Questions tagged [novel]
For questions about a book of long narrative in literary prose, in order to distinguish it from other types of story. Do NOT use this tag for every question which happens to be about a novel. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the novel and its form in other media.
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Book involving a boy who was playing Dungeons & Dragons style game and a parallel universe
I can't remember the title of this book or the author. I know it was a young adult book.
The main character was a boy who was playing a Dungeons & Dragons style game (I'll make it clear that it ...
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Space fantasy book involving a man searching for a replacement planet for Earth and an alien girl from a faraway world who can astral project
I'm looking for a book I read In 2006/2007. I don't know the author's name and can't remember the book title. But here's a brief synopsis of the story that I can recollect.
The story is told from the ...
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The book where someone can serve a sentence in advance
I read a novel about a system where a person could volunteer to serve a sentence working on an inhospitable alien planet in advance of committing a crime, if they survive.
The protagonist chose to see ...
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Book in which a girl dies on a railway track and her sister brings her back in a virtual world
This is on behalf of my daughter who read the book a few years ago. How she described it to me:
In the book, the girl is electrocuted on a train track - electricity travels through a balloon she is ...
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A book about the Second Coming of Jesus, but the supposed Messiah is actually Satan
I'm trying to find a book (or maybe a series of 2 or 3 books, I can't remember) about the Second Coming of Jesus. I read it about 25 years ago, and the author was a male.
In the book(s) Jesus returns ...
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Fantasy novel with a girl, a satyr, and a gorgon escaping a circus
I'm trying to recall the name of a book I read when I was younger, it was fairly large, presumably 800-1000 pages, the protagonist was a demi-human, young and male, I can't recall exactly what he was ...
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A story about robot children looking for spare parts
I'm pretty desperate to find this story. I read a few pages from the middle of the book in 2022 and I'm pretty desperate to finish the book. I think the cover was dark blue and black with white text ...
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Looking for young adult/childrens books about a boy traveling through a portal to a fantasy land
I read this book as a kid in about 2008-2012 and have been searching for it for years. Here's what I remember:
A boy travels through a portal he found (in a back alley somewhere?). He comes out in a ...
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Earth is attacked and the female protagonist is conscripted to join the military. She travels to another planet to train
I read this book years ago but didn't get to finish it. The cover was animated like a comic drawing. It was about a woman on Earth and it gets attacked or something like that. The world united and ...
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Sci-fi book about man recruited to alt universe to work for secret employer, travels to alt universes, learns another version of himself was murdered
The book starts out with the man in his home universe, the last man alive. A group of people kidnap him to another universe; I think he sees the Moon is different and knows that what they're saying is ...
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Young Adult novel about a time traveller with AI and a haunted forest
The main thing I remember about this story is that the main character is a time-traveller who is travelling with a computerised representation of his sister. During the course of events, he forms a ...
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Fantasy novel/series—female protagonist wielding a sword and magic frees her bird companion's cursed bloodline, resulting in a tragic scene on a ship
So I'm trying to find a fantasy novel or series I read when younger, but most of the details have been forgotten. Here is what I remember:
The novel or series had a female protagonist whose name ...
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Sci-fi book in which pockets of time are happening on Earth and things are getting stuck in them
I remember getting a sci-fi book in the last ten years. It had, to my remembrance, a dark cover with orange on the periphery because some of it takes place in an orange grove.
The concept is somehow ...
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Book read in the 80/90s about an alien microbe taking over creatures
In the '80s I read a book which started on a beach on a desert island. The premise was an alien microbe taking over creatures which escalates significantly. I seem to remember the book being epic in ...
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Webnovel in which the main character is transferred to another world as the daughter of a Duke with two sons and magical powers
I already read the webnovel until a certain point, so the story will include points from later chapters.
The main character (MC) was from the real world and loved to read many books. Then she was ...
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