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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for The New Hunger.
Tone labels used: bleak, dark, sad, hopeful, haunting, poetic, lyrical, reflective, gruesome, melancholy, somber, eerie, heartbreaking
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
In a flooded future, a mother risks everything on a sea voyage to rescue the daughter taken from her years ago.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · haunting · melancholy · emotional · tense · atmospheric · grim · hopeful · heartbreaking · poignant · frightening · despairing
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0462
In a flooded future New York, a water-sensitive teen flees a museum sanctuary and journeys north to survive.
Why this is here
Tone labels: lyrical · melancholy · bleak · dreary · hopeful · reflective · tense · somber · poetic · contemplative · dread-filled · bittersweet
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0482
A foster teen surviving a vanished world confronts gangs, scarcity, and mysterious giant visitors she cannot understand.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · melancholy · haunting · hopeful · poignant · emotional · tender · unsettling · grim · bittersweet · reflective
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0526
A reclusive game designer narrates his life backward, as a mailed fantasy game collides with reality and his hidden past.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · melancholy · haunting · quiet · brooding · somber · unsettling · intense · tender · reflective · dark · beautiful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0535
A tattooed wanderer’s living illustrations open into 18 eerie, human-centered tales of future shock and dread.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · haunting · melancholy · creeping · dreamy · poetic · bittersweet · eerie · disturbing · nostalgic · thoughtful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0556
A grieving mother crosses a violent borderland to bury her children and becomes entangled in a fight over an illegal cemetery.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · harrowing · somber · eerie · tragic · brutal · poetic · ethereal · unsettling · grim · hopeless · tender · somberly hopeful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0559
An alien comes to Earth to save his dying people, but human loneliness and self-destruction derail his mission.
Why this is here
Tone labels: sad · melancholy · poignant · haunting · unsettling · devastating · bleak · dark · reflective · tragic · quiet · depressing · somber · thoughtful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0568
An elderly man journals the quiet end of humanity while caring for his unresponsive brother in a world reclaimed by animals.
Why this is here
Tone labels: melancholy · bleak · depressing · somber · quiet · haunting · reflective · introspective · hopeless · thoughtful · poignant · grim
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0573
An android builds a suburban family and learns that passing as normal can become a tragic, deadly experiment.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · somber · melancholy · tragic · haunting · creepy · bittersweet · poetic · ominous · philosophical · sad · unsettling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0592
A frame-told alien history traces the doomed fall of a peaceful species as war, betrayal, and resistance collide.
Why this is here
Tone labels: tragic · dark · bleak · heartbreaking · bittersweet · haunting · somber · hopeful · brutal · devastating
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0598
In a flood-ravaged future where plastic is currency, a mother in a junkyard camp fights to reclaim her stolen child.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · haunting · somber · gritty · dark · hopeful · melancholy · tense · thought-provoking · emotionally heavy
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0599
A mute wanderer, a baby, a goat, and a magic sword cross a demon-warped wasteland toward humanity’s last refuge.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · grim · moody · haunting · hopeful · humorous · touching · atmospheric · lyrical · weird · macabre · sad · joyful (mixed)
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0615
