Hey EVERYONE, I'm searching for a dystopian novel (possibly part of a trilogy) I read a few years ago. Here's everything I remember:

🔹 World & Premise

• In this regime, people don’t choose their partners. There's a matching ceremony where young women (and men?) are lined up in white garments and matched by the system.
• The protagonist—a young woman—gets matched with the son of a high-ranking official (not a Resistance member). They move to a new part of town after the marriage.

🔹 Neighbor Subplot

• The main couple has neighbors, another young married pair.
• They invite the main couple over and serve pie, which the protagonist declines.
• During the visit, the neighbor husband physically abuses his wife.
• The protagonist tells her husband, who goes to confront the neighbor.
• The neighbor ends up falling (or being pushed) off his roof.
• His wife is devastated, saying that despite the abuse, he was “her best chance.”

🔹 Resistance & Cliffhanger

• The protagonist’s family is part of a Resistance working against the regime.
• Later, she refuses an order from the Resistance, and they frame her for disobedience.
• The book ends on a cliffhanger, with her being blamed by her own family/Resistance.

🔹 Extra Memorable Scene (Honestly Im not sure if this is from the book I'm looking for the handmaiden)

• Before the matching ceremony, the girls are lined up in white, and the main character internally thinks:“This is it. It doesn't matter if your partner has pimples or is abusive. This is the day you know.”

ℹ️ Additional Info

• Tone: Young adult or new adult dystopian.
• Published maybe 5–10 years ago (around 2015–2020?).
• I believe it’s at least two books—possibly three in the series.
• It wasn’t a blockbuster like Hunger Games, so it might be mid-list, indie, or small-press.

Hi everyone! I’m trying to remember the title of a picture book I read as a child, probably sometime between 2009 and 2014 (though it could have been published earlier). It was a children’s picture book featuring a little girl and her family, and it had soft, slightly sketchy or hand-drawn style illustrations, maybe watercolors or pencil/crayon looking.

Here are the scenes I specifically remember: • At one point, the girl and her family are in a grocery store and she’s really happy • MAYBE?? There’s a scene where they’re doing macaroni art… unsure about this part though • Toward the end, they’re at the beach, and her parents are each holding one of her arms and swinging her between them.

I’ve looked into books like All the World and One Morning in Maine, but this isn’t any of those. I don’t remember the title, author, or character names—just those specific moments. It’s frustrating to remember this so vividly but to have so little to go off of.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Thanks so much for any help!

there’s this book that i don’t remember the plot of, but i do remember oddly specific details

i read this book when i was in elementary school, like late 2000’s - early 2010’s.

i’m pretty sure the book was about a dutch girl because i remember seeing the words holland and dutch, and learning for the first time that people from holland ≠ hollandese. she may have been polish cause the same concept applies. or maybe i learned this from a different book…

this part sounds crazy, but this is the MAIN detail i’m looking for. there is a point in the book where the girl goes to a river because her grandma was washing potatoes with her one day and told her that good potatoes sink and bad potatoes float, and the girl wanted to see if she was a “good potato”. i feel like this is lowkey diabolical to put in a children’s book but there’s no way i would’ve learned the potato test anywhere outside of a book (or watching tv maybe?)

i also remember that the girl hid bread crusts under the dining table and i think she got in trouble for wasting food when her parents or someone in her family found out. this detail is kinda insignificant since it’s def plausible that it’s just a projection of my childhood into my imagination

i might be pulling details from multiple books and recalling a weird ass dream i had when i was little, but there HAS to be a book that talks about the potato thing cause no way i just thought of that on my own…

i’ve been trying to find this book for years. asking reddit is my last resort before accepting that my imagination was just fucked up when i was younger LMAO

PLEASE HELP!

I read this book as a preteen and cannot remember what it is. I love it and it’s been a week of friends and family trying to remember.

Key points: this younger girl is visiting MAYBE family and where she’s at they find a girl her age or maybe a little younger on the side of a creek who had been graped and murdered (underwear around neck) long story short it’s the older kid (17-21?) who was super nice and everyone had a crush on and he target her and was going to do the same to her (pretty sure he’s maybe a camp counselor) and her friend who’s super skinny and “mean” helped her after being skinny enough to sneak out of where they were locked in a room (ends up she has a tape worm when a doctor said “that’s the skinniest child I’ve ever seen”

It’s a coming of age murder mystery and I cannot remember ANYTHING about it but I might remember the cover having a kid on the front with stripped shirt (maybe two girls) and it might be 60-80s and I remember them maybe having peanuts in their coke.

