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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

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Cover of How We End by L.M. Juniper

How We End

L.M. Juniper · 2022 · How We Survive Series

Seven strangers try to survive a fast-moving zombie outbreak and the end of London while forging an unlikely family.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1061

Cover of Last Exit by Max Gladstone

Last Exit

Max Gladstone · 2022

A fractured found-family road trip across alternate worlds becomes one last chance to save a lost love and a dying reality.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1099

Cover of The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain by Robert Kirkman

The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain

Robert Kirkman · 2009 · The Walking Dead

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

Cover of Through the Dark by Alexandra Bracken

Through the Dark

Alexandra Bracken · 2015 · The Darkest Minds

Three companion novellas expand a dystopian YA world through new POVs, heartbreak, and post-series closure.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1176

Cover of タコピーの原罪 下 [Takopī no Genzai 2] by Taizan 5

タコピーの原罪 下 [Takopī no Genzai 2]

Taizan 5, タイザン5 · 2022 · タコピーの原罪 [Takopī no Genzai]

An innocent alien tries to bring happiness to a bullied child, but human pain, family chaos, and time shifts upend everything.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1226

Cover of City of Orange by David  Yoon

City of Orange

David Yoon · 2022

An amnesiac survivor wakes in a ruined landscape and slowly uncovers the truth about his past and his world.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1229

Cover of This Is Not a Test: The Definitive Edition with Please Remain Calm by Courtney Summers

This Is Not a Test: The Definitive Edition with Please Remain Calm

Courtney Summers · 2026 · This is Not a Test

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

Cover of Once Was a Time by Leila Sales

Once Was a Time

Leila Sales · 2016

A wartime girl is swept into the future and must navigate grief, new allies, and a path back to her best friend.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1248

Cover of Black River: Deluxe Edition by Ruby Jean Cottle

Black River: Deluxe Edition

Ruby Jean Cottle · 2026 · Black River

A bookish teen in a mountain town wakes changed, craving blood, and must uncover what’s happening before it consumes her.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1250

Cover of Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken

Sparks Rise

Alexandra Bracken · 2014 · The Darkest Minds

A short, dark interquel follows a camp survivor as a brainwashed childhood friend returns and a dangerous rescue unfolds.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1268

Cover of Chaos Rising by Kyla Stone

Chaos Rising

Kyla Stone · 2019 · Edge of Collapse

On Christmas Eve, an EMP blackout traps a reclusive veteran in Chicago as sudden disaster forces impossible choices.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1272

Cover of The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe

The Way We Fall

Megan Crewe · 2012 · Fallen World

A shy teen journals to an estranged friend as a deadly virus quarantines her island and forces survival, loss, and change.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1272

Cover of Alice in Borderland, Vol. 2 by Haro Aso

Alice in Borderland, Vol. 2

Haro Aso · 2022 · Alice in Borderland 2-in-1 Omnibus

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

Cover of The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman by Nick   Jones

The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman

Nick Jones · The Downstream Diaries

A reclusive, insomnia-plagued man discovers time travel after hypnotherapy and races to change a missing-sister past.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1278