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Themes labels used: identity, memory, free will, fate, isolation, violence against women, domestic abuse, religious extremism, authoritarianism, good versus evil, reality and illusion, truth and belief, loneliness, trauma, self-defense, gendered violence, social control, literary world, writing process, parallel realities

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The Once and Future Me

Melissa Pace · 2025

An amnesiac woman in a 1950s psychiatric hospital must decide if she’s mentally ill—or a time traveler sent to save humanity.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · sanity · madness · gaslighting · patriarchy · misogyny · female autonomy · women's oppression · medical abuse · institutional abuse · power and control · agency · truth and illusion · trauma · survival · feminism · survivors guilt · ableism · pandemic fear · public health · fate · selfhood

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Monarch

Candice Wuehle · 2022

A former child beauty queen uncovers a buried government program tied to her past, identity, and first love.

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Themes labels: identity · selfhood · agency · destiny · memory · trauma · dissociation · girlhood · womanhood · patriarchy · systemic violence · feminism · queerness · surveillance · mind control · performance · beauty standards · objectification · conspiracy · state power · motherhood · immortality · depersonalization · true crime · folklore · spirituality · psychology · self-discovery · desire · survival · adult infantilization

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Cathedral of the Drowned

Nathan Ballingrud · 2025 · Lunar Gothic Trilogy

A fractured enforcer’s mind and body are pulled across the Moon, Io, and 1920s Earth amid spiders, gang wars, and dread.

Why this is here

Themes labels: identity · consciousness · duality · selfhood · fragmentation · loneliness · isolation · violence · body autonomy · agency · desire and reality · memory · horror of self · corruption · morality · human monstrosity · technology ethics · class conflict · female rage · power

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Bloodshot, Vol. 1: Setting the World on Fire

Duane Swierczynski · 2013 · Bloodshot (2012)

A nanotech-powered super-soldier discovers his memories are fake and turns on the forces that built him.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · free will · control · revenge · military abuse · dehumanization · truth vs lies · body modification · ethical science · institutional betrayal · trauma · PTSD · moral ambiguity

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The Iron Dragon's Daughter

Michael Swanwick · 2012 · The Iron Dragon's Daughter

A changeling slave in a faerie dragon factory escapes into a strange, brutal world where freedom comes with dark costs.

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Themes labels: freedom · fate · free will · survival · trauma · abuse · child exploitation · sexuality · identity · growing up · nihilism · meaninglessness · morality · power · class conflict · industrialization · gender · misogyny · deconstruction · revenge · alienation · remorse · self-discovery · agency · social hierarchy

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The Victorian Chaise Longue

Marghanita Laski · 1953

A convalescing young woman dozes on an antique chaise longue and wakes trapped in another woman’s sickbed in 1864.

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Themes labels: identity · female autonomy · women's oppression · illness · death · madness · sanity · time · memory · reality · sexuality · religion · body and mind · powerlessness · confinement · fate

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The Night Alphabet

Joelle Taylor · 2024

In a future Hackney tattoo shop, a woman’s body art opens onto many lives, times, and women’s histories.

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Themes labels: violence against women · womanhood · gendered oppression · resilience · trauma · memory · identity · embodiment · patriarchy · female rage · survival · storytelling · collective memory · class · queerness · feminism · power · control · generational trauma · revenge

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Ice

Anna Kavan · 1967

An unnamed narrator pursues a fragile woman through a collapsing, ice-choked world where reality keeps slipping away.

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Themes labels: violence · control · possession · victimhood · trauma · madness · reality vs unreality · identity · alienation · apocalypse · climate catastrophe · war · power imbalance · gendered abuse · desire · addiction · death drive · collective guilt

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Dwellers

Eliza Victoria · 2022

Two cousins who can inhabit other bodies must unravel a basement death after their new lives trap them in a dangerous house.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · trauma · body autonomy · escape · guilt · consequence · morality · family secrets · complicity · social commentary · class · power · belonging · selfhood · displacement · accountability · intergenerational trauma · mental health · sexual violence · disability · fatphobia · oppression

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The Winter Soldier: Cold Front

Mackenzi Lee · 2023 · Marvel Press Novels

Two timelines trace Bucky Barnes’s rise from teen recruit to brainwashed Winter Soldier as a hidden mystery binds them.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · trauma · brainwashing · dehumanization · free will · obedience · resistance · war · patriotism · sacrifice · loss · captivity · resilience · selfhood · grief

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The Shining Girls

Lauren Beukes · 2013

A survivor hunts a time-traveling serial killer who stalks women across decades from a mysterious Chicago house.

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Themes labels: gendered violence · fate and free will · women's potential · feminism · trauma · survival · obsession · memory · justice · closure · predation · historical change · loss of potential · violence against women

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Wonder Woman, Vol. 2: Sacrifice

Tom King · 2024 · Wonder Woman (2023)

Wonder Woman faces a mind-bending battle against the Sovereign while her story is interrupted by a DC-wide crossover.

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Themes labels: identity · resilience · truth vs lies · psychological control · gender politics · feminism · humanity · love · fear · freedom · captivity · agency · deconstruction · heroism · family

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