r/Findabook

This was a series I read on my mom’s kindle when I was in middle school (09-11) so it’s been a long time and I unfortunately don’t remember much. It’s about a girl who is taken from her world because she has some kind of power and I think might be royalty? I feel like her real mom was a former queen or something. She falls in the love with a prince and they dance in a beautiful ballroom. Her best friend, who I think is some sort of servant or hand to the prince can read people’s auras. The titles were all one word and I remember these books being sooooo good and I’d like to revisit them as an adult but have no idea what they were called. I can’t find anything when I google, and the kindle is long gone. Please help me it’s kept me up for weeks

Hoping someone might be able to help me out—I read a book about a young man coming of age in the 1970s or 1980s. I believe it was set in NYC and included his experiences at a boarding school. Also included an unstable and unavailable mother (who I think was famous but I could be remembering that part incorrectly). I want to say it came out in the early 2000s since I read it in the 2007-2008 timeframe.

Hope someone else remembers this one!

From what I remember It was a chapter book about a boy going on a adventure to find the best tasting food in the world and having to find the ingredients or recipe to make it. I am pretty sure the boy was on the adventure because all other food was bland or boring to him. I also think his mom was with him on the adventure. I think i read it somewhere between 2011 to 2017. Some of the books I have already ruled out are The Search for Delicious, BurgerBoy, Evereater.

I would have read this around 2008-2013, the plot was something about a girl finding out she could travel to another reality where the Cuban Missile Crisis actually happened and the US is a dystopia. She had a male friend in her normal timeline and then met a love interest in the apocalypse timeline, I think it was a love triangle. She had to choose between staying home or helping the new boy.

So this was one of my favorite books as a child. I was born in 87. This had to be around the 90's. It was a book with hand drawn illustrations. It was an item find book. It was not like an I Spy book though. It would show like a witch flying over a spooky castle but hidden in the actual illustration were items like a star hidden on the witch's hat or a face hidden in the lines of clouds. I have searched forever and can't find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello!

My mother is searching for a story she read many years ago in college in the late 1980s. This may contain suppliers for it as we aren't sure all the details.

The main details are as follows:

- The story was written before 1990

- The story takes place on a Ribbon world

- There is a society on the day side, and another on the night side

- The people on the day side didn't like the night side for some reason

- The people on the day side joined hands in a circle to create a being for some purpose against the night side

- The people on the day side may have considered the being as their child

- She remembers Isaac asimov being mentioned, but doesn't believe it's nightfall.

She was reading it during a period of religious questioning and attributed a lot of the points of the story to Jesus and the devil. Except the devil was good and Jesus might have been bad. I don't know if that will help but anything to find this story.

The family’s cat keeps getting fatter and they realise all the neighbours think the cat is theirs and everyone is feeding it.

I am Australian and had the book growing up in the late 90s… but I don’t know if the book is Australian.

It is not Six Dinner Sid.

It seems nearly impossible to find a copy of this book, I’ve tried my local schools and libraries, and those within the province and no luck!

The story goes, my sister read it when she was younger in school in class and she was out sick one day when they finished it so she never got to know what the ending was. Her birthday is coming up soon, and I would love to be able to surprise her with some sort of copy!

If anyone has one I could borrow, purchase, purchase a digital scan of, or can even send me in the right direction to source a copy, anything would be appreciated!

I saw a book in a secondhand shop that I was really interested in but regrettably put it down and I can’t remember the name! It was sulleville? Sulle something? It was about addiction and a tv show host that was exposed on his show for being gay? Pls I need to find this again! It gave off Naked Lunch vibes!!

Restarting from the beginning. I grew up in the time when the books were first coming out. I believe I made it to book 3 before moving to a new town. After the move I forgot about the book because I wanted to make new friends and such. I had a dream months back of some of the plot. Literally have been looking for months to find a way back here. With the help of Google AI, (not a fan of AI but it was my last shot at finding the book) doing most of research for me. After plugging in details I remembered and narrowing down my options the cover hit me like a brick. And now I’m here time to finish this ride!

Update: finished in 2 days! Why has no one brought this book to a director?!!?

I was reading a book called FOCUS and forgot to save it to a list. From what I remember it’s a BxB book (gay), the main characters are Reese and Luca and they are childhood friends. The synopsis talked about how one of the kids (Reese) showed up on the other kids’s (Luca) porch and that is what started their friendship. They both play basketball! The cover is blueish gray and the word FOCUS is on the bottom of the cover. I have been searching for this book and I can’t find it. I got so mad at my mistake I started crying, I need help please.🥲🥺

I've been looking for this book that I had as a child. It was either an art book or a children's book. Every page was dedicated to a different color. And every page was a painted abstract scene? Probably the best way to put it.

A teal page with a bathtub and toothpaste and a teal snow cone and a red page with a picnic blanket and strawberries etc. etc. I've asked my mom and my older brother and neither know what I'm talking about and I KNOW It's not a false memory.

I read this book in middle school that was a memoir and I just can’t find anything about it.

It’s written by a woman, and I distinctly remember a part where she’s talking to an older person and tells them she’s writing a memoir. They ask her “who’s the villain, mom or dad?” She says there’s no villain, but the person insists and she says something like “I guess my dad”

I know this is a long shot lol but was wondering if anyone knows it!

I am looking for a book mentioned in one of JA Jance's Brandon Walker books. In the afterward/prologue(?), it mentions a book that a missionary wrote about the beliefs of a Native American tribe.

I want the title of that book to buy as a gift. I can't remember which book in the series that it is from. Probably one of the ones that crossed over with the Brady or Beaumont series.

I know it's not a cozy, but I am not able to post on r/mysterybooks yet. I thought someone in this subreddit could help. I have looked at library and Half-Price books and haven't had any luck.

For the record, I really enjoy this subreddit and the recommendations the I've gotten from all of you!​

Im trying to find out the name of this book I had when I was a kid in the 90s. I don’t remember much about it but I remember the illustrations looking really vivid, especially the peanut butter (and jelly?) sandwich. I remember the drawing of the bread of the sandwich looked so detailed and delicious. I think it was maybe titled something about the backyard. I think it took place in a sandbox in the backyard and the main character boy was building sandcastles. I recall the sand castle having water, like a moat or it rained on or something.

I would love to know the name of it so I can gift a copy to my soon to be born neice

I cannot for the life of me find this book. A women ( I think single mother) lives in a shared apartment. Sees visions of her deceased former roommate. Ex boyfriend was in a band. Dates a man name Piotr. End is unclear who she ends up with

Most unfortunately, the details I have are vague at best. It's a book I would have read before the year 2005. I remember fairies (or a similar small creatures) that could see, and sometimes ate, sound. I remember specifically green notes that the consumed. The main character was a human child, a girl I think, that was in a house she didn't normally live in.

i remembered a book i read a while ago recently and it’s been killing me bc i can’t remember for the life of me the title.

it’s a spy book w/ a main girl lead, and at one point she has pistol pen guns, dips the tip of an umbrella (i think?) in poison, and has aunt jemima pancake mix or smth that is actually an explosive?

I’m looking for a children’s picture book that compiles a bunch of ancient Greek myths that I read as a kid. The only thing I remember is that the last pages are pictures of statues of the gods fallen in sand and a passage describing how the gods have been forgotten, or something like that. Thanks In advance!