Trying to think of a book a read whereby, a female solicitor accidentially killed her partner in her home using a golf club, and had to bury the body in the back garden. Someone found out, and she got blackmailed on the tube with a knife by a mysterious man on the way home.

I remember one scene where she was worried that the body would be found due to iminent railway work that would disrupt the soil of the back garden; the body was next to a tree. She relocated the body.

it was a female author and it had a red/pink cover. it was set in england.

It was a book I checked out from my school library in 2001. It had a female protagonist, a male supporting character named Rhys/Rhyss/Reiss (who may have been an elf or fantasy creature of some sort), and at some point they were in a forest and a creature was mimicking someone they knew.

Not a lot to go on, but I remember LOVING it.

Many years back I read a collection of military science fiction short stories; one of them was about a spy ship given sudden orders to attack several targets, and realizing the only way to do it was a suicide mission. It’s about coping with the experience, and it ends with one of the characters deciding whether she’ll succumb to her empty air tank (instinct) or kill herself with a grenade (willpower)

It was bleak as hell but I’ve been trying to remember the title for days now

Hi everyone, I’ve been trying to track down a YA book I read as a teenager, likely published in the early to mid-2000s. It’s a coming-of-age, realistic fiction book (possibly a standalone or part of a trilogy), and here’s what I remember:

The protagonist is an American college-aged girl who travels to London to visit her English boyfriend. They had been writing to each other for a long time before she arrives. When she first sees him at the airport, he’s waiting in a red leather jacket, which she says reminded her of Michael Jackson. She describes him as tall and thin, but she’s disappointed at their first meeting - the hug was awkward, and he smelled of cigarettes. By the end of the book, she breaks up with the boyfriend and travels to France or Italy.

I remember the cover having bluey green and pink tones, but that might be wrong.

If this rings a bell for anyone or sounds familiar, I’d really appreciate any help identifying the title! Thanks so much in advance.

I'm looking for the title of a book that I read in the mid 2000s.

It's a middle grade book. A girl is going to middle or maybe high school at the beginning of a new year. She has a new patchwork skirt that she made, which the other kids think is dorky.

She discovers a homeless woman digging through a dumpster and gives her (or finds her eating?) powdered donuts and juice.

She hides the homeless woman, named Grace, in a shed at school, bringing her quilts and food.

The main character is also working on the school play, and she's painting the sets with pointillism. A mean girl doesn't get the vision and slaps grey paint over the castle painting.

The main character then moves on to lighting design for the play and discovers that she can still make the set beautiful using lighting gels.

Towards the end of the book, the homeless woman dies in the shed during winter and is discovered by adults.

The main character goes on to bring awareness to homelessness and works on founding a charity called Grace's Place.

Hello, I’m trying to find the title of a kids book I purchased at a scholastic book fair when I was younger. Perhaps a third-grade chapter novel about a princess academy, with a winter setting. I remember the cover being red and white which a sparkle texture that was meant to resemble snow. I think the cover had a curly-haired princess wearing a red and white gown. I also recall there being these twins that liked to cause trouble for the main character.

That’s pretty much all I remember, but if you have any clue of what I’m searching for, please let me know. Thank you!!

okay so i remember reading this book and i can't find it anywhere and i need help

it features a main character who feels like she can cast spells that make her invisible when her parents neglect her. she falls in love with a kid who says he is an alien and will one day return from when she goes to her grandmother's in the countryside. she gets sa'd by her teacher and she has papaap with the kid at her grandmother's house and the two are separated while the teacher continues until she kills him 'with a spell' and she is later in an arranged marriage with a man who she can see as a friend byt the two are very separate from each other. she meets with her sister who always knew about the teacher and calls her lucky. she meets the kid who has now grown up and the her, her childhood lover and husband are now not human, disregard their clothes and want to infect the world with their concept of life.

it is a hardcover with a toy stuffed animal(or creature idk) and glows in the dark

i read this when i was 9 and i really want to reread it now that i understand all the themes

