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Characterization labels used: depressed protagonist, young woman, millennial, alienated worker, unlikable protagonist, morally questionable protagonist, passive protagonist, flawed protagonist, lonely protagonist, self-destructive, chronically unhappy

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Sarah Rose Etter · 2023

A depressed tech worker in Silicon Valley is shadowed by a black hole while work, love, and life keep unraveling.

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Characterization labels: millennial woman · depressed protagonist · passive protagonist · anxious protagonist · morally compromised · underdeveloped side characters · caricatured coworkers · toxic mother · supportive father · bullying boss · unavailable lover · alienated worker · complicit employee · high-functioning depression

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Distance: 0.0790

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Sweet Virginia

Caroline Kepnes · 2020

A frustrated wife and new mother falls into a Hallmark-fueled escape fantasy that turns darkly surreal.

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Characterization labels: unlikable protagonist · flawed mother · passive protagonist · anxious protagonist · frustrated wife · struggling mother · working woman · writer protagonist · unemployed protagonist · overbearing mother · controlling family · women under pressure

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Distance: 0.0884

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Tuned Out

Keith A. Pearson · 2019

A frustrated millennial is thrust back to 1969 and must navigate a stranger, harsher past that reshapes his life.

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Characterization labels: millennial protagonist · working adult · digital worker · whiny protagonist · unlikable protagonist · obnoxious protagonist · lovable characters · flawed characters · realistic characters · endearing lead · character growth · self-entitled protagonist · relatable protagonist · grumpy elder · curmudgeon

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Distance: 0.0913

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The Affirmation

Christopher Priest · 1983

A grieving man writes his life as fiction, only to find his autobiography splitting into rival realities.

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Characterization labels: brooding protagonist · morose protagonist · self-absorbed protagonist · isolated protagonist · grieving man · depressed protagonist · unlikable protagonist · self-observant narrator · doubled protagonist · mentally unstable protagonist

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Distance: 0.0914

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The Midnight Library

Matt Haig · 2020 · The Midnight World

A woman in a library between life and death explores alternate versions of her life to confront regret and choose whether to live.

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Characterization labels: depressed protagonist · suicidal ideation · self-loathing · regretful · overthinker · talented protagonist · mentored protagonist

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.0988

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宝石の国 3 [Houseki no Kuni 3]

Haruko Ichikawa, 市川春子 · 2014 · 宝石の国 [Hōseki no Kuni]

A winter mission forces a fragile gem warrior into a new partnership that changes identity, memory, and fate.

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Characterization labels: clumsy protagonist · coming-of-age · self-doubt · depression · matured protagonist · traumatized protagonist · serious mentor · guard duty · stoic partner · genderless characters

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Distance: 0.1008

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Prime Meridian

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2018

A struggling young woman in near-future Mexico City clings to the dream of Mars while surviving precarious work and heartbreak.

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Characterization labels: morally gray · unlikable protagonist · bitter protagonist · depressed protagonist · rootable protagonist · lonely woman · drifting young adult · underemployed · resourceful · self-aware · complex characters · character-driven · female protagonist

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Distance: 0.1030

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Sweet Harmony

Claire North · 2020

In a near future of subscription-based body upgrades, one woman’s quest for perfection spirals into debt and collapse.

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Characterization labels: relatable protagonist · unsympathetic protagonist · vain protagonist · self-destructive · addicted · ambitious · broken character · morally compromised · unlikable characters · believable characters

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1031

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Last One at the Party

Bethany Clift · 2021

A lone survivor of a deadly future virus roams a ruined UK, searching for others and herself.

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Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · female protagonist · unlikable protagonist · flawed heroine · messy protagonist · ordinary woman · middle-class woman · anxious protagonist · depressed protagonist · panic attacks · self-destructive · resourceful · brave · fragile · self-aware

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Distance: 0.1050

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The Centre

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi · 2023

A London-based Pakistani translator joins a secret language school promising fluency in 10 days—and discovers a sinister cost.

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Characterization labels: adrift protagonist · privileged protagonist · unlikable protagonist · flawed protagonist · translator protagonist · self-absorbed protagonist · frustrated careerist · obsessive narrator · female narrator · complex character

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Distance: 0.1057

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The Epiphany Machine

David Burr Gerrard · 2017

A young New Yorker becomes tied to a tattoo machine that exposes hidden truths, then faces its fallout over decades.

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Characterization labels: flawed protagonist · unlikable protagonist · passive protagonist · miserable protagonist · self-loathing · self-absorbed · moral ambiguity · cult leader · enigmatic mentor · protégé · writer protagonist · artists · young adult protagonist · coming-of-age · controversial adults

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Distance: 0.1058

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The Runes of the Earth

Stephen R. Donaldson · 2004 · The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Ten years later, Linden Avery is pulled back into the Land, where a child’s peril and old evils force a new quest.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: flawed protagonist · self-doubting · self-loathing · antihero · heroic heroine · reluctant protagonist · complex characters · unlikeable protagonist · psychologically conflicted · leader

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1104

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