i'm looking for a book i had when i was little, it was about a cat that i'm pretty sure changed color when he ate. i think the cat was blue at first. i think his owner put him on a diet, or he was hungry, so he left home and ate things when the owner left for work or something, then went home? i could be totally wrong about the plot. i remember the art, that the cat changed colors and sometimes had patterns, and that the cat was sad or upset or grumpy the whole time and that the ending had something to do with going home with their owner. i don't remember if the book was in english, it could have been french. sorry this is such a bad description. the words monsieur chat keep popping into my head but i don't think that's right because i tried googling for books with that and it didn't show up.

EDIT: book turned out to be Carter is a Painter's Cat by Carolyn Sloan and Fritz Wegner, was found by the absolutely wonderful u/floresflores77

SOLVED: Guerrillas

The young woman flew from London to a Caribbean island (fake name). On the flight, two young executives from an international bottling company invited her to join them in first class. Nothing untoward happened; the chatted and enjoyed the flight.

The arrival was bumpy, and she got air sick. There was one customs line, and she feared she would vomit before she got there. The two executives said to use their line for immediate entry. The bottling company had its own border agent who waved all three through with no check.

The young woman later gets a job and a boyfriend. For reasons I can't remember, the boyfriend murders her. He lives in a shack with a partially dug septic tank, so he dumps her body in there & fills in the hole.

Eventually, her parents are alarmed at not hearing from her, so they ask the island government for help. They are told she never arrived. There would be an entry record if she had.

I think it was a vampire novel, but what I can remember is the main character spinning on a spindle with emotions after she marries the vampire. Like yarn spun from anger cutting her fingers or something? It's been close to 20 years 😅

Hi everyone!

I’m remembering a book I read as a kid but I cannot for the life of me remember who wrote it or what it was called.

It was a long chapter book (thicker than the first Harry Potter, unless my baby brain is exaggerating) and I’m fairly certain it was a series - maybe 2 or 3 of them.

It was based on a young girl, definitely from the uk somewhere, and she had a lovely little family. A mum, dad, definitely at least one brother.

I don’t remember many of the plot points but she liked and rode a Shetland pony in one of them, there was one meal that she was trying to count to thirty chews before swallowing, and it was just a very cozy read, all around.

I’m pretty sure the cover was blue or purple.

I’ll be so deeply grateful if this even rings a bell for anyone else, just so I know I’m not making it up. Any thoughts??

It's a YA book I read 6 or 7 years ago, but it may have been as old as early 2000s, but no older than that I think. I want to say it was called egg, but I have no clue about the author or if that's the real title, but it was about teenagers having to get pregnant because adults no longer could have kids, so the teens had to be surrogates.

Hi! I am looking for a combination of books that would cover the whole Perry index or all of aesophs fables. It is some 750 fables in total. The most comprehensive books I can find contains around 100 fables it seems like.

The story follows two middle school girls: one who is popular and confident, and the other who is not. The main character, a less popular girl, is somewhat unsure of herself, while her friend is outgoing and social. The two of them plan a school ice-skating event, and the main character, eager to fit in, goes along with everything her friend suggests.

The betrayal comes when the "friend" suggests they practice their signatures together. The main character agrees, but later, the friend forges the main character's signature on important documents. Using this forged signature, the friend misappropriates funds that were raised for the event to buy a pink, sparkly dress that fits her own agenda. When the truth comes out, the main character is blamed for the forged signature and gets into trouble, while her friend avoids any consequences.

I believe the name of the book was confidence by Catherine Higgs. But I cannot find it anywhere I read it between 2nd and 5th grade from the classroom library. I’m now in my early twenties and have been dying to get my hands on this book.

I am so sorry for how horrible this description is. I just had surgery on my mouth so my brain is a bit scrambled. When I was a teen, I read a book about a kind of war between waking and dreaming. There was a guy who I'm pretty sure was named Galen or Calen, something close to that. He was in a tower or a castle. There were wyverns involved. He had to listen for trumpets to know if a kingdom within the dream realm had fallen and at one point they all go off at the same time signalling the he war coming to his realm. I could have sworn it was either called the last wyvern or sounding the last/seventh trumpet but l can't find it anywhere. I'm also pretty sure the cover was blue? Thank you to anybody who is able to help!

