r/namethatbook • • Jul 20 '26

Tips for writing effective posts / rule clarification

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There’s been an uptick in the amount of posts lately and the rules have recently been updated. Hopefully this explanation will make book identification easier for all.

RULES

  1. Include a detail you remember in the post title.
  2. Please use flair as appropriate. When your book has been correctly guessed, please mark your post with the Solved! flair.
  3. Please do not use AI to write for you. If you want humans to interact with your post and help you, then do your best to write what you're looking for in your own words.

If you can't remember many details, answer as many of these questions as you can to give other people the best possible chance of guessing your book. You never know which of these things may resonate with someone else.

Think about the book’s intended audience.

Was it fiction or non-fiction?

What was the genre was it?

What age range was it for?

Described the plot.

What year(s) did the plot take place?

What do you remember about the plot?

What do you remember about important characters? Do you remember any character's names?

Tell us about the book’s format

Was the book hardcover or paperback? Were there pictures inside or on the cover?

Anything notable about the font or printing?

How many pages, chapters, or volumes did it have?

What were the circumstances under which you read the book?

What year (approximately) did you read it?

Was it newly published when you read it?

Where did you get the book? Books come from libraries, book stores, are seen in classrooms, etc.

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Suggestions and comments welcome.


r/namethatbook • • 56m ago

Unsolved Manga about a teen girl who is given the power to turn invisible by a powerful tree

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The manga is about a teen girl who is moving to a new town with her dad. They get lost in a forest and the teen girl goes hiking and comes across a large tree. She climbs it and falls, cutting her hand open. This gave her the power to turn invisible. Days later, she starts her new school and befriends a girl who tells her about the school dynamics. There was a mean girl who hates her because the guy the mean girl likes focuses on the new girl. The teen girl joins a club where all the members have powers. The guy who the mean girl likes tell her that the tree she climbed was the source of all the powers. There was a time where she was given a bathing suit for swim class and it was see-through. The guy gets embarrassed when he sees how see-through it was and covered her with his towel and used his power of phasing through walls to get her to safety.


r/namethatbook • • 3h ago

Sci-fi kid lit about a teen boy in a post apocalypse living in a dome under the ocean contacting a female solider aboard a space ship and uncovering a conspiracy. Scholastic bookfair purchase. I think it had "Code" in the title?

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I would have purchased this as a teen myself somewhere between 1998-2003ish I think. The protagonist was a hacker and he hacks into the communications between Earth and the spaceships. I recall one of the twists being that the soldiers were all genetically modified and grown for the purpose of warfare and were really short, like hobbit sized, to keep the costs of ship building down.


r/namethatbook • • 15h ago

AirBnB Romance from 2020-2025

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I read this book in the last couple of years and would like to read it again but I cannot remember the title or author.

It’s a romance / women’s fiction story where the woman rents an AirBnB that the homeowner’s son advertised for rent without the homeowner’s knowledge. She lives in the apartment above the barn/garage space and the man lives in the main house with his teenage son. He doesn’t want her there but through circumstance he relents. It’s set in the mountains and she’s looking for something and he’s some kind of law enforcement / rescue person. I believe someone in the story is a musician and the teenager is planning on using the AirBnB money to take a trip or buy a guitar.


r/namethatbook • • 1d ago

Unsolved [WWTBC] Historical romance involving luddites?

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There was a book series about generations of a family in an industrial town in England in the 19th century. I think one of the MMCs is called Blaize? The FMC ends up having to marry the brother of the guy she's in love with to save her virtue. The following book follows her daughter I think. There's a lot of class politics about the changes being made as labour moves to machines and social issues like slavery. I think it was probably written in the 70s/80s.


r/namethatbook • • 1d ago

Omegaverse RH

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I'm looking for a specific book. Let's start off with what I know for sure. Omega protection officers storm a house where they had that omega's were being stored or sold out of. It was a house. They came into the basement where there were females in cages. Just a few. They were not there as long as the one woman fmc.

The other women came out fast, but this one didn't. 1 mmc sits on the ground outside the cage and talks to her. He keeps the other officers back. His other packmates. He makes a point how she smells. She had not been out of the cage in years. She doesn't know her name. I can't remember what the mmc called her, but she uses it through the book.

She clings on the mmc. Meaning she didn't want him to leave and she freaks out in the ambulance. She is brought to the er where she will not trust others.

