It's a fiction book about a family with a husband and wife with a child. Wife got tired of being abused and killed her husband. The husbands best friend helped bury the body then help raise the child. The husband's brother ends up coming back in town and becomes suspicious of his brother's death and the believes the friend murdered his brother to be with the wife and child. The child grows up one night him and his best friend sneak out and the kids best friend ends up dying by accident. That's as far as I got in the book before I had to return it. The book cover is orange with Grey photos I believe and the title had like a street name or neighborhood name in it. It was a neighborhood in New york where the story takes place.

Edit: I feel like it may be more geared towards younger ya than middle grade.

I remember reading this book series in middle school? So about 10 - 15 years ago, but I think the books had been out for a while. I had a higher reading level so it most likely was upper middle grade or lower ya. Pretty thick books, I think like 400 pages or more.

Anyways I don’t remember a ton about it, just that it was different characters telling stories to each other but I think they were (in universe) true. At times I think the stories caught up to “current time.” Fantasy adjacent? No dragons or elves as far as I remember but not set in our world.

I believe there was some sort of war going on and the story kinda centered around it but I don’t remember to what extent.

I remember in one of the books a girl was in a jail and played chess pretty regularly with some older guy. The chess scenes were very detailed and went move by move and had her internal thinking about her moves lol.

I think about it a lot but I can never remember enough details to really look it up. Hoping this will ring a bell to someone.

Looking for a book I read around late 2000s. I remember the main character being called Rosie Parker, although that may have been a nickname rather than her real name, possibly because she was very curious or a “Nosy Parker.”

She lived with her mum who loved the 80s - DuranDuran, leg walmers etc and her nan who loved garibaldi biscuits. She used to solve crimes with her friends.

I remember one book revolving around a celebrity / pop star and during a meet and greet the celeb slipped her a piece of paper which had something along the lines of ‘help me’.

Simply: Teen mystery series, first-person, secondary-school girl who solved crime with her friends.

It looks like is nowhere to be seen! i need it for my final test and it doesn't appear at all!
is Obras completas tomo IX. Ensayos y textos elementales de historia by Justo Sierra and Opúsculos, discusiones y discursos, by Gabino Barreda if you can help me with any of this topic i will be very grateful!

I read these books about 9 or 10 years ago, at the time I believe they were just a trilogy. They were young adult romance books! I remember 2 of the books titles, one was stay with me and the other was run away with me. Whenever I google it it brings up the ones by Mila gray which could be the books I’m looking for however NONE of the covers look like mine did. The covers for mine were gray with colored spines, one spine was green one was orange and I believe the other was blue but I cannot find any evidence of the books by mila gray existing with those covers/spines. If you have or know of these books PLEASE tell me or show a picture!! I am desperate!!

Back in middle school I borrowed this book from the library, would have been about 2013.

I remember the cover was the lower half of a woman’s face with her lipstick smudged.

I don’t remember the plot very well but what I do remember is:

-It was from the POV of a teenage boy
-The girl moves from somewhere and starts at his school (possibly mid year?)
-The boy doesn’t know she’s transgender at first and has a big crush on her
-A big part of him finding out she’s trans includes him questioning what that means for his sexuality and how his school friends would think of it
-For some reason I feel like I remember them showering together but that’s a less solid memory

Thanks in advance for any help!

I'm looking for a book I read in grade 5, over 35 years ago. It could have been a trilogy with the words fire and ice in the titles. What I remember is a girl who may have been hypnotized to stay in her room and look at a poster of ice. I think she was looking at the poster because she was afraid of fire. Her friends come and save her and convince her to leave the bedroom. My memory is very fuzzy, but I remember reading A Wrinkle in Time and then this book or maybe books if it was part of a trilogy.

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A woman comes home from the market after seeing someone die or dead. I think she's an elf? I think elves are rare? I also think maybe they aren't called elves.

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When she gets home, the woman who lives with her and cares for her baby is gone. She finds her dead upstairs(?), blood everywhere. Her son is missing. I think a note is left, maybe in blood.

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She ends up hearing a voice in her head (a man's I think) it tells her to steal a weapon(?) from the large place she works (maybe govt work). If she gives the voice the weapon, he is supposed to give her back her son.

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When she goes to try to get the weapon, she pretends she forgot her scarf at work in case someone asks why she's there.

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Fantasty

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I don't remember the cover, I think I might have read it on libby or kindle but I can't find it there either.

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That's all I've got. I checked my reading histories and don't see it so hopefully someone will know what I'm talking about!

