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Premise labels used: memory loss, missing past, shared past, search for answers, haunting memories, branch remnants, secret organization, genetic alteration, mystery girl

Setting labels used: small town, sleepy town, Illinois, lab setting, secret facility, dystopian future, science fiction world

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Remember Me Gone

Stacy Stokes · 2022

A teen training in her family’s memory-erasing business uncovers missing time, town secrets, and a buried past.

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Premise labels: memory deletion · stolen memories · family secret · small-town secret · hidden history · unreliable memory · forbidden truth · investigation · buried past · ethical dilemma

Setting labels: small town · Texas · desert town · rural setting · isolated community · mine town · contemporary setting · atmospheric setting · southern setting · possible dystopian undertones

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Distance: 0.1849

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Erased

Jennifer Rush · 2014 · Altered

On the run and haunted by returning memories, Anna must uncover why her past was erased before trust breaks again.

Why this is here

Premise labels: on the run · memory loss · missing past · hidden identity · family mystery · conspiracy · survival in hiding · truth-seeking · betrayal · sister return

Setting labels: hiding in houses · on the run · labs · governmental group · organization threat · small-town movement · secret facility · fictional dystopian world

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Distance: 0.1927

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Everyone We've Been

Sarah Everett · 2016

After an accident, a teen violinist loses memories and sees an invisible boy, leading her into a buried secret about her past.

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Premise labels: memory loss · memory erasure · missing memories · mysterious boy · medical mystery · accident aftermath · first love · identity crisis · family secret

Setting labels: contemporary · small town · high school · clinic setting · medical facility · post-accident · present day · teen life

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Distance: 0.1947

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Specimen

Shay Savage · 2016

A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.

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Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human

Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting

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Distance: 0.2004

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The Last Conversation

Paul Tremblay · 2019

An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.

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Premise labels: amnesia · identity crisis · memory loss · consciousness · caregiver mystery · white room mystery · clone identity · replica dilemma · post-apocalyptic recovery · lab recovery

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting · laboratory-like room · infirmary setting · dark room · isolated room · pandemic setting

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Distance: 0.2055

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Nothing but the Rain

Naomi Salman · 2023

A quarantined town suffers memory-erasing rain, and one retired doctor journals a fight to survive and stay herself.

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Premise labels: memory loss · amnesia rain · quarantine town · isolation · survival · collapse of self · locked-in community · mysterious disaster

Setting labels: small town · isolated town · rainy town · quarantine zone · postapocalyptic setting · dystopian setting · closed community · military blockade · constant rain · technology outage

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Distance: 0.2114

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The Taking

Kimberly Derting · 2014 · The Taking

A teen returns after five missing years unchanged, and must uncover what happened while her world moved on without her.

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Premise labels: alien abduction · missing time · memory loss · returnee · special powers · identity crisis · lost life

Setting labels: small town · contemporary earth · high school aged world · roadside gas station

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Distance: 0.2116

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Mixed Up

Gordon Korman · 2023

Two middle-school boys start losing their memories to each other and must uncover the strange link before they lose themselves.

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Premise labels: memory swapping · memory loss · identity exchange · grief recovery · found friendship · mystery solving · body-switching trope

Setting labels: same town · different sides of town · different schools · middle school · post-pandemic · contemporary · real-world setting · light fantasy · science fiction element

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Distance: 0.2132

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Altered

Jennifer Rush · 2013 · Altered

A sheltered teen flees with four amnesiac, genetically altered boys and must uncover the secrets of their pasts before they’re caught.

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Premise labels: genetically altered boys · secret lab · runaways · memory loss · secret project · on the run · hidden identities · government conspiracy · escape mission · search for the past

Setting labels: farmhouse basement · small town · secret lab · lab containment · runaway road story

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Distance: 0.2155

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Dark Matter

Blake Crouch · 2016

A kidnapped physics professor wakes in a different life and must fight to return to the family he knows.

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Premise labels: abduction mystery · alternate reality · parallel worlds · identity crisis · road not taken · family rescue · lost life · what if

Setting labels: Chicago · small college · urban · contemporary · alternate realities · multiverse · lab setting · warehouse setting

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Distance: 0.2169

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Remember Me

Estelle Laure · 2022

In a near-future town, a teen discovers she erased painful memories and must decide whether to reclaim them.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory erasure · lost memories · painful memories · second chance romance · trauma recovery · grief processing · identity crisis · forbidden memories · experimental treatment · past rediscovery

Setting labels: near future · 2030s · small town · New Mexico · ski town · futuristic contemporary · hospital · clinic

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G.O.D.S: Gifted. Obedient. Deadly. Students.

Jaye Pratt · 2021 · G.O.D.S

A foster teen with missing memories is pulled into a secret program of weaponized students and a dangerous why-choose bond.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · foster care · secret organization · genetically engineered humans · child soldiers · protective harem · lost identity · mystery note · revenge

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · current time · secret program · school and foster home space

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Distance: 0.2199

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