Enter mmc nurse. She has a connection with him as well. This guy sticks up for her to the doctors and they aren't happy. He isn't part of the pack. Later on, she will add him to her pack.

Mmc's that are the officer types, (im not totally sure if there are 3 or 4 and add the burse) are investigating the case where they found fmc.

You find out its her parents that were trafficking omegas. They go through the house to find McGee of her parents. You will find that she has a number of dead siblings she didn't even know about. The two that were taking care of the caged omegas were her brothers. Who were brainwashed. She gets then help. Find a number of other siblings.

The parents were selling the others to packs. Their sons. There is one other mystery in the book, but I don't remember.

She doesn't know how to be an omega. How to use phones or anything. She will live with the pick, who fall for her.

(There is an interconnected book. Just other characters introduced. If this might help because there is another I'm looking for.)

When she needs to learn about omega stuff, they cash this organization they held omegas. Her friends she makes will have a slumber party with the omegas.

The one last who runs this organization has a book. Plus her partner.

I can tell you they one, people are protesting what they are doing to help others and at some point it gets on the radio and fmc did interview. Fight outside the stat station.


r/namethatbook • • 2d ago

Unsolved Young Adult Coming of Age Story with a Box of Puppies

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I read this book in 1997-1998. It was about an adolescent girl living with her father. Her mother is absent/dead?

I remember one scene is about her hiding period stained clothes in a hamper, and then having to figure out how to use a belt, so I'm assuming it's set in the 50s-60s.

I also remember a scene with her and her father in a pickup truck with a box of puppies.

It was a coming off age, awkward, young adult book. Every once in a while it pops in my head and I'll search key words, but nothing comes up.

I read it in middle school english class, around the time we read 'The Outsiders', so probably a similar theme.

Thanks for any help :)


r/namethatbook • • 2d ago

Adult action adventure novel

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Looking for title and author. Plot: gemstone stolen from Himalaya monastery by a couple of thieves who meet on quest. slide down hill to escape from monastery. painful walk up and down hills to get to monastery. Beginning takes place in India and England before moving to Himalaya. London antique dealet grandfather of woman sent her on search. couple being chased by treasure seekers. adult action adventure fiction book published in 1980's or 1990's or 1970's. stand alone novel. giant gem on front cover. One word title. Mass market Paperback


r/namethatbook • • 2d ago

Looking for a specific book (romance mc book) I read and wanted review something form the sub plot but forgot it so hoping y’all can help please-

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From what I remember from this book is a Motorcycle club romance book and the fmc is pregnant with mmc child. So getting to the point in the SUB-PLOT is later in the book and the Prez or VP (sorry can’t remember who) has twin daughters and he makes a deal with either the Irish mafia or the Italian mafia for one of the twins as babies, moreover he makes a deal with them that once they grow up (turn to adults). One of the sons get to marry on of the daughters. It‘s a deal for protection of their area, or whatever can’t remember exactly. The Prez or VP’s old lady finds out and freaks out on everyone, and her husband tries to justify it by saying it’s been happening for a long time even generations before them and doesn’t see what’s wrong with them. So Old Lady basically tells him to live in the clubhouse and the clubs brothers aren’t happy with the deal he made. The fmc now feels anxious of whether or not mmc will do that to her, and mmc assures her that he will never do that to their kids. That’s basically all I remember- I am so sorry of you can’t help me or I’m not being descriptive enough but like that’s all I remember. T-T. (If your able to find the name TYSMMMM! If not it’s all good I’ll try to recall more details and add them)


r/namethatbook • • 2d ago

Young adult novel from the 90s involving teens with powers

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Before I start, it is not Dark Visions. I've done so much research Im beginning to think I made it up or I'm the only person in the world to read it.

What I remember: a group of teens are (possibly lured??l) to a cabin under false pretenses. They all have some sort of ability. I'm pretty sure they didnt know each other.

I don't remember why or how but they end up trapped due to weather conditions. I seem to remember one boy having the ability not to feel pain or cold. He ends up leaving the house on foot to find help because he can't feel the cold. If I remember correctly he can and perhaps did get frostbite he couldn't feel when he got back. Maybe on his face??

I remember nothing else. Not how it ends, nothing.

For the cover I see a girl with dark curly hair under wearing a winter cap and jacket looking scared. Shes outside and the cabin is behind her. I dont believe it was part of a series.

