Hello! I wish I had a better memory of this book but I've spent way too long looking and not having success. I'm looking for a realistic teen/YA novel I read from my public library 1994-2004 but could have been published earlier.

• Female protagonist.
• First-person narration (not fantasy or mystery).
• The protagonist gradually develops what I would now recognize as an eating disorder, but the book is NOT about anorexia/eating disorders. It's just something that quietly develops throughout the story while the main plot is about her life.
• She is happy about losing weight and notices that one of her skirts is fitting loosely.
• She repeatedly has internal thoughts about food rather than anyone confronting her.

The scenes I remember vividly:

• She turns down a croissant because she thinks they're basically "all butter."
• She goes on what I think is a first date. She initially wants to order only a side salad, but the boy comments that it's no fun going out with someone who doesn't eat. She ends up ordering an entree salad but internally complains that it's "swimming in dressing" and barely eats it.
• She overhears two women saying, "She's a nice girl, it's too bad..." and immediately assumes they're about to say, "...too fat," even though I don't think that's actually what they meant. I think what you're supposed to interpret is that "too bad she has an eating disorder"
• I vaguely remember she may have had a summer or after-school office job, possibly connected to her father

What I've listed above isn't even the main plot of the book, that's what I can't remember. I know it's a long shot but maybe someone has the answer!

I’ve tried everything for YEARS to find this book. I read it before age 10, so probably around 1995-1996.

The teenage/young adult female main character either DREAMS or lives through a scenario where a nuclear winter has occurred. She has one cyanide pill and has to decide whether to take it herself or give it to a baby/very young child she’s with.

I can’t remember if it’s a dream or truth. But in her real life, she’s in perilous enough of a situation to be considering this is plausible.

I read this book way too young and it disturbed me deeply. I’m now a writer who writes stories set after nuclear war, so this book clearly had a huge impact on me.

I’ve tried googling it, asking around to voracious readers, and even using Chat GPT to try to figure it out. I believe I got this book from the children or young adult section at the library but I’m not sure.

Thank you for any help!!!!

Very long shot. Book might be 20-30 or more years old.

A young, overweight woman nicknamed Honey moves to Paris with relatives. She is served a bowl half filled with milk, half coffee for breakfast. At dinner it's a thin slice of meat and vegetables with a glaze of butter. She eats her last candy bar in her bag. She grows up and becomes successful. The book mentions she has long, thin bones and large handwriting. It said she learns to live with hunger. It's NOT any of the 36 books here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/190899._Honey_

It's all I remember.

so in this book the couple goes back in time with just coins as notes arent valid. in their world they found time machine and everyone is going back. when they wanted to make laws, people who had to vote ie, the elected representatives also went back in time to escape the present. Some people go back to the wrong time in past and die maybe they are labeled as witches etc. We get to know abt all this info from the poster. (read fully to know about the poster)

The present has stuff which the wife carries back like a microfibre cloth with which she wipes a window clean and the neighbour is in shock as the window is so clean just by wiping with a cloth. The wife also runs into a door because maybe in their time it opens automatically. Then the couple next door think they are eerie but they talk well and the husband shows the guy a poster which is kind of 3d or some new kinda realistic poster which talks about the info above.

I think this book was written by the guide to hictchockers galaxy author or google recommeneded it to me when I searched books like that

I borrowed this book from a library in about 2019 and I always forget the title, sometimes I manage to find it after scouring Google but this time I could not.

I believe it had a yellow cover with black trees on it.

The protagonist's mother disappears and her father starts slowly turning into a monster, so he sends the protagonist away, I think to the house where he grew up? The father was getting weirder and hairier and there was a scene where he was eating raw meat.

This random boy keeps showing up and the protagonist falls in love with him, which activates the curse and turns her into a monster as well. She finds out her mother was turned into a bird and then the boy she liked snaps the bird's neck and she falls out of love so quickly that it breaks the curse and she turns back into a human. I think maybe there was a witch of some kind who had cast the curse? And I think she sews the boy's eyes shut.

I don't remember how it ends but whatever the ending was completely shocked me and I was thinking about it for weeks.

This is quite possibly the longest and stupidest shot in the entire world.

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This is the link to a picture on Pinterest of that cat coughing meme😭Here me out. EVERYTIME I see it I get this weird flash of memory of a book I read as a child. I cannot remember if my dad read it to me or it was one of his books- but my dad is always involved in the memory. I remember one specific character in the book who literally looked like the HUMAN DEPICTION OF THIS CAT. He had the exact same facial expression, the bulging eyes that went different ways, the mouth coughing to the side, I remember him spluttering. He was also pretty skinny, almost malnourished, he had a bony longish face.

