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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

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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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

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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

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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

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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 Cleave the Sparrow by Jonathan      Katz

Cleave the Sparrow

Jonathan Katz · 2025

A chaotic near-future satire sends a drugged president, a brainy mentor, and a cult-filled campaign chasing reality itself.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1227

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 Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum

Atomic Anna

Rachel Barenbaum · 2022

A Soviet scientist’s accidental time jumps bind three generations of women to one chance to stop Chernobyl.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1262

Cover of Cinder's Adventure: Get Me To the Wedding! by Marissa Meyer

Cinder's Adventure: Get Me To the Wedding!

Marissa Meyer · 2022 · The Lunar Chronicles

A choose-your-own-adventure wedding-day ebook where readers steer Cinder through branching, crossover-filled paths.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1264

Cover of Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

Frankissstein: A Love Story

Jeanette Winterson · 2019

A dual-timeline Frankenstein remix links Mary Shelley’s origins story with a near-future crisis of AI, bodies, and love.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1274

Cover of The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts

The Thing Itself

Adam Roberts · 2015

An Antarctic SETI disaster launches a cross-time chase into Kant, AI, and the limits of human reality.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1280

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 Juggler of Worlds by Larry Niven

Juggler of Worlds

Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner · 2008 · Fleet of Worlds

A paranoid Earth agent and a secretive alien strategist play a galaxy-spanning game of hidden motives and conspiracies.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1321

Cover of Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll

Mr. Breakfast

Jonathan Carroll · 2023

A failed comedian on a cross-country drive gets a magical tattoo that reveals three possible lives he can choose from.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1324

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