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Can't remember the title of a book you read? Come search our bookshelves and discussion posts. If you don’t find it there, post a description on our UNSOLVED message board.
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1. GENRE and PLOT DETAILS are mandatory in the header/ topic title. Do NOT create vague topic headers like "Romance" or "YA Fantasy" or "Looking for this book." Threads with vague headers will be CLOSED.
2. Authors or members who SPAM the group will be BLOCKED.
3. Only the "OP" (original poster) can "bump" their topic/ thread (b ...more
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By Ann aka Iftca… · 1 post · 14131 views
last updated Aug 02, 2017 01:02PM
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How to find my old posts / comments
By Holly · 227 posts · 10245 views
By Holly · 227 posts · 10245 views
last updated Feb 04, 2026 04:54AM
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Resources to find books - Please try before posting!
By Kaion · 147 posts · 24866 views
By Kaion · 147 posts · 24866 views
last updated Apr 23, 2026 04:45AM
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► Header/ Topic Title must contain GENRE and PLOT details. "YA" refers to TEENS.
By Kris · 1 post · 6475 views
last updated Nov 08, 2020 08:40AM
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► RULES & GUIDELINES - UNSOLVED: ONE SPECIFIC BOOK folder
By Kris · 1 post · 50086 views
last updated Jun 22, 2017 04:01AM
Tween/ YA fiction. Teens and kids traveling with family and become lost in jungle and need to find their way back to civilization. Read early 1980's/late 1970's.
By Lill · 3 posts · 9 views
By Lill · 3 posts · 9 views
last updated 14 minutes ago
Women's fiction: Main character is a woman whose twins drown in a flood or a river. She fosters another child. I think her husband can't cope and leaves. I read it between 2002 and 2006 and I think it was published around the same time.
By Marianne · 1 post · 2 views
By Marianne · 1 post · 2 views
last updated 2 hours, 49 min ago
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Description of the SUGGEST BOOKS FOR ME folder
By Kris · 1 post · 2844 views
last updated Jun 22, 2017 04:49AM
Books about Severe Mental Illness... with Happy Endings
By Kaion · 1 post · 3 views
By Kaion · 1 post · 3 views
last updated 17 hours, 34 min ago
Significant Character Death (not necessarily at the end). Spoilers ahead...
By Jenna · 223 posts · 2827 views
By Jenna · 223 posts · 2827 views
last updated May 06, 2026 04:49PM
Fiction with noticable age gaps (besides romance and smut)
By Jade · 4 posts · 17 views
By Jade · 4 posts · 17 views
last updated May 05, 2026 11:00AM
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Description of the POSSIBLY SOLVED folder
By Kate · 1 post · 2313 views
last updated Jun 15, 2012 11:12PM
Man goes to observe wolves. Female alpha led a large pack. Picture of the author in the back of the book with him in an aircraft or helicopter. Front of book had wolf prints in snow. Main character would go out some seasons and go back to civilization?
By Daniel Watts · 7 posts · 135 views
By Daniel Watts · 7 posts · 135 views
last updated Mar 12, 2026 03:16PM
Children's (up to MG) chapter book read in 1970's. Girl protagonist's efforts to save an historic tree. Spoiler.
By SamSpayedPI · 4 posts · 48 views
By SamSpayedPI · 4 posts · 48 views
last updated Feb 13, 2026 06:36PM
YA contemporary book: The girl's mom dies (maybe in a car crash?) and the girl suspects foul play. Mom was a photographer. Spoiler.
By Anika (i dont… · 6 posts · 71 views
By Anika (i dont… · 6 posts · 71 views
last updated Jan 31, 2026 08:50AM
SOLVED. Chick Lit in London bookstores in 2004
By Adam · 3 posts · 12 views
By Adam · 3 posts · 12 views
last updated May 10, 2026 01:35AM
SOLVED. Paranormal Romance. Human teen girl gets orphaned and sent to relative who's a headmaster of a paranormal academy in rural Alaska or similar.
