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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for One Way Ticket to Earth. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Tone labels used: emotional, heartbreaking, heartwarming, bittersweet, touching, sad, hopeful, thought-provoking, tender, wholesome, moving, reflective

Premise labels used: reincarnation, life after death, afterlife, child protagonist, alien planet, return home, memory retention

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Life Is Strange Vol. 6: Settling Dust

Emma Vieceli · 2022 · Life is Strange Comics

Max must cross timelines to reclaim her life and the woman she loves before an overwhelming threat takes everything away.

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Tone labels: heartwarming · heart-wrenching · emotional · bittersweet · hopeful · comforting · sentimental · nostalgic · tender · satisfying

Premise labels: timeline crossing · alternate timeline · multiverse · return home · reunion quest · emotional closure · happy ending · found family

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Distance: 0.1491

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Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino · 2024

An alien girl raised on Earth sends faxed observations about humans while struggling to understand belonging and home.

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Tone labels: tender · wise · gentle · quiet · poignant · funny · deadpan · observational · quirky · heartbreaking · heartwarming · sad · open-hearted · philosophical · cathartic · devastating

Premise labels: alien protagonist · human observation · coming of age · identity search · outsider perspective · homecoming

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Distance: 0.1531

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Meet Me in Another Life

Catriona Silvey · 2021

Two strangers keep meeting across many lives in changing roles, and must uncover why their fates are entwined.

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Tone labels: bittersweet · emotional · melancholy · thought-provoking · profound · whimsical · mysterious · devastating · tender · dreamy · sad · angsty · quirky

Premise labels: fated encounter · reincarnation loop · multiple lives · parallel lives · destined to meet · repeat encounters · mystery attachment · impossible choice

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Distance: 0.1544

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Grief in the Fourth Dimension

Jennifer Yu · 2024

Two dead teens in a strange afterlife room watch the living, nudge events, and uncover how their losses are connected.

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Tone labels: heartbreaking · hopeful · bittersweet · melancholy · emotional · moving · touching · tender · earnest · cathartic · whimsical · quirky · humorous · charming · reflective · uplifting · sad · comforting · thoughtful

Premise labels: afterlife room · post-death contact · grief after death · shared limbo · watching loved ones · influence from beyond · unexpected connection · life after death

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Distance: 0.1557

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Lightbreakers

Aja Gabel · 2025

A grieving physicist and his artist wife are drawn into a secret time-travel project that forces them to face memory, love, and loss.

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Tone labels: luminous · heartbreaking · melancholy · emotional · poignant · tender · thought-provoking · slow · heavy · hopeful · bittersweet · intellectual

Premise labels: grief · memory · time travel · marriage in crisis · lost child · second chance · scientific experiment · art and science · past revisiting

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Distance: 0.1561

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The Journey

John A. Heldt · 2012 · Northwest Passage

A widowed woman is thrown back to her own high school year and must choose whether to change her past.

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Tone labels: heartbreaking · hopeful · wholesome · charming · uplifting · emotional · bittersweet · lighthearted · thought-provoking · feel-good · tense · nostalgic · humorous

Premise labels: second chance · self-meeting · time slip · past revisitation · life reset · alternate choices · midlife reevaluation

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1562

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Life Is Strange Vol. 3: Strings

Emma Vieceli · 2020 · Life is Strange Comics

Max must confess her true origin and face alternate realities while fighting to get back to the Chloe she lost.

Why this is here

Tone labels: emotional · heartbreaking · heartwarming · melancholic · hopeful · mysterious · tender · reflective · dramatic · bittersweet

Premise labels: time travel · alternate realities · multiverse · identity reveal · homecoming quest · truth confession · romantic reunion · search for missing love

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Distance: 0.1587

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M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel

Talia Dutton · 2022

A grieving scientist resurrects her sister’s body, but the girl who returns is someone entirely new.

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Tone labels: bittersweet · tender · melancholic · heartwarming · thoughtful · emotional · gentle · comforting · eerie · whimsical · touching · sad

Premise labels: resurrection · identity crisis · sibling loss · scientific experiment · body replacement · coming of age · self-discovery · family expectations · grief recovery

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The Death and Life of Dominick Davidner

Shawn Inmon · 2017 · Middle Falls Time Travel

A murdered man wakes up in his childhood body and races through new lives to find the wife he lost.

Why this is here

Tone labels: heartwarming · uplifting · poignant · sad · sweet · romantic · thought-provoking · feel-good · tense · emotional · humorous/sarcastic

Premise labels: time loop · second chance · lost love · childhood reset · memory retention · quest narrative

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1614

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Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

T.J. Klune · 2024

An android gets one last week of freedom before reprogramming and discovers life, friendship, and belonging.

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Tone labels: bittersweet · heartbreaking · poignant · sweet · tender · heartwarming · emotional · humane · haunting · hopeful · devastating · thoughtful

Premise labels: android protagonist · one week freedom · forced reprogramming · factory labor · search for belonging · personhood question · AI autonomy · final chance · exploration of world · recycling

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The Day Tripper

James Goodhand · 2024

After an injury, a young man wakes up in different years of his life and must piece together how to change his future.

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Tone labels: emotional · heartbreaking · hopeful · heartwarming · melancholy · dark · uplifting · thought-provoking · poignant

Premise labels: time slip · out-of-order life · second chances · redemption arc · life redo · cause and effect · butterfly effect · altered future

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Remember Me

Estelle Laure · 2022

In a near-future town, a teen discovers she erased painful memories and must decide whether to reclaim them.

Why this is here

Tone labels: heartbreaking · emotional · poignant · thought-provoking · tender · sad · messy · hopeful · tense · bittersweet · raw · moving

Premise labels: memory erasure · lost memories · painful memories · second chance romance · trauma recovery · grief processing · identity crisis · forbidden memories · experimental treatment · past rediscovery

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Distance: 0.1634

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