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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for The Game-Players of Titan.
Characterization labels used: suicidal protagonist, manic-depressive protagonist, drug-addled protagonist, paranoid protagonist, psychic woman, agency-driven woman, embittered ex-wife, sympathetic new wife, one-dimensional characters (mixed)
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
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
Characterization labels: depressed protagonist · suicidal ideation · self-loathing · regretful · overthinker · talented protagonist · mentored protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1252
A reality-show mother starts seeing glitches in her world and can no longer trust what’s real.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: female protagonist · mother · bonus parent · smart protagonist · educated protagonist · egoist · self-aware character · socially observant · manic descent · bitter protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1300
A grief-stricken investigator uses a VR archive of destroyed Pittsburgh to solve a murder that may erase the past itself.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: grieving protagonist · drug-addicted protagonist · damaged antihero · loner · investigator · archivist · marginalized outsider · obsessive protagonist · depressed protagonist · female victims
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1301
A depressed London worker joins a one-way reality show to a new planet, hoping escape will solve everything.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: depressed protagonist · young woman · millennial · alienated worker · unlikable protagonist · morally questionable protagonist · passive protagonist · flawed protagonist · lonely protagonist · self-destructive · chronically unhappy
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1316
A lonely new mother in Silicon Valley bonds with a beta AI friend that predicts danger in her marriage.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: new mother · stay-at-home mom · anxious protagonist · depressed protagonist · unreliable narrator · snarky heroine · lonely heroine · vulnerable protagonist · manipulative husband · condescending husband · gaslighting spouse · tech worker · AI companion
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1345
A lone survivor of a deadly future virus roams a ruined UK, searching for others and herself.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1363
A grieving man writes his life as fiction, only to find his autobiography splitting into rival realities.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1392
A woman sent to a remote colony finds a world where naming objects keeps reality from dissolving—and obedience is everything.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: female protagonist · alienated protagonist · introverted protagonist · lonely protagonist · bystander protagonist · bureaucrat · housemates · poet figure · authoritarian citizens · flat characters (mixed)
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1407
A heavily pregnant woman flees a polluted city, only to find danger, doubt, and bodily horror following her into the countryside.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: pregnant protagonist · anxious protagonist · paranoid protagonist · obsessive protagonist · dismissive partner · unsympathetic boyfriend · gaslighting partner · maternal grief
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1411
A man exiled to a brutal alien prison for forbidden love must navigate a fractured, mythic story of obsession and escape.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: anti-hero · unlikable protagonist · obsessive protagonist · morally compromised protagonist · psychologically disturbed · delusion-prone · selfish · manipulative · betrayer · strong female characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1412
A fragmented, clinical collage of sex, violence, celebrity, and media spectacle in a collapsing modern world.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: fragmented protagonist · psychiatrist · doctor · mentally ill narrator · unstable identity · passive male protagonist · obsessive protagonist · clinical detachment · empty-jacket character · psychotic character · dissociated self
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1424
A woman’s life unravels after she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll and begins confronting buried truths.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unlikable protagonist · traumatized woman · middle-aged woman · teacher · anesthesiologist husband · mentally declining mother · older sister · younger sister · family victimization · depressive protagonist · emotionally numb · controlling · lonely · logical · organized
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1438
