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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Ces jours qui disparaissent.
Themes labels used: identity, duality, time, mortality, selfhood, memory, loss, living fully, carpe diem, human nature, purpose, happiness, societal value, belonging, alienation, trauma, mental illness, grief, life worth living
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A centuries-old history teacher tries to live normally in London while guarding a dangerous secret and resisting love.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · time · change · memory · loss · loneliness · love · identity · living in the present · history repeating itself · purpose · grief · secrecy · belonging · human nature · choice · fear · ageing · meaning of life · perspective · acceptance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0894
A woman in a library between life and death explores alternate versions of her life to confront regret and choose whether to live.
Why this is here
Themes labels: regret · life worth living · mental health · depression · suicide · choice · acceptance · self-worth · kindness · identity · purpose · grief · possibility · perspective · present moment · human connection
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0972
A lonely alien studies Earth and finds unexpected comfort, friendship, and life lessons among talking creatures.
Why this is here
Themes labels: loneliness · belonging · identity · self-acceptance · love · friendship · death · grief · sadness · happiness · art · meaning · humanity · existentialism · growth · acceptance · memory · purpose · self-reflection
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0974
A cyborg girl’s first days with her new family expose her isolation, memories, and the start of her destiny.
Why this is here
Themes labels: belonging · identity · memory loss · otherness · disability · body autonomy · humanity · self-worth · discrimination · family rejection · grief · resilience · kindness · dehumanization · acceptance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1000
A grieving teen returns to a remote island funeral and is trapped in a deadly time loop of shadows, secrets, and murder.
Why this is here
Themes labels: life and death · identity · memory · trust · grief · loss · fate · repetition · hidden truth · survival · duality · selfhood
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1006
An older queer couple takes one last cross-country road trip as a black hole brings Earth’s final days closer.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · grief · loss · hope · mortality · aging · regret · forgiveness · humanity · human nature · connection · community · acceptance · endings · meaning of life · purpose · parenthood · adoption trauma · homophobia · bigotry · religious hypocrisy · mental health · trauma · death anxiety · existentialism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1007
An immortal pilot from a brutal star society becomes central to a galaxy-wide response to an impending supernova.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · humanity · mortality · immortality · memory · belonging · love · grief · loss · meaning of life · ethics · morality · agency · free will · power · control · oppression · capitalism critique · climate denial · war · sacrifice · community · cultural survival · history · preservation · perception · belief · othering · gender · language · home · diaspora
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1027
An unnamed man is pulled between an information war in Tokyo and a walled town where shadows are lost and dreams are read.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · consciousness · subconscious · memory · mind · selfhood · dualism · reality · perception · utopia and dystopia · alienation · existentialism · inner life · loss · freedom · detachment · escapism · language and meaning · information · technology · control · despair and hope · duality · human nature · sound and silence · desire · death
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1072
Two astronauts stranded together on a secret space mission must survive shipboard mysteries, lies, and growing trust.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · existentialism · loneliness · trust · love · survival · hope · grief · identity · meaning of life · connection · human resilience · isolation · paranoia · acceptance · mortality · selfhood · community
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1072
A scientist uses duplicate selves to probe a deadly lunar labyrinth, forcing one reckless volunteer to survive repeated death.
Why this is here
Themes labels: death · identity · mortality · selfhood · human condition · masculinity · gender roles · courage · suicide · sanity · knowledge and sacrifice · existentialism · human nature · personhood · rebirth · loneliness · PTSD · ethical sacrifice · science and morality · meaning of life
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1079
A comatose girl who never ages draws scientists, family, and seekers into an interwoven mystery about time, memory, and youth.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time · memory · aging · mortality · grief · loss · pain · preservation · human condition · impermanence · identity · self-improvement · youth obsession · medical ethics · biotech ethics · dementia · forgetting · connection · family · death · trauma · humanity · history · meaning of life · ethics · resilience · endurance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1079
Four labeled high school seniors face an asteroid countdown and must decide who they are before time runs out.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · meaning of life · self-realization · living in the moment · mortality · death and dying · labels and stereotypes · freedom · choice · hope · faith · religion · friendship · love · family · grief · regret · responsibility · apocalypse ethics · human connection · existentialism · living authentically · coming of age
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1098
After a brutal attack, a man awakens in a strange in-between world and tries to piece together reality before it slips away.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consciousness · identity · memory · reality vs illusion · dreams · death · awakening · existentialism · selfhood · mind-body dualism · philosophy · meaning-making · trauma · loneliness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1098
A nameless undead woman crosses a ruined world, carrying grief, hunger, and a fading self toward what she has lost.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · memory · identity · mortality · love · yearning · hunger · emptiness · meaning · selfhood · embodiment · dissociation · transformation · death · loneliness · mourning · regret · existentialism · nihilism · hope
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1120
An amnesiac man is retrained to live in a strange village, until a new relationship unsettles everything he’s learned.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · memory · forgetting · pain · grief · suicide · happiness · human condition · agency · freedom · truth · illusion · ethics · rehabilitation · selfhood · loneliness · depression · socialization · language · morality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1120
An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · memory · aging · mortality · ethics · medical ethics · scientific ethics · transhumanism · selfhood · body image · beauty standards · disfigurement · disability · race · privilege · legacy · love · family · greed · selfishness · continuity of self · soul
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1124
A bullied, grieving queer teen must decide whether to save the world when aliens give him 144 days and a red button.
Why this is here
Themes labels: depression · suicide · grief · self-worth · identity · meaning of life · nihilism · hope · love · bullying · mental health · family · abandonment · sexuality · choice · responsibility · survival · humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1126
In a fly-ravaged near future, three survivors follow separate quests that may reveal how to save what remains.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · humanity · hope · love · connectedness · resilience · grief · loss · memory · stories · art · meaning of life · mortality · fate · destiny · time · identity · reincarnation · circularity · philosophical inquiry · human kindness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1127
A traumatized reporter chasing a serial killer joins a cult offering memory erasure, then begins losing himself.
Why this is here
Themes labels: trauma · memory · identity · grief · loss · forgetting · healing · regret · selfhood · survival · responsibility · psychological erosion · mortality · belonging · love and loss
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1128
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A gem-bodied outcast dives into the sea for answers, uncovering buried world secrets and a widening conflict.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · immortality · identity · purpose · memory · body and self · transformation · loss of innocence · moral complexity · humanity · sacrifice · value of life · self-worth · attachment
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1131
Two kids die in a crash and wake in a perilous afterlife limbo where lost children must learn strange rules to survive.
Why this is here
Themes labels: life and death · grief · hope · identity loss · memory · choice · belonging · fear of death · purpose · power responsibility · moving on · child autonomy
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1131
A humanitarian doctor survives an Amazon plane crash and is forced into a brutal, transformative fight to stay alive.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · identity · human nature · dehumanization · family · grief · loss · perseverance · morality · civilization vs primality · choice · faith · love
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1135
Donna returns home to family and grief, but the Doctor senses a cosmic threat hiding behind a new star.
Why this is here
Themes labels: family · grief · memory loss · alzheimer's · mortality · identity · hope · endurance · dignity · love · loss · responsibility · living fully · truth vs skepticism · technology and control · superstition vs science · goodbye · closure
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1140
A surreal stick-figure apocalypse unfolds in fragmentary, darkly funny Post-it note scenes that mix dread, absurdity, and pathos.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · identity · memory · loss · parenthood · alienation · absurdity · existential dread · human condition · perseverance · sanity · loneliness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1141