HELP.


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

Help me find this PHR (Precious Hearts Romances) book! It features an amnesia plot :)

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I forgot the name of the author or names of the character. I could only remember the plot. It goes like this:

The rich ML decided to sell the land he inherited from his father (?)/grandfather (?) for commercial use. But the FL along with the lot tenants pleaded for the ML not to, as they live there all their lives. When the ML got into an accident, he woke up with an amnesia. The FL used this as an opportunity to pretend as the ML's wife and to dissuade him from selling the land.


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

Thriller/suspense Book from 2000-2010. A detective or psychologist seeks a missing woman. She and her husband are both therapist or psychologists. Husband kidnapped her to perform conversion therapy on her because she is lesbian and was leaving him for a woman.

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I need help with this book. I tried google before and AI but possible potential responses are not useful at all. I read this in paperback around 2005 to 2011 ish maybe. I can't remember it tbh. I think someone reported her missing, maybe hubby or a close friend of her. In the end it was him the culprit. And he was also a giant douchebag.

Also he was older than her maybe 50ish and she was 35 ish.

Don't have names of characters or anything else worth remembering.

Thank y'all.


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

What is that book called?

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I read a book years ago and cannot remember the author or the title.

It is a romantic comedy book.

Things I remember: Heroine is left on the side of the road by her 2 crazy/eccentric aunts, heroine dad is the much younger brother of the aunts who they dote on (I can't remember if it an impression was given that one of the aunts might be the dads real mom). The aunts live in separate houses next to each other or in the same house.

Hero, I think is a cop and encounters heroine on the side of the road walking back to the aunt's house, and she is pissed.

Hero and his brothers were raised by their grandfather and his friend, who is also the butler (I think) and the grandfather and butler used to go on adventures and travel the world before they had to settle to raise the brothers.

I think they live in a town called "Hell", but I could be wrong.

I think the one brother was in book 1 (can't remember what happens there), and this was book 2 - I think that at the end of book 2 the other brother goes on an adventure with his grandfather and butler and don't know if he got his own book. I also think in either the 1st book, the grandfather was held hostage by one or both of the aunts in their house, and he seems to enjoy it; both aunts are attracted to him


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

Unsolved Looking for a High School Bully/Why Choose Romance book?

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Hi. I read this book several years back. It was by a fairly popular author, whom I can’t remenber at this time. If I remember correctly, the girl’s only living parent passes. The girl who is a bad azz goth type girl who has had repeated disciplinary problems in her high school discovers she has a grandmother who is taking her in. On being taking in, after moving to an entirely new town, her grandmother tells her if she will behave herself, conducting herself as a lady, dressing appropriately, and studying so that she graduates with decent grades, the grandmother will make her an heiress of a multimillion dollar fortune. The girl agrees, changing her goth appearance, hair style and color (think the color was purple). Starts attending the new school. She is bullied by the popular kids of the school, has to bite her tongue and not fight back. Eventually she has enough. Returns to school with her former goth style, hair color, etc. beats the means girls, and puts the guys in their place. The book should be a high school or academy bullying book with a bad azz main female lead and why choose romance with the main popular guys. Sorry I can’t remember more but hope this is enough to help someone provide me with an author and title name. Thanks.


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

story from horror short story collection (2024-25)

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This was in my Kindle library, but I think I borrowed it, I purchased and borrowed A LOT of books. It is a horror short story collection. I vaguely remember it has a tree on the cover, as if in rural settings. There was one short story that was weird. This woman has a few sons, if I remember right, one needed a suit for a school dance, and the mother probably helping, but did this in a rather morbid fashion, dug a tuxedo from her father's grave. I think it had a banana in it. It was not for mockery, but I think it was for squeamish comedy.

I thought it was from *Postcards from the Body Farm* by Charolotte O'Farrell, written in 2025, but when I checked the book, which is in my Kindle collection. It does not have any stories that fit this, maybe I am not remembering it correctly.

I could be wrong about this too, but I vaguely remember the collection being from an author named Jean. I wish I could remember the last name, but I cannot. Maybe that might spark some ideas.

Can anyone please help me? I know this is not much to go on, but hopefully it will ring bells for someone. Thank you in advance.


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

Solved! Looking for a novel

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Im looking for a novel about a world where black hair and eyes are seen as ugly and useless,silver hair and purple eyes are genius's.

