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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for We Are the Ants.
Themes labels used: depression, suicide, grief, self-worth, identity, meaning of life, nihilism, hope, love, bullying, mental health, family, abandonment, sexuality, choice, responsibility, survival, humanity
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A vacuum welder dies in deep space, awakens to strange qi, and enters a sect where his void-born power upends everything.
Why this is here
Themes labels: meaning of life · nihilism · existentialism · depression · hope · identity · trauma · mortality · power and responsibility · social hierarchy · prejudice · corruption · belonging · friendship · self-worth · determinism vs agency · progress through struggle
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0785
A depressed teen is pulled into piloting a giant bio-mecha to fight mysterious angels and face his father.
Why this is here
Themes labels: depression · trauma · isolation · loneliness · self-worth · meaning of life · existentialism · apocalypse · human connection · fear of intimacy · identity · coming of age · parental neglect · approval · nihilism · hope · sacrifice · escapism · faith · psychological pressure
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0878
Future letters push a shy high schooler and her friends to try to save a troubled boy and rewrite regret.
Why this is here
Themes labels: depression · suicide · mental health · fate · regret · friendship · love · loss · support systems · responsibility · self-worth · communication · stigma · choice · living intentionally · no regrets
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0909
An older queer couple takes one last cross-country road trip as a black hole brings Earth’s final days closer.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · grief · loss · hope · mortality · aging · regret · forgiveness · humanity · human nature · connection · community · acceptance · endings · meaning of life · purpose · parenthood · adoption trauma · homophobia · bigotry · religious hypocrisy · mental health · trauma · death anxiety · existentialism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0942
A nameless undead woman crosses a ruined world, carrying grief, hunger, and a fading self toward what she has lost.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · memory · identity · mortality · love · yearning · hunger · emptiness · meaning · selfhood · embodiment · dissociation · transformation · death · loneliness · mourning · regret · existentialism · nihilism · hope
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0984
A woman in a library between life and death explores alternate versions of her life to confront regret and choose whether to live.
Why this is here
Themes labels: regret · life worth living · mental health · depression · suicide · choice · acceptance · self-worth · kindness · identity · purpose · grief · possibility · perspective · present moment · human connection
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1008
A lone survivor of a deadly future virus roams a ruined UK, searching for others and herself.
Why this is here
Themes labels: self-discovery · identity · survival · female identity · social expectations · mental health · depression · anxiety · addiction · loneliness · grief · hope · resilience · self-acceptance · mortality · humanity · meaning of life · perspective on life · freedom · compromise
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1021
Six illustrated YA sci-fi novellas explore future worlds where love, grief, and hope collide with strange technologies.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · hope · love · friendship · family · mental health · depression · self-harm · revenge · betrayal · forgiveness · personal growth · identity · technology and humanity · death · life and death · miscommunication · abuse · repression
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1023
A lonely alien studies Earth and finds unexpected comfort, friendship, and life lessons among talking creatures.
Why this is here
Themes labels: loneliness · belonging · identity · self-acceptance · love · friendship · death · grief · sadness · happiness · art · meaning · humanity · existentialism · growth · acceptance · memory · purpose · self-reflection
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1046
An immortal cat runs a battered space station, fighting crises, loneliness, and Earth’s collapse from orbit.
Why this is here
Themes labels: loneliness · depression · duty · survival · personhood · identity · community · found family · hope · resilience · companionship · ethics · self-worth · memory · meaning · mortality · immortality · post-collapse survival · responsibility · humanity · alienation · grief · care
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1071
A depressed escape artist superhero faces cosmic war, domestic life, and a reality that may not be real.
Why this is here
Themes labels: depression · suicide · trauma · mental illness · existentialism · free will · reality · identity · fatherhood · marriage · parenthood · love · duty · war · good vs evil · escapism · fate · humanity · family · acceptance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1079
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: 0.1093
