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"Origin stories" is a category of books that focuses on beginnings — the formative events, decisions, and conditions that create people, places, ideas, conflicts, or worlds. Whether fictional prequels that trace a hero’s rise, mythic retellings that explain how gods or creatures came to be, historical or investigative accounts of how movements, inventions, or institutions started, or memoirs and biographies that excavate a subject’s early influences, these books illuminate cause and context. They privilege backstory, transformation, and revelation, showing how small moments or long processes produce identities, powers, rivalries, or systems. Readers pick up origin stories to understand motivations, see the seeds of later consequences, and enjoy the narrative thrill of watching something familiar be born and take shape.

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