The female lead is black haired and black eyed transmigrater who becomes a poisoner and awakens a sealed god with silver hair and purple eyes in thousend year unmelting ice with his servant.

I cant remember the title other than it has the word ugly in it.

Please help me find it


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

Unsolved Contemporary Romance - FMC and MMC are longtime friends who pretend to be a couple on a cruise featuring a show/movie fan meet, where the FMC’s favourite actor turns out to be a creep!

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I'm not 100% sure if all these scenes belong to the same book, but I have a pretty strong hunch that they do. So, here goes!

Here's what I remember:

• In the initial chapters, the FMC has either gone through a breakup or something has happened with her boyfriend. I'm not entirely sure about this part.

• She has a female best friend whom she calls and talks to about the situation. The FMC has a cruise ticket for two, which I think she was originally supposed to use with her boyfriend. After whatever happened between them, she doesn't want to go anymore.

• Her female best friend tells her that she shouldn't waste the tickets just because of him and encourages her to go anyway. The FMC asks if her friend will come with her, but the friend can't make it.

• So, the FMC calls or texts her male best friend (the MMC). They've apparently been friends for a long time. She tells him about the breakup, and he asks if he should come over.

• For some reason I remember a scene where the FMC realizes she's hungry but has nothing to eat at home. When the MMC comes over, he brings food without her even asking! It's apparently their usual takeout order, and they sit down and eat together.

• While they're eating, the FMC comes up with the idea of taking him on the cruise instead. It's a very impulsive, last-minute decision!

• They go on the cruise, and at some point, a staff member or attendee mistakes them for a couple. I think they initially try to correct the misunderstanding, but eventually, they just go along with it and pretend to be a couple.

• The cruise has some kind of cast reunion or fan event for a TV show. The FMC is a fan of one of the actors, and she gets to meet him. They talk, and he asks her to have dinner with him that evening.

• However, the actor turns out to be kind of creepy, and the MMC isn't happy about her going to dinner with him. I vaguely remember them having a conversation where the MMC asks if she's really going to go, and she says yes, almost like "Why wouldn't I?"

• The MMC then spends the evening wallowing in his room, clearly not wanting her to go on that date. But the FMC gets a weird feeling during the dinner, realizes something is off, and comes back to her room pretty quickly.

And that's pretty much all I've got!

I'm almost certain I haven't finished reading this book because I don't remember anything beyond these scenes. That's probably why I can't find it anywhere on my read list.


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

Unsolved Adult novel - bullied boy forced to eat spiders, throws up with the legs still twitching

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I read this a couple of years ago (so published before ~2023) and only remember one scene. A child - I'm fairly sure a boy - is being bullied, and one of the things the bullies do is force him to eat spiders. There's a scene where he throws up afterwards and the spider legs are still twitching in the vomit. I have a feeling it might have been a Stephen King book but I could be wrong. It's definitely an adult novel, not YA or middle grade. That's all I've got - hoping someone knows it.


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

Unsolved Help with name of book I read 20 years ago about an immigrants arranged marriage

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Fiction book set in late 1800s. Young woman comes yo us as imigrant. She is picked up by widower and his young son. This is a prearranged marriage. He married her and takes her to his farm out west. The husband is cold toward her but she developed a close relationship with the son. I think they are Scandinavian possibly. She has a baby. They all get ill and the husband and baby die. At the end she sees a relative of the husband come across the fields to help her. He seems kind so the ending leads you to believe they will fall in love. I read this book about twenty years ago and it was an old hardback library book.


r/namethatbook • • 3d ago

Unsolved Fantasy, evil protagonist (finds out he has a heart after all and clones himself)

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The basic plot was "orphan Wilhelm arrives to a mountain school, everything sucks but nothing as much as him ("murder is my only passion" vibes), he leaves because ???, meets a girl (he doesn't romance), somehow learns to clone himself, ???, he decides to leave but to leave a clone behind to keep company to the girl (who doesn't know of this ability) but she notices and is mad, ???"

At one point the girl is attacked and the healer says he'll need "the hand of whoever struck her". Wilhelm takes this literally but another guy convinces him he wanted the whole man alive (guy was right, culprit stays with them, girl is saved).

Also at the beginning the old man who takes him in ask for his last name and when there is none he names him (in French translation, who knows the original) Wilhelm Nothing At All.

