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Cover of The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by 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 “open ending” 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 Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

Sacred and Terrible Air

Robert Kurvitz · 2023

Three childhood friends keep searching for four missing girls as a collapsing world and strange force called the Pale close in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1315

Cover of Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed

Terrestrial History

Joe Mungo Reed · 2025

A climate-strained family spans generations and timelines as Earth falters and Mars beckons, with time travel in the mix.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1399

Cover of Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Woman on the Edge of Time

Marge Piercy · 1976

An institutionalized Chicana woman is drawn into competing futures, forcing her to confront power, identity, and survival.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1406

Cover of Авиатор by Eugene Vodolazkin

Авиатор

Eugene Vodolazkin, Евгений Водолазкин · 2016

An amnesiac man wakes in 1999 and rebuilds his identity through diary fragments from a life shattered by history.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1407

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 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 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

Cover of Trillium by Jeff Lemire

Trillium

Jeff Lemire · 2014 · Trillium

A botanist from a doomed future and an explorer from 1921 become linked by a strange flower and a temple across time.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1215