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These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for The Kingdom of Ohio.

Plot structure labels used: dual timeline, framing device, nonlinear narration, nested backstory, footnoted narrative, slow reveal, mystery-driven, open-ended, disjointed structure, episodic

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their plot structure embeddings are close.

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Cover of All-Star Batman, Volume 3: The First Ally by Scott Snyder

All-Star Batman, Volume 3: The First Ally

Scott Snyder · 2018 · All-Star Batman (2016)

Batman and Alfred face a present-day conspiracy while Alfred’s secret past resurfaces in a parallel, globe-trotting story.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0688

Cover of Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

Chasm City

Alastair Reynolds · 2003 · Revelation Space

A security operative chasing revenge enters a plague-ravaged city where memory, identity, and history unravel.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0731

Cover of No Heart for a Thief by James Lloyd Dulin

No Heart for a Thief

James Lloyd Dulin · 2023 · Malitu

A reclusive magic thief and a revenge-seeking girl are drawn into a haunted, colonized world and each other’s pasts.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0736

Cover of The Navigating Fox by Christopher  Rowe

The Navigating Fox

Christopher Rowe · 2023

A disgraced fox guide gets one last chance at redemption by leading a strange expedition to the gates of Hell.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0760

Cover of 20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1 by Naoki Urasawa

20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1

Naoki Urasawa · 2018 · 20世紀少年 [20th Century Boys]

A childhood game resurfaces decades later, drawing an ordinary man into a slow-burn conspiracy that may end the world.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0798

Cover of Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre by Darwyn Cooke

Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre

Darwyn Cooke · 2013 · Before Watchmen

Two Watchmen prequels trace a masked team’s rise and fall and a young heroine’s break from family control.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0798

Cover of The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1975 · The Hainish Cycle

A physicist from an anarchist moon visits a capitalist world, forcing both societies’ flaws—and ideals—into view.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0813

Cover of The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel  Gonzales

The Regional Office is Under Attack!

Manuel Gonzales · 2016

A secret world-saving agency is attacked from within, forcing two young women on opposite sides into collision.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0828

Cover of On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

On a Sunbeam

Tillie Walden · 2018 · On a Sunbeam

A young woman joins a space restoration crew while chasing the past love that still calls her back.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0841

Cover of Everyone We've Been by Sarah Everett

Everyone We've Been

Sarah Everett · 2016

After an accident, a teen violinist loses memories and sees an invisible boy, leading her into a buried secret about her past.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0852

Cover of Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

Sacred and Terrible Air

Robert Kurvitz · 2023

Three childhood friends keep searching for four missing girls as a collapsing world and strange force called the Pale close in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0859

Cover of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

The Sparrow

Mary Doria Russell · 1997 · The Sparrow

A Jesuit-led first-contact mission to a singing alien world becomes a devastating inquiry into faith, guilt, and humanity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0861

Cover of On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe

On Blue's Waters

Gene Wolfe · 1999 · The Book of the Short Sun

A reluctant, unreliable narrator sails an alien ocean to find a vanished leader and unravel his own fate.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0873

Cover of The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn

The Shutouts

Gabrielle Korn · 2024

In a climate-ravaged future, separated women and families race across the U.S., uncovering the costs of survival and control.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0887

Cover of The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

M. John Harrison · 2020

Two troubled lovers drift through riverside Britain while a hidden, uncanny current of conspiracy and change presses in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0887

Cover of Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters

Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters · 2016

A trans woman’s personal vendetta collides with a hormone-crisis future where gender becomes a choice, a weapon, and a reckoning.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0888

Cover of Vulkan Lives by Nick Kyme

Vulkan Lives

Nick Kyme · 2013 · The Horus Heresy

A captured primarch endures brutal torment while scattered survivors race through the Horus Heresy’s aftermath.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0897

Cover of Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer

Acceptance

Jeff Vandermeer · 2014 · Southern Reach

A final expedition into Area X unspools hidden origins, shifting identities, and the cost of confronting the unknowable.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0899

Cover of The Moon Represents My Heart by Pim Wangtechawat

The Moon Represents My Heart

Pim Wangtechawat · 2023

A time-traveling Chinese-British family is split by loss, forcing two siblings to navigate grief, love, and the pull of the past.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0905

Cover of The Winds of Dune by Brian Herbert

The Winds of Dune

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson · 2009 · Heroes of Dune

In the aftermath of a messianic ruler’s disappearance, rival factions, family loyalties, and hidden histories collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0929

Cover of The Found Object Society by Michelle Maryk

The Found Object Society

Michelle Maryk · 2026

A guilt-ridden heiress joins a secret society where touching objects lets members relive strangers’ deaths—and becomes addicted.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0932

Cover of Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Children of Strife

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2026 · Children of Time

Three timelines collide on a terraformed world, where uplifted species, desperate humans, and old sins of creation meet.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0938

Cover of Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings

Under Fortunate Stars

Ren Hutchings · 2022

Two stranded crews from different eras must survive a space rift while untangling a history that may be wrong.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0942

Cover of Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed

Terrestrial History

Joe Mungo Reed · 2025

A climate-strained family spans generations and timelines as Earth falters and Mars beckons, with time travel in the mix.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0942

Cover of Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Walking to Aldebaran

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2019 · Terrible Worlds: Destinations

A stranded astronaut wanders a physics-breaking alien labyrinth, recounting how the mission went wrong as dread builds.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0944

Cover of Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson

Robogenesis

Daniel H. Wilson · 2014 · Robopocalypse

After a robot war, surviving humans and machines face a darker conflict as rival AIs reshape what life can be.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0945

Cover of Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo

Pedro the Vast

Simón López Trujillo · 2026

A farm worker survives a deadly fungal outbreak and becomes the center of science, faith, and family crisis in rural Chile.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0946