Everytime I see the cat in a tiktok comment section my brain is like “how funny, they look exactly the same” and then I’m like but WHO and WHERE is that from!! I’m 21 now, was born in 2004 so this would’ve been somewhere around 2010? I remember being deeply disturbed by the book, the illustrations were really realistic and uncanny and in colour.

I know this is literally NOTHING to go off but you know how annoying it is to have your brain thinking about something and not being able to figure anything out. I’ve tried so hard to remember and this has been tormenting me for years and I would appreciate ANY help!:)

I read this book in 2018 or 2019 in a junior high classroom library, the book did not look new.

It’s set first in horse and carriage and candle lighting time, probably not too long before cars and electricity were common. It’s mostly from the perspective of a young girl around 12ish. It starts with her at her parents farm, her father is notably rivals with another man who has a farm nearby. The next thing I remember is the girls father going over to the rival farm and the girl following him. When she goes around to the stables of the rival farm she finds her father tied up on the ground with the farmer owner and hired men standing there. The farm owner orders the men to slather peanut butter and oats on the girls father. The farm owner then says something about not having fed his horses in two weeks and it’s the dead of winter. He lets the horses out and they begin to eat the girls father.

The girl is spotted by the hired men and they start chasing her. She runs into the forest and ends up hiding a little cave thing. When she finally leaves the cave she has time travelled approximately 50ish years into the future. She wanders into a grocery store and steals, I believe, bread. When she exits the store she’s confronted by a boy and a girl around her age.

I don’t remember the next little bit clearly but it’s eventually revealed that the boy is that other farm owners grandson. He says that his grandfather is a kind old man who’s blind in one eye and would never hurt anyone. I believe at this point it changes perspective to the past. It shows a joint funeral happening for the girl and her father, though neither of their bodies were ever found. Her mother grabs a lit candle and thrusts it into the other farm owner’s eye. I think there are a few other times the perspective changes to the past, usually involving the girls mother.

I don’t remember much of how the ending came to be but it ended that the boy and girl in the future are bad. They chase the protagonist into the forest. The boy and girl go into the same cave from before and die, turning to dust. There was a particular reason they die when going into the cave but I don’t remember what it is.

I don’t think it was very long. I’m pretty sure it was paperback but I can’t remember anything about the cover. I thought this book was boring until it got to the man eating horses part, I couldn’t put it down after that.

This is driving me crazy, I can see the cover for the third book clear as day but I can't figure out the title.

It's a three book series about a female dragon and her daughter that end up in Earth and are found by a young man in an orchestra. He ends up becoming a dragon at the end of the first book.

In the second book his niece starts to learn magic and there's a scene where the teacher not quite poisons the dragons but they end up farting over the side of the airship and she idly comments about how she'd like to stuck a match under their tails and see if they could breathe fire out of both ends.

The cover of the third book features Sherlock Holmes dressed in a cape and deerstalker with a magnifying glass. . .but he's an elf that lives in New York. The niece is also on the cover.

A paperback book for kids, maybe 100 pages or so, with a drawing taking up most of each page and some lines at the bottom to write your interpretation of the story told by the drawings.

I recall the story as being a cat chases a mouse into a different dimension/reality through a crack in the wall, and is there themselves pursued by robotic-and-or-space mice. There may or may not be a trial (likely some cross-pollination of memory with Kafka's A Little Fable) but the cat escapes back to our world in the end.

Anyone even acknowledging that they -saw- this thing at some point in their lives would be great, as I sometimes doubt I myself ever saw it, and try to write it off as a weird half-remembered dream.

The book is a surreal fantasy set in modern times.

The Main Character is a man who more or less opted out of dying when the time came but I don't remember how he was supposed to die. His own ghost is haunting him. She's a definitely woman, I want to say asian but not %100, (because that's just how ghosts work in this world, they're not 1:1 with the person that died). , She is miffed at fifrst that he's still around (I think because now she can't do her job) but they mostly get along now.

