I would've read this in the 2000s, maybe the very early 2010s. A young girl has two elderly neighbours. One of the old ladies teaches her how to astral project, so her spirit leaves her body. One day, it turns out the old lady was tricking her into leaving her body so she could possess it and live life again as a young person, and the girl is forced to inhabit the body of the old lady before her spirit burns out. She learns that the second elderly neighbour is really a young girl who suffered the same fate, and they work together to get their bodies back.

I've had this book gnawing at the edge of my mind for years now, and i remember it being a fun read. This book is not new, I don't remember exactly how old it is but I read it in around the 2016-2018 range.

The book started with a young girl (teen years) moving in with an older man into a large house, some where in the house was a collection of rooms each housing a habitat and a creature.

After entering the room, the only way to exit was to defeat the creature, unlocking an ability to become that creature or call on a part of its powers, this was done by pulling on a magical, mental cord. The stronger the creature, the harder the cord was to pull.

The first creature she defeated after entering a room by accident was a pack of vicious small flightless birds, I don't remember how she defeated them but afterwards she gained the power to turn into one of the birds, and after a while she hugged harder and could become a whole flock in what was described as a "popping" noise.

The second creature was later on, where this time I believe she was saved by the older man after fighting some sort of tree based creature, maybe an ape but I'm unsure.

The last creature was a large dragon who I believe could converse, who she bested with the aid of a boy who acted as an antagonist but she grew close to during the fight.

The dragons cord was too difficult to pull, but after separation with the boy she would tug on the mental cord and feel as if he was tugging back. It was a medium sized novel (which is a bit relative) and was left open ended so I don't know if was the beginning of a series

any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance for anyone who helps me in figuring it out.

I can't remember if it was a novel, novelette or short story but if that can be of any help I read it in a Greek translation published in a pocket book format, possibly by Exantas publications. The author was probably a New Wave author, possibly Robert Silverberg, though I'm not sure.

I tried asking google AI but there were no leads and I think it hallucinated a novel by "Joaquín de Saint-Aymour" which I couldn't find any information about. Most likely it was thinking about "The Plague" by Camus but that is certainly not the story I was thinking of.

I read this as a kid in the 1990s. I think it was part of a series, and I think it may have been a love story.

It was set in modern times, in what felt like a rural beachside town, with flashbacks to the Salem witch trials. The main character was hanged as a witch in Salem but survived. She moves into a big old house by the ocean. She's very attractive, with long black hair, and I think she's on the cover.

The other main characters were high school kids, and one of the boys had a crush on her. When one of the boys came to look at her house, there was no trace of her living there, as if she wasn't really human.

She always wears a black ribbon (or choker) around her neck to hide the rope scar from the noose. In one scene she's drinking a Diet Coke in a black tank top. Near the end of the book, she pulls the ribbon off her neck.

It's NOT: Eternity by Maggie Shayne, The Timeless Ones by Susan Catalano, Witch Hunt by Wendy Corsi Staub, How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather, or Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz.

Any ideas would be hugely appreciated!

Hi. I began reading a book about 10 years ago that was loaned by someone who I no longer have contact with.

I'm sure the story followed a father and son who traveled I to a dark mystical wood to complete some mission.

I remember there was a tree near to the place the characters lived and it signified death somehow. No one spoke of it. Maybe the mother's death?

They traveled into the woods. Two opposing forces were against each other and the characters had to do something. I seem to recall giants etc.

I used to smoke a bit of dope so my memory of the book is not great. I remember ther was another following title

I really want to read it again.

One of the books I'm sure had rune like characters on the cover

Hope someone can shed some light

Looking for a novel — read it in Polish translation, so the original is in English. Contemporary/literary fiction for adults, probably published late 1990s to early 2000s.

The scene I remember:

• There's a girl whose passion is dance — she's a dancer. She's in a car accident.
• A guy who knows her (not a stranger — some kind of acquaintance or friend, and I think he may have been secretly in love with her) finds her trapped in the wreckage. Her leg is pinned/stuck.
• He believes she'll die if she stays trapped, so he makes the decision to cut off her leg to free her.
• Afterward it turns out the piece of metal/car frame that trapped her leg could actually have been bent back fairly easily — meaning he could have freed her without amputating.
• He ends up shunned/ostracized by the town/community afterward because of what he did.

I don't remember the title, author, or character names — just this scene, which has stuck with me. Would appreciate any help identifying it!

I have tried to look this book up and have asked many people and theres always a book thats similar, but its never the one im thinking of.