By Kyla · 4 posts · 29 views
By Kyla · 4 posts · 29 views
last updated May 08, 2026 06:49PM
SOLVED. Adult Fiction set in South America or Spanish Caribbean about a jaguar/ puma stalking and killing people.
By Emily · 5 posts · 14 views
By Emily · 5 posts · 14 views
last updated May 08, 2026 07:13AM
SOLVED. Horror novel set in Florida Keys(?) featuring Ancient Native American God/ Spirit. Published 1980s/1990s?
By Michael · 2 posts · 20 views
By Michael · 2 posts · 20 views
last updated May 08, 2026 05:47AM
SOLVED. Adult Thriller. A rich family with 2 young sons abandon one in city who becomes a serial killer. Read in 2000's.
By Spencer · 4 posts · 34 views
By Spencer · 4 posts · 34 views
last updated May 07, 2026 06:12AM
[SOLVED] Pre-1990s Middle Grade Mystery. Kid detective trapped in basement signals friends by tapping the rhythm of "snares, drums, and trumpets" song on a radiator.
By Acacia · 5 posts · 15 views
By Acacia · 5 posts · 15 views
last updated 17 hours, 40 min ago
SOLVED. YA Thriller - The world is secretly run by 6 families named after animals (Bear, Jackal, Lion, etc). Small Spoilers.
By Claire · 3 posts · 14 views
By Claire · 3 posts · 14 views
last updated May 09, 2026 07:03AM
SOLVED. YA/ Middle Grade Fantasy book series (?) about girl who lives in a walled city with a tower in the middle
By Emily · 3 posts · 20 views
By Emily · 3 posts · 20 views
last updated May 08, 2026 01:52PM
SOLVED. YA Sci-Fi paperback: Siblings at home, supernatural happenings, brother has disability/ special ability - has visions/ communicates with aliens. Read in ~2005. Spoiler in comments.
By Manjusha · 3 posts · 9 views
By Manjusha · 3 posts · 9 views
last updated May 08, 2026 01:49PM
SOLVED. Teenage to Adult Fantasy novel, about a historian who travels through different stories. Read 2018-2019.
By Dylan · 3 posts · 20 views
By Dylan · 3 posts · 20 views
last updated May 02, 2026 09:54AM
SOLVED!!! Adult Historical Romance, 1920-1940's America. Female lead gives birth to a daughter in the barn in the opening scene. Published 1980s/1990s.
By MegMorrighan · 3 posts · 15 views
By MegMorrighan · 3 posts · 15 views
last updated 15 minutes ago
SOLVED. Memoir. A female British lawyer moved to Paris, has a couple babies, then moves to Belgium, gets divorced, starts expat blog, read in 2021.
By Sidney · 5 posts · 72 views
By Sidney · 5 posts · 72 views
last updated Feb 27, 2026 05:53PM
SOLVED. Adult Nonfiction about girl who's father killed her mother and now she is pregnant and reflecting on it.
By ˗ˏˋ mckenna ˎ… · 3 posts · 22 views
By ˗ˏˋ mckenna ˎ… · 3 posts · 22 views
last updated Jan 18, 2026 07:56AM
SOLVED. Adult Nonfiction, funny: Man turns his backyard into a pond etc. to raise ducks in a city in England. Read around 2000?
By Penny · 4 posts · 47 views
By Penny · 4 posts · 47 views
last updated Dec 14, 2025 01:47AM
SOLVED. looking for the tittle of a spirituality book name
By Ares · 2 posts · 38 views
By Ares · 2 posts · 38 views
last updated Nov 08, 2025 06:54AM
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Members - You can help others + REPORT SPAM ◄◄
By Cheryl · 2298 posts · 5668 views
By Cheryl · 2298 posts · 5668 views
last updated Apr 27, 2026 03:28PM
Separate "Unsolved" into categories?