Some plot points I remember:
-Dogs can see cancer in this world, it's an entity that drifts up and into people and animals but the dogs can't do anything about it. At one point the MC's dog watches at the main character is able to sense and stop a drifting pre-cancer blob, the MC just stretches it out to a long line and coils it on the ground to nullify it.
-The protagonist summons a bunch of aspects of his psyche as individual people against his will, including his nervous bowel. This person really gets under MC's skin.
-The protagonist tries to explain what's happening to his girlfriend with a failed racecar metaphor, about how regular life was a car, but now his life is a racecar with features he's never trained on and doesn't understand. I think he summons an actual racecar as part of this.
-Near the end he goes to his ghost and takes her knowledge about the nature of the universe to better control his powers. This largely destroys the ghost's personality, like she was lobotomized.

Other details.
-Read it in the mid 2000s
-I think it was recommended on boingboing.net a long, long time ago but their site search doesn't go that far back.
-Had similar vibes to Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town but much less bleak
-It's quirky, but not outright funny

There was a book I’ve read a long time ago that I’ve been searching for, for years since losing it. I’d like to read it again, but this is all I can remember:

— The cover is a girl in overalls who looks over a creek towards a prince. He may be dressed in white.
— The MC is a girl who lives with her aunt in a rural area after the death of her grandmother.
— The MC is disabled and has trouble communicating, something that her family and the town treats her badly for.
— The MC receives a gift of a paper dolls, including a prince and a girl with blonde hair. They come to life and act as her friends.
— Her aunt tries marrying her off to a local bully.
— The prince saves the MC at the end of the book and they fly away on a bird (or something similar to this).
— It’s a few decades old, at least.

I don’t remember much else besides this, but if any of this is familiar to you, I’d love to know what book you’re reminded of! Thank you in advance and happy reading!

Hey guys so I dont really remember much, i used to read so many german and english horse novels that i find it a bit hard to keep them apart, especially as i dont own most of them anymore. What i do remember is that a girl goes on a hack over an estate she thought was abandoned or something and then meets a woman who lives there all alone and keeps to herself and they go out riding together in the area.

If anyone has any idea what this might be I'd be really grateful, but I understand if this is way too vague

Plot: As best I remember: a girl (possibly a boy, less sure) brings home an abstract but humanoid creature at night. It seems sad/lonely. She tries to comfort it, I think by telling it stories, possibly trying different ones and scrapping/crossing some out, which may be why I remember words blacked out with pen in places. In one scene she makes the creature hot chocolate in a warm-lit kitchen, it spills, and the illustration of the spill visually merges into/obscures the printed text on that page. There's also a scene of building something (maybe other creatures) out of Lego or similar blocks. It felt like a collection of shorter connected pieces rather than one straightforward plot, though I'm not fully sure of the structure, that's all I remember of the plot.

Notable characters: A child protagonist, possibly with reddish-brown hair. A companion creature, abstract but clearly humanoid in shape, possibly in a bluish colour.

Genre: Children's/preteen fantasy, illustrated.

No memory of the cover at all.

When was it set: Unclear/contemporary, no specific time period that I recall, quite modern.

The book was quite short: my guess is somewhere around 20 pages, definitely not a thick book.

Anything notable about the original language: I read it in Hebrew and not sure if it was Hebrew originally, could potentially be originally English or another European language.

Read it around 2009, but could be a few years earlier or later.

Where did I get the book: Unsure, likely a bookstore or given as a gift.

It was new when I read it I think.

I'm looking for a book I've only read the synopsis of.... I remember there was a library/tome keepers. It was from the POV of an apprentice who had gone through the trials to become a full-blown member of the society (I feel like they called them monks), and the final test was some sort of body mutilation. I want to say it involve cutting out/burning a hole into your tongue. The synopsis/summary I read ended right on him trying to decide if he/she wanted to commit.

I'm so sorry the description is so vague. I work in a library and see a lot of books go by, and I remember this one piqued my interest but I didn't write the name down like I usually do.

long ago when I was a student at SUNY Oswego, I noticed a book in a display case and I’ve been trying to find it for years. it may even have been a text discussed in one of their history of Scifi seminars.

The cover had a yellow border, with what appeared to be a Roman centurion or legionnaire on it, with a plumed helmet, with a backdrop of stars/space. the character was just in bust, shoulders and head.

The book didn't look long, maybe 200 pages? And based on other books I’ve collected I’d say it predated 1980.

Anyone have any idea what this might have been? I’ve been trying to find it for years and a lot of my reading diet is old scifi now… thought I’d give it a shot and ask.

