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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman.
Motifs labels used: Beatles, vinyl records, music references, 90s references, nightmares, headache, clothes disappearing, brackets, italic emphasis, record-playing analogies, rubber band
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
A career-driven London woman keeps waking up in new decades, chasing the reason behind her time jumps and a lasting love.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: Beatles · music references · fashion · decades · record store · clues · songs · nostalgia · London streets · zebra crossing
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2036
After a hypnotic encounter, a teen notices tiny changes in everyone around him and starts questioning reality and his future.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: pop culture references · David Bowie · music references · comic books · movies · history digressions · concise histories · drawings · video clip · photograph · scar · same clothes · repetition · books within books
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2146
A stranded time agent must choose between the future he lost and the daughter he raised in the past.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: blackouts · headaches · memory loss · emails · journals · archives · time travel rules · paradox · ripple effect · food names · pop culture references · infinity
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2160
A hypnotized teen’s ordinary talent-show day turns surreal when everyone else changes and technology stops making sense.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: cassette tapes · editor notes · footnotes · pop culture references · hypnosis · static · screens · language on screens · talent show · obsolete technology · lights
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2179
A girl and her cousin use a magical jukebox to search for her missing father through music history.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: vinyl records · jukebox · playlist · album covers · music lyrics · glowing machine · glasses · journal · colors
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2235
A Black Marine is hurled from 1989 into a Nazi-run future and must find his team while surviving a galaxy-wide war.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: 80s music · 80s references · pop culture references · playlist · soundtrack · banter · snark · cultural references · white light · artifact · spaceships · monsters · aliens
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2272
A miserable middle-aged man wakes in 1976 in another version of his own life and must decide what to change.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: 1970s references · British slang · pop culture references · car crash · cliffhanger · alternate selves · past self · nostalgic detail · sports references · product names
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2294
An ex-journalist is pulled into a murder case, a buried 60s past, and a rock-fueled occult conspiracy.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: rock lyrics · concerts · songs · albums · dreams · visions · ritual murder · road trip · Tolkien references · demonic imagery · apocalyptic music · media and reportage
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2316
A fast, funny sci-fi serial about a repair crew, troublesome aliens, and a growing secret community.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: puns · banter · repetition · pop culture references · music references · movie references · TV references · nicknames · saucer repair · gadgets · robots · dogs · aliens
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2317
A nightclub singer with no past and a private investigator chase a brainwashing conspiracy that may rewrite identity.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: nightmares · steel fingers · hypodermic syringe · metal hand · false memories · doppelgangers · brainwashing · nightclub · jazz · dream imagery
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2340
A lost tape reveals the Doctor's 1960s clash with a sound-devouring terror aboard a pirate radio ship.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: recording · radio signal · static · sound effects · silence · vinyl records · cassette tape · transmission · pirate radio · distorted audio
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2358
In 1969 London, three immortal allies face an occult body-hopping threat amid sex, drugs, rock music, and cultural chaos.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: psychedelia · acid trip · drug use · rock music · sex imagery · nudity · literary allusions · pop culture references · alternate names · visual Easter eggs · costume design · fashion · music lyrics · astral plane
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2361
