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This is an update of a previous post by Sharon Rickson.

It can be tough to remember the title and author of a book you read a long time ago—even if it was a book that was really important to you. Fiction is cataloged by author and title, not by subject or plot line, which makes identifying books by just their storyline difficult.

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

First, pin down everything you can remember about 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 author of the book.

Online resources can help with your search for a half-remembered book, even if all you have is a basic plot line. Searching yourself is a good place to start; then, you can post to a listserv or discussion forum, where someone might recognize it

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Any book series you think I should try?

JUICEB0X said:

Read the Dune series. While the books are large, they're amazingly great.
Mu'adib!

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Absolutely agree. Bless the Maker and His water. May His passage cleanse the world.

Frank Herbert is right up their with JRR Tolkien as far as in depth world building goes. Alternate history/Future history fiction is my favorite genre and I have yet to find a story of that type which surpasses the masterpiece that is the two Dune trilogies. Even after having read the original 6 books dozens of times, I still find new and interesting things each time I reread them. I really can't recommend them enough. Just avoid the prequel books written by Frank Herbert's son. They aren't terrible, persay, living up to the originals would be hard to do and the prequels, at least in my and many other Dune fans' opinion, don't.

If you enjoy fantasy, then you should read Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit (and if you like them, also read the Silmarillion), because they are the root of so many tropes that the entire fantasy genre is based on. By the same token, if you enjoy scifi, then you should read at least the first Dune trilogy as it is, if not the Ur-example, the codifier of so much tha