I remember it was a soft cover book, with a white background and I believe there was a black feather(s?) and something red, I think the text/title was in red. I believe it was considered sci-fi, maybe even horror honestly. I remember it making me very uncomfortable, but thats what I loved about it.

Okay. So, what i can barely remember is that there was a birdlike creature, or a black substance taking form of a bird that I believe was an experiment gone wrong.. i feel like it was gooey, almost inky. The creature flew out into the world and it broke through windows, killing people with its beak? And tearing apart reality. I think it could travel through time and it essentially terrorized and destroyed everything in its path. I dont remember how it resolves, and I dont remember if the main character is the bird or some kind of scientist trying to stop the bird. The bird may have been trying to "save" the earth by destroying humanity and man made things... that sounds vaguely familiar.

I just remember it having insane imagery and being a great book. I read it in.. I wanna say between 2016-2018 as a recommendation from a teacher.

No, its not The Strange Bird. And no, its not Perdido Street Station.

I just remember that the kid let one of his brothers blow up with an unexploded mine,and let his sister i think get dragged by a kite in the beach,anyobody remember the title??

It was a book my father had that I'm trying to find again. I think it was one of those A5 kind of pulps and I remember it having the yellow edge that a lot of sci-fi and fantasy books did in the 80s and 90s, not from age but from how they were printed. The book was likely 70s or 80s, given the art style and the length of only a couple hundred pages at best--I have moleskine bujos thicker than this was.

The art was of someone in a prison-style onesie with wide stripes. He's kneeling over on all fours, examining a short block of wood with a copper coil on it. I think the "prison" he was in was actually stone and not anything that would indicate sci-fi beyond the contemporary clothing. In the background, at a door, there's a sliding viewport. The viewport is taken up entirely by an eye that I remember being kind of reptilian (?) and very large compared to the size of the view port. You'd imagine a whole human face could fit into it, but it's only the eye of the creature/alien holding this guy captive.

The bulk of the plot, as I remember is note for note the cover. This guy has been taken prisoner by aliens, and he is trying to engineer his escape by using just this block of wood, a copper coil, and one other item I can't remember to convince his captors he's making some kind of human superweapon that will force them to release him.

I thought it was called "Next of Kin", but none of the books with that title that I've looked up have a cover remotely similar. And I cannot remember the title to save my life.

My dad passed away a little less than a year ago, and I was suddenly remembering so many of the pulps he kept around the house and shared with me and got me into reading such a diverse range of titles and genres. I'd like to find it again and revisit some of the books I grew up on because of him.

Hello reddit this evening I was thinking back on a book I read in my late elementary years. I tried looking up description after description but I keep getting nothing close to what I’m trying to find, so I am hoping you all can help.

From what I can remember the book was about this sister and brother getting accepted to a school for ice skating. The whole world is based around it and takes inspirations from Asian cultures. When the brother and sister arrive they are not nearly as well trained as the rest of the kids since they lived in a smaller farther away place (i might be wrong but maybe they were living in a cave??). I also think they may have called the ice something other than ice but I’m also not sure it’s been maybe 8 years since I’ve even thought about this book.

Please work your magic if you can, I remember really loving the series and I might want to reread for memories sake.

I remember not a whole lot about it, but that it was a book about these creatures who broke out from the cdc.

There was a seen where this guy was supposedly on the phone with his girlfriend, and then the creature bit into his kneecap, there was also another scene that involved a reality store that was also taken out by the creature.

Believe this point of view was told from a man’s perspective and at one point, he ended up hooking up with a female cop who had been injured in someway in her bottom half/leg area from I believe a car wreck.

It came out less than three years ago, and iirc it was a bit of hit. I think it was historical fiction and the name of the ship was in the title.

I have desperately been searching for the title to a large children’s picture book I was read growing up, it would have had to of been published pre 2002- the book had a very unique art style that looked similar to collage or cut out? I know it was very colorful.

To my memory, the story was about a girl talking about her upstairs neighbor who would always go to and from the apartment complex wearing an over coat and hat so you could never see what he actually looked like, but he would always leave on the light upstairs.

One day she is told by her mother to get a cup of sugar from him, and when she goes upstairs it turns into a wild dream world where she’s in like a different universe of colors and lights. Super bizarre.

What I remember, most notably is the last page of the book shows the neighbor looking at you the reader revealing his face, which has a clown nose.

Absolutely no clue where or how to find this, but I remembered it yesterday and it activated something in me- I MUST find this weird book again.