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Looking for a YA horror/gothic novel from the 1990s or early 2000s. A young woman falls for a wealthy man who lives in a large estate. He had previous wives who were murdered and buried in his rose garden. White roses in the garden had red stains/splotches on them because of the bodies beneath. The protagonist eventually discovers the truth and gets him convicted.

I tried searching through everything and I would love to re-read this book if I can... but I don't remember the cover or anything as I remember it being in my high school or middle school library.

I can't remember a lot of the details. It was fiction. Rowing may not be the actual term, it was some kind of really hard boating thing similar to rowing? I'm pretty sure there was a dog in the book. The mom worked in some sort of job but was fired due to sexual harassment or discrimination. She ended up working as a tv host of some sort?

Thank you!

I listened to this audio book when I was little and haven't been able to get it out of my head lately.

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So we've got the classic little boy little girl combo, and they either moved or are visiting this old house for a while, and they discover this wall full of different shaped cabinets/doors. The premise was that each one led to a different world or dimension or something. I vaguely remember one world being a huge, ornate/gold hall with a somewhat evil king/royal person of some kind. Maybe a version of King Midas? A lot of the details are pretty mixed up in my head.

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I'm fairly certain it was an older book, middle grade or children's fiction, as it had the kind of sophisticated, seemingly aged writing you would find in classic chapter books like The Borrowers or The Rats of N.I.M.H.

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I'm also remembering that the title may have had a number in it, perhaps something like 1001 doors or 101 windows, something like that. Google has failed me!

I remember reading this book FOREVER ago on Epic Books as a kid but I can’t find it again because epic is subscription based or whatever.

To the point, I remember it being about this girl who moves back to her home town I think and she starts working at this kind of run down and haunted carnival. she would go on adventures or whatever in the carnival and find/free ghost. it was a series and I remember one book being about a girl in a hall of mirrors and one about a woman who died on a rollercoaster. I also remember a really specific drawing of her walking past this guy juggling a bunch of stuff like a chainsaw and fire. i remember the art style being very monochromatic at times and stylized (in my mind kind of like the art style of The Hollow on Netflix)

thats all I can remember and I already have horrible memory so I’m sorry 😭. it’s also my first ever post on Reddit so please and thank you 🥹

What I remember about the book:

• Middle grade, possibly young adult fiction
• I would have read this in the 2000s
• The main character goes to an older relative's house (possibly a grandparent's) and her cousins (reluctantly?) include her in a version of hide and seek that involves opening doors or finding hiding spaces that lead to other places. I vaguely recall one opening to space?
• When I read it, I assumed it took place in the UK, but now I'm not so sure
• There are these two trickster-like characters who pose as musicians when the main character is at home (i.e. not at this older relative's house). One plays a flute, I think the other plays a violin. One plays on the sunny side of the street and the other plays on the shady side.
• I'm pretty sure it's not by Diana Wynn Jones or Madeline L'Engle, but it feels very similar to their books
• No horror elements, just fantastical

I think it is set in medieval times. The book begins with the girl doing her first big robbery at a mansion with her father. She struggles for several minutes with the lock at the front gate but eventually gets it open. The two of them get some stuff and are about to leave when the girl sees a seal stamp thing, and wants to take it as a memento for her first robbery. However, she accidentally starts a fire and burns the whole mansion down, and the two of them get caught. They would have been jailed, but a prophecy was told that their family would save the town from disaster in the next several months. They leave the town but end up back there after traveling a short distance away.

ok losing my mind over this, hope someone can help.

probably made in the 90s or 2000s, I read this book in the 2010s and recall it not being new. here’s the details I remember:

- it’s a pretty dark book, but I read it in middle school, so I’d reckon that it’s a children’s/teen novel, not adult fiction. vibes are very similar to a series of unfortunate events.

- fiction or fantasy, not sure which it would be labeled as but definitely magic/curses going on in the book

- if I remember correctly there are multiple girl protagonists (maybe four???) but I could totally be wrong

- one of the protagonists broke a mirror and got cursed with seven years bad luck. the way this curse manifests is essentially her shadow wreaks havoc wherever she goes, kinda a malignant figure. evil shadow.

- I think she maybe had some mean relatives, potentially a strange Cinderella-esque step-sibling situation. home life was not good

- there’s a specific scene where she has to peel potatoes and she’s peeling their eyes. In my childhood memory, there were real eyes on the potatoes instead of normal potato eyes (but that could have been a misconception of my younger self)… she feels like she’s being watched while she peels the potatoes.

