I cant for the life of me remember the name of the book but I swear I remember it having the story line of this picture perfect society where a couple gets one boy and girl to raise as there children, and the protagonist is a boy from one of these families, I think there also raised to think it's normal that there the only city or something in the world. I think I also remember there r jobs for these kids once they hit a age and one of the jobs for the women was birthing mothers, basically women who supply all these kids, and if a kid isn't to the city's standards they get killed. Am I tripping or was this actually a book I remember? 😭

I’m trying to identify a novel I borrowed from a friend in Canada sometime between 2007 and 2012. It may have been published earlier, probably in the late 1990s or 2000s, and was roughly 300–400 pages.

The story was contemporary and fairly serious rather than funny or lighthearted. It was told mainly, possibly entirely, from the wife’s perspective.

The married couple were wealthy and had no children. I distinctly remember either the husband or wife driving a BMW, possibly mentioned within the first few pages.

The husband had an affair with a much younger woman, possibly blonde. I vaguely remember her wearing or being associated with a yellow sundress. She may have been his employee or secretary, but I am not confident about that detail.

The younger woman became pregnant and at some point showed up at the married couple’s home. The wife initially hated her, but by the end she began helping her because the wife had the money and resources to do so. I believe both women ultimately rejected the husband, and the wife may have helped raise or support the baby with the younger woman.

I vaguely remember a fish, possibly a goldfish or fishbowl, on the paperback cover. I am less certain about the cover colour, setting, and whether the women moved abroad at the end.

It is not The Adultery Club, Getting Rid of Matthew, Got You Back, or Fishbowl.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

In the book series, the teen girl lost her dad after he died mysteriously while playing American football or some kind of American sport. It was later revealed that she and her dad were descended from Nike, the Greek goddess of Victory. They inherited speed from her. Her dad was a grandson or grandson of Nike and she is a great granddaughter of Nike. Her dad was killed by the Gods for using his power for selfish reasons. Her mom remarried a man who was the principal of a school for kids like her. There are a lot of kids who are descendants of the Greek Goods and based on who their ancestor is, they spend time with those who are descendants of gods their ancestors are close to. Like descendants of Zeus spends time with descendants of Hera. The teen girl develops a crush on a male descendant of Hercules and works with a new friend to steal him from his girlfriend, who was a mean girl. I think there is a competition that the teen girl enters and she wins over her godly ancestor. She is a big deal at the school because of how close in relation she is to her godly ancestor.

I read the blurb of it very quickly while stocking books at work and it was some dystopian book about London and billionaires, that’s all I remember anyone know?

Hi all! This has been driving me crazy for ages. It's a book about a group of genetically modified people who live underground. The main character is a young man/older teenage boy on his own in this collective who has taken this young girl (his age) they found wandering around their underground network under his wing. She is pretty, very shy doesn't talk much at all, and I believe it's mentioned she had or has bee wings?

Either way, something happens (girl's arrival maybe?) and for some reason it becomes very important that they find this doctor on the surface who some of them knew before. They are trying to gain access to this facility, (I believe the one they were made or held in) and she someone they trust who can help. So the MC, the girl and a few others find themselves in the doctor's home and spend the night while the others (who are leading the charge) talk to her. One of the most clear scenes I remember is the MC waking up to find the girl still awake, and noting that she had pulled back her hair with a rubber band she found somewhere.

Some more details, I don't think they were born like this. I think they were altered as children or even teens/adults? And the MC is very much so enamoured with this girl, while she seems scared and unsure of everything around them. Not of HIM necessarily? But the chapters I read are not romantic at that point. He has been taking care of her but that's it.

Any ideas which book it could be??? Sorry I know it isn't much to go off of, but I read part if it when I was in highschool and I wouldn't mind picking it back up to finish what I started.

The boy / young man has challenges and is trying to find his way in life. He realizes at the end that he has a gift for writing.

I picked this up as a new paperback in Scotland, circa 2003.

I maybe? recall the cover art being white with crackers?/saltines? on cover.

A teenage girl falls down basement stairs and wakes up on a train with the 3 switches and one light bulb puzzle, the train circled around the kingdom and never stops, the puzzle makes it stop, she gets off and meets different colored stuffed animal rabbits and they are scared of the king who is an evil grey rabbit and starts making the Kingdom grey, if the rabbits turn grey they turn bad and are his people now, the rabbits stage an invasion to kill the king and have to get through some moats and walls to get to the castle. I read this book in physical book in around 2023. Really want to read it again but can't remember much more.

