Not Searching The DB

[lilman]

I've written search scripts before and it worked but this isn't working properly. I know there are titles that should be popping up but nothing. I presume it is the code, so I will post it. This baffles me so any help would be great. 

$search="SELECT * FROM bookrequest WHERE title like \"%$name%\"";
$runsearch=mysql_query($search);

Also, I have it print the sql statement and I get this:

SELECT * FROM bookrequest WHERE title like \"%how%"\

[AndyB]

$search="SELECT * FROM bookrequest WHERE title like '%$name%' ";