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Similar in characterization + relationships

These books are ranked using the characterization + relationships labels extracted for The King in Yellow. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Characterization labels used: mad narrator, artist, painter, sculptor, mental patient, model, organist, obsessive, paranoid, unhinged, delusional, unreliable witness

Relationships labels used: love triangle, romantic obsession, friendship, rivalry, mentor influence, stalking, dependency, shared madness, power imbalance

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization + relationships embeddings are close.

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Cover of Ice by Anna Kavan

Ice

Anna Kavan · 1967

An unnamed narrator pursues a fragile woman through a collapsing, ice-choked world where reality keeps slipping away.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1518

Cover of Walking on Glass by Iain Banks

Walking on Glass

Iain Banks · 2012

Three apparently separate lives in London and a surreal castle edge toward a strange, unsettling convergence.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1684

Cover of The Glamour by Christopher Priest

The Glamour

Christopher Priest · 1984

An amnesiac cameraman retraces a lost period of his life, uncovering love, deception, and a reality no one can quite see.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1703

Cover of Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang

Immaculate Conception

Ling Ling Huang · 2025

A jealous art student uses mind-linking technology to stay close to her gifted friend in a near-future class-divided world.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1733

Cover of Ambergris by Jeff Vandermeer

Ambergris

Jeff Vandermeer · 2020 · Ambergris

Three interconnected Ambergris books trace a fungal city’s hidden history through shifting forms, voices, and genres.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1814

Cover of City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer

City of Saints and Madmen

Jeff Vandermeer · 2001 · Ambergris

A fragmented, illustrated chronicle of a strange city where fungus, squid, art, and madness blur fact and fiction.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1888

Cover of Metallic Realms by Lincoln Michel

Metallic Realms

Lincoln Michel · 2025

An obsessive fan chronicles a troubled sci-fi writing collective and their stories as fiction, fandom, and real life blur.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1910

Cover of Evil for Evil by K.J. Parker

Evil for Evil

K.J. Parker · 2007 · Engineer Trilogy

An exiled engineer and rival rulers navigate war, love, and betrayal as an unstoppable plan tightens around a doomed city.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1918

Cover of The Cipher by Kathe Koja

The Cipher

Kathe Koja · 1991

A troubled couple discovers a mysterious black hole in an apartment building storage room and becomes obsessed with what it changes.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1932

Cover of As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem

As She Climbed Across the Table

Jonathan Lethem · 1998

A professor loses his physicist lover to a strange, selective void created in a campus lab.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1936

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 characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1949

Cover of Motorman by David Ohle

Motorman

David Ohle · 2023 · Moldenke

A persecuted man navigates a bizarre, surveilled future of fake weather, artificial skies, and body-altered identities.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1951