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Leigh Nichols, Dean Koontz

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Premise labels used: amnesia, hospital confinement, traumatic past, past violence, identity mystery, memory loss, psychological mystery, possible haunting

Setting labels used: hospital, small town, Oregon, vacation setting, stormy night, isolated institution, contemporary

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Everyone We've Been

Sarah Everett · 2016

After an accident, a teen violinist loses memories and sees an invisible boy, leading her into a buried secret about her past.

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

Setting labels: contemporary · small town · high school · clinic setting · medical facility · post-accident · present day · teen life

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1857

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Nothing but the Rain

Naomi Salman · 2023

A quarantined town suffers memory-erasing rain, and one retired doctor journals a fight to survive and stay herself.

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Premise labels: memory loss · amnesia rain · quarantine town · isolation · survival · collapse of self · locked-in community · mysterious disaster

Setting labels: small town · isolated town · rainy town · quarantine zone · postapocalyptic setting · dystopian setting · closed community · military blockade · constant rain · technology outage

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Distance: 0.2125

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The Last Conversation

Paul Tremblay · 2019

An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.

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Premise labels: amnesia · identity crisis · memory loss · consciousness · caregiver mystery · white room mystery · clone identity · replica dilemma · post-apocalyptic recovery · lab recovery

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting · laboratory-like room · infirmary setting · dark room · isolated room · pandemic setting

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Distance: 0.2219

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Reborn

Jennifer Rush · 2015 · Altered

Haunted by erased memories, Nick follows a trail to a secretive small town and a girl tied to his missing past.

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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

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Distance: 0.2225

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I Remember You

Brian Freeman · 2022

After a fatal collapse, a troubled woman wakes with чужие memories and must outrun danger to learn what’s real.

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Premise labels: memory transfer · implanted memories · unreliable perception · medical experiment · cross-country search · woman in danger · identity crisis · missing truth · murder mystery · psychological disturbance

Setting labels: Las Vegas · Boston · Newport · cross-country · Fourth of July · medical convention · hospital · modern-day · contemporary

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Distance: 0.2267

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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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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

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Boy 7

Mirjam Mous · 2009 · Best of YA | XS

An amnesiac teen follows clues in his backpack to uncover his identity, and a secret experiment tied to his forgotten past.

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Premise labels: amnesia · identity search · memory loss · secret experiment · trust no one · hidden past · escape plot

Setting labels: contemporary · school age · anonymous isolated setting · wilderness opening · institution setting · American setting (contested)

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Distance: 0.2327

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The Chef

Andy Weir · 2010

A woman in a hospital remembers an explosion, and a doctor’s questions slowly turn a simple recovery into something darker.

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Premise labels: hospital recovery · memory loss · twist ending · unreliable account · hidden truth · dark secret · double meaning

Setting labels: hospital · aftermath of explosion · domestic setting · contemporary setting · real-world setting

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Distance: 0.2343

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The Coma

Alex Garland · 2004

After a brutal attack, a man awakens in a strange in-between world and tries to piece together reality before it slips away.

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Premise labels: coma · amnesia · altered consciousness · dream state · identity loss · wake-up quest · psychological mystery · reality distortion · subconscious journey · survival

Setting labels: London Underground · hospital · home · urban setting · dreamscape · inner mental world · liminal state · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2345

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The Dreamers

Karen Thompson Walker · 2019

A sleeping sickness strikes a California college town, and the wakeful struggle to protect each other as dreams deepen.

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Premise labels: sleeping sickness · contagion · unknown illness · quarantine · town outbreak · dream state · heightened dreams · medical mystery · community under strain · isolation

Setting labels: Southern California · college town · small town · campus setting · dormitory · hospital · quarantine zone · contemporary setting · isolated community · fictional town

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Distance: 0.2346

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The Glamour

Christopher Priest · 1984

An amnesiac cameraman retraces a lost period of his life, uncovering love, deception, and a reality no one can quite see.

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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

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Distance: 0.2357

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Two Truths and a Lie

Sarah Pinsker · 2020

A compulsive liar revisits her hometown and uncovers a creepy childhood TV show everyone remembers but her.

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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

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Distance: 0.2395

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