Questions tagged [books]
Use this tag on [story-identification] questions when the work is a book series or when the written media is unclear but use a more specific tag where appropriate e.g. [novel], [novella], [short-stories], [anthology-book], etc. Use this tag to indicate the question is about the book version or adaptation of a work. For differences between the book and other versions, such as a movie, use [adaptation-comparison].
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A 1960s/70s time travel novel that starts with three young people committing a crime against an old woman, who sends them back to 12th century England
I read this time travel story some time in the 1970s. The story started in what was then the modern day with three young people, (two boys and a girl) committing some sort of crime against an old ...
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Romance book series set in modern times during a zombie apocalypse and featuring a race of all-male elves finding love with humans
I read a book about a year ago that was part of a series, and I'm trying to find it again.
The one book I read, from what I can remember of it, was about a woman and her boyfriend managing to make it ...
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Book where a boy finds a girl with powers, unconscious in an alleyway
I remember only reading some of the first chapter of this book. The front cover depicts a teenage boy with chin-length black hair, wearing a black coat. He’s on the left side of the cover and has most ...
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An Allied tank, wrecked on D-Day & left untouched in the countryside ever since, was operated by an enslaved demon [duplicate]
I remember it as a novel, in a paperback book with dark green cover art; however it felt like it was serialized before publishing as a book. Probably bought it second hand at Shakespeare & Co's. ...
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Space Knights, radiation treatment that froze their growth cells
Remember reading as a kid a series of sci-fi paperbacks that involved a type of Space Knights, who as part of their physical therapy were exposed to some type of radiation treatment that froze their ...
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Book About a Virus Apocalypse with a Talking Animal?
There was a book I read around 2017 that I'm trying to find again without any luck. There was a virus or an infection that caused people to mutate/become zombies. It could have been an alien virus, ...
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Recent book. World ending System Apocalypse has arrived. People inside structures died when they were flattened. Man survived chasing his cat outside
Book was probably in the last few years, pretty sure it was a series of at least 2-3 books.
Cover had a man fighting monsters wearing his boxer underwear, socks and a leather jacket.
His cat had ...
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Book series with space "submarine"
I enjoyed an audio book series about a decade ago which I think was fairly new at the time that I would like to listen to again but I can't remember the author or name.
It was about a space "...
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Old book where the protagonist buys a gun that appears in his hand whenever he needs it
Looking for a book that I read many years ago, 30 to 40 years ago.
The main theme of the book is that the central person in the book goes to a gun shop and gets a gun that is prescient and whenever he ...
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Book about a human colony meeting telepathic cat/lemurs
I read this book in the late 2000's, and I remember it being new-ish. The cover showed a blonde girl with a white/grey cat-like lemur on her shoulders. The girl (age 10-13) was from a starter colony ...
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YA book series about a girl who must avoid turning into a Valkyrie
The series starts with a girl at a very exclusive private school in Manhattan. She must do some assignment in a building on campus, and the group is attacked by supernatural forces, while being ...
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Looking for a book: Boy gets recruited to take down a secret organization
I remember reading this the summer before I went into high school, so around the late 1990, but the book was older than that but not by that much.
I can’t remember the title, but it was about a boy ...
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Fantasy trilogy in which a whipping boy learns forbidden magic
I'm trying to recall a fantasy trilogy (more book series) that featured as one of the main characters a prince's whipping boy. He was literally whipped whenever the prince did something wrong. This ...
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Science fiction novel that I read in the 1970s where a protagonist from Earth steals a ship at a party
I am looking for a science fiction novel that I read in the 1970s.
These are the details that I remember:
party at a house on Earth
human male protagonist steals a ship alone
autopilot to destination
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Fantasy book trilogy about a boy graduating from magic school who is adopted by a dragon and extinguishes fires with it
I can't find this trilogy.
A boy is graduating from magic school and must find a pair animal. And while looking for it, he is found and adopted by a dragon. (Dragons were thought extinct, or left for ...
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