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Similar in tone + premise

These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for Compound 26. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Tone labels used: tense, emotional, hopeful, dark, compassionate, angsty, thrilling, eerie, clean

Premise labels used: deadly virus, survivor powers, government research facility, vaccine search, ethical conflict, forbidden romance, infected detention, medical crisis

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

Cover of PODs by Michelle K. Pickett

PODs

Michelle K. Pickett · 2013 · PODs

A teen chosen for an underground virus refuge finds love, then discovers the surface is still deadly.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1511

Cover of This Splintered Silence by Kayla Olson

This Splintered Silence

Kayla Olson · 2018

Teen survivors on a space station battle grief, shortages, and suspicion when new deaths make a virus or killer seem equally possible.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1574

Cover of Pandemic by Yvonne Ventresca

Pandemic

Yvonne Ventresca · 2014

A traumatized teen stockpiles for disaster, then must survive a deadly flu outbreak while her town falls apart.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1639

Cover of A Cure for Madness by Jodi McIsaac

A Cure for Madness

Jodi McIsaac · 2016

A sister must protect her mentally ill brother as a townwide outbreak turns sanity into a weapon and forces an impossible choice.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1673

Cover of After the Ending by Lindsey Pogue

After the Ending

Lindsey Pogue, Lindsey Fairleigh · 2013 · The Ending

Two best friends survive a flu-apocalypse and cross a shattered country to find each other as new powers emerge.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1688

Cover of The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

The Darkest Minds

Alexandra Bracken · 2012 · The Darkest Minds

A teen with dangerous psychic powers escapes a brutal camp and joins other fugitives while hunted by forces seeking to use her.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1693

Cover of Blackout by Mira Grant

Blackout

Mira Grant · 2012 · Newsflesh

A blogger-journalist team races to expose a vast conspiracy in a zombie-ravaged future as the virus mutates and stakes explode.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1696

Cover of This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada

This Mortal Coil

Emily Suvada · 2017 · This Mortal Coil

A teen hacker must decode her father’s hidden cure in a post-plague world ruled by gene tech and dangerous secrets.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1703

Cover of Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold by Umar Turaki

Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold

Umar Turaki · 2022

A quarantined village’s children, spared by a color-draining plague, struggle to survive, reunite, and find hope.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1712

Cover of The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe

The Way We Fall

Megan Crewe · 2012 · Fallen World

A shy teen journals to an estranged friend as a deadly virus quarantines her island and forces survival, loss, and change.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1719

Cover of Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor

Tarnished Are the Stars

Rosiee Thor · 2019

In a tech-banned future, three queer teens with dangerous secrets collide to expose a ruler’s lies and stop an epidemic.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1745

Cover of The Ark by Lou Vane

The Ark

Lou Vane · 2022

Captured by a brutal new community, Jess and her friends must survive, keep secrets, and find a way to escape.

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1766