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These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for The Core of the Sun.

Plot structure labels used: epistolary, fragmentary narration, collage structure, multiple viewpoints, found documents, short chapters, flashbacks, interwoven context, mystery subplot

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their plot structure embeddings are close.

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Cover of The Maze Runner Files by James Dashner

The Maze Runner Files

James Dashner · 2013 · The Maze Runner

A short companion of classified files, emails, and memories that expands the Maze Runner world for series fans.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0760

Cover of The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost

The Secret History of Twin Peaks

Mark Frost · 2016 · Twin Peaks

An in-universe dossier uncovers Twin Peaks’ hidden history through documents, notes, and conspiracy-laced evidence.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1003

Cover of My Name is Monster by Katie Hale

My Name is Monster

Katie Hale · 2019

A lone survivor crosses a ruined world, then finds a feral girl and must decide what it means to survive and become Mother.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1054

Cover of Frankenstein / Dracula / Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein / Dracula / Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson · 2006

Three foundational gothic-horror classics in one volume: a scientist's creation, a vampire's hunt, and a divided self.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1066

Cover of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1950

A Victorian doctor’s chemical experiment splits off his darkest self, and the consequences spread through a shadowy London.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1086

Cover of Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft · 2014

An audio anthology of Lovecraft’s best-known weird tales, blending cosmic dread, mad science, and mythos lore.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1147

Cover of The Difference Engine by William Gibson

The Difference Engine

William Gibson, Bruce Sterling · 1991

In an alternate 1855 England powered by steam computers, several figures race over a dangerous punched-card program.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1155

Cover of The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel  Gonzales

The Regional Office is Under Attack!

Manuel Gonzales · 2016

A secret world-saving agency is attacked from within, forcing two young women on opposite sides into collision.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1186

Cover of Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Bluebeard

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2011

An aging Armenian-American artist writes his life story while hiding a secret in his barn and being disrupted by a pushy widow.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1187

Cover of Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta

Mad Sisters of Esi

Tashan Mehta · 2025

A restless sister leaves a world-whale behind, uncovering myths, memory, and a centuries-old mystery about two mad sisters.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1194

Cover of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

H.P. Lovecraft · 1965 · Horror Hall of Fame Novellas

A young antiquarian’s obsession with a hidden ancestor opens a case of occult clues, madness, and buried horror.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1201

Cover of The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang

The Descent of Monsters

Neon Yang · 2018 · Tensorate

A state investigator pieces together a massacre at a secret research facility while buried evidence exposes a larger conspiracy.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1204

Cover of The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta

The Moonday Letters

Emmi Itäranta · 2022

A healer on a ravaged future Earth hunts for her vanished spouse across the colonized solar system.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1209

Cover of The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu

The Death I Gave Him

Em X. Liu · 2023

In a locked-down future lab, a grieving scientist’s son hunts his father’s killer with help from the lab’s AI.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1213

Cover of Cenital by Emilio Bueso

Cenital

Emilio Bueso · 2012

A fortified eco-village braces for collapse after peak oil, as a prophetic leader and his followers confront a bleak new world.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1238

Cover of A Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall

A Letter from the Lonesome Shore

Sylvie Cathrall · 2025 · The Sunken Archive

Two separated lovers and their siblings pursue reunion through letters, scholar secrets, and an ominous oceanic mystery.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1247

Cover of Final Fantasy VII Remake: Traces of Two Pasts by Kazushige Nojima

Final Fantasy VII Remake: Traces of Two Pasts

Kazushige Nojima · 2023

A companion novel where Tifa and Aerith trade backstories during a journey, revealing the lives that shaped them.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1255

Cover of Floating Hotel by Grace  Curtis

Floating Hotel

Grace Curtis · 2024

A drifting space hotel full of misfits and secrets faces spies, rebels, and a mystery that could change everything.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1256

Cover of Frontier by Grace  Curtis

Frontier

Grace Curtis · 2023

A crash-surviving space traveler crosses a climate-ravaged Earth, searching for her lost love amid outlaws, zealots, and guns.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1264

Cover of Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman

Notes from a Regicide

Isaac Fellman · 2025

A trans man reconstructs his adopted parents’ past through journals, uncovering love, art, and revolution in a far-future city.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1269

Cover of The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs

The Soft Machine

William S. Burroughs · 1994 · The Nova Trilogy

A cut-up sci-fi nightmare of addiction, control, and bodily horror, told in fragments that resist linear sense.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1275

Cover of Halo: Silentium by Greg Bear

Halo: Silentium

Greg Bear · 2013 · The Forerunner Saga

An ancient empire’s final days unfold through testimony as war, memory, and sacrifice converge on a galaxy-ending choice.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1287

Cover of Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents... by Alan Moore

Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents...

Alan Moore · 1986 · Watchmen

A murdered masked hero pulls a retired vigilante into a paranoid investigation in a dark alternate-history superhero world.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1288

Cover of Léviathan, tome 1 by Shiro Kuroi

Léviathan, tome 1

Shiro Kuroi · 2022 · リバイアサン [Leviathan]

A school trip in space turns deadly after a shipwreck, and salvagers later uncover a journal that reveals why.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1304

Cover of Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson · 2011 · Robopocalypse

An oral-history-style robot apocalypse follows scattered survivors as an AI turns everyday machines against humanity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1310

Cover of The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland · 2017 · D.O.D.O.

A secret U.S. agency uses witchcraft and time travel to restore magic, only to unleash bureaucracy, paradox, and chaos.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1313

Cover of Planetary, Volume 3: Leaving the 20th Century by Warren Ellis

Planetary, Volume 3: Leaving the 20th Century

Warren Ellis · 2005 · Planetary

Elijah Snow’s buried past surfaces as Planetary confronts a secretive enemy and the hidden history of the 20th century.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1318

Cover of Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin

Blue Lard

Vladimir Sorokin · 2024

Cloned Russian writers, a mysterious bodily substance, and a time-bending political nightmare collide in a savage literary fever dream.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1323

Cover of Watchmen by Alan Moore

Watchmen

Alan Moore · 1987 · Watchmen

In an alternate 1980s, retired superheroes investigate a murder as Cold War tensions and hidden conspiracies mount.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1324

Cover of Saha by Cho Nam-Joo

Saha

Cho Nam-Joo · 2022

In a corporate-run city-state, outcasts in a neglected housing complex live under class control as a disappearance draws one sister searching for answers.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1329