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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for Everyone We've Been. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Tone labels used: heartbreaking, emotional, raw, thought-provoking, wrenching, eerie, melancholic, bittersweet, tense, nostalgic

Premise labels used: memory loss, memory erasure, missing memories, mysterious boy, medical mystery, accident aftermath, first love, identity crisis, family secret

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The Good Parts

Evann Normandin · 2026

A grieving husband follows his wife after a memory-erasing treatment, hoping to win back a love she no longer remembers.

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Tone labels: heartbreaking · melancholic · bittersweet · devastating · poignant · emotional · haunting · tender · raw · melodic · thought-provoking · tragic · hopeful · warm amid darkness

Premise labels: memory erasure · second chance · lost love · love after loss · fresh start · identity reset · trauma escape · reconnection

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Remember Me

Estelle Laure · 2022

In a near-future town, a teen discovers she erased painful memories and must decide whether to reclaim them.

Why this is here

Tone labels: heartbreaking · emotional · poignant · thought-provoking · tender · sad · messy · hopeful · tense · bittersweet · raw · moving

Premise labels: memory erasure · lost memories · painful memories · second chance romance · trauma recovery · grief processing · identity crisis · forbidden memories · experimental treatment · past rediscovery

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More Happy Than Not

Adam Silvera · 2015

A Bronx teen considers a memory-erasing procedure that could free him from pain—or erase his true self.

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Tone labels: dark · sad · heartbreaking · hopeful · bittersweet · emotional · intense · raw · heavy · thought-provoking · devastating · moving

Premise labels: memory erasure · sexual identity · coming out · self-discovery · happiness quest · second chance · forbidden love · futuristic medicine · trauma recovery · identity crisis

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The Space Between Here & Now

Sarah Suk · 2023

A Korean-Canadian teen with scent-triggered time slips goes to Korea to uncover her mother’s disappearance and her own past.

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Tone labels: emotional · heartwarming · heart-wrenching · melancholic · sweet · tender · atmospheric · hopeful · heartbreaking

Premise labels: memory-triggered time travel · mysterious condition · family secret · missing mother · self-discovery · closure-seeking

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Thomas's First Memory of the Flare

James Dashner · 2011 · The Maze Runner

A brief Maze Runner flashback reveals Thomas’s earliest memory of the Flare and its devastating effect on his family.

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Tone labels: sad · emotional · horrific · bleak · intense · scary · heartbreaking · personal

Premise labels: first memory · viral outbreak · family crisis · disease aftermath · childhood trauma · pre-maze

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Distance: 0.1697

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Meet Me at Blue Hour

Sarah Suk · 2025

Two childhood friends reunite in Busan after one erases the other from memory, forcing them to unravel their past.

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Tone labels: emotional · heartfelt · nostalgic · bittersweet · wholesome · cute · sweet · thought-provoking · melancholic

Premise labels: memory erasure · memory recovery · second chance · childhood friends · amnesia · forbidden reconnection · ethical technology

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17 juni

Alex Schulman · 2025

A suspended teacher calls a lost family number and reaches his dead father, then a single childhood day in 1986.

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Tone labels: suspenseful · sad · haunting · melancholy · anxious · grim · tender · intense · unsettling · nostalgic

Premise labels: time slip · phone to past · childhood trauma · family mystery · school incident · self-investigation · forensic memory

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Distance: 0.1744

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Lightbreakers

Aja Gabel · 2025

A grieving physicist and his artist wife are drawn into a secret time-travel project that forces them to face memory, love, and loss.

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Tone labels: luminous · heartbreaking · melancholy · emotional · poignant · tender · thought-provoking · slow · heavy · hopeful · bittersweet · intellectual

Premise labels: grief · memory · time travel · marriage in crisis · lost child · second chance · scientific experiment · art and science · past revisiting

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Remember Me Gone

Stacy Stokes · 2022

A teen training in her family’s memory-erasing business uncovers missing time, town secrets, and a buried past.

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Tone labels: atmospheric · twisty · emotional · haunting · mysterious · sinister · heart-pounding · thought-provoking · hopeful · gritty

Premise labels: memory deletion · stolen memories · family secret · small-town secret · hidden history · unreliable memory · forbidden truth · investigation · buried past · ethical dilemma

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The Choice

Jason Mott · 2013 · The Returned

When a long-lost first love returns unchanged, a married father must choose between past desire and present family.

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Tone labels: haunting · heart-wrenching · melancholic · dark · chilling · tragic · poignant · bittersweet · creepy · emotional

Premise labels: lost love returns · dead return · love triangle · family dilemma · choice dilemma · second chance · past vs present · grief and loss

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Ces jours qui disparaissent

Timothé Le Boucher · 2017

After losing every other day to a hidden double self, a young acrobat fights to keep his own life from disappearing.

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Tone labels: melancholic · sad · bittersweet · emotionally intense · anxious · distressing · cruel · tender · hopeful · reflective · haunting · heartbreaking

Premise labels: lost time · alter ego · dual identity · body sharing · identity conflict · time slip · memory gaps · possessed body · fight for control · self replacement · life under threat

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M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel

Talia Dutton · 2022

A grieving scientist resurrects her sister’s body, but the girl who returns is someone entirely new.

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Tone labels: bittersweet · tender · melancholic · heartwarming · thoughtful · emotional · gentle · comforting · eerie · whimsical · touching · sad

Premise labels: resurrection · identity crisis · sibling loss · scientific experiment · body replacement · coming of age · self-discovery · family expectations · grief recovery

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1762

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