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These books are ranked using the characterization + relationships labels extracted for They Came with the Snow. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Characterization labels used: professor protagonist, student love interest, affair, cheating husband, guilt-ridden, conflicted character, unlikeable protagonist, survivor group

Relationships labels used: teacher-student affair, marriage, extramarital affair, survivor band, betrayal, romantic tension, dependency, group cooperation

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Cover of Crave by Maria Llovet

Crave

Maria Llovet · 2024

An elite-campus app promises to grant desires, but its seductive help spirals into chaos, lust, and danger.

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Characterization labels: top student · scholarship student · flawed characters · messy characters · one-dimensional characters · one-note characters · privileged students · horny students · college students · friends group · love triangle · crush-driven · immature · reckless · morally compromised

Relationships labels: hookup · seduction · love triangle · romantic rivalry · friend group · friendship · breakup · jealousy · student-teacher relationship · queer relationship · bullying · outsider status · dependency · sexual tension

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1849

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Cover of The Sleep Experiment by Jeremy Bates

The Sleep Experiment

Jeremy Bates · 2019 · World's Scariest Legends

A psychology professor recreates a notorious sleep-deprivation experiment, and the lab slowly turns into a nightmare.

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Characterization labels: psychology professor · mad scientist · narcissistic protagonist · student assistants · test subjects · young tourists · villain protagonist · oblivious victims · unlikeable characters

Relationships labels: student-teacher · mentor-mentee · professional hierarchy · romantic obsession · sexual obsession · power imbalance · research team · friendship

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1886

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Cover of 暗殺教室 9 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 9] by Yusei Matsui

暗殺教室 9 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 9]

Yusei Matsui, 松井優征 · 2014 · 暗殺教室 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu]

A school class keeps trying to assassinate their tentacled teacher while navigating fights, school politics, and new bonds.

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Characterization labels: mentor teacher · reluctant hero · quietly dangerous student · professional assassin · manipulative principal · supportive teacher · overlooked student · gifted student

Relationships labels: teacher-student relationships · class bonds · friendship · family approval · student rivalry · romance subplot · matchmaking · team loyalty · group belonging · authority conflict

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1946

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Cover of Assassin of Reality by Marina Dyachenko

Assassin of Reality

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2023 · Vita Nostra (English)

A gifted student returns to an eerie magical institute where language shapes reality and failure could remake the world.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: stubborn protagonist · older protagonist · intellectual curiosity · transcendent being · ambitious student · alienated protagonist · dark mentor · fascinating protagonist · humanity vs concept

Relationships labels: student-teacher rivalry · mentor-protégé · romance · pilot love interest · classmate distrust · peer support · familial leverage · protective friends · power imbalance

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1950

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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.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: teen protagonists · students · teachers · salvagers · maintenance robot · panicked survivors · paranoid characters · morally compromised characters

Relationships labels: student-teacher conflict · peer rivalry · group paranoia · survival alliance · betrayal · power struggle · class hierarchy · secret keeping · us-vs-them · dependence on authority · isolation

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1978

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Cover of The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman

The Two Doctors Górski

Isaac Fellman · 2022

A traumatized graduate student in magical psychiatry confronts an abusive mentor, mind reading, and a split self.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: brilliant student · traumatized protagonist · mind reader · abusive professor · mercurial mentor · homunculus double · tortured graduate student · isolated student · complex morally damaged characters · anxious protagonist · detached protagonist · survivor

Relationships labels: student-advisor relationship · abusive relationship · toxic relationship · mentor-student power imbalance · romantic abuse · emotional abuse · mirror selves · peer tension · self versus self

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1981

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Cover of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

What We Can Know

Ian McEwan · 2025

A future scholar hunts a vanished poem in a flooded Britain, uncovering buried truths about love, memory, and history.

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Characterization labels: scholar · academic obsession · unlikable characters · morally compromised · romantic fixation · researcher protagonist · female perspective shift · obsessive narrator · psychologically complex

Relationships labels: marriage · infidelity · love triangle · academic partnership · lover relationship · power imbalance · family conflict · betrayal · obsession

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1992

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Cover of 暗殺教室 14 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 14] by Yusei Matsui

暗殺教室 14 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 14]

Yusei Matsui · 2015 · 暗殺教室 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu]

Class E faces school-festival and final-exam battles, while a fierce principal rivalry pushes the class to prove itself.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: outsider students · elite students · demanding teacher · authoritarian principal · rival student · talented student · morally ambiguous teacher · team-oriented class · unhinged antagonist · developing antagonist

Relationships labels: teacher-student relationships · class rivalry · sibling rivalry · mentor-student bond · parent-child relationship · rivalry · group teamwork · adversarial relationship

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1995

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Cover of Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber

Conjure Wife

Fritz Leiber · 1993

A skeptical professor discovers his wife’s secret witchcraft may be the only thing protecting their marriage and career.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: rationalist · skeptical protagonist · male professor · witch wife · faculty wives · academic outsider · intuitive wife · capable heroine · paternalistic man · career-minded professor · passive-aggressive rivals

Relationships labels: marriage · husband wife · academic marriage · gender conflict · marital dependence · spousal protection · female rivalry · faculty politics · power imbalance · romantic loyalty · betrayal · wifely sacrifice

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2002

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Cover of Making History by Stephen Fry

Making History

Stephen Fry · 1996

A Cambridge historian and a physicist try to erase Hitler from history, only to unleash a worse alternate world.

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Characterization labels: history student · graduate student · PhD candidate · physicist · professor · physicist scientist · Holocaust survivor · elderly · young adult · flawed protagonist · irritating protagonist · unsympathetic lead · wunderkind · hubristic · immature · self-deprecating · brutal antagonist · well-rounded characters

Relationships labels: romance · gay romance · heterosexual relationship · breakup · mentor-student · collaboration · academic partnership · friendship · familial guilt · parental trauma · power imbalance · partnership

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2051

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Cover of A Slip under the Microscope by H.G. Wells

A Slip under the Microscope

H.G. Wells · 2015

Two short, ambiguous Wells stories explore a hidden doorway and an exam slip-up through regret, choice, and conscience.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: student · scholar · rival student · professor · promising man · social climber · humble background · conscientious character · obsessive character · idealistic character

Relationships labels: student-teacher · academic rivalry · class competition · mentor-pupil · romantic rivalry · social hierarchy · peer comparison

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2061

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Cover of Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates

Hazards of Time Travel

Joyce Carol Oates · 2018

A punished teen from a surveilled future is exiled to 1950s Wisconsin, where identity, love, and reality blur.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: teen protagonist · naive heroine · curious student · meek protagonist · passive protagonist · outsider · rebellious student · intelligent girl · controlled subject · love interest · authority figure · psychology instructor · exiled student

Relationships labels: forbidden love · power imbalance · student-teacher relationship · romance under surveillance · familial separation · state coercion · parent-child separation · unrequited devotion · dependency

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2095

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