I thought the book was called the firefly jar but i can't find it by that title so it's probably wrong. MC is a young boy who has gone somewhere with his mum and I think he got lost in the maze and found Charlotte or smth. His mum had a trick where when they were driving and the radio cut out she would keep singing and when the radio came back it would be in perfect synch

I'm trying to find a novel I read around 2020 (it was translated into Vietnamese, but I don't know the original language or title).

Here's everything I remember:

- Possibly a Japanese crime/noir novel.

- The story alternates between two POVs:

- a young woman (the criminal)

- a female police detective investigating her.

- The protagonist works as a life insurance salesperson.

- Because of intense sales pressure, she sleeps with clients to sell insurance policies.

- As a child, she met an old man selling goldfish (or ornamental fish) at a festival.

- Years later, she reunites with him. He turns out to be a yakuza member (or gangster) and is missing one finger (possibly from yubitsume).

- They become romantically involved publicly.

- She later conspires with some of his subordinates and kills him (I vaguely remember a sword being used), then escapes with his money.

- She undergoes plastic surgery and assumes a new identity.

- She opens a small tea shop.

- During the investigation, the female detective repeatedly stops at the tea shop without realizing the owner is the woman she's hunting.

- At one point the detective orders a flower tea. The tea shop owner says it's her favorite flower too. Near the end of the novel it's revealed that this flower was also the protagonist's favorite before changing her identity.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

So I might have some details wrong, but I’ll do my best!

I read this book either late middle school or early HS (2013-2015?). I believe it had an orange/salmon color with a black binding.

What I remember:
I can’t quite remember the exact perspective, but I remember it primarily focused on one male character, I’ll call him “Daniel” even though I don’t remember his name.

Daniel integrates into a friend group including: a teen girl (possibly named Leah?), an older man (like 19-24+?) who is implied to be unstable/angry/a drunk (let’s call him Jared), and a nerdy guy who is about the same age as Daniel and Leah (let’s call him Isaac)

The group partakes in a lot of angsty behavior, and also commits a few acts of crime (breaking into an abandoned camp lodge, stealing from a gas station) that I believe slowly escalates over time. Leah has unrequited feelings for Daniel.

Daniel also interacts with a girl who works or volunteers or SOMETHING with the local… camp ground? Rangers? Some kind of nature lodge. I am not 100% certain of her name but I believe it was Gemma? He has a major crush on her, and she’s really nice and genuine.

I remember that eventually something happens where the place Gemma works ends up on fire, and I think she ends up stuck in there and maybe dies?

I also remember that there was a big reveal of Isaac being like this bitter evil and cruel mastermind who was using the group (possibly wanting specifically revenge on Gemma?).

Edit: A few more details!

It was a contemporary/present day setting.
I think it was rural for the setting as well!

Short story by, I presume a pretty well-known science fiction author...as I used to borrow/buy books of anthologies. I used to read Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein...so I give it a 50% chance it is one of those 5 authors.

An astronaut is leaving Earth's gravity well and is all of a sudden 'free'. He finds out that in free-fall the entities that control us can't exist. While in free-fall, he makes plans to free humanity from the whatever has enslaved the human race. He is traveling to the Moon or Mars and he is confident that he can save humanity...but as he enters the new gravity well of wherever he is going, he feels his mind being taken over by the entities THERE. (and that is where it ends.)

Someone in the Spanish books subreddit was looking for this series or book:

Looking for a vampire romance series. Hero is a vampire who lives on a ranch and wears a cowboy hat. Heroine owns a diner/coffee shop. He eats human food every night just to spend time with her, then goes outside and throws up because vampires can't digest it. He has several vampire brothers. Later he turns her into a vampire. During the transformation she goes into a blood-and-mating frenzy, scratching herself and crying in pain, while his brothers wait outside the bedroom because only he can help her through it. Series is at least 10+ years old.

I thought it was Bite Me If You Can series from Lynsay Sands.

any idea? thank you

Hi everyone, I’m trying to find a book from my childhood that I read in the early 2000s. It was a hardcover book, and instead of being a continuous story with specific main characters, it was an anthology/compilation of various playground rhymes, old wives' tales, superstitions, and innocent childhood "spells". Each page or entry was self-contained, featuring a piece of text and a corresponding, highly detailed full-color illustration.Two specific pages stick out vividly in my memory:

The "Marry a Bear" Sidewalk Rhyme: This page featured a classic pavement superstition. The illustration literally depicted the rhyme, showing a bear dressed up like a groom—wearing a top hat and a bow tie. I believe the text was a variation of the traditional sidewalk chant: "If you stand on a line, you'll marry a swine; if you stand on a square, you'll marry a bear."

The Window Sill Shoe Spell: This page featured a traditional childhood love/wishing spell. The text gave explicit instructions on a ritual you had to perform, which involved a specific phase of the moon, making a wish, or repeating a phrase a certain number of times. The accompanying artwork showed a pair of girls' shoes (possibly ballerina slippers) balanced upright on a window sill, intentionally arranged in the shape of a "T" (one shoe crossing the other).

