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Premise labels used: beauty control, coming of age, forced transformation, identity crisis, rebel against system, social control, post-surgery society, truth discovery, beauty standards

Setting labels used: futuristic society, post-apocalyptic world, dystopian city, near-future, youth segregation, future society, alternate reality, suburban communities, New Pretty Town, Uglyville

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Uglies

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · Uglies

A teen awaiting beauty surgery discovers a rebellion that could expose the cost of her society’s perfect life.

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Premise labels: beauty standards · body transformation · teen dystopia · brainwashing · government control · conformity · social engineering · rebellion

Setting labels: future society · post-apocalyptic future · isolated cities · walled city · controlled society · high-tech future · wilderness · commune · ruins · distant future

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Distance: 0.1326

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Pretties

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · Uglies

A newly prettified teen must fight brainwashing, social pressure, and her own fading memory to uncover the truth.

Why this is here

Premise labels: beauty control · memory tampering · brainwashing · forced conformity · choice versus control · return to self · reversal quest · authorities in pursuit

Setting labels: future society · controlled city · pretty town · wilderness · reservation · post-apocalyptic future · techno society · societal stratification

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Distance: 0.1445

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The Meadows

Stephanie Oakes · 2023

A queer teen enters a prestigious school that hides a conversion regime, then must outwit its control years later.

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Premise labels: conversion camp · forced conformity · queer repression · state control · identity suppression · coming of age

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-climate disaster · post-apocalyptic · futuristic · authoritarian society · school setting · finishing school · coastal town · city · isolated facility

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Distance: 0.1618

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You Could Be So Pretty

Holly Bourne · 2023

In a dystopian-leaning YA world, two girls on opposite sides of beauty culture are forced together and question the rules.

Why this is here

Premise labels: beauty standards · illusion of choice · patriarchal control · female social pressure · feminist awakening

Setting labels: dystopian world · near-contemporary world · high school · school competition · gender-stratified society · normalized sexual violence

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Distance: 0.1732

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I Will Fear No Evil

Robert A. Heinlein · 1987

A dying billionaire’s brain transplant into a young woman’s body triggers identity, legal, and sexual chaos.

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Premise labels: brain transplant · body swap · shared body · identity crisis · gender swap · life extension · immortality quest · legal identity dispute · sexual awakening · future society

Setting labels: near future · early 21st century · dystopian future · lawless areas · enclaves · armored vehicles · urban collapse

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Distance: 0.1797

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Flawed

Cecelia Ahern · 2016 · Flawed

In a perfection-obsessed dystopia, one compassionate mistake marks a model teen as a social outcast.

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Premise labels: perfectionist society · moral policing · punishment for mistakes · branded outcasts · public trial · resistance movement · forced conformity · social control

Setting labels: dystopian society · near future · unnamed country · unnamed city · contemporary-like world · familiar setting · authoritarian state · social segregation

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Distance: 0.1805

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Shades of Grey

Jasper Fforde · 2009 · Shades of Grey

In a future ruled by color-based caste, a rule-following Red starts questioning everything after meeting a rebellious Grey.

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Premise labels: color hierarchy · caste society · oppressive system · young outsider · forbidden romance · social control · mystery world · revolutionary intrigue · coming of age · hidden history · bureaucratic society · truth-seeking

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · dystopian society · color-stratified world · totalitarian state · provincial setting · fringe town · futuristic village · darkness danger · artificial color · post-disaster world · bureaucratic future

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Distance: 0.1854

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The Passion of New Eve

Angela Carter · 1992

A womanizing English academic is swept into a violent, apocalyptic America and remade into a new self.

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Premise labels: forced transformation · gender reversal · identity crisis · apocalyptic America · body politics · feminist dystopia · sexual politics · journey westward

Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New York City · desert · California · post-apocalyptic future · civil war · near-future · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1867

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The Chaperone

M. Hendrix · 2023

In a future America that controls girls through chaperones, one teen starts questioning everything after a sudden death.

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Premise labels: authoritarian society · patriarchal control · coming of age · female autonomy · restricted freedom · social awakening · rebellion · forbidden knowledge · safe-keeping ideology · state control

Setting labels: New America · near future · dystopian future · alternate America · post-secession America · patriarchal society · gender-segregated society · high school setting · library setting · road trip setting

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Distance: 0.1875

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Electric Forest

Tanith Lee · 1979

In a genetically perfect future, an ostracized woman accepts a new body from a mysterious benefactor with hidden motives.

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Premise labels: body transfer · beauty standards · identity crisis · social ostracism · scientific manipulation · espionage thriller · consciousness transfer · dystopian society · altered self

Setting labels: far future · alien planet · colonized world · genetically engineered society · class-stratified society · high-tech future · speculative future · corporate world · planetary setting

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Distance: 0.1893

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Holy Fire

Bruce Sterling · 2001

In a post-plague gerontocracy, a risk-averse elder gets rejuvenated and rediscovers youth, art, and freedom.

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Premise labels: life extension · rejuvenation treatment · posthuman society · gerontocracy · age inversion · youth vs age · artistic awakening · identity crisis · second chance

Setting labels: near future · twenty-first century · late twenty-first century · post-plague future · post-scarcity · utopian-dystopian blend · Europe · Western Europe · Central Europe · medicalized society · posthuman society · VR culture · drug culture

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Glitch

Heather Anastasiu · 2012 · Glitch

In an emotionless underground society, a glitching teen hides forbidden powers while risking deactivation and rebellion.

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Premise labels: mind control · emotion suppression · individual awakening · teen resistance · secret powers · hidden anomaly · controlled society · forbidden feelings

Setting labels: underground city · post-apocalyptic · post-nuclear · futuristic · controlled society · surface world · dystopian future · technological reality · laboratory reproduction · cybernetic setting

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Distance: 0.1944

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