I'm not sure how to explain the genre, it was definitely self-aware had are but also genuinely a good book, not a parody or anything? I think, I may have been too young to judge accurately. He may not even be called Wilhelm tbh, I'm convinced he was but since the search gives nothing I must be wrong.

I've been looking for over a decade (read around 2010), thank you for any ideas!


r/namethatbook • • 4d ago

Unsolved Middle grade fiction novel, written 1960s-1970s, glass castle, tiger guardian, princess, fantasy

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Trying to remember a book that I read multiple times as a pre-teen in Australia in the mid-late 1990s. I think it was published in the 60s or 70s and the original book wasn't written in English. I associate it with Astrid Lindgren for some reason (it's not one of her books) - possibly because the author started with an L?

All I have to go off is memories of a glass castle/palace where a girl/princess is trapped and there is a tiger who is either her captor or her guardian.

It's similar in storyline to 'Winter of Enchantment' (Victoria Walker) and similar in tone/vibes to 'The Looking-Glass Castle' (Paul Biegel) but is definitely neither of these.


r/namethatbook • • 4d ago

Unsolved I am looking for a book where hero is abandoned by his mother in his childhood. Heroine is planted in his company by hero's step father for spying on him. The hero's name is Nick I think, the heroine is a music student in real. In the end, hero runs to her village and apologies to her. The hero is

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Please help me


r/namethatbook • • 4d ago

Unsolved pregnant, grandmother gave her $1M, built farm into schools and hospital."

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It's about a lady that left home while pregnant and was given a million dollars by a grandmother then she goes to a foreign country and meets a playboy that has a nice mother and she helps that family grow the company to a billion dollar before going back to her country where she meets her step mom and sister who call her names and say she is not worth it, the step sister then sleeps with the husband and promises to take everything from her just like she has before. The husband doesn't go home for more than two weeks and when he returns he starts being extremely arrogant. Please direct me if you have read about it


r/namethatbook • • 4d ago

Looking for a specific book (romance mc book) I read and wanted review something form the sub plot but forgot it so hoping y’all can help please-

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From what I remember from this book is a Motorcycle club romance book and the fmc is pregnant with mmc child. So getting to the point in the SUB-PLOT is later in the book and the Prez or VP (sorry can’t remember who) has twin daughters and he makes a deal with either the Irish mafia or the Italian mafia for one of the twins as babies, moreover he makes a deal with them that once they grow up (turn to adults). One of the sons get to marry on of the daughters. It‘s a deal for protection of their area, or whatever can’t remember exactly. The Prez or VP’s old lady finds out and freaks out on everyone, and her husband tries to justify it by saying it’s been happening for a long time even generations before them and doesn’t see what’s wrong with them. So Old Lady basically tells him to live in the clubhouse and the clubs brothers aren’t happy with the deal he made. The fmc now feels anxious of whether or not mmc will do that to her, and mmc assures her that he will never do that to their kids. That’s basically all I remember- I am so sorry of you can’t help me or I’m not being descriptive enough but like that’s all I remember. T-T. (If your able to find the name TYSMMMM! If not it’s all good)


r/namethatbook • • 4d ago

Unsolved [WWTBC] Historical romance published before 1997 — husband presumed drowned, wife gives birth to and loses their baby, husband returns

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HELP! Looking for an old historical romance novel from the 1980s or 1990s!
I’ve been searching for this book for years, and Google keeps giving me the wrong ones!
I’m 43 and read it when I was in elementary or middle school, so it was published before the late 1990s, possibly much earlier.
Here’s what I remember:
It was a thick historical romance paperback, possibly with a purple or lavender cover.
The man may have been in the military.
The woman’s parents didn’t approve of their relationship.
I believe they eventually married.
He left, and she believed he had died, possibly by drowning.
While grieving, she wasn’t taking proper care of herself. She gave birth to their baby, but the baby died.
When he returned, she was furious and said something very close to: “Where were you when I bore our child? And where the hell were you when I buried our child?”
I also remember him building a house for the two of them. She eventually went to see him, and I believe he fell off the roof and was seriously injured but survived. He explained that he’d been building their home, which was why he hadn’t returned sooner.
My mother bought the book, possibly from a dollar store.
Does ANYONE recognize this story? The confrontation about their baby has stayed with me for almost 30 years, and I would love to find this book again!