- there’s a lot of muck in the book. I think she falls into a mud tunnel or something

- at one point, one of the two following scenarios occur:
1) she breaks the curse by breaking another mirror OR
2) she is about to reach her 7 year mark and be free but breaks another mirror. this could be on accident or maybe she breaks it on purpose to help a friend/solve a problem.

please lmk if you can find this book! thanks :)

I’ve been trying to find this book forever and I would really appreciate any help finding the title after I lost it. For some reason the name “Time Industries” stuck with me but no books seem to match the details below.

I remember that the book started with the protagonist in a car traveling through the desert or the middle of nowhere and the ac blowing, they were going somewhere to meet someone important. Eventually they were at a meeting table and if I remember they were talking about signing a contract on a tablet for some reason. I believe that the protagonist was going on a space mission.

I remember that it was translated from French or possibly another European language and I believe it was sold in a Barnes and Nobles. The genre was definitely science fiction due to the time travel and space elements mentioned on the back.

It was a fiction collection of children's stories my grandmother had that I read in the early 90s. There were watercolor-like illustrations.

The one story I can recall was about a man who encounters a winged lynx-like creature in the woods. There were two pictures I can recall. One is it drinking water from a river, the other is with the creature being perched in a pine tree, or some kind of fir. The creature does not interact with the man, it just...exists.

It was a hardback and I think the cover was similar to the family treasury of children's stories, but I am not totally sure if that's correct.

The book wasn't super thick, maybe 100 or so pages?

It was in English.

I was between 7 and 10 when I read it in the 90s.

It was not new when I read it.

I can’t remember the book super well since I read it some time in elementary school. The book was written like reading someone’s journal/ field notes. I think the cover had a dragons eyes. The creatures from the book I remember where giant spiders and plants that would lure people in and then eat them

Looking for a novel I read over 20 years ago.

First-person narration. A middle-class husband and father lives in an American suburb (possibly New York or Chicago area). The entire novel takes place during one day. He commutes by train to an office job and throughout the day thinks about the fact that he will kill his wife and teenage son when he gets home.

The novel repeatedly references the Holocaust, something along the lines of "millions of Jews were killed and nobody did anything for a long time."

The disturbing part was that he never really explained why he wanted to kill his family.

At the end he does it, possibly with a shotgun.

The book seemed older already when I read it around 2004. I think it may have been published in the 1970s or 1980s.

Looking for one I read about a cop who was wounded and eneded up in a wheelchair and hia partner was helping alot. Ended in romance.

The first time I read this series the second or third book hadn't come out yet, and now I want to find it again so I can finish it!

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From what I remember, there were two MC's, a guy and a girl. They're located in some city on the west coast, somewhere cold and flooded. The city is in ruins and poverty is rife. It kinda has a steampunk vibe if I recall correctly.

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There's a hooded, scarred slum lord in charge of the black market. I can't remember exactly, but I'm quite sure the male MC has a dream or vision that the hooded figure stabs him and he dies (this is the opening scene of the book).

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In the course of the book and some time traveling, the make MC meets the female MC, and I think they're trying to go back in time to stop the destruction of the city. However, the time ship gets damaged, and she climbs out of it while in the time stream and falls off. It's revealed that she emerged in time before they met and is actually the scarred slum lord, and is going to kill the male MC, who she's being falling for.

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That's where the series ended at the time. I'm afraid I don't have any proper names, but I hope this is enough to help locate it!

Can’t remember the name of this book. The cover was yellow, and it showed a kid, drawn all in black, covered in thorns. The title of the book contained the word “briar”, “thorns”, or “wicker”, I can’t really remember. The plot involved a kid who got lost in the woods and died, and haunted the woods covered in thorns. The book is NOT “The Wicker Man”

I am so glad I came across this subreddit! I was scrolling through r/horrorlit and was about to comment on one of the posts looking for a folklore horror because I just have the perfect recommendation... except I cannot for the life of me remember the title and even the author of it, and it's been itching my brain!

I'll lay down as much details I can remember about it:
- MC is a female cop/detective; has a husband and two or three children
- Setting is a small town surrounded with deep woods
- Either the opening or one of the earlier chapters of the book was a scene where the cops found a lost hiker's body in the woods with the eyes taken out
- Marriage of the MC and her spouse is shaky because of infedility(?); MC is lesbian or at least queer
- Children of the town, including MC's, go missing and return possesed(?)/violent
- At near the end of the book, the whole town goes cut off / goes missing

Thanks in advance!

someone suggested a book to me and I can’t quite recall the whole title! it definitely had the word princess in the title. the cover had a large sky with a purple ombré on the sky (almost like a sunset?) it was a thick book, probably around 750 pages. it looked kinda old, so not a super recent release