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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for A Slip under the Microscope.
Tone labels used: mysterious, mysterious and moving, melancholy, bittersweet, thought-provoking, philosophical, dream-like, lyrical, dark, unsettling, fatalistic
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
A sleeping sickness strikes a California college town, and the wakeful struggle to protect each other as dreams deepen.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dreamlike · eerie · haunting · lyrical · quiet · mysterious · atmospheric · tense · melancholy · thought-provoking · bittersweet · uncanny
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0791
A young man whose life keeps rewriting itself chases the cause of his erased past and a risky future love.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · melancholy · bittersweet · somber · heartbreaking · ominous · mysterious · thrilling · sad · thought-provoking
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0833
A fugitive prince and his allies battle court intrigue and a sentient prison’s escape scheme to free trapped friends.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · mysterious · bittersweet · tense · melancholy · gritty · poetic · surreal · suspenseful · uneasy
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0915
An amnesiac teen becomes the apprentice of a supernatural judge who punishes wrongdoing through terrifying games.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · creepy · haunting · mysterious · philosophical · gory · brutal · melancholy · dreamlike
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1017
After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.
Why this is here
Tone labels: haunting · disturbing · thought-provoking · bittersweet · bleak · unsettling · intellectual · lyrical · compulsive · philosophical · strange
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1028
After a fatal drowning, a teen wakes in an empty place and must uncover what’s real, what’s lost, and what comes next.
Why this is here
Tone labels: mysterious · creepy · sad · hopeful · intense · emotional · philosophical · claustrophobic · chilling · mind-bending · heart-wrenching · dark · beautiful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1031
A quiet young man brings a baffling multi-life mystery to Misir Ali, who tries to explain an unsolved case spanning realities.
Why this is here
Tone labels: mysterious · dreamlike · baffling · somber · atmospheric · thought-provoking · melancholy · intriguing
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1032
A fugitive hides on a remote island, where mysterious visitors and an impossible romance lead him into a reality-bending discovery.
Why this is here
Tone labels: mysterious · atmospheric · claustrophobic · haunting · surreal · dreamlike · romantic · melancholy · chilling · eerie · dark · philosophical · tender · unsettling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1036
An orphan girl in a ruined future city sets out to uncover the truth about her family and the world that survived collapse.
Why this is here
Tone labels: poetic · dreamlike · mysterious · melancholy · hopeful · beautiful · dark · reflective · surreal · creepy
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1039
A Soviet cosmonaut returns from a secret deep-space mission with reality-bending powers and a world afraid of what he’s become.
Why this is here
Tone labels: cerebral · philosophical · mysterious · somber · sad · beautiful · tragic · weird · mind-bending
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1078
A dying father becomes a census taker and takes one last northward road trip with his adult son, facing love, loss, and mystery.
Why this is here
Tone labels: melancholy · tender · lyrical · philosophical · dreamlike · surreal · enigmatic · atmospheric · hopeful · unsettling · poignant · meditative · fablelike
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1085
A grieving Taiwanese professor and an island boy from a sacrifice tradition are thrown together by an ocean of trash.
Why this is here
Tone labels: lyrical · poetic · dreamy · melancholic · tragic · somber · tender · mystical · mysterious · haunting · quiet · bleak
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1093
