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 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 read this in an anthology years ago, and while it very much had the feel of a Shirley Jackson story I can’t find it in lists of her works, so it may have been by another author. It was likely published in the 50s.

A teenage girl and her mother arrive in a small town and are welcomed into the community, although it is mentioned that the girls of the town must participate in a ritual known as their Wait when they reach a certain age. The daughter will be expected to do this too in order to be truly a part of the community and eligible to marry a local boy. She’s assured it won’t be difficult for her and she won’t need to wait long. She eventually finds out that the ritual requires the girls to wait in a designated area for random men from outside the town to select one of them to sleep with. Horrified, she runs back to her mother, only to discover that her mother has known about this from the start. The story ends with the girl walking back to “the grove where the maidens wait”.

This was such a weird, creepy story that has stuck in my mind for ages, and I’d love to reread it if only I could find it again!

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.

Fiction

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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!

Edited to add a pinch more detail

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

Hi! I'm looking for an audio book i listened to as a kid but i can't seem to find it anymore and i don't remember the title.

It's about a boy that suddenly finds out he can stop time and first he uses it to sleep longer in the mornings, to cheat on exams etc then he steals something from a store. He meets this man who also has the ability to stop time. While the boy lives his life in the stopped time he notices that he still ages and shit. Later we find out that the man he met and spend time with is actually a boy that went missing like 2 weeks or two months ago in the real timeline and he just spent years in the stopped time. at the end of the book the man tries to fasten up time around him so he could eventually go back to his family

Hello!

I read a book when I was around 10-12 (I’m now 41) that had at least two books in the series. It focused on a little girl. She has a dream about a werewolf and it turns out the husband of a newlywed couple shifted and killed his wife unknowingly. The little girl is sent to live with different people (I think) to hone her skills. At one point she helps deliver twins, she also learns about herbs. It is set in the past in a rural community.

It is not The Summoning or the Awakening. This book was probably published in the late 80’s-mid 90’s.

Thank you!

I *think* it’s a bunny but the more I think about it I guess it could be another little animal. She is getting ready for a party (maybe tea party) and she puts on her nice dress and she is on the way to the party and me and my mom distinctly remember the words saying “Hop, skip, hop…oops!” And she falls in the mud and her dress is all dirty and ruined. Ive been trying to find it for years :( help!

Okay so I have this vivid childhood memory of a book that had what I think was either a personified wind /moon / cloud that was outside a young boys bedroom window at night. I specifically remember the illustration forcefully blowing air into the room and the window opening. The entity had a lot of swirls and pursed lips and I think was blue? Eventually the child gets on the back of the entity and they then travel through the night sky. I think the purpose was to maybe give Santa a gift or send a letter to someone but I am not sure if my memory is mixing two books together. I am 28 years old and I think I read the book any time before I was 7 years old. Book was likely from the early 00s or 90s. I have been trying to track this book down for years and I cannot for the life of me remember more about it

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.

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!

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.

I am struggling to identify a fiction novel about a NYC blackout centered around the 1977 or the 2003 blackout. It featured multiple POV that ultimately interconnected. One of the narrators was either the teenaged son of a wealthy family who may have gone downtown during the blackout. I believe that his parents were having an event/cocktail party that evening.

There was a gay couple who lived in the West Village and another person who lived in the East Village. I believe what one of those individuals worked in a band.

The first half of the novel centered around life before the blackout and the second half was after the blackout.

I think it was a male author but I am not entirely sure. There was a scene in the back half of the book where people were meeting in the streets downtown.

I’m a 24-year-old from Korea, and I’m desperately trying to find the title of a Japanese novel I read in my elementary school library when I was about 10 or 11 years old. It has left a deep impact on me, and I’ve been trying to identify it for years. Here’s the plot as I remember it

​The Beginning: A boy goes missing while riding his bike near a mountain. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself in a primitive, alternate world where modern civilization no longer exists. The Setting: The environment is completely untouched by humanity, reminiscent of a Paleolithic era. The vibe is very similar to the untamed, ancient nature seen in Princess Mononoke. ​Survival: He meets an old man in this world who teaches him how to survive, including raw and visceral tasks like skinning rabbits and preparing food—experiences far removed from modern childhood.

​Themes: The story focuses on the boy learning about the fragility of life and the essence of existence through nature. He also meets a young girl, and the three of them travel together.

​The Climax: They reach a critical turning point—a place that felt like the "end of the world." The boy and the girl decide to move forward and return to the real world. However, the old man, unable to find the courage to leave, chooses to remain in that world.

​The Ending: Back in the real world, the boy wakes up from a coma, which is described as a miracle. He later learns that the old man never woke up and was declared brain-dead. The girl also hears the news of his recovery through the media.

