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These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Spaceman of Bohemia.

Plot structure labels used: dual timeline, flashbacks, frame narrative, intercut past and present, first half / second half shift, philosophical detours, memory-driven reveals, moral reckoning, open-ended ambiguity, surreal escalation

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Cover of The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home

Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor · 2020 · Welcome to Night Vale

A faceless houseghost’s centuries-spanning origin, revenge, and haunting of a modern-day man finally collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0884

Cover of The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1975 · The Hainish Cycle

A physicist from an anarchist moon visits a capitalist world, forcing both societies’ flaws—and ideals—into view.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0896

Cover of Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

Sacred and Terrible Air

Robert Kurvitz · 2023

Three childhood friends keep searching for four missing girls as a collapsing world and strange force called the Pale close in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0924

Cover of Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Jailbird

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 1999

A released Watergate-era prisoner looks back on an accident-prone life of politics, labor, love, and corporate power.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0947

Cover of Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

Chasm City

Alastair Reynolds · 2003 · Revelation Space

A security operative chasing revenge enters a plague-ravaged city where memory, identity, and history unravel.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0953

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: 0.0965

Cover of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

How to Stop Time

Matt Haig · 2019

A centuries-old history teacher tries to live normally in London while guarding a dangerous secret and resisting love.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0983

Cover of How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey

How It Unfolds

James S.A. Corey · 2023 · The Far Reaches

A cloned astronaut on an interstellar colonization mission faces repeated second chances—and one unresolved past.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1002

Cover of Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock

Behold the Man

Michael Moorcock · 1969 · Karl Glogauer

A troubled man time-travels to biblical Palestine and becomes entangled in the origins of Christianity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1011

Cover of Star Wars: Hard Merchandise by K.W. Jeter

Star Wars: Hard Merchandise

K.W. Jeter · 1999 · Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars

Boba Fett hunts a dangerous conspiracy, an amnesiac woman, and hidden enemies in the finale of a Star Wars trilogy.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1017

Cover of The Winds of Dune by Brian Herbert

The Winds of Dune

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson · 2009 · Heroes of Dune

In the aftermath of a messianic ruler’s disappearance, rival factions, family loyalties, and hidden histories collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1018

Cover of Everyone We've Been by Sarah Everett

Everyone We've Been

Sarah Everett · 2016

After an accident, a teen violinist loses memories and sees an invisible boy, leading her into a buried secret about her past.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1021

Cover of The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood

The Square Root of Summer

Harriet Reuter Hapgood · 2016

A grieving teen math whiz starts slipping through wormholes, revisiting a summer of heartbreak, loss, and unfinished love.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1025

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من قتل وليد؟

خلف زون · 2025

A teen is pulled into a web of school secrets, blackmail, and revenge after a mysterious message about his friend's death.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1036

Cover of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

The Sparrow

Mary Doria Russell · 1997 · The Sparrow

A Jesuit-led first-contact mission to a singing alien world becomes a devastating inquiry into faith, guilt, and humanity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1037

Cover of Dooku: Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott

Dooku: Jedi Lost

Cavan Scott · 2019 · Star Wars Disney Canon Novel

A Sith apprentice uncovers the hidden past of Count Dooku through recordings, revealing how a Jedi became disillusioned.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1043

Cover of The Sentence by Christina Dalcher

The Sentence

Christina Dalcher · 2023

In a near-future U.S., a prosecutor who sought death penalty execution must uncover the truth before she pays for a possible mistake.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1044

Cover of Hawkeye, Volume 6: Hawkeyes by Jeff Lemire

Hawkeye, Volume 6: Hawkeyes

Jeff Lemire · 2016 · Hawkeye (2012-2016) (Collected Editions)

Clint and Kate face a fractured present, a possible future, and Kate’s past as their partnership nears a breaking point.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1052

Cover of Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow

Attack Surface

Cory Doctorow · 2020 · Little Brother

A gifted hacker for surveillance firms must choose between lucrative complicity and helping the dissidents her tech targets.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1060

Cover of On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe

On Blue's Waters

Gene Wolfe · 1999 · The Book of the Short Sun

A reluctant, unreliable narrator sails an alien ocean to find a vanished leader and unravel his own fate.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1060

Cover of Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

Use of Weapons

Iain M. Banks · 1992 · Culture

A Culture agent is sent on a mission, while a reversed past slowly reveals the trauma and identity behind him.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1068

Cover of Light from Other Stars by Erika Swyler

Light from Other Stars

Erika Swyler · 2019

A space-obsessed girl’s childhood in NASA-era Florida collides with her adult mission to save humanity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1081

Cover of Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss

Greybeard

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A post-apocalyptic river journey through a sterile, aging England where nature returns and hope is scarce.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1082

Cover of On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

On a Sunbeam

Tillie Walden · 2018 · On a Sunbeam

A young woman joins a space restoration crew while chasing the past love that still calls her back.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1085

Cover of All-Star Batman, Volume 3: The First Ally by Scott Snyder

All-Star Batman, Volume 3: The First Ally

Scott Snyder · 2018 · All-Star Batman (2016)

Batman and Alfred face a present-day conspiracy while Alfred’s secret past resurfaces in a parallel, globe-trotting story.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1092

Cover of Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer

Acceptance

Jeff Vandermeer · 2014 · Southern Reach

A final expedition into Area X unspools hidden origins, shifting identities, and the cost of confronting the unknowable.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1095

Cover of Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Walking to Aldebaran

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2019 · Terrible Worlds: Destinations

A stranded astronaut wanders a physics-breaking alien labyrinth, recounting how the mission went wrong as dread builds.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1104

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China Dream

Ma Jian · 2018

A corrupt Chinese official tasked with selling a state dream is haunted by Cultural Revolution memories that wreck his sanity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1111