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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian.
Characterization labels used: humanist, satirical narrator, reporter, interviewer, self-aware narrator, witty observer, curious intellectual, elderly voice, fictional alter ego, deceased interviewees, historical figures, ordinary people, famous people, infamous figures
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
Two journalist-authors cross a post-nuclear America five years after a limited war to document what survived.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: journalists · writers · reporters · witnesses · survivors · investigators · faux-self insert · public intellectuals · traveler-narrators
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2061
A scholar pieces together documents and testimonies that reveal a sleeping cosmic entity and the cult awaiting its return.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed narrator · researcher protagonist · scholarly narrator · curious investigator · dead relative · cultist · sailor survivor · police investigator · eccentric artist · mad scholar · morally flawed researcher
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2072
An ancient first-person hoax of a voyage where the narrator boasts of impossible journeys, moon wars, and learned mockery.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: satirical narrator · ironic self-presentation · cynical observer · educated narrator · irreverent voice · mischievous tone · mock-heroic protagonist · learned allusions
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2155
A group of interconnected Lovecraft tales follows scholars and witnesses into cults, ruins, and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientists · historians · investigators · scholars · students · protagonist narrator · outsider protagonist · curious seeker · rational observer · doomed witness · alarmed witness · knowledge-driven · mentally shaken · insignificant humanity · repetitive character types · male protagonists · cultist figures · isolated scholar
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2171
A posthumous collection of unpublished Vonnegut short fiction, one essay, and an unfinished sci-fi fragment.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: ordinary people · mundane desires · curmudgeon · humanist observer · cynical observer · female perspective · male perspective · moral hypocrisy · self-aware narrator
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2175
A first-person barrage of absurd, hyper-referential vignettes where plot yields to wordplay, satire, and manic invention.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: anonymous narrator · unstable identity · hyperactive mind · absurdist persona · antiheroic voice · irreverent voice · satirical persona · transgressive persona · unreliable voice
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2210
A time-reset science fiction premise becomes a metafictional, memoir-like farewell about free will, memory, and being human.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: older protagonist · irascible narrator · author as character · alter ego · science fiction writer · cantankerous · wisecracking · reflective · self-aware
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2215
A Wyndham short-story collection of time slips, alternate realities, satire, and a disturbing women-only future.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: ordinary person · female protagonist · male protagonist · elderly woman · historian · doctor · businessman · young woman · young man · starlet · widow · outsider · confused protagonist · self-questioning · social observer
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2230
An immortal crow tells a human his long, strange story across ages, worlds, and the many meanings of death.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: immortal protagonist · nonhuman protagonist · outsider · trickster figure · witness figure · storyteller · shamanic figures · monks · mystics · widower narrator · wise elder · animal consciousness
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2239
A scholar’s discovery of a dubious encyclopedia entry opens into a vast invented world that starts reshaping reality.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed narrator · scholar-narrator · intellectual narrator · bibliophile · investigative thinker · philosophical narrator · mysterious conspirators
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2249
An engineer is drawn into a secret coastal experiment probing life after death, with unsettling ethical consequences.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist · engineer · doctor · eccentric scientist · reticent narrator · moral skeptic · willing participant · terminally ill character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2266
Ten uncanny stories blur history, fantasy, and sci-fi to ask what makes reality feel strange.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: physician protagonist · scientist protagonist · outsider protagonist · observer narrator · rational mind · psychological insight · elderly characters · children · surrogate witnesses · nonhuman figures
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2268
