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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.

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Cover of The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino

The Distance of the Moon

Italo Calvino · 2018

A tiny collection of cosmic tales turns astronomy into whimsical, romantic, and philosophic short fiction.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1781

Cover of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami · 2003

An unnamed man is pulled between an information war in Tokyo and a walled town where shadows are lost and dreams are read.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1881

Cover of Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

Homesick for Another World

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2017

Fourteen darkly funny, unsettling stories follow alienated misfits, bodily disgust, and failed attempts at connection.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1926

Cover of Walking on Glass by Iain Banks

Walking on Glass

Iain Banks · 2012

Three apparently separate lives in London and a surreal castle edge toward a strange, unsettling convergence.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1956

Cover of Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh

Permanence

Sophie Mackintosh · 2026

A secret affair becomes public in a strange city where adulterous couples can live openly, until paradise starts to crack.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1663

Cover of Sky Daddy by Kate  Folk

Sky Daddy

Kate Folk · 2025

A lonely content moderator secretly pursues an all-consuming, plane-centered desire that threatens her carefully normal life.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1664

Cover of It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Anne de Marcken · 2024

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

Cover of The Cipher by Kathe Koja

The Cipher

Kathe Koja · 1991

A troubled couple discovers a mysterious black hole in an apartment building storage room and becomes obsessed with what it changes.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1724

Cover of Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 6 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 6

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou · 2025 · 病案本 [Bing An Ben] / Case File Compendium (Novel)

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

Cover of Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 4 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 4

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou · 2025 · 病案本 [Bing An Ben] / Case File Compendium (Novel)

After a near-death confession, two damaged men unravel a drug conspiracy while their toxic bond shifts in new directions.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1797

Cover of Spread Me by Sarah Gailey

Spread Me

Sarah Gailey · 2025

At a remote desert research outpost, a found specimen unleashes quarantine, contagion, and twisted desire.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1856