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Book about a girl who drains your life upon touching you, is hunted by a group which wants to weaponize her
There was a book I read but I can't remember the name of it; I think it was "Shattered" something.
It was about a girl who drained your life upon touching you. It was set in the future and there was ...
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Novel about a tattoo that comes to life and jumps off the person's body
It was a sci-fi book with a red and orange cover on the hardcover edition. I'm pretty sure the author was male but wasn't by Bradbury or Asimov or anyone like that. I think it was published in the ...
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80s Novel series about post apocalypse world where 4 soldiers try and bring order
Looking for a novel series I read in the 1980s about 4 soldiers (the leader was a US Marine Force Recon member). There was also a Navy Officer, Green Beret soldier and Air Force fighter pilot.
They ...
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Fantasy series about powerful mages outside of space/time and King stranded on a water world
I read a series of books which I don't believe is the Castle Perilous series as those came out at the end of the 80's and I think I read this other series in the mid 80's.
It involved a castle and it ...
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Fantasy novel where magic is granted by knowledge of words of power [duplicate]
Several years back, I was on a backpacking trip with a guy whose whole family were huge fans of classic SF/Fantasy. One of the fantasy books he brought for the long car rides piqued my interest, but ...
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Novel series with students at a magic university
I read two books in a series and have forgotten the author and the titles.
The first book was about a young man who was a student in a magic university who became very powerful and was able to travel ...
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Book about a kingdom invaded by another world
This is a series my father read when he was younger (he was born in the 60s) and had me read as a kid, the book cover had the look and feel of classic fantasy novels such as the Wheel of Time series.
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Looking for a sci-fi book about a steampunk type world that is powered by brightly coloured particles that almost everyone can see
I only read the first book in the series and that was about ~8-10 years ago. It was in English.
It starts out with a woman manipulating these brightly coloured particles to build a statue. The ...
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Novel about humans on a frozen planet
I'm trying to remember the title of a science fiction novel I read years ago about a frozen planet onto which some Earth explorers crash land. The natives don't smile except as an act of aggression(?) ...
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Book ID: Boy plays a video game and has to to solve different tasks (the last being a maze that's an IQ test)
There is this boy who plays a video game where he has to solve a multitude of tasks. One was a tactical space battle and the last one was a maze.
Later, it's revealed that it was some IQ test and he ...
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Name of a YA book series about Dragons and wyverns
I only have so much to work from my memory but here it goes:
The story was about a normal child that was pulled into a fictional world where Wyverns stalked the land. The protagonist (a youngish boy ...
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Help find a childhood book
Okay so from what I remember the story takes place in a (boring?) gray world and the main character is a girl (maybe around 12). I don't remember how but the girl ended up in a different (realm? world?...
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I'm looking for a book where a family go camping in the woods and aliens start attacking
So the book starts off with the family deciding to take a trip to a cabin in the woods. The daughter also has her best friend with her.
The points I remember from the book:
The father has an affair ...
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Fantasy series where people have ID tattoos on their earlobes?
It was a series, possibly a trilogy. I would have read it around 2005 from the local library. I have a feeling it may have been from the 80's. Was a paperback and I think each book was a different ...
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What's that book that ends with the preserved head of a political genius?
In this society, bisexuality is seen as fashionable. In the past, they perfected a method to accelerate equine pregnancy. That method is later used in humans, with the result that now humans grow up ...
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Book about a boy thats transported into a medieval fantasy computer game [duplicate]
This is a long shot but I'm really in need of help for this because it was an amazing book. It was either a kid's or YA book. A guess from what year it was published would be 90s-mid 2000s, as I read ...
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Fantasy book with battle between owls and crows
I have a difficult one here. I am trying to track down a fantasy book for my Dad, but the problem is that his memory is not quite there these days. He remembers really enjoying the book but ...
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Book about a boy and girl in proxy magical competition including a field of ice in a magical circus?
I remember reading a story a few years ago, maybe around 2015, a small new paperback book, maybe around 300 pages, about a young boy and a young girl with magical talent, who were supposed to show ...
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Story about a bunch of rodents?
The book had stuff about a guinea pig and some kind of assyrian rodent. In one of the books, the rodents time traveled (Assyria?)
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I've been looking for a sci-fi book for ages. Title included Olympia/Olympus, featured VR
I read this book probably at least 10 years ago. All I remember about it is that it included Olympia or Olympus in the title (and possibly had winged people on the cover?), it featured Virtual Reality,...
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Looking for a fantasy book I started reading but never finished
I don't remember much about it I just remember that it started with the place where a kid lived is destroyed.
The main detail I remember is that the portal to the other land is an imperfect street ...
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Series Whose Protagonist Is a Leper
I am trying to remember a series I read some time ago (probably in the early aughts) about a leper who is transported to another world where he leads an army. In the real world, he cannot feel most of ...
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A book, two agents going to a possible lost colony, apparent religious background, very political
Novel from the 1960s-80s, no later than the early 1990s.
A pair of agents of some sort are being sent to some planet, where the destination may be a recently rediscovered colony. Both the agents and ...
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Book where boy doesn't have magic but everyone else does
I remembered reading a book about a boy who doesn't have magic while everyone does. His uncle is a famous wizard and helps him get into a wizard school. Later on, it Is revealed that the boy doesn't ...
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Novel that depicts a dystopian city trapped by fog
Things I believe I accurately remember:
There was an airship/dirigible on the cover.
The MC was a journalist.
As stated in question there is a fog around the entire city (which is an island or ...
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Book about adults who were accidentally exposed to govt chemical testing as children and are now being killed.
There was a book, probably part of a series, that I read 10-15 years ago about a group of kids on a school trip who were accidentally exposed to chemical testing by the government. These kids grew up,...
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What's the name of the book where a girl is built into a spacecraft?
There was a sci-fi book a book I saw about 10 years ago, that featured a society of people where (I think) some chose to become parts of spacecraft. I was very young at the time so i only remember ...
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Fantasy novel series with paraplegic protagonist who travels back and forth between Earth and his world
I am looking for a fantasy book where the main character travels back and forth between Earth and his world and they watch him like he is on TV.
He gets stabbed in the stomach and in the second book ...
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Story Identification: Novel in which aliens drain sun's energy
I read this book in my school's library and that was a long time ago (long enough ago that I don't remember). I will give my best to reproduce the important parts of it. Few scientists, while working ...
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Identify a book featuring overpopulated world with limited living space assigned to individuals
When I was wee I would read books by pile and a specific story came to mind and I wish to identify it. I have lots of the premise in mind but weak google-fu.
Details include:
A man awakens from ...
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