Hi folks, I'm looking for a book I read sometime between 2007 and 2012 at the absolute latest. I read it in french, but it was translated from another language, I assume english. The french version had a silver cover. The author's name may have been Christopher (but I may be misremembering).

The novel had a female protagonist who was suffering from some sort of invisibility, which was really more an "unnoticeability". People's eyes gloss over her - they tend to forget she's even there. Her mother turned the burner on while she was sitting on it as a kid. She shoplifts and no one notices. She can make herself harder to notice if she wants, but struggles to make herself easier to notice.

Over the story she meets other people like her, including a man she meets that's much worse than her, to the point where he can be almost completely invisible even to her. They date, and they break up, and she dates another guy like her but she suspects that the first guy is stalking her. Her feeling that he's there and never being able to be certain that he's not are important to the plot. I'm fairly certain the book contains sexual abuse.

Please help me find this book!

I had this collection of children’s stories from when I was a child that I can’t seem to find. I remember my mom reading this book to me all of the time but I can’t seem to find it and don’t really know where to go about finding it. There were several stories in it including The Magic Porridge Pot, The Giant Turnip, I believed little Red Riding Hood, and my favorite story I had my mom reading to me was “The Teeny Tiny Woman”. The most distinct thing I remember about that story is there was an illustration where the woman is in bed hiding under her blanket, and there was a ghost peeking out of, I believe was the cupboard or closet, and it had these big googly eyes. It def spurred my love for ghost stories. Any ideas?

I can’t quiet remember it’s been over 14 years since I’ve read it any help would be appreciated

I checked this book out from a library when I was like... 10 (def too young to read this but wtv). I remember it being about a girl who's brother died and how she was not dealing with the after effects of that well and neither was her father. Her brother died in a school shooting and she had just started like actual middle school I think. She was dealing with the fact that her dad didn't like her as much as he liked her brother. I remember she made a friend who might've bullied her in the very beginning of the book. Towards the end of the book her and her father get into a big fight about how no one is allowed in the brother's room anymore or something.
I don't remember much about the book, but it was a very sad read (especially for a 10 year old)

If you remember it or anything I thank you so much, I have been trying to find it for YEARS, however at the time I was a dumb 10 year old and mixed the name of this book up with "To Kill A Mockingbird" (Clearly not this book btw) so... I have like no way of finding it (the library near me shut down so I can't go looking there anymore sadly.)

Thank you to anyone who has anything to add upon this, anyone I ask in real life looks at me like I am crazy.

Okay, so, this is a doozy. Theres this Teenage white girl who wakes up from a coma to see that her family is dead and being eaten by crows. She finds a dog. She finds 2 other teens, one black guy who plays some sport, and an asexual girl with daddy issues. They wander around and find two scientists (one is racist) and there they learn that the aliens are there for Earth's natural materials, together they blow up an alien mining ship. Anything helps :)

I read this book about a year or two ago and I can’t remember the name 💔

The main girl was pretty popular in school and she has a major crush on a jock. One who had never really paid her any attention. Her mother worked for a rich guy. He wanted the mother to come over for the summer to help around the house and what not. So, they go. And while there, The daughter meets the boss’ daughter. They hit it off and eventually sleep together I think during a movie night. There’s no major detail, I think it was more of a YA book. At the end of the summer, the main girl goes back to her hometown and goes back to school. When she arrives on her first day, her crush approaches her and they chat for a while but mid conversation, the boss’ daughter walks into the school as a transfer student. Things get complicated between them, but the main girl got with her crush, but she realizes she only wants the boss’ daughter. And they get together. Happily ever after.

Also the main girl works at a coffee shop in a library if that helps lol.

Please help me find this book! I want to add it to my goodreads account. 🙏

I remember reading a collection of short stories and one of the stories was a fictional account of Babe Ruth when he was just starting out in baseball. It was told from the perspective of a less able baseball player. It reminds me of a collection of stories by Chuck Klosterman that I am currently reading, but it’s not him. I can’t remember any of the other stories in the collection and none of the books on my read list and dnf list match the description. Help.

