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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands.
Themes labels used: survival, grief, guilt, blame, identity, trauma, homelessness, loss, friendship, parenting, accountability, shame, hope, resilience, social judgment, radioactivity, literature as solace, poetry and healing, moral ambiguity
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
After a family tragedy leaves a teen girl alone in an ash-covered world, she must survive grief and rediscover hope.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · survivor guilt · healing · hope · love · identity · resilience · survival · nature as healing · rebirth · letting go · trauma
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1020
Seven strangers try to survive a fast-moving zombie outbreak and the end of London while forging an unlikely family.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · humanity · resilience · trauma · healing · identity · acceptance · loss · grief · addiction · community · hope · courage · mental health · social collapse · interdependence · moral choice
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1061
A fractured found-family road trip across alternate worlds becomes one last chance to save a lost love and a dying reality.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · loss · grief · regret · guilt · trauma · friendship · hope · failure · redemption · memory · aging · self-discovery · choices and consequences · reality · power and privilege · American Dream · social critique · healing · collective responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1099
After a devastating attack, Rick and Carl struggle to survive, regroup, and follow a new path through the apocalypse.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · trauma · survival · sanity · loss · childhood · responsibility · guilt · resilience · recovery · trust · leadership · independence · parenting in crisis · mourning · hope
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1150
After a global flu, a grief-stricken pilot guards a small refuge with his dog and a gunman, until a radio signal lures him outward.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · hope · survival · humanity · loneliness · connection · loss · memory · morality · compassion vs violence · meaning · endurance · nature · survivor's guilt · community
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1175
Three companion novellas expand a dystopian YA world through new POVs, heartbreak, and post-series closure.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · hope · closure · trauma · abuse · kindness · loyalty · family · identity · freedom · choice · resilience · loss · healing · power and control · dehumanization · post-traumatic stress · moral change
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1176
Two young women flee a barricaded safe zone, surviving zombies, grief, and a troubling transformation.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · guilt · mental health · PTSD · survival · humanity · hope · loss · trauma · coming of age · identity · fear · mutual care · mortality · inner demons · survivor guilt · physical transformation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1176
A traumatized reporter chasing a serial killer joins a cult offering memory erasure, then begins losing himself.
Why this is here
Themes labels: trauma · memory · identity · grief · loss · forgetting · healing · regret · selfhood · survival · responsibility · psychological erosion · mortality · belonging · love and loss
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1222
A grief-worn medic is pulled into a secret surface mission with an elite squad, where survival and romance collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · trauma · survival · hope · healing · trust · loss · self-worth · resilience · community · sacrifice · secrets · power and control · betrayal · mental health
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1222
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An innocent alien tries to bring happiness to a bullied child, but human pain, family chaos, and time shifts upend everything.
Why this is here
Themes labels: trauma · child abuse · bullying · neglect · family dysfunction · communication · empathy · moral ambiguity · survival · culpability · guilt · forgiveness · social problems · generational harm · loneliness · depression · hope · human complexity · perspective · free will · fate · shared suffering
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1226
An amnesiac survivor wakes in a ruined landscape and slowly uncovers the truth about his past and his world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · identity · memory · survival · trauma · hope · acceptance · loneliness · mortality · humanity · parenthood · belonging · truth and perception · meaning-making · fear of death · cynicism and hope · sanity · love after loss
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1229
A zombie-apocalypse companion collection of short stories, journals, and backstories filling gaps in the Rot & Ruin world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · loss · resilience · hope · humanity · grief · trauma · sacrifice · meaning of life · coming of age · memory · moral choice · apocalypse ethics · identity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1233
Six teens barricaded in a high school face zombies outside and trauma, fear, and survival instincts inside.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · trauma · depression · suicide · will to live · hope · human nature · abuse · loss · grief · vulnerability · communication · morality · choice · camaraderie
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1237
Six years after a pandemic, four survivors in a rebuilding San Francisco face buried pasts, family bonds, and a new outbreak scare.
Why this is here
Themes labels: family · hope · survival · resilience · identity · trauma · grief · morality · forgiveness · trust · normalcy · recovery · connection · parenthood · stability
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1239
A wartime girl is swept into the future and must navigate grief, new allies, and a path back to her best friend.
Why this is here
Themes labels: friendship · loyalty · grief · loss · survivor guilt · identity · belonging · resilience · adaptation · courage · home · memory · forgiveness · growing up · self-discovery · chosen family · hope · perseverance · regret · kindness · bullying · war aftermath · reading · libraries
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1248
A bookish teen in a mountain town wakes changed, craving blood, and must uncover what’s happening before it consumes her.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · transformation · self-discovery · loss of control · grief · trauma · coming of age · hunger · desire · morality · survival · forgiveness · family bonds · friendship · change · humanity · loss of innocence · responsibility · secrecy · belonging
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1250
A teenage survivor navigates a nearly empty England after a deadly plague leaves him among the last people alive.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · loneliness · companionship · human nature · moral ambiguity · loss · grief · coming of age · responsibility · adolescence · civilizational collapse · hope
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1256
Trapped in a hometown library by murderous owls, Mad must protect kids, manage survivors, and face her past.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · trauma · PTSD · survival · resilience · bravery · friendship · responsibility · hope · loss · guilt · healing · community · fear · shared trauma · courage
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1261
A short, dark interquel follows a camp survivor as a brainwashed childhood friend returns and a dangerous rescue unfolds.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · hope · despair · memory · identity · brainwashing · trauma · loss of innocence · resistance · powerlessness · loyalty · sacrifice · compassion · fear and control
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1268
In a nuclear-devastated Miami, survivors race through fallout and gangs while Dakota tries to reach her missing sister.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · loss · trauma · trust · family loyalty · redemption · moral collapse · human nature · preparedness · hope · community · resource scarcity · violence · alcoholism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1269
On Christmas Eve, an EMP blackout traps a reclusive veteran in Chicago as sudden disaster forces impossible choices.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · loss · grief · trauma · PTSD · family responsibility · sacrifice · protecting loved ones · collapse of society · hope · healing · compassion · resilience · preparedness · disbelief · hard choices
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1272
A shy teen journals to an estranged friend as a deadly virus quarantines her island and forces survival, loss, and change.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · fear · grief · loss · hope · family · friendship · community breakdown · morality · identity · responsibility · social isolation · leadership · human nature · hope versus despair · public health
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1272
Arisu’s survival game intensifies as new deadly challenges, shifting alliances, and a mysterious faction test every bond.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · will to live · grief · trauma · despair · friendship · love · betrayal · power · morality · human nature · life appreciation · escape · revenge · guilt · depression
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1274
A reclusive, insomnia-plagued man discovers time travel after hypnotherapy and races to change a missing-sister past.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · trauma · regret · guilt · family loss · healing · second chances · agency · identity · memory · cause and effect · consequences · ethical choices · redemption · acceptance · hope · time and loss · isolation · moving forward
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1278
