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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Five First Chances. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: time loop, second chances, what ifs, life do-over, self-discovery, love story, course correction
Setting labels used: London, England, Switzerland, two-year span, pub, funeral, birthday party, contemporary setting
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
After an injury, a young man wakes up in different years of his life and must piece together how to change his future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time slip · out-of-order life · second chances · redemption arc · life redo · cause and effect · butterfly effect · altered future
Setting labels: 1995 · 2010 · 2019 · 2023 · Cambridge · London · the Thames · contemporary England · 1990s nostalgia · Gen X era
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2458
A long-married couple discovers mixtapes that send them into their past, tempting them to rewrite their future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: marriage in crisis · second chance romance · time travel device · alternate timelines · what if dilemma · long-term marriage · relationship reset · nostalgic revisit
Setting labels: contemporary · Brighton · England · long-term marriage · middle age · family home · shed · nostalgic past eras · multiverse
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2481
A regretful middle-aged man gets one brief chance to revisit 1986 and try to rewrite the life that followed.
Why this is here
Premise labels: second chance · midlife regret · time travel redo · nostalgia trip · alternate life · past mistakes · what if
Setting labels: 1986 · 2016 · 1980s nostalgia · contemporary era · England · teen years · midlife
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2508
An experimental treatment sends a damaged man back through his own past, where each fix reshapes his future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · second chances · life redo · regret reversal · experimental treatment · personal reset · butterfly effect · what if
Setting labels: modern Britain · contemporary setting · school bullying · mental health treatment · experimental medicine · own lifetime
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2534
After a time-travel mishap leaves him in a changed present, Craig must face the consequences and find closure.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel aftermath · alternate timeline · fixing mistakes · consequences · second chance · personal crisis · closure · what if
Setting labels: 1980s · 1986 · 2010s · 2016 · present day · England · British setting · psychiatric unit · mental hospital · charity shop · social services · contemporary realism · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2537
A woman who dreams of her perfect man discovers he died a year ago—and time travel may be her only chance to change fate.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel romance · love across time · fate alteration · second chance · soulmates
Setting labels: contemporary setting · London · bridge setting · dream reality · alternate reality · time travel world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2586
A young woman begins leaping through her own life out of order each New Year’s, forced to navigate love, memory, and fate.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · random leap · out of order life · birthday loop · future self · past self · one life · nonlinear life
Setting labels: New York City · Brooklyn · London · 1980s · 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · contemporary · decade shifts · urban
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2600
A journalist gets a chance to undo the past through time travel, but the remedy opens a stranger, deeper reckoning.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · second chances · change the past · guilt · memory · past mistakes · revisiting youth · hidden trauma
Setting labels: Amsterdam · Los Angeles · France · 1980s · 1990s · contemporary · past and present · real world with surreal elements · academic setting · journalism setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2604
A miserable middle-aged man wakes in 1976 in another version of his own life and must decide what to change.
Why this is here
Premise labels: second chance · body swap · time slip · identity swap · midlife crisis · past change · fate reversal · personal reset
Setting labels: 1970s · 1976 · England · British setting · period detail · nostalgia
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2605
A grieving man discovers time travel and races to save his vanished sister before the past runs out on him.
Why this is here
Premise labels: missing sibling · time travel · psychic gift · save the past · race against time · family tragedy · mystery disappearance · do-over wish
Setting labels: Britain · England · contemporary · 1997 · fairground · carnival · present day
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2607
A teen falls for a girl, loses her, and gets repeated chances to rewind time—at a cost to everyone else he loves.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time loop · second chances · love and loss · preventing death · choices and consequences
Setting labels: high school · college transition · party setting · contemporary setting · present day
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2658
An amnesiac cameraman retraces a lost period of his life, uncovering love, deception, and a reality no one can quite see.
Why this is here
Premise labels: amnesia · invisibility · love triangle · missing memory · identity crisis · hidden reality · psychological puzzle
Setting labels: British countryside · hospital setting · London · France · 1980s Britain · contemporary setting · alternate reality · psychological reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2735
