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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for In the Country of Last Things.
Motifs labels used: garbage, objects, shopping cart, bodies, corpses, waste, winter, cold, letters, notebook, scavenging, fuel, ruins, disappearance, death
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
A grieving mother crosses a violent borderland to bury her children and becomes entangled in a fight over an illegal cemetery.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: dust · plague · memory loss · burial · cemetery · boxes · shoes · border · frontier · heat · piety · bones · ghostly liminality
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1553
An aristocrat fleeing a war-torn country is forced back to his castle, where occupation turns private decay into public ruin.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: castle · ruins · winter · smoke · refugees · well · moat · guns · artifacts · art treasures · destruction · blood · filth · degradation · stone
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1804
In a frozen-lake sanctuary, a trusting teen and the boy he loves must survive zombies and uncover buried secrets.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: winter · ice · lake · boats · canoes · shores · snow · forests · dead bodies · zombies · sewing · quilting · dreamcatchers · grammar
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1817
On an unnamed island, disappearing things erase memory itself, and one novelist risks everything to shelter a man who still remembers.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: disappearing objects · birds · roses · photographs · books · writing · typewriter · snow · river · bonfires · holes · uniforms
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1819
Two cousins who can inhabit other bodies must unravel a basement death after their new lives trap them in a dangerous house.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: body · basement · freezer · dead body · rules · name erasure · memory loss · car accident · illustrations · protective barrier
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1850
A father and son cross a burned-out America, clinging to each other and to a fragile code of goodness.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: fire · ash · grayness · cold · road · coast · shopping cart · pistol · canned goods · silence · darkness · snow · blackened trees · apples · Coca-Cola · map · lamp · brooding sky · borrowed world
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1855
In a ruined 1948 London, an immune American pilot is hunted by dying fascists who need his blood to survive.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: blood · transfusion · plague · rats · dogs · ruins · corpses · blackshirts · chases · guns · rockets · gas mains · body horror
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1858
A glitchy trash droid with a sharp tongue fights survival, pursuit, and his own anomalies in a darkly comic future.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: glitch · blackouts · trash duty · scrapping · charging port · body-part jokes · sarcasm · memory loss · anomaly · meatbags · industrial waste · dead bodies
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1860
Three troubled teens survive a mysterious human-only apocalypse and must learn how to live, cope, and rebuild.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: rotting bodies · dead animals · pets · wild animals · feral pigs · rats · garbage · corpses · ice cream truck · electricity · water · food storage · fortress · routine · statistics of decay
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1867
A broken-legged government adviser journals his way through London’s zombie evacuation as supplies fail and secrets surface.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: journal · broken leg · food and water · evacuation · undead · windows · utilities failure · car · supplies · maps
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1870
A memory-wiped teen leader and her group land on an alien world, only to face survival, betrayal, and war.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: coffins · symbols · bones · jungle · ruins · spiders · food scarcity · water scarcity · fire · cliffhanger
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1875
