Let's play a game...

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Man, nobody's gotten #7 yet, but guesses are flying everywhere :D

[Cynthia]

7 is driving me nuts.

[Cynthia]

What's the rules on creating new book descriptions to guess?

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Do it! Info is in the first post, try not to make it google-guessable, but distinctive enough to only apply to a (hopefully single) book.

[Cynthia]

In that case... :)

13) After a freak accident a high school senior is able to talk to her freshman-year-self and change all the mistakes she made over the past 4 years, although some of these changes have undesirable results.

[Sophie]

Oh! Is #9 (view spoiler)[ Dracula (hide spoiler)]?

[Michele]

Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "HINT time: I suspect almost everyone has read #7"

Well, I was going to say (view spoiler)[ Atlas Shrugged (hide spoiler)] but I doubt that everybody has read it!

::goes off to ponder some more::

[Michele]

Sophie wrote: "Oh! Is #9 [spoilers removed]?"

Yes!! Well done :)
Edited: Sophie's guess for #9 is correct, (view spoiler)[ Dracula (hide spoiler)]

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Hmm, (view spoiler)[James Taggart (hide spoiler)] is the only failed industrialist in that novel, Michele - most of those industrialists aren't failed, they're just on strike :)

But no, it is not that novel... :)

And Michele, was I right on #6? You never actually said...

[Sophie]

I'm guessing number 7 must be a children's book if almost everyone has read it. Can't for the life of me think what it is, though!

[Michele]

Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "Hmm, [spoilers removed] is the only failed industrialist in that novel, Michele - most of those industrialists aren't failed, they're just on strike :)

Very true, very true. I'm leaving Monday on a cross-country train trip, I might have to take that book with me...

And yes, sorry, your guess for #6 is ccrrect!

#12 is nagging at me, there's something familiar about it but I can't put my finger on it. For some reason it makes me think of (view spoiler)[Edith Hamilton's Mythology (hide spoiler)] but only some of them are siblings so I'm 99% sure that's not it.

[Justanotherbiblophile]

I too, am leaning towards something (view spoiler)[mythological (hide spoiler)] for #12, but am drawing a blank...

[Sophie]

Not sure if this has been guessed for #7: (view spoiler)[ The Invention of Hugo Cabret (hide spoiler)]?

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Nope, not guessed - and not it. But, I've never heard of this book - must investigate...

[Cynthia]

Sophie wrote: "Not sure if this has been guessed for #7: [spoilers removed]?"

I was kind of thinking that too.

[Cynthia]

OH my god! is #7 (view spoiler)[ The Lorax (hide spoiler)]?!?!

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Ding! We haz a winner!

[Cynthia]

Yayy! I knew it had to be that the minute I thought of it.

[Justanotherbiblophile]

That, or the reaction to Michele's guess for #3 is exactly what I was hoping to get out of this game.

[Justanotherbiblophile]

#13 (view spoiler)[ Gimme a Call (hide spoiler)]?

[Cynthia]

Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "#13 [spoilers removed]?"

Yes :)

[Ket]

Is #12 (view spoiler)[ The Boxcar Children (hide spoiler)]?

[Sophie]

Damn, I thought of the answer to #7 but then second-guessed myself!

Tana, I don't remember those kids being rebellious at all, but it's been a long time.

[Sophie]

12: (view spoiler)[ The Outsiders (hide spoiler)]?

[Cynthia]

You're right Sophie, I don't think there's a rebellious bone in those kid's bodies.

[Michele]

Cynthia wrote: "OH my god! is #7 [spoilers removed]?!?!"

Ha!! That's brilliant :)

[Michele]

Ok, here's one:

14) Girl identifies self to supernatural being, questions its existence.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

15) A young Spaniard is chosen for a job that does not suit him.

[Justanotherbiblophile]

We're up to #15, time to renumber those. #13 got eliminated real quick..

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Michele, yours should be 14.

[Michele]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Michele, yours should be 14."

Fixed!

[Michele]

Lobstergirl wrote: "15) A young Spaniard is chosen for a job that does not suit him."

(view spoiler)[ Don Quixote (hide spoiler)]?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

That is incorrect, Michele. Or, perhaps that does happen in that novel, but I haven't read it so I wouldn't know.

[Aaron]

Nobody has gotten 12 yet...and I'm worried I made it a tad too hard to guess. Unfortunately rewording it now would probably instantly give it away.

I do have another this should be easy

16) Elderly man is fed up with obnoxiously loud neighbors and goes over to teach them a lesson.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

I feel like maybe #12 could be (view spoiler)[the Bible (hide spoiler)]. Not sure, though.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

I also feel that #16 could be (view spoiler)[the Bible (hide spoiler)].

[Michele]

17) Abandoned human colony develops unusual color-coded bioweapon.

[Michele]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I also feel that #16 could be [spoilers removed]."

*snort* It's funny how many of these could be that, isn't it?

[Michele]

Aaron wrote: "Nobody has gotten 12 yet...and I'm worried I made it a tad too hard to guess. Unfortunately rewording it now would probably instantly give it away..."

Would it give it away just to say what the genre is (fantasy, SF, YA, etc.)?

[Michele]

Guess for #15: (view spoiler)[ The Princess Bride (hide spoiler)]? Although actually he turns out to be quite well-suited so maybe not...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Michele, that guess is incorrect.

[Michele]

Ooh! Is #16 (view spoiler)[ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (hide spoiler)]?

[Kimber]

#12 (view spoiler)[ The OUtsiders? Long shot but giving it a go (hide spoiler)] ?

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Boy, people do love the Outsiders... :)

Aaron, I gave a hint, which helped people narrow it down to children's book.

Ruminate on what type of hint you could give that might not give it all away...

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Is #17 (view spoiler)[Pern (hide spoiler)] series?

And is #14 (view spoiler)[Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (hide spoiler)]

[Sophie]

15: (view spoiler)[ The Story of Ferdinand (hide spoiler)]?

[Michele]

Justanotherbibliophile's guesses for 14 (view spoiler)[ Pern series (hide spoiler)] and 17 (view spoiler)[ Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (hide spoiler)] are correct :)

[Justanotherbiblophile]

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[Michele]

Sophie wrote: "15: [spoilers removed]?"

Brilliant guess! I hope that's it.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Sophie wrote: "15: [spoilers removed]?"

That is correct.