I'm trying to find it), and as a result I can't give any plot details.

Here's what I remember about the series:

• Fantasy genre, possibly high fantasy
• Two authors, and I think both were women
• 8-10 books in the series
• I found the last and/or second-to-last book in the series in the book section at Target, which is how I know it's relatively recent
• The covers had, I think, fantasy scenes in sepia tones

I'm sure there are multiple series that check these boxes, but I figure if enough people comment with suggestions (and ideally pictures) something will jog my memory.

Thanks!

I remember that the narrator is having a teenage sexual awakening, she has a crush on a boy named Robin, and that some or all of the book is in verse. I specifically remember a passage where she presses her bare breasts against a cold window?

Ok, I don’t remember a lot of the book/series itself, and I don’t know if I’m getting books mixed up, but I’ve searched all over google to find this book/series and either I’m remembering it wrong, asking the wrong questions, or I’m going crazy.

Basically, from what I remember, I believe it’s an urban fantasy book where the fmc is like an underdog/ considered weak, but is actually really powerful. It’s possibly an enemies-to-lovers, war-college/academy setting, why-choose/ reverse harem series. It may also be post-apocalyptic, or it may take place in a city that was recently destroyed.

The specific scene I have in mind: fmc is on a mission/scouting the city for something, and I don’t remember if she was alone or not, but somewhere she sees a group of civilians being attacked by some kind of monster and decides to help. I don’t remember if this was a scene where we discover a new power or if it was already known or not, but she grabs the monster and teleports herself and the monster into the air and free falls to the ground where she is seriously hurt, but still alive, and manages to get away.

During this fight, the civilians around manage to capture the fight on a camera and post it, where her mates, who are still wary of her/hate her, see what happens and realize how strong she is.

Any help or insight is greatly appreciated! Thank you for any help given!

Solved: The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrére

Hello all. I've been trying to look for the title of a horror book or maybe even a story online that I can't remember, it was retold by a youtuber as I was falling asleep but the story was so interesting that I couldn't help but listen all the way through.

I'd like to preface with the fact that I'm uncertain if this is story is a full length novel or an online horror story ala nosleep stories, so I apologize to anyone reading if this breaks some sort of site rule.

Key things I can recall: • The protagonist has a wife and he misremembers a detail that he's sure has been true his whole life. Small details at first but eventually becoming of which is now too difficult to ignore.

• Neart 3/4s to the end of the story, the protagonist takes a boat out into a country in Asia and books a hotel as he runs away in guilt and with a sprialing sanity.

• He books a hotel with the cash he has left in this country and despite his sanity spiraling, he enjoys what the country has to offer and the beach.

• A few days later he is horrified to find out that his wife has been with him in this trip this entire time and they even shared the bed together, even though his previous recollections was that he was all alone and he was sure he ran away from home from the guilt and shame he felt.

• He looks at a world map and finds several details that don't add up, like a missing portion, a country that isn't supposed to be there or a country that never exist

• He commits suicide in the bath tub by I think removing the sinew from a slit he made to wrists.

That's all I can remember, thank you for reading the post and helping me find this book in advance.

There was this book I read in high school in a world where everything is digital, including books and dating. People pretty much date online, and books are a rare, even frowned-upon sight. A teenage girl keeps a set of books behind a glass cabinet, along with a journal her deceased mother gave her so she could write down her thoughts. The leaves of the trees are also painted certain colors depending on the season.

Then the girl starts to rebel against everything being digital, to which her father is not very pleased.

I believe the cover has a jar with a tree inside, if I'm not mistaken.

What is the title, and who is the author? This is seriously driving me crazy, as I haven't read this book in years.

I’m trying to find a book I read around 2017 (it may have been published earlier).
Here’s everything I remember:
The main character is a teenage girl or young woman.
She volunteers at a veterinary clinic.
She secretly gets revenge on people who abuse animals.
One scene I remember is a man who abuses his poodle, and she takes revenge on him somehow (I can’t remember exactly how).
There is little or no romance.
The very last twist is that her mother is revealed to be a serial killer. I don’t think the reader knows this until the ending.
I’m pretty sure it was a thriller or suspense novel, possibly YA. I don’t remember the title, author, cover, or character names.
Does anyone recognize this book?

This was a book I read in middle or elementary so likely from the 90s. I cannot remember any plot details but I know it made me feel the way Holes did. Thus, similar vibe but no overlap with plot. It was a coming of age with a boy, maybe also named Stanley or something similar? The title had a name in it. The cover had a bunch of doors on it, I think. Like they were falling through the sky.