By Keith · 9 posts · 890 views
By Keith · 9 posts · 890 views
last updated Jun 16, 2024 04:37PM
Trouble using search to find previous posts
By Juels · 9 posts · 83 views
By Juels · 9 posts · 83 views
last updated Jan 29, 2024 11:37AM
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Description of the QUERY ABANDONED BY POSTER folder
By Kate · 11 posts · 2020 views
last updated Mar 03, 2017 12:46PM
ABANDONED. Sci-Fi. Girl traveled with families (for generations) in spacecraft to find new home. Recolonize a new world, planet with crunchy Purple Grass. Read in 1990s.
By Laura · 41 posts · 2043 views
By Laura · 41 posts · 2043 views
last updated Apr 22, 2026 11:37AM
ABANDONED. "Where's Waldo" styled book, that features animals who travel though time.
By Kent · 10 posts · 266 views
By Kent · 10 posts · 266 views
last updated Apr 11, 2026 04:03PM
ABANDONED. Girl who lives in Cuba and her mother committed suicide?
By Rowena · 4 posts · 138 views
By Rowena · 4 posts · 138 views
last updated Apr 04, 2026 08:49AM
ABANDONED. Adult Romance, bodice ripper? Read in the 1990s.... about a young woman who constantly gets assaulted and main man thinks she is willing.
By Ashley · 2 posts · 18 views
By Ashley · 2 posts · 18 views
last updated Mar 26, 2026 07:28AM
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Description of the NOW WE'LL NEVER KNOW folder
By Kate · 3 posts · 6264 views
last updated Mar 03, 2017 04:42PM
ABANDONED. Adult Domestic Thriller Crime, set in London. Woman works at a helpline, keeps getting calls from anonymous woman who's in danger. Cover: yellow & blue subway train, woman in dark clothes. Read around 2023. Spoiler.
By deleted member · 5 posts · 34 views
By deleted member · 5 posts · 34 views
last updated May 06, 2026 07:33PM
ABANDONED. Children's Fantasy. Girl goes to live with aunts?, she's forbidden to read from certain book. Aunts kidnapped (empty house); must enter another world to find them; learns spells (force person to tell truth). Dwarf/ gnome? Read early 1990s.
By deleted member · 65 posts · 1991 views
By deleted member · 65 posts · 1991 views
last updated Mar 01, 2026 10:23AM
ABANDONED. Adult Dystopian. US war with USSR. Read in 1990s. Spoiler.
By deleted member · 10 posts · 38 views
By deleted member · 10 posts · 38 views
last updated Feb 21, 2026 09:07AM
ABANDONED. Adult MM Contemporary Romance. Asian MCs, filming historical romance.
By deleted member · 4 posts · 42 views
By deleted member · 4 posts · 42 views
last updated Feb 19, 2026 10:46PM
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What's the Name of that Thread?
By deleted member · 70 posts · 1757 views
By deleted member · 70 posts · 1757 views
last updated Apr 11, 2026 12:33AM
How do I view an old post I made here?
By Big Daddy Asi… · 3 posts · 13 views
last updated Mar 09, 2026 02:16PM
Birthdays (dates) of Main Characters
By Capn · 55 posts · 1533 views
By Capn · 55 posts · 1533 views
last updated Feb 28, 2026 05:06PM
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Link to shorter details on how to use our group.
By Ann aka Iftca… · 1 post · 707 views
last updated Oct 01, 2017 02:38PM
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[OLD] Details for Posting a Query (read first!) Note NEW addition
By Kate · 4 posts · 6269 views
last updated Jan 05, 2014 10:45PM
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[OLD] READ THIS BEFORE POSTING. Updated rules and habits
By Ann aka Iftca… · 1 post · 6679 views
last updated Nov 05, 2014 07:34PM
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[OLD] Check out our new folders
By Rebecca · 35 posts · 2037 views
last updated Jul 28, 2013 02:24AM
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