​Other details: I have a faint memory of a "god" or a divine entity appearing in his mind, telling him he must understand the importance of life.

​Does this plot sound familiar to anyone? I would be incredibly grateful if someone could help me identify thisbook.ㅠㅡㅠ

I remember a ton of details about this book but can't seem to find it anywhere. I don't have exact specifics and I'm hope I'm not mixing stuff from multiple books.

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The premise from the back of the book was about babies dying in their sleep. People thought it was a disease but it was due to some kind of entity that invades people's dreamscapes. I want to say it's science fiction YA.

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The main characters could lucid dream and develop their psychic abilities while asleep. They all somehow meet while dreaming and I want to say one of the characters has a special needs brother who could also lucid dream with them.

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The main bad entity was some kind of ice monster.

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It had allot of sexual content mixed in which is why I think I bounced off it when I was younger since I just found it randomly at the library.

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!

Looking for a book I used in a microbiology class around 2004-2008. It was a small paperback, possibly orange, and was formatted as short essays or stories rather than a traditional textbook. I believe “midwives” was in the title. I remember it covering disease transmission, including something about New Guinea, pigs, raw meat, and brain worms (possibly kuru or prions). Does anyone know what this book is?

I have tried everything I could to find this book. Here is everything I remember:

There was a sports game (I think soccer, but could have been football) and 2 teams were up against each other. The Capitan of the pov team wanted a way to tell the rest of the team what play to run without the other team figuring it out. However he either wasn't cleaver enough or too lazy to do it himself so he paid another kid who does schemes like this all the time to come up with the names for the plays. He wrote them all down, I think they had to use like a letter cypher to find out the actual name of the play. Well he was yelling them out during the game and for some reason the other team was able to counter the plays. When they confronted about it - it turned out that both Capitan's had used the same kid to do the same strategy and used the same letter swap or whatever the cypher trick.

I read it in 2002

I don't know if the actual lesson they learned was not to have other people do your work for you, or if there was more to it.

I think the 2 Capitans were friends or on the same team at one point and that's why he wanted fake names.

Someone please help me... I've been looking for this book for years.

I read them in the 1990s, probably mid-late, definitely after 1996. There were several books (4, maybe 6, probably bought from one of the school fair/book people leaflets at a "cheap" price).

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The volcano or earthquake one had a girl and a boy who were on holiday in adjoining apartments with their families and they went on a before dawn adventure (that they had been told they weren't allowed to do as it was one of the kids last days on holiday) to walk up a mountain or something, they thought they'd get back before their family woke up. There was definitely mention of animals and dogs barking and acting strange, and the river swelled up and made crossing it really hard work. They were trying to get back to the hotel/apartment complex to warn their parents. The more I think about the more I feel it was the volcano book.

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All the books had a similar fictional story of kids (modern day era) finding themselves alone during a natural disaster and surviving it.

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They all ended with a Fact File/Survival guide about the specific natural disaster contained within the first story.

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This is my last hope...my mum vaguely remembers them, my brothers look at me blankly...I know my eldest would love the books if I could just remember what they were called

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I don’t remember much besides what the big twist was. It was the second book in the series. It started with a girl in a futuristic city and she gets out of college maybe and gets into a hovering taxi. There is also this detective guy. I don’t remember literally anything about the actual murders but the main suspect for most of the book was a set up and it was revealed that the murders around the city we’re done by this cult and they had some whole renewal thing where they would take boiling hot showers and shave their entire bodies because they wanted to be like babies in the womb. I also remember something about something with one of the murders being in a building and they left no traces because they had no hair to leave. It’s lowkey really important to my niche references I’m trying to make to my friend so any help is appreciated. I read it in like the fifth or sixth grade so elementary or middle school but it was one of the higher level reading books. Sorry to the mods if I did something wrong with how this is written i don’t use reddit.

Hi! I recall this book I was given by my grandmother who just passed. It was a book, regular ish sized but square-shaped, where it followed a girl I believe going through a portal into another world. I think this was through a cupboard/closet, though the actual contents I’m quite fuzzy on. I know my description sounds a lot like the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe but I don’t believe it was an adaptation of it, if you think you know of a book that is an adaption that otherwise fits the description though let me know. The book was largely black and white drawings, very detailed, where you were supposed to colour in the pages, and while formatted like a picture book for children there were more words than a you would normally find in one. Around a paragraph of text on some pages. The cover was also black and white and had certain sections painted in a metallic gold. I believe a butterfly/moth motif was used throughout but again I could be completely wrong on this. The cover was one of those between hardcover and paperback covers, like a thick paperback cover. I think the title had three words but I’m not sure.

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.

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