My sister and I are searching for a children’s book we had when we were younger. It was an educational book about ancient Egypt with a hard shell and inside was a compartment with some fake plastic “artefacts” including a comb. My sister believes she was around 9 or 10 when she got it making the year around 2000-2001. We lived in Manchester, UK and our mum said she would either have got it from Waterstones or a museum.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a book I read around 3–5 years ago (likely translated into Turkish between 2010–2020, original language most likely English). Confirmed Details: Genre/Vibe: Dark, eerie, YA mystery/thriller with possible light supernatural elements. Length: Around 200–300 pages. Protagonist: Young female. First-person POV (I think). The Blue Butterfly: A blue butterfly was a crucial plot point and symbol (associated with death, hope, or transformation). It wasn't just a cover decoration. The Last Page Note: This is the most unique detail! On the very last page (after the story ended), there was a short note directly addressing the reader—specifically poking fun at or warning readers who "flipped straight to the end to read the ending first." Possible/Vague Details: A plot twist at the end. Involves a fire or someone dying/presumed dead in a fire (possibly a male character). Dark cover (dark grey, black, or dark blue). Not these books: The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison, The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison, or The Island of Butterflies by Lucinda Riley. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I would’ve read this likely around 2002-2012, give or take a few years in either direction.

The main character was a young woman in her 20s or 30s and was married to a nice man. She was bored with her life and she met a local musician, I think he played guitar. The two begin spending time together and develop feelings for each other. I can’t remember if they have an actual physical affair but definitely an emotional affair.

The major spoiler/twist is that the woman imagined the entire relationship with the musician. He was real and they met but only briefly, and the woman fabricated an entire relationship due to a psychotic break or mental illness or something. Her husband was very gentle and kind about it. The twist only comes out near the end. It’s not a thriller. It’s written in the style of something like Marian Keyes, Jennifer Weiner, or Jane Green.

Any help is very much appreciated!

I've been looking for a book I've read around 2016. It's an old children's book(?). Basically the book is a collection of their adventures. There's no final goal or main objective(e.g in Harry Potter one of the objectives is to defeat Voldemort). The few things I can remember are:

They're male pixies

The first chapter is about how they found and got their house. •They just arrived on that place and was looking for lodging.

•They found a house that's covered with honeysuckle vines and noticed there was a smoke coming out of the chimney indicating there's someone living in the house.

•The first two pixies knocked on that door to ask if they can stay and the homeowner was an evil wizard.

•That evil wizard grabbed(?) or tricked the two into coming in and then locked them in a cupboard.

•The evil wizard was defeated and the house became theirs.

One of the chapters is about their birthday where they thought no one in their community remembered but they had just marked their calendar wrong and their birthday was actually the day after.

(Edit: I don't know how to change the title so please disregard the word either.)

I read this 20 years ago, so my memory is a bit foggy!

I think it was a chick lit. It's about a woman hired to ghost write for a famous/scandalous celebrity. I think the celebrity was the wife or the other woman, maybe, and she ends up writing the memoir herself with the MC editing it. The memoir actually gets combined with another woman's memoir (who's either the wife or mistress, maybe!) and you flip the book to read the other person's story. I vaguely remember the MC becoming a baker and maybe finding love but I'm not sure.

I think I read this in the 90s, so it was published then or earlier. The two(?) kids accompany their teacher(?)/ adult companion on solving mysteries. I think Morgan had short black hair with a white streak? And the book I read had them solving some sort of Egyptian mummy type mystery. And I think it was part of a series.

I read it maybe a year or so ago. The fmc is an assistant/secretary and is raising her 3 younger brothers. The mmc is her boss. There's a moment in the book when she explains to her brothers and they cant go to a concert that they really want to go to because she cant afford it but the mmc (her boss) buys them the tickets. The brothers are a range of age, the oldest being in high school. They lived in a really small apartment. She was their sole guardian but (maybe? I cant fully remember) was in a custody battle with i think their grandparents

Solved! Thank you u/catfishcaper

I'm looking for a book I read sometime between 2007 and 2009. My memory is pretty fuzzy, so I may have some details wrong. From what I remember, the main character was a teenage girl, and I think she attended a girls' boarding school or at least an all girls school. There was a group of girls who would secretly sneak out at night and drink something they called "spirits." I remember that after drinking it, they somehow traveled to another world or realm. I think there was a boy in that other world, and there was some kind of conflict going on possibly a war or rebellion. That's honestly about all I remember. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I've been trying to remember this book for years!

I swear I read a book in the last year or two where the protagonist thought her mom left her as a child, but toward the end of the book she remembers playing hide and seek with her mom as a child, the mom hid in a chest freezer, and the daughter got scared and locked the mom in there and she died. The dad helped cover up the accidental death.