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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Confessions of a Crap Artist.
Themes labels used: sanity, normality, perception, reality, misogyny, patriarchy, marriage, infidelity, family dysfunction, suburban hypocrisy, class privilege, alienation, self-delusion, responsibility, control, violence, deception, psychological breakdown, social conformity, bourgeois values, postwar anxiety, human cruelty
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
In a sealed French Riviera business park, an injured pilot probes a doctor’s killing spree and the enclave’s dark logic.
Why this is here
Themes labels: capitalism · wealth and boredom · violence · psychopathy · psychological alienation · social control · class cruelty · workaholism · morality · surveillance · elite decadence · human nature · repression · technology and society · racial violence · sexual perversion
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1228
A gothic retelling of Jekyll and Hyde from Hyde’s perspective, exposing hidden motives, abuse, and a fractured mind.
Why this is here
Themes labels: duality · identity · repression · self-knowledge · hidden nature · human nature · morality · good and evil · social hypocrisy · class hypocrisy · abuse trauma · psychological fragmentation · sexual repression · survival · self-destruction
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1233
A woman is sent to a moon asylum for melancholy, where spider-silk medicine and buried secrets warp mind and body.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mental illness · bodily autonomy · identity · memory · selfhood · agency · female oppression · misogyny · medical ethics · institutional abuse · lunacy · corruption · transformation · psychological terror
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1277
An ordinary man watches sudden violence spread as neighbors, family, and strangers turn murderous in a collapsing world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: fear · violence · paranoia · survival · societal collapse · human nature · perceived threat · mob mentality · moral ambiguity · trust · identity · dehumanization · family duty · class tension · media influence · gender/race/class equality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1300
A family enters a supposedly perfect company town where safety, privilege, and belonging come with eerie rules.
Why this is here
Themes labels: wealth inequality · power · privilege · conformity · corporate greed · social decay · environmental collapse · climate anxiety · survival · family loyalty · belonging · alienation · authenticity · mob mentality · toxic positivity · control · secrecy · complicity · bullying · class stratification · religion · community · sanity · fear · propaganda
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1301
A scholarship student is drawn into an elite secret society, then thrust into a hidden magical world where survival becomes revenge.
Why this is here
Themes labels: classism · elitism · privilege · misogyny · feminine rage · survival · revenge · self-discovery · belonging · power · oppression · coming of age · justice · sisterhood · friendship · morality · institutional corruption · social mobility · identity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1301
An amnesiac woman in a 1950s psychiatric hospital must decide if she’s mentally ill—or a time traveler sent to save humanity.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · memory · sanity · madness · gaslighting · patriarchy · misogyny · female autonomy · women's oppression · medical abuse · institutional abuse · power and control · agency · truth and illusion · trauma · survival · feminism · survivors guilt · ableism · pandemic fear · public health · fate · selfhood
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1318
A Mars geologist-artist confronts memory gaps, a false note, and a suspected conspiracy while doubting her own mind.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mental health · postpartum depression · motherhood · guilt · trauma · paranoia · reality perception · trust · injustice · corporate power · capitalism · surveillance · isolation · family conflict · identity · gaslighting · abuse · sanity · human connection · parental ambivalence
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1326
A post-apocalyptic teen must choose between enclave privilege and loyalty to his family in a harsh new class system.
Why this is here
Themes labels: classism · survival · family loyalty · guilt · human cruelty · prejudice · morality · coming of age · dehumanization · privilege · social hierarchy · forgiveness · hope · loss · desperation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1338
Doctor Doom targets the Fantastic Four’s hidden weaknesses, while Reed and the team become trapped in a warped battle over reality.
Why this is here
Themes labels: family bonds · identity · alienation · work-life imbalance · desire · control · illusion versus reality · selfhood · power and vulnerability · deconstruction · humanity · psychology
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1350
A jobless young couple finds work in a strange city, but one office job draws a wife into a secret that reshapes her life.
Why this is here
Themes labels: bureaucracy · alienation · workplace dehumanization · free will · predestination · identity · body and mind · modern life · capitalism · class insecurity · parenthood · pregnancy · love · mortality · existentialism · absurdity · language · knowledge and ignorance · human agency · social conformity · urban precarity · paranoia
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1355
A fractured enforcer’s mind and body are pulled across the Moon, Io, and 1920s Earth amid spiders, gang wars, and dread.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · consciousness · duality · selfhood · fragmentation · loneliness · isolation · violence · body autonomy · agency · desire and reality · memory · horror of self · corruption · morality · human monstrosity · technology ethics · class conflict · female rage · power
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1357
