r/whatsthatbook 6h ago

UNSOLVED young girly book? help pls?

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i’ve been searching and trying to remember the name of this book, which i believe is a series, for so long! i remember reading it/them when i was in elementary school and i adored them. it has been several years, so i’ll do my best to remember what i can. i’m 25 now, if my age helps!

i believe it was some sort of book about young friends in school and some of the text throughout the book was in a computer IM format, like they’d been messaging back and forth. hard back book. i could be making this part up, but maybe the books are pretty colors too? idk. please please if you have any ideas let me know!

thank you :)


r/whatsthatbook 3h ago

UNSOLVED What’s the title of this book?

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I read this book around last year and it’s about a travel nurse comming across a “AITAH” post on reddit about a guy complaining about his bestfriend naming his dog after him, then they talked back and forth until the girl eventually went to his hometown for work, she and her bestfriend moved into this mini-mansion house in the middle of the lake with a boat as their only way to get to and from the mainland.

I think the setting was in manhattan, I’ve been thinking about this for the past 30 minutes and I just can’t sleep without remembering what book it was.

I think I DNFed it so I cannot find it on my recently read books.

TYIA!!


r/whatsthatbook 5h ago

UNSOLVED Can someone help me find this book?! I’ve searched the internet and it’s not coming up

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I’m looking for these books but I can’t seem to find it

The "Grace Series" by A. J. C. Glover includes the following titles:

  1. Amazing Grace (Book 1)
  2. Grace Abounding (Book 2)
  3. Grace Unleashed (Book 3)
  4. Grace Redeemed (Book 4)

These books follow Grace's journey as she confronts various challenges and expands her understanding of her role in the battle against evil. If you need more information about any specific book or the series as a whole, feel free to ask!


r/whatsthatbook 1h ago

UNSOLVED childhood book I can’t remember

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from what I can recall, the book was about a group of monkeys and/or animals who lived in a treehouse and I’m pretty sure they were having a sleepover because they made banana splits and caught fireflies at night

I can’t really remember anything else and the book might’ve had puppet pop outs maybe?


r/whatsthatbook 3h ago

UNSOLVED Saw book on instagram ad and can’t remember the title

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Recently came across an instagram ad for a book where the female main character is on a deserted highway. She’s found by the male main character whose wife had disappeared along the same stretch of highway. Cannot recall the title or author but I believe it was recently published and possibly available on kindle unlimited.


r/whatsthatbook 17h ago

UNSOLVED Book on Wattpad about a man living alone and then finds two children one a vampire and one a werewolf.

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It was about this man who lived alone in the woods and found these two kids a Vampire and a Werewolf he raised them as his own and slowly warmed up to them. Until one day they went too far and bit him he then kicked them out. Years later they came back in love with the man and turned him into a vampire so he would never die.


r/whatsthatbook 20h ago

SOLVED Drama book read in 2000s

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The book has four different stories in it. One story is about a girl named Olivia who is a young figure skater and is having to move. One story is about a girl that is a young gymnast and getting a baby sister. The third story is about a young ice dancer who is partners with her brother and changes her mind about ice dancing. She wants to do figure skating instead. Solved! Solved! Name: Girls Only volume one


r/whatsthatbook 1h ago

UNSOLVED Who knows the title of this book

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Hello everyone! I need help finding a romcom book about a girl who hires an actor to seduce her mother but ends up falling in love with him. I read the plot once but now I can't find the tittle of this book :(


r/whatsthatbook 1h ago

UNSOLVED Need to know the name of Young adult novel I read in 2014

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When I was younger at school I read a book with a male main character I can’t exactly remember much but I remember there was a group of antagonists possibly called the legion and I feel like there was a outbreak of something but I’m not sure. I also feel like the main character or someone close to him looses a finger I would like to read it again because I enjoyed it so much I just can’t remember why exactly haha thank you


r/whatsthatbook 6h ago

UNSOLVED 2000s kids chapter book

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I read a chapter book in middle school about 15 years ago that I believe had a purple sunset on the cover. There was a group of kids that found an abandoned bus in the woods, it wasn’t a thriller, pretty sure it had some sort of magic in the book? It was about 300 pages long if I remember correctly. I know this is very vague but it’s been haunting me for years. Help please 😂


r/whatsthatbook 15h ago

UNSOLVED Book about a princess?