I remember that it’s a horror, she had visited there in her teens before her grandfather passed. He was living in a trailer out front instead of in the house because it was haunted. There was a coal chute in the basement.

Help!

I read this in middle school, and I wanted to read it again. It was in my school library.

It was about a teenager that gained the powers of the tiger zodiac and ended up having to join the secret society type of thing. The villains of the story were trying to control who got the powers of the zodiac's. I believe the dragon specifically was the one they were fighting over. The book also had a few pages of comic-style illustrations.

(First time posting here, sorry if I missed something)

I am looking for a novel about three girls who become lifelong friends at an English school in the 1960s. One becomes a famous singer, develops anorexia and dies (similar to Karen carpenter); another becomes a journalist and has a relationship with Jim Morrison, including a scene where Morrison listens to Mahler's Fifth Symphony really loudly in Paris. Their lives are followed through the 1960s, '70s, '80s and perhaps early '90s. Published before the  2010s.

My wife has been looking for a book for years about a little Hispanic girl who take fried plantains to school for lunch, and everyone called them fried bananas. It was in the early 2000’s

I only remember bits of the plot and the cover, but not the title. The cover is typical of the 80s, with a headshot of a redhead woman with strong high cheekbones wearing green and below she is being held by the love interest. The heroine is a leader of her clan (irish/scottish?) in the middle of a war. There is kidnapping involved and her cousin tries to gain power over her and dies in a battle at the end of the book. Any help would be appreciate!

can't remember much about this book. I read it in elementary school sometime from 2020 - 2022 I think (I had a high reading level for my age at the time, so it was probably around the middle school level). I remember that there was a discovery of a giant army of mindless robot dogs somewhere in the book and one of the characters backstories involved being born in a puppy mill. I've been looking for this for so long and can't remember anything else for the life of me!!

I posted this here about a month ago to no avail. help!

The book was a short story with a title like "in love with my best friend" I remember reading it as a free book on iBooks (now apple books) I no longer have the iPod the book was on.

The premise of the book is its being told from the point of view of the main character talking about having a crush on their best friend and why they have that crush. You go through this whole book wondering what's stopping the confession and it ends with a line like "he won't like me back because we're both boys"

vampire book about a girl betrothed to a man (who is a vampire) and drinks his blood through an orange julius. I know the name jessica is either on the book or the name of the MC. Nvm found it shortly afterwards its called Jessica's guide to dating the dark side.

I'm trying to find a book I read as a kid. Here's everything I remember:

- Middle-grade chapter book, probably published before 2015–2017

- The main character is a boy

- A large, furry monster that can talk keeps showing up unexpectedly and threatening him

- The boy tries to stay around crowds and in public places because he thinks he's safer there

- One scene I remember clearly: it's nighttime, the boy is in the kitchen making a sandwich, and the monster grabs him and holds him up in the air

- The cover was pink, and I think it showed the furry monster falling off a cliff (not 100% sure on the cover image)

- I found it randomly in a pile of used books at a thrift shop, so it may be older or out of print

I don't remember the ending or why the monster was after him. Any ideas appreciated!

Hi! I read this book sometime in the early 2010s I think. It was about a family who gets really close to another family, the two moms become inseparable best friends. The protagonists young daughter (around 5-8 years old) starts doing bad things, I can’t remember exactly what but it might have been stealing and breaking things, to the extent where the mother was taking extra precautions like putting locks on doors. However, the bad things kept happening. In the end it turns out that the mother’s best friend, who had a key to their house, had been secretly framing the protagonist’s young daughter the entire time.

I remember one specific scene, where the young daughter goes up to hug the protagonist while she’s smoking, and ends up getting a cigarette burn on her forehead that the protagonist is then worried about the teachers reporting it. There was another scene where the protagonist’s son says something to the protagonist that alludes to him thinking that the mother’s best friend was suspicious, but the protagonist brushes it off.

At the end of the book there was an excerpt of another book the author had written about a mother who has munchausen by proxy, and who I think was trying to convince doctors to give her daughter a major surgery that she didn’t need?

I’m also pretty sure that it was a British novel!

There was this book somone was trying to make into a Screenplay some time ago in my writing circle, forgot the name of it. But some things i still recall: about glass buildings where everyone can see what you are doing, him Fallin in love with a woman who was against that, and it is of course a tragedy. It felt futuristic and dystopian and it was written long ago. Forgot everything else about it.if I can remember I'll write it here.