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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Kingdom of Ohio.
Themes labels used: history and memory, truth and fiction, time and causality, free will, alternate realities, technology and power, modernization, identity, fate, love across time, historical revisionism, science and faith, memory and narration, loss, place and belonging
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A rare-book dealer is pulled into a twisty time-travel chase over a dangerous manuscript in 1957 San Francisco.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time and memory · determinism · free will · nonexistence · ancient myth · love and loss · history · hidden knowledge · books as catalysts · fate · paradox · identity · translation · destiny · destruction versus preservation · the power of texts
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0895
A displaced 1980s man awakens in 1897 Vienna and must unravel family secrets, love, and destiny across time.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time and memory · fate vs free will · family legacy · historical causality · identity · love across time · destiny · anti-Semitism · modernism · psychology · psychoanalysis · war and politics · history's impact · connectedness · mortality · trauma
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0897
A Regency aristocrat and a 21st-century time traveler are pulled into a secret war over control of time.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time and memory · fate vs choice · secrets · truth and lies · control · free will · loss and longing · identity · duty · love across time · history and change · power and secrecy · trust · knowledge withholding · moral ambiguity · class
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1001
A retired spy-novelist, a curious girl, and a future scientist become entangled across linked worlds and timelines.
Why this is here
Themes labels: fate and fatalism · free will · causation · time and memory · storytelling · power of narrative · imagination · reality versus fiction · alternate history · authority and control · knowledge and ethics · moral ambiguity · politics · class and hierarchy · science versus humanity · utopia and dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1019
In a memory-starved dystopia, a woman checks out a husband from an archive and learns what books can restore.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory and identity · time and memory · colonialism · cultural erasure · language and literature · humanity · choice and agency · creation and imagination · future and survival · oppression · knowledge preservation · body and mind
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1022
Max and Markham go undercover to stop a future-born conspiracy that’s trying to rewrite history—and their lives.
Why this is here
Themes labels: history and causation · consequences · time travel paradox · identity · loyalty · family · danger and sacrifice · fate · free will · memory · institutional control · change the past
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1089
A modern location scout falls through a hidden passage into 1685 England and becomes entangled with the man history says vanished.
Why this is here
Themes labels: fate · history and choice · free will · self-preservation · loyalty · betrayal · danger in the past · time displacement · identity · faith · religious conflict · political upheaval · social roles · women's vulnerability · love across time
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1129
In an alternate 1924, a gambler-mathematician is sent across a frozen empire to find his father and unravel Ice.
Why this is here
Themes labels: truth and lies · history and determinism · identity · existence and nonexistence · logic · mathematics · philosophy · politics · religion · free will · time · memory · love · human nature · revolution · civilizational change · language · metaphysics · epistemology · science and faith · power
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1133
A time-travel team races to decode ancient clues and stop a hidden truth from wrecking history and their own future.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time paradox · history and causality · identity · purpose · truth-seeking · free will · fate · humanity · reality questioning · trust · end of the world · consequences
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1134
Two linked eras, 1843 and 2143, unravel a sealed-letter mystery in a visually inventive, genre-bending illuminated novel.
Why this is here
Themes labels: history and memory · fact and fiction · fate and destiny · time cycles · circularity · family legacy · love and loss · political power · surveillance · control · revolution · identity · research and interpretation · books as evidence · hidden truth · inheritance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1143
A time-traveling historian’s biggest mission sends her from Troy to Agincourt, where history, danger, and love collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: history and loss · love and grief · ethical time travel · memory and identity · closure · fate and choice · second chances · sacrifice · historical violence · change and consequence
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1151
A scholar, future machines, and far-future humans collide in a Mars-set Trojan War reenactment driven by gods.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · control · posthumanism · identity · memory · literary inheritance · history and myth · civilization decline · knowledge loss · technology ethics · surveillance · power and manipulation · truth and interpretation · human frailty · intertextuality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1152