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I read it as a kid years and years ago - all I can remember is that I think she’s a princess and she has to do these magical challenges to claim her thrown? They all had some sort of time limit and I’m pretty sure one included riding a horse or a unicorn or something…

Any ideas? 🙏🏻🙈😅


r/whatsthatbook 22h ago

UNSOLVED Looking for a French book - Chapter 19 is titled « De gros enjeux », page 476 I think

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Hey! I’m trying to identify a French book someone is reading. Here’s what I know: • Around page 476, there is Chapter 19 titled “De gros enjeux” (which means “High stakes” or “Major stakes” in English). • Just below the chapter title, there seems to be a word like “Résumé”, or a similar word (maybe starting with “Pé” and ending with “é”). • The book is quite thick (probably over 600 pages), and the layout looks like a modern novel.

• Could be from an author like Guillaume Musso or Joël Dicker — but I couldn’t confirm anything.

If this rings any bell, I’d love your help!


r/whatsthatbook 5h ago

UNSOLVED Late 80s/early 90s scary chapter book

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This was a book I loved in upper elementary school and checked out from the library several times. Here are the details I can remember:

A woman is trying to write a book but needs a dedicated space to get her work done. She rents out the shed/chicken coop at the house of a reclusive old woman, using this as her work space. When it gets too cold out, she comes into the old woman’s house to work, setting up in an unused room.

All the spooky/scary really starts once she moves inside. I don’t remember those specifics but it was something along the lines of people suspecting the old lady was some kind of undead/monster/zombie/ghost thing.

I also remember a moment where the woman was in a bedroom of the house and she touched the quilt/bedspread on the bed, which fell apart beneath her fingers due to age.

I don’t remember if the book was ever in hardcover. I always checked out a paperback. Thanks for any help that you all can give me!


r/whatsthatbook 18h ago

SOLVED Gay couple doesn't realize they're in an apocalypse?

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This isn't a book I read but one I think I remember reading the description for? I can't remember where though so I'm not entirely sure it's real or not.

Basically, this gay couple is incredibly wealthy and doesn't realize they're in the middle of an apocalypse. They invite a bunch of people to the main character's husband's birthday party, but at the last second I think they ran out of something so the main character has to go to the grocery store and then he spends the entire day trying to get back home because of some disaster. I'm not sure if he realizes at this point there's an apocalypse or not.

Anyone know what book this is, if it's real? I have no idea if it's going to be an obvious answer or not but it's too much to fit into Google and I have absolutely no idea


r/whatsthatbook 15h ago

SOLVED children’s book where a girl was afraid of getting shots and her grandma take her on a tour of different diseases

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that may not be the exact plot, but I had to read this book in the early 2000s and I remember it having a girl who is afraid of going to the doctor to get shots and her grandma takes her on a tour of the different disease you can get when you don’t get your shots. The girl was hiding in a treehouse I think before her grandma came up to find her. It’s like she almost took her on a tour inside the human body? And showed her different viruses and what they can do to your body.


r/whatsthatbook 5h ago

SOLVED YA dystopia where girls are like dolls in a school/factory and trained to be courtesans or wives.

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Hi, I’m looking for a book I read in Highschool, I’m pretty sure it had a bright pink cover with a headless barbie doll on it, about 400 pages I’d guess. I remember that it was quite futuristic with a lot of technology being used by the protagonist, like fancy wardrobes and makeup etc. It was a boarding school type setting where the girls were trained in different paths for society, and I distinctly remember the frequent use of the word “courtesan” as I had to look it up as a teenager to know what it meant!

A part of the plot I recall is that in one scene they were introduced to a variety of boys and had to take them into a box and interact with them and do different tasks, to help establish what path they would take, and the protagonist caught feelings for the boy and tried to kiss him, or possibly did.

I’m pretty sure she ended up being forced into taking a different path to what she had wanted to, but other than that most of the plot is lost to me.

I really really appreciate any help finding it as I’ve searched all over and nothing that has come up had jogged my memory! I only read it once as I’d borrowed it from a friend but I really remember enjoying it and would love to revisit it as an adult. Thanks in advance for any help! ☺️


r/whatsthatbook 47m ago

UNSOLVED 2nd book in a series about a girl who’s trying to find an orb with magic

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I was reading this book in middle school before the pandemic hit. I can't remember the title and it's killing me. All I remember are few details:

• it’s a series • her house was burned down •she lives in a valley (maybe) • she paints, and the painting is like dark magic •she has a boyfriend or old fling who's magic • something about a dragon orb, or some sort of orb that gives her magic and they have to find it I think it was in a church (the orb) I know this is very little information but any help is appreciated !! 🙏


r/whatsthatbook 1h ago

UNSOLVED Book about a boy and a magic flute. Spoiler

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I am having trouble finding an old book that used to be my favorite in high-school. Was about an Italian orphan who gained a magical flute from a magician and used it get into an all girls boarding school. Later becomes a famous orchestra musician and finds out his old friends were being smuggled to wealthy investors of the school. Happy ending with the magician even becoming his friend and marrying one of the girls from the boarding school? It was a strange book but it was pretty interesting. Please let me know if any of you guys have an idea as to the name.