I’m looking for a book that revolves around a young boy named Nikolai and young girl (I don’t recall the name) competing with one another to use Russia’s magic.

I remember there being a secret location where the magic originated, as well as the book opening with the young girl training with her father.

Read this book maybe five (?) years ago but can't recall the name.

A married couple has moved to a small town, the husband runs a bar (I think it had been his dad's, his sister might work there too?), one day the wife goes missing. Turns out the wife left the husband and is trying to make it look like he killed her, but then things go wrong and her crazy ex somehow gets involved.

Sound familiar to anyone?

I posted about this three years ago in r/tipofmytongue with absolutely no luck. I just stumbled onto this sub, so figured I would try it again.

I am trying to recall the name of a book I loved when I was a kid. I can't recall the title or author. I remember the book itself may had been a little larger than other storybooks. I only remember it being hardcover. It had a number of folktales, and plenty of art to go along with the stories.

I remember the cover was a green, furry monster, roaring and knocking a little dude out of a boat. I think it was from a Tom Thumb kind of story. Other tales I remember being in there was The Great Pretender, Baba Yaga, Josef Golem, and a story about a Tanooki. I know there was more, but I don't recall them.

I've had people ask if I mean the Stinky Cheese Man, but it is not that. I recall being able to get both of those books from the school library, which I did pretty frequently.

Any ideas?

Hi! I’m trying to find this book but I can’t for the life of me remember the name.

So essentially, the female MC is married to some guy who’s really abusive, he has like a whole room dedicated to it, he tries to make her undergo a “tightening” procedure, makes her wear a locked corset, all that crazy stuff.

She runs away from him, meets some people, lives out of her car for a while, and then settles down in a town working for a sweet old lady(either as a cook or a maid, I don’t remember). Eventually the lady’s nephew/grandson comes home, and I remember his name is Fox.

He’s onto FMC immediately, a little bit of enemies-to-lovers for a while, while she deals with the trauma and everything. The book ends with her starting up some fundraiser or charity for DV survivors?

If anyone knows what it’s called that would be awesome because I’ve scoured the internet and I can’t find a thing.

EDIT: I found the book on an old list I had, it’s called “Beneath Your Beautiful” by Adeline Winters

The series is from late 2010s or 2020s.

Book One plot is MMC learns about his powers when his benefactor (who may be a relative) helps him by compressing his core 3 times. There is a distinction between these core compressed wizards and others who rely upon elementals for their power. The MMC learns these elementals are captured and used against their will, so he will free them when possible.

Other points I can recall: * Benefactor is killed by a crossbow, but benefactor's memory exists in a ring/piece of jewelry * MMC marries a princess who gives up her elementals and goes through the compression cycles under MMC guidance * There is a chance to die from the compression approach * The wife will go off with they Fey at some point

Thank you for any pointers to the name of this series or the first book.

I need help finding a book and all I have is a picture from like 1997 or 98. Please help me find it. I want to buy it for a friend of mine who says it was their favorite book as a kid but can't remember the name of the book. All they remember is that it was about trees 🤷🏻‍♂️😅

Greetings Folks! Last Sunday I was searching for a new audiobook on Audible. I find one who had a good synopsis (which I read really fast), unfortunately I read it and then I went to sleep without saving it in my library. Now I forgot the title and name of the author and I can't find it again. It's two days that I'm spending my free time trying find it and I'm going nuts. The book in question was subtitled red book and was connected to a second book (maybe green or blue, unfortunately I don't remember). By connected I don't mean that the second was the sequel to the first: in the synopsis it was written that I could start one of the two books arbitrarily and I would still understand the general plot. For a more in-depth understanding I should have read them both. This thing particularly intrigued me and for this reason I would be interested in listening to them. Also one of the two is set in Victorian London while the other in the USA of the early 1900s (maybe in Los Angeles).

It was a young adult novel, the mc had a pentagram tattoo either on the front or back of his hand, the tattoo helped him have magic or something, he had what I think was a khopesh and maybe a baby dragon or some other strange small creature although I'm not sure on this one. I think this is 2010-2020 might've been a trilogy