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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for As She Climbed Across the Table.
Themes labels used: love and obsession, absence and lack, consciousness and reality, observation and interpretation, science and humanities, academia satire, meaning-making, possession, communication, desire, self-loathing, isolation, trust, insecurity, loss
Focused on “existentialism” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A tiny collection of cosmic tales turns astronomy into whimsical, romantic, and philosophic short fiction.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time · loss · desire · love · cosmic scale · human nature · existentialism · change · transformation · science and imagination · knowledge and wonder · mortality · memory · perception · beauty · obsession · identity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1781
An unnamed man is pulled between an information war in Tokyo and a walled town where shadows are lost and dreams are read.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · consciousness · subconscious · memory · mind · selfhood · dualism · reality · perception · utopia and dystopia · alienation · existentialism · inner life · loss · freedom · detachment · escapism · language and meaning · information · technology · control · despair and hope · duality · human nature · sound and silence · desire · death
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1881
Fourteen darkly funny, unsettling stories follow alienated misfits, bodily disgust, and failed attempts at connection.
Why this is here
Themes labels: alienation · loneliness · existentialism · nihilism · self-loathing · self-deception · human cruelty · body shame · degradation · belonging · connection · escapism · desire · disappointment · banality · misanthropy · compassion · social decay · psychological cruelty · identity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1926
Three apparently separate lives in London and a surreal castle edge toward a strange, unsettling convergence.
Why this is here
Themes labels: reality vs illusion · madness · mental illness · paranoia · despair · hope · futility · isolation · manipulation · powerlessness · identity · storytelling · illusion of meaning · reading as process · causality · alienation · deception · shame · failure · existentialism · human frailty · control · free will
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1956
A secret affair becomes public in a strange city where adulterous couples can live openly, until paradise starts to crack.
Why this is here
Themes labels: desire · longing · devotion · choice · consequences · secrecy · deception · infidelity · memory · presence and absence · permanence · impermanence · illusion versus reality · sacrifice · guilt · obsession · novelty · novelty wear-off · love and limits · witnesses · ordinary life · freedom versus commitment · harm · self-destruction · real connection
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1663
A lonely content moderator secretly pursues an all-consuming, plane-centered desire that threatens her carefully normal life.
Why this is here
Themes labels: desire · loneliness · acceptance · authenticity · social norms · fate · grief · isolation · human connection · selfhood · performance · control · obsession · mortality · normalcy · alienation · shame · judgment · coping mechanism · identity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1664
A nameless undead woman crosses a ruined world, carrying grief, hunger, and a fading self toward what she has lost.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · memory · identity · mortality · love · yearning · hunger · emptiness · meaning · selfhood · embodiment · dissociation · transformation · death · loneliness · mourning · regret · existentialism · nihilism · hope
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1979
Three Nabokov stories trace obsession, madness, and a baffling space-future through lyrical, unsettling short fiction.
Why this is here
Themes labels: obsession · madness · imagination · death · meaning-making · alienation · identity · human condition · family strain · tragedy · space travel · science fiction satire · mourning · symbolism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1718
A troubled couple discovers a mysterious black hole in an apartment building storage room and becomes obsessed with what it changes.
Why this is here
Themes labels: obsession · desire · addiction · depression · self-destruction · void · nothingness · transformation · identity · alienation · art and creation · human frailty · decay · corruption · despair · existential dread · mortality · body and mind · control · meaninglessness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1724
A sick, secretive lover tries to end a doomed relationship, but desire, rivals, and conspiracy keep pulling them back together.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love and death · sacrifice · secrecy · loneliness · desire · control · duty · self-destruction · protection · trust · shame · acceptance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1763
After a near-death confession, two damaged men unravel a drug conspiracy while their toxic bond shifts in new directions.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love and obsession · pain and healing · trauma · loneliness · misunderstanding · sacrifice · duty · repression · moral ambiguity · medical ethics · consent · abuse · survival · forgiveness · identity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1797
At a remote desert research outpost, a found specimen unleashes quarantine, contagion, and twisted desire.
Why this is here
Themes labels: desire · shame · identity · isolation · loneliness · consent · sexuality · acceptance · self-erasure · fulfillment · temptation · survival · contagion · quarantine · conformity · connection · self-acceptance · alienation · obsession · infection
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1856
