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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

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Permanence

Sophie Mackintosh · 2026

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

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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

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Sky Daddy

Kate Folk · 2025

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Themes labels: love and death · sacrifice · secrecy · loneliness · desire · control · duty · self-destruction · protection · trust · shame · acceptance

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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.

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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

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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.

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Themes labels: love and obsession · pain and healing · trauma · loneliness · misunderstanding · sacrifice · duty · repression · moral ambiguity · medical ethics · consent · abuse · survival · forgiveness · identity

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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.

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Themes labels: desire · shame · identity · isolation · loneliness · consent · sexuality · acceptance · self-erasure · fulfillment · temptation · survival · contagion · quarantine · conformity · connection · self-acceptance · alienation · obsession · infection

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Palimpsest

Catherynne M. Valente · 2009

Four lonely strangers discover a hidden city that can only be reached through sex, dreams, and a permanent map on the skin.

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Themes labels: desire · loneliness · belonging · loss · longing · identity · home · addiction · intimacy · love · sexuality · immigration · translation of self · obsession · sacrifice · meaning-making

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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.

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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

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Cover of The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

The House on the Strand

Daphne du Maurier · 2013

A man tests a strange drug in Cornwall and becomes obsessed with watching, but not entering, the medieval past.

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Themes labels: addiction · escapism · reality vs illusion · memory · perception · identity · time · the past · consequences · desire · longing · obsession · marriage · gender relations · loss of control · ethical experimentation · science and morality · anxiety · alienation

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