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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex.
Themes labels used: secrets, mystery solving, memory, loss, mourning, intellect vs emotion, bureaucracy, archives, knowledge, worldbuilding, coming of age, death and undeath
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A teen who forgets each day but sees the future must navigate love, secrets, and a dark mystery.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · identity · fate · free will · future knowledge · secrets · trust · family mystery · grief · loss · trauma · choice · living with uncertainty · coming of age
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1265
An immortal botanist in 1860s California is sent to save future treasures, but grief, secrets, and a dangerous double upend her mission.
Why this is here
Themes labels: immortality · mortality · grief · love and loss · historical preservation · work as purpose · memory · identity · fate · time · history and change · disengagement from emotions · corporate control · secrets and conspiracy
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1284
Three linked future tales trace a Pluto mystery back through Mars revolution, memory loss, and centuries of revised history.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · history · historicity · truth · identity · legacy · political power · revisionism · mystery · knowledge limits · long life · mortality · time · social control · archaeology · memory and self · science and faith · critical thinking
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1383
A Cosmere anthology of linked novellas and stories, with maps, notes, and new lore spanning Sanderson’s shared worlds.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · memory · power · secrets · knowledge · history · worldbuilding · perception · sacrifice · duty · progress vs tradition · art · trust · morality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1424
A troubled teen is sent to a secret island academy where time travel, stolen artifacts, and hidden agendas collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: trust · secrets · identity · morality · family loss · grief · belonging · power · fate · time · deception · choice · coming of age · memory
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1426
An interstellar antiquities dealer and his pilot trace a mind-wiped author's final clues into a mystery with galactic stakes.
Why this is here
Themes labels: lost memory · identity · hidden history · political intrigue · corruption · secrecy · cultural prejudice · peacekeeping · disaster response · memory and personhood · curiosity · tolerance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1448
A teen girl killed every other birthday and a nightmare-haunted classmate uncover a townwide conspiracy as an asteroid nears Earth.
Why this is here
Themes labels: secrets · conspiracy · identity · truth-seeking · survival · death · resurrection · free will · institutional control · coming of age · apocalypse · grief · paranoia
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1458
An antiquities dealer and his pilot chase the truth behind a vanished luxury starship and its sealed, decades-old secret.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mystery solving · curiosity · history · archaeology · lost civilization · immortality · aging · ethics of longevity · philosophy · future society · science and belief · truth concealment · power and secrecy · post-scarcity motivation · crime and morality · human nature
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1462
A beautifully produced collection of tiny, context-light fragments from Lyra’s world, for devoted fans of His Dark Materials.
Why this is here
Themes labels: imagination · memory · world-building · craft of writing · hidden backstory · fate · mortality · knowledge · loss · nostalgia · books and reading · libraries · unobserved stories · revelation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1469
A grieving young man learns the long-guarded secret behind a bizarre Buick hidden by rural state troopers.
Why this is here
Themes labels: unknowability · grief · mourning · acceptance · curiosity · obsession · storytelling · memory · duty · fear of death · the past · closure · human limits
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1512
A YouTube mystery crew and an estranged journalist chase linked signs of witchcraft, a missing girl, and something in the woods.
Why this is here
Themes labels: reality vs supernatural · secrets · fear of the unknown · investigation · belief · trauma · memory · community secrets · personal history · trust · reconciliation · isolation · loss
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1513
A chronological short-story collection blending fantasy, sci-fi, and alternate history, with recurring themes of loss, AI, and time travel.
Why this is here
Themes labels: loss · identity · memory · art and artist · sentience · ethics · choice · fate · mortality · aging · family responsibility · social inequality · power · betrayal · love · grief · weather as commodity · technology and humanity · truth vs documentation · women's status
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1522
