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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for Strange Bodies.
Motifs labels used: books, writing, letters, manuscripts, documents, case notes, carcass, body, double, dead man, paper, language as code, bookishness
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
A girl from the Dust and a boy trapped in a vast library uncover secrets that bend time, knowledge, and identity.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: library · books · epigraphs · quotations · dust · water · time · mechanism · stairs · shelves · secrets · knowledge · language · stories
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1837
In a post-Earth system, two interwoven mysteries link a faith-based resurrection platform, crime, and a hidden structure.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: voting · stasis · caskets · bodies · code · hacking · internet · slang · neologisms · names · stories · religious language · cancer · death
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1876
A sealed-study mystery in a necromantic house pulls two brilliant thirteen-year-olds into an eerie investigation.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: bones · skeleton hands · sealed room · letters · paper · archival records · books · study · dust · wood
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1877
An unnamed agent enters an underground bureaucracy to learn his mission, only to find a maze of codes, spies, and paranoia.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: paper · documents · codes · coridors · doors · rooms · elevators · bathrooms · files · seals · classified papers · wordplay · neologisms · labyrinth
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1910
A Hemingway scholar’s forgery scheme spirals into a violent multiverse crisis, where every death opens another reality.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: manuscript · forgery · typewriter · parallel worlds · death and rebirth · ghost · train · lost papers · chapter headings · Hemingway references
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1945
An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: letters · packages · notes · typography · text visuals · sharks · fish · books · pages · cats · diagrams · codes · flipbook · underground spaces
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1954
A gifted teen must cross into an alternate Italy to rescue her kidnapped mother and stop a world-altering conspiracy.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books · ink · paper · writing · worldbooks · gadgets · mechanisms · alchemy · tentacles · orphanhood · quotes
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1958
A young woman writes from a collapsing city while scavenging to survive and searching for her missing brother.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: garbage · objects · shopping cart · bodies · corpses · waste · winter · cold · letters · notebook · scavenging · fuel · ruins · disappearance · death
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1983
A traumatized imperial cryptarch navigates espionage, rebellion, and a widening war while wrestling grief and power.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: masks · currency · accounting · ledgers · cancer · poison · ships · sea travel · blood · violence · names · maps · letters · reports · interrogation · cults · body horror
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1999
A Victorian teen obsessed with medicine and resurrection falls into grave robbing, corruption, and deadly family secrets.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: journals · scalpels · cadavers · graveyards · bodies · anatomy · epigraphs · literary quotes · resurrection · souls · medical lectures · night excursions · blood
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2008
In a library-ruled alternate future, a book smuggler’s son enters deadly training while hidden loyalties shake his world.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books · originals · blanks · Codex · alchemy · automatons · Greek fire · burning books · secret tunnels · letters · journals · ink · knowledge
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2018
A rebel band battles a censoring super-library as scattered allies race through dangerous, interconnected missions.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books · paper · printing press · library · fire · knowledge · alchemy · automata · dragon · chess · keys · dungeons · collars
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2036
