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Finding a Volume When You lot've Forgotten Its Title

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Bank check out selected results from NYPL Title Quest 2019, held August 2, 2019, too as Title Quest 2018.

This is an update of a previous mail service by Sharon Rickson.

It can exist tough to call back the title and writer of a volume you read a long fourth dimension ago—fifty-fifty if information technology was a book that was actually important to you. Fiction is cataloged by writer and title, not by discipline or plot line, which makes identifying books by simply their storyline difficult.

Readers often ask librarians for help finding these kinds of books. And we tin can't figure out the mystery every single time, simply we practise have a few tricks to help find the answer.

First, pin downward everything you can remember nearly the book, plot, character names, time period in which the book may have been published, genre, etc. All these details are clues in identifying the title and writer of the volume.

Online resources tin can assistance with your search for a half-remembered volume, even if all you take is a basic plot line. Searching yourself is a skillful place to offset; and so, you lot can post to a listserv or discussion forum, where someone might recognize it. Or, concluding simply not least, leave a annotate on this post!

Before Y'all Kickoff

Try Google! Type in everything y'all tin think about the book — every bit in, "movie book rabbi animals advice yiddish" — and whorl through the results. (That'south a existent-life instance of a volume a patron was request for: It Could Always Exist Worse by Margot Zemach.)

You can also endeavor googling ane fundamental detail you remember from a volume. One of our librarians solved a book mystery by searching "USS You-Know-Who" — the proper name of a boat in the story that the patron happened to retrieve. (Some other real-life example: She Flew No Flags by Joan Manley.)

Crowdsourcing

• What's the Proper name of That Book?
  A Goodreads group with searchable discussion posts and thousands of questions and answers.

• Name That Book
  A LibraryThing group of ~3K members — many of whom are librarians or library-adjacent — who help solve book mysteries via threaded discussions.

• The Fiction_L listserv
  Stumpers! Search archives of by questions, answered by an intense book-ish community, or subscribe and post a new 1.

• Reddit's whatsthatbook thread
  A nigh endless thread of users trying to help other users remember book titles, including several ofttimes requested books. Especially skilful for scientific discipline fiction and fantasy.

• "Stump the Bookseller" weblog
  A cool indie bookstore in Ohio that maintains extensive, searchable archives — and offers a $4 service for personalized help. Lots of children's books here.

• Large Volume Search
  If you can but recall what the cover looks like, try this embrace-search tool.

Library Databases (log in with your library carte du jour)

• Books & Authors

• Books in Print

• The New York Times databases

• NoveList and NoveList One thousand-8 (in-library utilise but)

More Suggestions

• If you tin can call back simply one word, use the search function on Goodreads or Library Thing to find long lists of titles with a particular give-and-take.

• Goodreads' browse-able lists of titles that readers take shelved in unique categories, such as authors' professions or decades of publication, is also exist helpful.

• For recently published books, the reviews in Booklist Online are broken down by detailed genre.

How to Motility On

Sometimes, it's just not going to happen, and you can't find that elusive book you've been searching for. It'south okay! Bang-up news: The world is full of corking books! Hither are a few ways to find more...

• Bank check out recommendations from our book experts here at NYPL. We offer suggestions via blog posts, the Staff Picks book finder, The Librarian Is In podcast, and more.
  
• If you'd like a personalized recommendation, find u.s.a. on Twitter or fill up out our What Should I Read Next? email form.
  
• Want a brand-new read? Check out our favorite New and Noteworthy titles.

Experience costless to leave a comment and tell united states about a book you're trying to remember! Our library staff members volition pop in and bank check it periodically, and readers of this postal service are welcome to make guesses and suggestions.

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Source: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/11/22/finding-book-forgotten-title