r/whatsthatbook 1h ago

UNSOLVED Book series set in 1880s or 1890s, touches on the early days of film/movie making

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There were at least two books in the series. The main character is a young woman. In the first book she meets a young man who is interested in film making. There is an older man trying to get to the young woman. The older man has a young orphan girl working for him who he eventually murders. The main character eventually falls for the young man and they sleep together. The night they sleep together the building they are in catches fire and the young man dies when the floor collapsed beneath him.

In the second book, it's a few years later, the young woman is raising her daughter that was conceived on the night of the fire and running the deceased young man's film company when a man she doesn't know arrives and claims to be the father of her child and owner of the owner of the film company.

I didn't really like the books, I quit reading after the first or second chapter of the second book. I read these books sometime between 2000 to 2003. They were paperback and belonged to my mom, she no longer has them.

Like I said, I didn't like books, but it annoys me that I can't remember the title of the first book. Google was not helpful so was hoping someone here knows what book I'm talking about.


r/whatsthatbook 1h ago

UNSOLVED Need help finding this romcom book

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Hello everyone! I need help finding a romcom book about a girl who hires an actor to seduce her mother but ends up falling in love with him. I read the plot once but now I can't find the tittle of this book :(


r/whatsthatbook 2h ago

UNSOLVED Short Story about a Sinking Boat Spoiler

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I know exactly what this short story is about, but I can't remember the name.

How it goes is three men (a Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian) are stuck on a sinking ship.

As the ship begins to sink, all of the men work together to save as many people as they can. In the end, they have managed to save everyone but themselves, as there are no more lifeboats available.

The story ends with them standing together holding hands. Something like "the Muslim man prayed in Arabic, the Jewish man prayed in Hebrew, and the Christian man prayed in English". The moral of the story is about ignoring our differences and working together for the greater good.

Some details may be incorrect, but the plot stands.


r/whatsthatbook 2h ago

UNSOLVED A crime and thriller book about a super drug that makes people super enhances and strong, will pay $10 to cashapp if answered

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I believe it’s about a detective trying to find a person selling a drug that enhances physical and sexual urgencies, putting women and men in danger, kinda like a date grape drug I believe the detectives family gets involved and there was a big man that used the drug and started going crazy with a knife inside his home with his wife, and the detective ended up taking the drug to stop the bad guy They also sold the drug to an A-list celebrity who got shot and killed at their mansion during a raid, which was a cover up They narrowed it down to some beach house And the person fled in a red dodge viper or some sort of sports car Just to get sniped from a distance by the person trying to cover up the operation, while either holding someone hostage or being tailed

I cannot for the life of me figure out the title


r/whatsthatbook 2h ago

UNSOLVED Fantasy book

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So I’m trying to remember this series from years ago, in it there are typically magic users paired with warriors in a bond of some sort, and usually the warrior is a man and magic user women I believe, but it happens that the main characters are women is the warrior man is the magic user? Their bond might be special and the pair created by a counsel or something. I seem to remember somethin to do with an angel or someone coming after the women main character and that plot line comes to a head at some point. Other than that all I can remember is this one line where the male protagonist and another side character are running and the main character makes a comment (maybe to himself) about how like most body builders they miss out on cardio so the guy couldn’t keep up. Weird detail to remember I know, but that’s all I got. Hope you guys can help me figure this out! Thank you!


r/whatsthatbook 2h ago

SOLVED Book series about small clay dragons that all have names starting with G

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Looking for the name of this book series I read when I was younger. I recall all the books having dragon eyes on the covers.

It followed the MMC named David(i think it was) as he moves into a rented room with a woman who makes clay dragons and her daughter(lucy? I think). They give life to the small dragons by giving them names, and they all have to start with the letter G. I've been looking for it for months, any help is appreciated!!


r/whatsthatbook 3h ago

UNSOLVED I need help finding a Mafia romance book

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So I started to read this book years ago but I don’t really remember much of it. All I remember is that the female lead was the daughter of the maid and she went to university. He was the moms boss and after seeing her he fell attracted towards her, later on he offered to help pay for her tuition. The female lead lived on campus and he had gone to the university to donate some money when he saw some guys at her place and he instantly got jealous. That’s all I remember, any help would be appreciated!!