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Aimee Pokwatka

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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Self-Portrait with Nothing.

Characterization labels used: adopted protagonist, forensic anthropologist, reclusive artist, supportive husband, adoptive mothers, self-doubting, awkward, relatable, flawed protagonist, mysterious artist, supportive family, emotionally guarded

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Cover of The Other Me by Sarah Zachrich Jeng

The Other Me

Sarah Zachrich Jeng · 2021

A Chicago artist wakes in a different life with another set of memories and must uncover why reality has shifted.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1546

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One Bad Night & Other Stories

Isabel Armiento, Kay Chronister, Del Sandeen, Kylie Lee Baker, Rachel Harrison, C.J. Leede, Jennifer Marie Thorne, S.A. Barnes, Stephen Graham Jones · 2025

Eight original horror shorts span rituals, ghosts, creatures, and grief, each designed to unsettle fast and hard.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1567

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The Peacekeeper

B.L. Blanchard · 2022 · The Good Lands

In a never-colonized North America, a grief-marked Peacekeeper reopens old wounds while investigating a murder tied to his past.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1768

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Human Remains

Jo Callaghan · 2025 · Kat and Lock

An AI detective and a human cop probe a gruesome rural murder while a past case and public suspicion threaten to engulf them.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1803

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Deviants

Maureen McGowan · 2012 · Dust Chronicles

In a dust-ravaged domed city, a teen girl with dangerous hidden powers must protect her brother and outrun a system built to destroy them.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1813

Cover of Before Mars by Emma Newman

Before Mars

Emma Newman · 2018 · Planetfall

A Mars geologist-artist confronts memory gaps, a false note, and a suspected conspiracy while doubting her own mind.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1841

Cover of Doctor Who: Revolutions of Terror by Nick Abadzis

Doctor Who: Revolutions of Terror

Nick Abadzis · 2015 · Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor (Titan Comics)

The Tenth Doctor teams up with a Brooklyn dreamer as psychic horrors and a strange art-world mystery pull them through time.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1843

Cover of The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Andrew Sean Greer · 2013

A grieving woman’s electroshock therapy sends her cycling through three versions of her life across different eras.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1853

Cover of Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons

Constance

Matthew FitzSimmons · 2021 · Constance

A woman wakes as her clone with missing memories and must solve her own murder in a near-future cloning conspiracy.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1858

Cover of Citadel by C.M. Alongi

Citadel

C.M. Alongi · 2023

A nonverbal autistic outcast in a walled theocracy discovers the “demons” beyond the forest may be people.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1859

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Song of Kali

Dan Simmons · 1989

A magazine writer’s trip to Calcutta for a missing poet turns into a suffocating descent into cult terror and dread.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1882