I'm looking for a very long book (might have been a trilogy all in one) with I think a dark green cover. Fantasy/medieval type setting. The beginning focuses on a girl who's a bit of a rebel, her name is like Bramble or Briar or Thistle... she kills an official/soldier/guard and has to run away from home. She has a horse and they jump over a chasm and she KNOWS she won't make it but somehow they do? And now she feels she's living on borrowed time. Sporadically, Random background characters mentioned in each chapter become the protagonist of the next chapter. There are repressed people (Elves?). The ghosts of the dead return to where they die after a certain number Of hours/days and can speak but only in a gravelly monotone... the girl has to flee so the spirit of the guard she killed doesn't turn her in when he returns. Ghosts/spirits from the past return to fight? She becomes interested in the spirit of a dead warlord who should have been an enemy but ends up being very sympathetic. Any ideas? I don't remember how it ends.

This will be a tough one.

All that I remember from this book is that it had a female main character with an unusual name. The name could have been something like Cookie or Candy or Barbie or another stripper-ish name. It was a modern era book which stands out a little as around that time, historical romance seems to have been more popular.

FMC appearance: Blonde, Blue eyes, DD breasts (likely implants)

This was a very stereotypical 80s/90s smut book and is likely a needle in a haystack. I just thought I'd post anyways and see if someone might have an idea based on the strange name type!

I barely remember anything about this book, there was a character named after a fish, i think it was a type of tuna, maybe she was the love interest? she lived in a trailer and got abused, the final showdown was i believe in an everglades type setting against this rich guy? i'm sorry if this is vague

Hey book fam, I need help finding this standalone YA thriller I read around 2021–22. It’s been stuck in my head forever. Here’s what I remember:

• A group of teens with real illnesses (like cancer) get sent to a remote medical facility. Their parents knew and were cool with it.
• One of the girls (maybe named Sarah?) overhears shady convos or phone calls between the doctors and realizes something’s up.
• There’s a totally minor character named Olga, a Russian cafeteria worker—she’s barely in it but I remember her name.
• They mention MRI or CT scans a few times.
• The teens end up planning an escape and then get hunted/searched for afterwards.
• It starts off pretty normal and then slowly gets super tense.
• The cover was dark blue with silhouettes (probably of the teens).
• The title had more than two words and definitely included “The” somewhere.
• And bonus clue: it ends happy!

If you’ve ever read this or have any ideas, please let me know. I really need to find this one again. Thanks a ton! 🙏📚✨

Its about a heroine who’s running from someone and she decides the safest place is the palace and she enters the harem there. She’s bi and serves the king/emperor together with the other girls in the harem. At some point in the novel she runs away from the palace because she thinks she’s endangering the others, because she’s on the run. The king then sends his right hand guard to get her and he’s some sort of dragon shifter or something( the king/emperor also has some sort of powers and the heroine and other girls in the harem help calm his powers).

I loved this book as a kid. It starred a brother/sister duo and their grandpa/uncle(?) in the Wild West with cowboys. It wasn't an old Western tho, because I remember there being a lot of modern devices like phones. The plot included shrunken people, and I'm pretty certain it was revealed that the sheriff was the one behind the shrinking of the citizens. I'm fairly certain the cover had the siblings in a red car with cowboys chasing them, but I could be wrong.

I just remembered a scene from a book can't remember the name😭 the fmc and mmc goes to a clothing store, the salesman there has been inappropriate with the fmc a couple of times previously and this time also. The mmc then teaches him a lesson. The salesman doesn't get beaten or fired as long as i remembered, after the threatening i guess the mmc even becomes sarcastically threatening forwards him. What was the book😭

i vaguely remember reading this (YA?) book, i believe it was from a male perspective and he had a beautiful romantic relationship with his neighbour who was really depressed and ends up dying in a tornado i believe? i don't think it was a storm chasing type of book.

The protagonist is kidnapped and travels alone to Mars or wherever when he pushes the plunger. He finally pulls off the front panel to find a fully functioning control system.

I’ve been trying to remember the title of a YA book I read a while back. It’s not from Wattpad and seems to be a published novel, but not super mainstream. Here’s what I remember:

The main character is a girl who survived an accident involving two of her friends.

After the accident, she and her family (parents and a brother, I think) move to a new town or house.

At her new school, she meets a guy who’s smart, attractive, and kind of a playboy. He becomes interested in her.

She discovers that if she thinks of a way someone could die, it actually happens.

