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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for A Stir of Echoes.
Characterization labels used: everyman protagonist, middle-class family man, pregnant wife, brother-in-law catalyst, psychic medium, skeptical spouse, neighbors with secrets, ordinary people with darkness
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
In a city where lying is impossible, one father risks everything to learn deception and save his dying son.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · father · loving parent · truth-conditioned citizen · rule-abiding conformist · artist-censor · dissembler · terminally ill child · pragmatic spouse · desperate seeker
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1434
In a flooded, theocratic future, one privacy-loving man quietly resists a world built on compulsory sharing and blind faith.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · dissident protagonist · antihero · naive protagonist · relatable protagonist · skeptical protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1597
A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman hero · government agent · scientist protagonist · family man · complicated protagonist · guilt-ridden · reluctant hero · genius mother · upgraded protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1651
In a future ruled by lottery, a disaffected worker is pulled into a deadly struggle over who controls the world.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · disaffected worker · deposed ruler · new ruler · cult follower · telepaths · android assassin · corrupt elites · paranoid society
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1651
A career-spanning Richard Matheson anthology of short, twisty horror, sci-fi, and suspense stories.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonists · ordinary people · older men · young woman protagonist · couple protagonists · authority figures · psychopathic antagonist · helpless protagonist · morally pressured characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1671
An ordinary man watches sudden violence spread as neighbors, family, and strangers turn murderous in a collapsing world.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · unlikable protagonist · anti-hero · whiny protagonist · working-class man · husband · father · stressed mother · nagging wife · annoying children · father-in-law
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1690
An ordinary man must shepherd two children through an England devastated by an inexplicable alien apocalypse.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · ordinary man · hapless survivor · anxiety-prone · self-doubting · flawed protagonist · protective caretaker · children as key characters · human antagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1706
A last man and his companions keep crossing a shattered America, where new factions and old loyalties collide.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · reluctant hero · brainwashed follower · fanatical leader · secret agent · scientist · survivalist group · eclectic companions · culpable sister
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1707
A driver on a lonely highway becomes locked in a terrifying, high-speed pursuit with a relentless truck.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · ordinary driver · family man · nameless antagonist · anonymous threat · unseen driver · psychological pressure · primal fear
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1710
A new hire and an undercover spy enter a mega-corporation’s live-work city and uncover the cost of total convenience.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · corporate spy · founder CEO · disillusioned worker · former prison guard · inventor · mercenary · pragmatic survivor · morally ambiguous · controlling leader · self-justifying executive · reluctant participant · ordinary pawn
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1772
A brutal superhero satire follows undercover probes, hidden histories, and escalating conspiracies inside a corrupt super-team world.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · cynical antihero · morally compromised characters · dark mentor · violent hero · naive investigator · undercover infiltrator · enemies with hidden motives · corrupt elite · messy ensemble
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1842
A man glimpses a hidden force quietly adjusting reality, then must decide what to believe and what to forget.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: ordinary man · real estate agent · wife · bureaucrat · talking dog · mysterious authority · everyman protagonist · anxious spouse
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1866
