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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 “parallel narratives” 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 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 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

Cover of The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad

The Blueprint

Rae Giana Rashad · 2024

In an alternate America ruled by algorithms, a young Black woman assigned to power confronts love, control, and escape.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1253

Cover of Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr.

Archive of Unknown Universes

Ruben Reyes Jr. · 2025

Two Salvadoran American students chase family truths through alternate timelines while a wartime queer love story reshapes their lives.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1293

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 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1975 · The Hainish Cycle

A physicist from an anarchist moon visits a capitalist world, forcing both societies’ flaws—and ideals—into view.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1371

Cover of Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer

Dead Astronauts

Jeff Vandermeer · 2019 · Borne

In a biotech-ravaged multiverse, three uncanny travelers battle a corporation across collapsing realities.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1386

Cover of Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Orson Scott Card · 1997 · Pastwatch

Future historians try to alter Columbus’s voyage to avert catastrophe and reshape humanity’s history.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1386

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 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