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Mirjam Mous

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Premise labels used: amnesia, identity search, memory loss, secret experiment, trust no one, hidden past, escape plot

Setting labels used: contemporary, school age, anonymous isolated setting, wilderness opening, institution setting, American setting (contested)

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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.

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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: 0.1876

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Forgotten

Cat Patrick · 2011 · Forgotten

A teen who forgets each day but sees the future must navigate love, secrets, and a dark mystery.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · future memories · notes to self · hidden condition · romantic complication · family secrets · mystery hook

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · suburban family life · school scenes · home scenes · teen social world · modern day · psychological realism

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Distance: 0.2058

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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: 0.2158

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The Leaving

Tara Altebrando · 2016

Five abducted kids return eleven years later with no memories, while one sibling hunts for the missing sixth child.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing children · returned abductees · memory loss · identity mystery · unsolved disappearance · search for answers · missing sibling

Setting labels: contemporary · small town · school setting · kindergarten · eleven-year gap · teen years later · homecoming setting

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Distance: 0.2173

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The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall · 2007

An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.

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Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · identity search · conceptual predator · quest for truth · grief recovery

Setting labels: contemporary setting · urban spaces · un-space · conceptual world · material reality · mental landscape

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Distance: 0.2226

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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: 0.2241

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Things Not Seen

Andrew Clements · 2004 · Things

A 15-year-old boy wakes up invisible and teams with a blind girl while his family races to explain and reverse it.

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Premise labels: invisibility · blindness · missing child · secret identity · coming of age · disability parallel · finding oneself

Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · library setting · home setting · urban setting

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Distance: 0.2298

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The House of Thunder

Leigh Nichols, Dean Koontz · 1992

An amnesiac woman recovering in a hospital begins seeing impossible men from her traumatic past—and doubts her sanity.

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Premise labels: amnesia · hospital confinement · traumatic past · past violence · identity mystery · memory loss · psychological mystery · possible haunting

Setting labels: hospital · small town · Oregon · vacation setting · stormy night · isolated institution · contemporary

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Distance: 0.2327

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Shattered

Teri Terry · 2014 · Slated

A memory-wiped teen flees a brutal regime, unearths her past, and faces truths that could reshape her future.

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Premise labels: memory wipe · identity search · on the run · government resistance · biological family search · oppressive regime

Setting labels: dystopian future · remote mountain town · school setting · boarding house · controlled society · wilderness

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Distance: 0.2342

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17 juni

Alex Schulman · 2025

A suspended teacher calls a lost family number and reaches his dead father, then a single childhood day in 1986.

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Premise labels: time slip · phone to past · childhood trauma · family mystery · school incident · self-investigation · forensic memory

Setting labels: Sweden · 1980s · present day · childhood summer place · school setting · contemporary reality · psychological realism

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Distance: 0.2351

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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.

Why this is here

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: 0.2360

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Fear

L. Ron Hubbard · 2014

A skeptical professor loses four hours and his hat, then reality around him begins to warp into menace.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing time · memory loss · supernatural pursuit · skeptical protagonist · unreliable reality · paranormal investigation · psychological descent

Setting labels: university town · academic setting · small town · academic community

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Distance: 0.2361

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