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Tone labels used: quirky, weird, funny, heartfelt, thoughtful, sad, whimsical, trippy, bizarre, delightful, earnest, introspective, moving

Premise labels used: hypnosis, altered reality, teen existential crisis, coming of age, identity crisis, search for self, college decision

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The Big Door Prize

M.O. Walsh · 2020

A small Louisiana town is upended when a DNA machine claims to reveal each resident’s true life potential.

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Tone labels: quirky · heartwarming · hopeful · bittersweet · dark · lighthearted · whimsical · funny · moving · tender · comedic · reflective · big-hearted

Premise labels: mysterious machine · life potential · DNA test · small-town disruption · self-discovery · destiny · midlife crisis · second chances · community upheaval

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Strange Bedfellows

Ariel Slamet Ries · 2025

In a queer solarpunk future, a burned-out trans college dropout starts manifesting dreams—and a mysteriously returned crush.

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Tone labels: dreamy · beautiful · sweet · cozy · romantic · emotional · hopeful · bittersweet · witty · funny · psychdelic · strange · trippy · heartwarming · comforting

Premise labels: dream manifestation · late-blooming powers · lost crush returns · identity crisis · mental health crisis · reality vs fantasy · forbidden attraction · self-discovery · power awakening · futuristic colony

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Distance: 0.1733

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Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic

Nick Carr · 2019

A teen genius in Savannah finds a space-time glitch that turns his awkward coming-of-age into a quantum adventure.

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Tone labels: quirky · funny · sweet · charming · gentle · poignant · heartfelt · melancholy · thought-provoking · trippy

Premise labels: boy genius · space-time anomaly · quantum physics · self-discovery · identity · alternate realities · adoption · coming of age

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Distance: 0.1759

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I Think We've Been Here Before

Suzy Krause · 2024

As the world nears an impossible end, one family faces illness, distance, and déjà vu while trying to live fully.

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Tone labels: quirky · heartwarming · bittersweet · uplifting · hopeful · warm · sweet · comforting · melancholy · funny · humorous · macabre · existential · thoughtful · sombre · haunting

Premise labels: end of the world · terminal illness · family crisis · cosmic disaster · second chances · life review · deja vu · familiarity across realities

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Distance: 0.1815

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Pluralities

Avi Silver · 2023

A burned-out retail worker and a runaway alien prince move through parallel journeys of identity, purpose, and gender euphoria.

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Tone labels: tender · witty · heartwarming · heartfelt · thoughtful · poetic · ethereal · melancholic · hopeful · uplifting · wholesome · moving · quirky · cerebral · dreamy · odd · gentle · queer · humorous · intimate

Premise labels: gender identity · self-discovery · gender euphoria · identity crisis · search for purpose · body-mind harmony · queer identity · trans experience

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Distance: 0.1840

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The Tatami Galaxy

Tomihiko Morimi · 2022 · 四畳半シリーズ

An unnamed Kyoto college student relives four possible campus lives, chasing the one he thinks he missed.

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Tone labels: surreal · absurdist · quirky · witty · funny · darkly comic · playful · offbeat · whimsical · cozy · hopeful

Premise labels: choice and consequence · alternate lives · road not taken · regret · self-discovery · college crisis · campus life · fate · what if

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Distance: 0.1849

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A Gift of Time

Jerry Merritt · 2016

An aging, suicidal man gets a chance to relive his life from age ten and tries to fix the mistake that haunts him.

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Tone labels: heartfelt · funny · weird · bizarre · emotional · thought-provoking · bittersweet · adventurous · dark · introspective · feel-good

Premise labels: time travel · second chances · regret · suicidal protagonist · altered timeline · life relived · future knowledge · repair mission · immortality

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Distance: 0.1876

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A Complicated Love Story Set in Space

Shaun David Hutchinson · 2021

Three confused teens wake aboard a failing spaceship and must solve the mystery of how they got there while falling in love.

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Tone labels: quirky · hilarious · hysterical · witty · darkly funny · bizarre · surprising · emotional · bittersweet · hopeful · chaotic · sad · thought-provoking · suspenseful · heartbreaking

Premise labels: space survival · memory loss · trapped aboard ship · mystery setup · forced proximity · love story · identity crisis

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Distance: 0.1882

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It Came From the Sky

Chelsea Sedoti · 2020

A teen science nerd and his prankster brother fake an alien invasion, and their small-town lie spirals wildly out of control.

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Tone labels: humorous · quirky · hilarious · lighthearted · wry · fun · bizarre · heartfelt · whimsical · absurd

Premise labels: alien hoax · science experiment gone wrong · small-town chaos · brother prank · cover-up · social experiment · fake alien invasion · mass belief

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First Day on Earth

Cecil Castellucci · 2011

An angry, lonely teen who believes he was abducted by aliens meets someone who may help him escape Earth.

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Tone labels: sad · hopeful · tender · angsty · melancholy · raw · bittersweet · quirky · poignant · intense · heartbreaking · thoughtful · earnest · redemptive

Premise labels: alien abduction · outsider story · belonging · self-discovery · escape fantasy · support group · identity crisis · coming of age

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Distance: 0.1954

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Sky Daddy

Kate Folk · 2025

A lonely content moderator secretly pursues an all-consuming, plane-centered desire that threatens her carefully normal life.

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Tone labels: darkly funny · weird · bizarre · awkward · tender · heartwarming · cringe · satirical · poignant · unhinged · offbeat · deliciously weird

Premise labels: forbidden desire · sexual fixation · obsessive desire · double life · secret self · socially unacceptable desire · oddball romance · fate versus choice · acceptance · self-invention

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Distance: 0.1961

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City of Orange

David Yoon · 2022

An amnesiac survivor wakes in a ruined landscape and slowly uncovers the truth about his past and his world.

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Tone labels: bleak · haunting · heartfelt · thoughtful · melancholy · sad · heartbreaking · hopeful · weird · quirky · strange · uneasy · trippy · philosophical · funny · challenging · bleakly humorous

Premise labels: amnesia · post-apocalyptic survival · memory loss · grief · identity mystery · survival journey · end of the world

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Distance: 0.1968

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