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Andrew Sean Greer

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These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.

Plot structure labels used: cyclical structure, rotating timelines, alternate realities, parallel selves, multiple versions, time-jump narrative, interlinked lives, repeating treatments, choice-driven ending

Focused on “nonlinear chronology” where exact label matches exist.

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their plot structure embeddings are close.

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Cover of All We Have Is Time by Amy Tordoff

All We Have Is Time

Amy Tordoff · 2026

An immortal woman and a time traveler keep finding each other across centuries, risking love, grief, and time itself.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1197

Cover of The Memory of the Ogisi by Moses Ose Utomi

The Memory of the Ogisi

Moses Ose Utomi · 2025 · Forever Desert

A historian leaves a desert oasis to uncover a buried truth, only to find history is more unstable—and angrier—than expected.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1345

Cover of The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne

The Girl in the Road

Monica Byrne · 2014

Two women in different times and places flee violence toward Ethiopia, linked by a forbidden sea bridge and hidden truths.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1370

Cover of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories by Ruben Reyes Jr.

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories

Ruben Reyes Jr. · 2024

A genre-bending story collection traces Central American lives across past, present, and future through migration, memory, and uncanny change.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1383

Cover of The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood · 2009 · MaddAddam

Two women survive a man-made apocalypse while moving through a world of eco-faith, corporations, and engineered life.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1400

Cover of The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi

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.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1167

Cover of Pivot Point by Kasie West

Pivot Point

Kasie West · 2013 · Pivot Point

A teen with the power to preview choices must pick between two futures after her parents' divorce—while danger closes in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1171

Cover of The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager

The Archive of Alternate Endings

Lindsey Drager · 2019

A nonlinear novella retells Hansel and Gretel across centuries, using Halley’s Comet to trace stories, siblings, and queer desire.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1190

Cover of Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper

Beauty

Sheri S. Tepper · 2009

A half-fairy Sleeping Beauty escapes her curse and travels through time, fairy tales, and ruined futures.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1203