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Small Things Like These. By Claire Keegan.
You are an Irish man, as a kid you and your mom were seriously helped by a stranger, and you now have daughters of your own; it’s an ordinary life, but you happen on a teen girl who needs serious help, and your decision about what to do feels momentous.
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Rebecca. By Daphne Du Maurier.
You are a young bride, of a different age and class from your new husband, and you find that his perfect, but dead ex-wife gets into everyone’s heads, including yours, ruining your new perfect life; then things get worse.
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird. By Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda.
It is far in the future, and humanity is quite close to extinction; the few remaining humans are in small settlements, monitored by human-adjacent beings ancient humans had created, and you, one of this kind, are having trouble letting go.
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Beautyland. By Marie-Helene Bertino.
You are a girl, then woman, growing up quite certain you have an alien soul, though the only evidence you have of this are faxed communications from your dying home planet which seek to understand humanity (so you become a writer).
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Fahrenheit 451. By Ray Bradbury.
It’s the future, and your job is to burn books found in people’s homes, as they are illegal; you never questioned this because everyone is fine with this idea since books were replaced long ago with more entertaining visual media, but then something makes you want to read one of these books, and a different kind of flame is lit inside you.
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Howards End. By E.M. Forster.
You are a young, modestly rich ‘new money’ woman, at the turn of the prior century, orphaned with your younger siblings and modern (for the times) in ways that an old money English family can’t really comprehend; when your family becomes oddly entangled with them and a far less genteel family, cultures collide invisibly and with utter destruction (for some, guess who?).
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The Stranger, by Albert Camus (trans Matthew Ward).
You are an averagely simple young man, but differ in that you really don’t care about other people, their ideas, or what they think of you; then you mostly accidentally kill another man who threatened you, and you end up on trial not so much for that crime, but your unwillingness to regret it in conventional moral terms.
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Dune, by Frank Herbert.
You are a teenaged prince, set to inherit a desert planet that is the only source of a mind altering herb that enables space travel and you discover you are the result of centuries of selective breeding; this combined with the herb allows you to see and manipulate multiple futures to try and accomplish the least bad ending you can see, so you start an intergalactic holy war.
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You Dreamed of Empires. By Alvaro Enrigue (translated by Natasha Wimmer).
It’s 1519, and you are Emperor Moctezuma, and you may have a plan for what to do with some smelly Spaniards who have shown up, but you are secretive and known to dose yourself on hallucigenic mushrooms, which may or may not be helping out with your complicated political strategies.
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Drowned Country. By Emily Tesh. (Book 2)
You are a recently ex-human young man, now the bored spirit lord of a once great forest, when your monster hunting mother shows up with your hunky ex boyfriend (whose job you stole) now in her employ, needing you to help find a missing young lady.
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