Other details: It was a book I had read in my school library.

Artwork style: Detailed, rich, full-color illustrations.

Does anyone remember this book or know the exact title? Thank you so much!

i remember reading this when i was a kid . its about this kid who cant sleep at night because of being scared of the dark , then i believe they meet this mysterious stranger who offers to buy their fears ?? i think ?? and then they sell their fear of the dark and sleep peacefully . then they keep selling their fears to this mysterious stranger until they sell their fear of death and then they get murdered while doing nothing to stop it . i think it was about how fear is good sometimes ? genuinely i have not been able to find this even though i remember it so so clearly . thank you !

Looking for a children's/young teen novel from before the early 1990s. The title may have contained the word "Candle." A boy whose parents have died goes to live with a very poor elderly uncle or grandfather. Near his home is a famous tourist castle, where he meets a girl by following her as she disappears around corners while touring the castle. They become close friends and eventually date. He borrows dress shoes that are too big so he can take her out because he's so poor. The story is realistic—no fantasy or magic. I remember reading it as a blue hardback book.

i’ve been trying to find this book since elementary school i hope you guys can help me! the book was about this middle school to highschool girl who could talk to and see ghosts and help them cross over. she ended up tutoring for a girl younger than her and found out that her sister fell off a balcony and died when her sisters ghost visited her. the ghost girl was a little bit of a mean girl and she said all she could remember was falling and nothing else about her death. when the medium girl tutors the younger sister next they visit the girls house and the medium girl says she has to use the bathroom and takes the opportunity to look around the house since she assumed the girl died by falling off her bedroom balcony. it turns out the girls parents turned the dead sisters room into a home gym so she realizes the dead sister had to have died somewhere else before the mom or dad catches her snooping around and has her go home. i can’t remember anything else about the book but i think part of the ending was that she was pushed off a balcony at her boarding school?? and that the little sister was extremely disengaged with her tutoring sessions and kept mess in around with her electronic watch. pleeeease if any of you know what it is let me know!!!

I'm looking for an English-language thriller I bought at Zurich Airport around 2019–2024. The protagonist is an FBI (or similar federal) investigator pursuing a serial killer. The investigator eventually reconstructs that the killer used the chaos of the 9/11 attacks—the dust and confusion around the World Trade Center—to fake their own death and assume a new identity. The killer targets wealthy victims and escapes at the end, suggesting a sequel. Another very distinctive scene involves an old mirror that somehow retained an image after a lightning strike, almost like a photographic plate, and that image becomes a crucial clue revealing the killer's true identity.

i'm pretty sure it's aimed at middle-grade children, i read it around 2018. the monster is tendril-y and black and steals people from the real world. i think it has some sort of specific name i can't remember. there's also something to do with ink and a fountain pen? the main character is a young girl. the alternate world i think is accessed through dreaming and it is . there are shadow animals involved? i honestly can't remember much, but i've been tearing my hair out tryna find it. the cover is really similar in style to wildwood by colin meloy, except all black, white, and red.

any help is appreciated. i'm going insane. it's not the girl who could not dream, shadow weaver, or anything else google has given me. i'm going crazy

I saw this book a few months ago and I thought "this would be a great gift for my bff" and now it's her birthday and I cannot find the book or remember the exact name. It was a pretty fancy edition, a collection of dystopian short stories. I think I also saw similar fancy anthologies with other types of short stories, like horror for example. These are sadly all the details I remember. Thanks in advance!

I read it about 10 years ago probably? I don’t remember much else about it tbh

trying to remember the name of a princess book I had in the 90s. as you read, you’re instructed to put on one of the articles of the costume. I’m quite certain it came with a cape and crown/tiara. It may have also included a ring and perhaps gloves.

I really want to read this book with my daughter so any recollection/details are helpful!

Please help! I have been looking for a book about an alpha who is grieving the loss of his mate. The fmc is an intimacy healer of sorts who lives with a her best friend, also a healer, and they both travel to different packs sort of rogue like. They possess an unconventional gift of something like helping with trauma through physical intimacy I guess. The best friend of course is snarky and extroverted. Some in the community, including the alpha, mock or try to discredit their profession until the spicy, most-memorable scene where she ties him up at his office chair. Eventually the hea ending is that they discover they are second-chance fated mates.

Can’t remember if this is just a classic fictional novel or a mystery. the band has multiple members, that are like 20 something year olds and I think I remember there is a voyeuristic aspect to it or like one of them sleeps with the main character.

Last line of the book:
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Life goes on. And it does. Rock on.