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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Everyone We've Been. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: memory loss, memory erasure, missing memories, mysterious boy, medical mystery, accident aftermath, first love, identity crisis, family secret
Setting labels used: contemporary, small town, high school, clinic setting, medical facility, post-accident, present day, teen life
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1361
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1579
An amnesiac woman recovering in a hospital begins seeing impossible men from her traumatic past—and doubts her sanity.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1857
A grieving teen is blackmailed into a strange school study, where buried truths, old feelings, and new possibilities collide.
Why this is here
Premise labels: grief after loss · first love after tragedy · social experiment · mystery study · secretive research · forced proximity · blackmail · friendship repair · coming of age · closure
Setting labels: small town · high school · school campus · summer camp · Michigan · teen research study · contemporary setting · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1872
A foster teen with missing memories is pulled into a secret program of weaponized students and a dangerous why-choose bond.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1888
Two middle-school boys start losing their memories to each other and must uncover the strange link before they lose themselves.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1921
In a near-future town, a teen discovers she erased painful memories and must decide whether to reclaim them.
Why this is here
Premise labels: memory erasure · lost memories · painful memories · second chance romance · trauma recovery · grief processing · identity crisis · forbidden memories · experimental treatment · past rediscovery
Setting labels: near future · 2030s · small town · New Mexico · ski town · futuristic contemporary · hospital · clinic
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1944
Haunted by erased memories, Nick follows a trail to a secretive small town and a girl tied to his missing past.
Why this is here
Premise labels: memory loss · missing past · shared past · search for answers · haunting memories · branch remnants · secret organization · genetic alteration · mystery girl
Setting labels: small town · sleepy town · Illinois · lab setting · secret facility · dystopian future · science fiction world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1947
A compulsive liar revisits her hometown and uncovers a creepy childhood TV show everyone remembers but her.
Why this is here
Premise labels: compulsive lying · memory mystery · lost media · haunted childhood media · homecoming mystery · unreliable narrator · identity crisis · self-fulfilling prophecy
Setting labels: small town · hometown return · childhood setting · public broadcast station · children's television · contemporary setting · nostalgic setting · house cleanout · funeral setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2051
A teen returns after five missing years unchanged, and must uncover what happened while her world moved on without her.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien abduction · missing time · memory loss · returnee · special powers · identity crisis · lost life
Setting labels: small town · contemporary earth · high school aged world · roadside gas station
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2069
A psychiatrist and a new mother untangle a strange case of missing time, uncanny memories, and reality-bending doubts.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mysterious illness · memory loss · psychological mystery · psychiatric case · unreliable mind · missing time · premonitions · hallucinations · dissociative fugue · single motherhood · postpartum crisis · hyperthymesia · hidden trauma · reality questioning · disappearing protagonist
Setting labels: New York City · Brooklyn · Prospect Park · urban contemporary · library setting · psychiatry setting · single-parent household · hospital · daycare · public transit · pandemic-adjacent
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2080
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2087