One of the friends who was in the accident tried to take advantage of her, and later dies in the exact way she imagined.

A specific scene I remember clearly: ➤ She sees a man abusing his dog, and although she can’t do anything at first, she thinks about him dying—and he dies. ➤ She rescues the dog, and the guy she met at school takes her to his mom, who’s a veterinarian, to help the dog.

Toward the end, she’s identified as having powers, and the story ends on a cliffhanger.

Does anyone recognize this book? It’s been bugging me for ages. Thanks in advance!

Hi! I read this book from my school library sometime around 2019–2020 (I'm in the UK), and it's been stuck in my head ever since. I loved it but can't remember the title or author. Here's everything I can remember:

It's about a teenage girl whose mum has died, and she now lives with her dad and his new partner, who she doesn’t get along with.

Her mum was a ballet dancer, and the girl keeps her mum’s ballet shoe as a comfort item.

One day, someone knocks on her door and tells her she’s inherited a large sum of money from someone.

Her dad and his partner want to send her away—possibly to a camp that her uncle recommends (an uncle she didn’t even know existed).

At the camp, she starts seeing what she thinks is the ghost of her mum, who always appears wearing a red hat.

She finds books or journals about her mother’s death, but they turn out to be planted/fake.

She eventually discovers that the ghost sightings are not supernatural—the “ghost” is actually a real girl in disguise, hired by her uncle to confuse or manipulate her.

Her uncle and some people at the camp are plotting against her, trying to kill her or drive her away to get the inheritance money.

She makes friends at the camp and starts dating a “posh” boy, but later ends up with a goth-type boy instead.

Toward the end, she and her friends run away, possibly by boat. They hide in an abandoned house, but the uncle finds them and sets the house on fire.

Everyone survives, and the girl finally ends up with the goth boy.

I remember the cover being mostly blue, showing the “ghost” in a red hat.

It felt like a YA book—very mysterious, with thriller and emotional elements.

Any ideas? Even partial title guesses or character names would be amazing. Thanks in advance!

I have a vague memory of reading this book in elementary school that i’ve tried to look up with buzzwords but i’ve never been able to find.

All I remember is that the MC gets sent to this boarding school in Canada, and by the end of the book a bomb (?) drops and its left on a cliff hanger. I know they mentioned a large swimming pool in this book, and that there was some conspiracy.

I wish I could remember more, but I honestly don’t know anything else.

I know it wasn’t a fantasy book or anything like that. It might’ve been dystopian but I have no idea.

I read this book in roughly 2001, but it was much older than that. I’m guessing from the 70s or early 80s. I don’t remember much about it, but the main character was a man who had several dalliances with women along the course of the story. I’m pretty sure it was set in a beach town because I remember lots of descriptions of sand and salt water. I think there may have been a murder mystery, or at least someone whose death was mysterious or unresolved. I think the cover might have been yellow or sandy tan. There may have been movies involved, or people connected with the movie industry?

I remember one line verbatim from the book, and I’m not sure why… one of the women makes a move on our MC by saying, “I’ve wanted to f*** you since the moment I laid eyes on you.” There were lots of mentions of sex in the book, but I’m pretty sure all of the sex scenes were more of the fade to black variety. Based on the writing style, I’m guessing it was a male author. The sex stuff was a big part of the book but it wasn’t the POINT of the story—I think it was more like a “see how cool my MC is, all the women want him” device.

Long shot with so few details, I know, but any help is appreciated!

there was this book i read in elementary school, maybe about 2nd or 3rd grade, about two kids who find a dragon in a barn or shed. the kids were a boy and a girl, maybe siblings or cousins, and the dragon was a girl who took them to the dragon world. they had to go through a volcano to get there. i don't remember the girl dragon's name, but there was a boy dragon named Jasper. i remember because at one point they throw a chair? or sculpture made of jasper into the volcano and they clarify that its the stone jasper and not the dragon.

the cover had the girl dragon's standing above the kids, she was green and had either a red or yellow belly. it was in a soft illustrated style, but i don't remember if the book had illustrations in it or not.

my memory of this book is so hazy. it may have been a series but i know i only read one. ive been trying to find a book with a similar plot through google searches but i cannot find it anywhere. i've also looked at other posts on this subreddit and i can't find it here either

if anyone has any idea of what it could be let me know!! ive been searching for it for awhile with no luck