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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Golden Compass.
Themes labels used: truth and lies, free will, authority and rebellion, religion and science, institutional corruption, good and evil, innocence and experience, soul, identity, coming of age, morality, sacrifice, self-discovery, questioning beliefs, power and control, knowledge and secrecy
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
Kids who protect alternate realities are kidnapped into deadly riddles while a weapon-linked insanity crisis spreads.
Why this is here
Themes labels: good and evil · courage · identity · free will · moral choice · trust · family support · coming of age · power and responsibility · sacrifice · truth and deception
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0883
A child from one world and a boy from another are swept into a multiverse quest shaped by Dust, daemons, and authority.
Why this is here
Themes labels: good and evil · religion · organized religion · authority · freedom · truth · knowledge · consciousness · soul · adolescence · growing up · innocence · experience · morality · free will · curiosity · love · friendship · loyalty · family · oppression · rebellion · self-discovery · body and soul · science and faith · afterlife · death · hope · sacrifice · gender · adulthood
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0913
Will and Lyra race across worlds toward war, the dead, and adulthood in a finale of love, loss, and rebellion.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · authority · organized religion · faith · morality · good and evil · innocence to adulthood · love · loss · death · sacrifice · knowledge · curiosity · science and religion · humanity · nature · identity · responsibility · rebellion · choice · truth
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0944
A teen gate-mage juggles mythic power, rival factions, and high school while forces from two worlds close in.
Why this is here
Themes labels: power and responsibility · sex and morality · free will · good vs evil · identity · adolescence · religion and myth · temptation · family loyalty · control and manipulation · duty · coming of age
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0981
In pre-creation Heaven, rival angels’ plans and lies spark a cosmic revolt that could reshape existence.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · good intentions · truth and lies · power and control · manipulation · coercion · fear and safety · order versus chaos · morality · justified evil · leadership · politics of belief · consensus failure · war and peace · human nature · responsibility · sacrifice · revolt · ambition
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0983
Twenty years after a world-shaking war, new and old players are drawn into a darker campaign toward apocalypse.
Why this is here
Themes labels: power and submission · knowledge and truth · morality · identity · memory · religion · apocalypse · civilization and ruin · free will · manipulation · ambition · human nature
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1012
A teenage park guardian and a prophet-haunted wanderer face a demon’s hidden plan in a small-town Fourth of July crisis.
Why this is here
Themes labels: good and evil · free will · fate vs choice · innocence loss · coming of age · family legacy · sacrifice · hidden knowledge · moral struggle · community pressure · destruction and creation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1029
A young necromancer-king must defend his rising city while a real-world hearing threatens the game’s future.
Why this is here
Themes labels: good and evil · moral ambiguity · identity · power · control · survival · personal growth · coming of age · responsibility · loyalty · betrayal · reality vs simulation · AI ethics · personhood · free will · self-sacrifice · family conflict · state oversight · moral compromise · progression
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1036
A group of time-shifting teens cross into new wallfolds and race to stop Garden’s destruction while trust frays.
Why this is here
Themes labels: trust · truth and lies · choice and consequence · maturity · responsibility · ethics · philosophy · identity · leadership · free will · genocide · religion · politics
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1048
A clock repairman triggers a doomsday device and is pulled into espionage, gangsters, and a race to save the world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: good and evil · free will · truth and knowledge · moral relativity · family legacy · father and sons · personal identity · coming of age · redemption · loyalty · responsibility · state power · government corruption · violence · end of the world · social commentary · disillusionment · history and change
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1049
Riverworld’s survivors seize a tower of godlike technology, only to face a hidden enemy and a final test of power.
Why this is here
Themes labels: power · free will · determinism · morality · religion · human nature · corruption · resurrection · sentience · soul · ethics · responsibility · hubris · identity · history
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1052
A magic-stealing teen hunts her missing brother in an underground city where shadows, rebels, and secrets collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · self-discovery · power and responsibility · good and evil · moral ambiguity · choice · freedom vs control · humanity · sacrifice · truth and deception · loyalty · trust · darkness within · rebellion · survival
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1057
