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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for Passage. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Tone labels used: philosophical, melancholy, humorous, tragic, tense, hopeful, anxious, romantic, absurd
Premise labels used: near-death experiences, medical mystery, scientific investigation, afterlife inquiry, drug-induced experience, brain science, hospital research
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone + premise embeddings are close.
Two childhood friends lead a science-driven inquiry into what lies beyond death, and the search changes everything.
Why this is here
Tone labels: philosophical · ironic · darkly humorous · clinical · critical · mystical · satirical · depressing
Premise labels: afterlife exploration · death investigation · near-death experience · scientific experiment · postmortem journey · continent of the dead
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1088
A comatose girl who never ages draws scientists, family, and seekers into an interwoven mystery about time, memory, and youth.
Why this is here
Tone labels: haunting · melancholy · sad · dreamlike · philosophical · lyrical · mysterious · strange · beautiful · hauntingly beautiful · dreamy · somber · reflective · elegiac · calm
Premise labels: coma mystery · anti-aging drug · time and memory · interwoven lives · family tragedy · biotech ethics · preserved youth · medical breakthrough · mystery cult
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1597
A scientist in a sealed mechanical world investigates memory and the mind, uncovering a truth that reshapes existence itself.
Why this is here
Tone labels: contemplative · meditative · melancholic · thoughtful · philosophical · bleak · hopeful · bittersweet · cerebral · austere
Premise labels: self-discovery · scientific inquiry · existential crisis · closed world · failing civilization · memory mystery · thought experiment · cosmic analogy
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1688
A grieving woman narrates an erudite bishop’s spiritual quest, as faith, death, and reality collide in late-1960s Berkeley.
Why this is here
Tone labels: anguished · somber · tragic · beautiful · cynical · hopeful · humorous · eerie · introspective · philosophical · grounded · resigned · bleak
Premise labels: faith crisis · belief investigation · theological quest · grief-driven search · historical Jesus inquiry
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1719
A satirical set of afterlife interviews sends a reporter back from Heaven to question the dead, the famous, and the forgotten.
Why this is here
Tone labels: witty · darkly humorous · lighthearted · irreverent · thoughtful · poignant · satirical · quirky · macabre · dry · humanistic · somber · playful · biting
Premise labels: afterlife interviews · near-death journey · fictional reporter · death and meaning · imaginary conversations · public radio conceit · postmortem encounters · heavenly interview
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1760
An AI mother searches for the truth behind her human daughter’s death through a web of obituaries across time.
Why this is here
Tone labels: weird · bonkers · thought-provoking · bleak · hopeful · playful · moving · somber · intellectual · frustrating · tender · provocative · humorous · heartfelt · realistic · dreamlike
Premise labels: AI grief · motherhood · mystery search · interconnected lives · obituary narrative · human history · legacy · memory · death investigation
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1768
Two 1930s novellas unite science, mystery, and dread as brilliant men confront deaths, secrets, and the unknown.
Why this is here
Tone labels: ominous · atmospheric · creeping dread · melancholy · eerie · suspenseful · wistful · subdued
Premise labels: cosmic horror · scientific mystery · forbidden knowledge · investigation · locked-room death · communication with the dead · scientific experiment · otherworldly intrusion · grief-driven obsession · unexplained phenomenon
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1775
An amnesiac survivor wakes in a ruined landscape and slowly uncovers the truth about his past and his world.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · haunting · heartfelt · thoughtful · melancholy · sad · heartbreaking · hopeful · weird · quirky · strange · uneasy · trippy · philosophical · funny · challenging · bleakly humorous
Premise labels: amnesia · post-apocalyptic survival · memory loss · grief · identity mystery · survival journey · end of the world
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1786
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory investigate a seaside clinic where impossible cures, lost memories, and sea-born secrets collide.
Why this is here
Tone labels: atmospheric · spooky · eerie · melancholy · dark · somber · bittersweet · creepy · sad · mysterious · tense · emotional
Premise labels: time travel · medical mystery · haunted clinic · epistolary mystery · identity confusion · ethical dilemma · hidden experiment
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1787
A young historian’s time-travel research goes wrong, trapping her in plague-era England as Oxford faces its own crisis.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bittersweet · tragic · hopeful · heartbreaking · humorous · tense · melancholic · grim
Premise labels: time travel research · historical immersion · plague outbreak · dual timeline · parallel crisis · academic mission · quarantine
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1807
An illustrated anthology of 34 stories about a machine that tells people how they’ll die, and how that knowledge reshapes life.
Why this is here
Tone labels: morbid · bleak · darkly funny · ironic · thought-provoking · creepy · touching · philosophical · sad · hopeful · surreal · sardonic
Premise labels: death prediction · fate knowledge · mortality thought experiment · future knowledge · inevitable death · oracle machine · blood test prophecy · predestined death
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1814
In a post-death future, a man’s search for truth forces him to question immortality, memory, and identity.
Why this is here
Tone labels: Bleak · Melancholic · Haunting · Existential · Poignant · Sad · Haunted · Dreamlike · Ethereal · Trippy · Somber · Bittersweet
Premise labels: cure for death · immortality · memory loss · mortality crisis · existential journey · post-death society · questioning immortality · search for truth
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1842
