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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
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A Chicago artist wakes in a different life with another set of memories and must uncover why reality has shifted.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: artist protagonist · struggling artist · career-driven · relatable heroine · sympathetic protagonist · controlling husband · suspicious husband · morally compromised character · manipulative character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1546
Eight original horror shorts span rituals, ghosts, creatures, and grief, each designed to unsettle fast and hard.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: anthropologist · wife · anxious mother · grieving survivor · necromancer · lonely man · isolated woman · trapped worker · skeptical outsider · morally flawed characters · emotionally wounded characters · unreliable self-conception
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1567
A grieving physicist and his artist wife are drawn into a secret time-travel project that forces them to face memory, love, and loss.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: artist protagonist · physicist protagonist · grieving father · grieving ex-wife · eccentric billionaire · flawed characters · relatable characters · character-driven
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1733
In a never-colonized North America, a grief-marked Peacekeeper reopens old wounds while investigating a murder tied to his past.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: broken detective · flawed protagonist · sympathetic protagonist · traumatized caretaker · reluctant investigator · emotionally damaged · naive outsider · caretaker sibling · dependent sister · imprisoned father · imperfect hero · damaged family
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1768
An AI detective and a human cop probe a gruesome rural murder while a past case and public suspicion threaten to engulf them.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: widowed mother · defensive protagonist · stubborn protagonist · AI detective · learning AI · logical investigator · human intuition · team dynamics · grieving character · resilient protagonist · emotionally burdened · morally conflicted
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1803
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.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: orphan protagonist · protective sibling · emotionally volatile heroine · resourceful heroine · morally conflicted protagonist · male love interests · secretive authorities · disabled sibling
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1813
A Mars geologist-artist confronts memory gaps, a false note, and a suspected conspiracy while doubting her own mind.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: geologist · artist · reluctant mother · flawed protagonist · complicated heroine · depressed protagonist · paranoid protagonist · resourceful protagonist · sympathetic antihero · traumatized character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1841
The Tenth Doctor teams up with a Brooklyn dreamer as psychic horrors and a strange art-world mystery pull them through time.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: eccentric protagonist · charismatic protagonist · new companion · artist · aspiring artist · waitress · student · family pressure · resourceful · brave · curious · inquisitive · witty · lively · controlling father
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1843
A grieving woman’s electroshock therapy sends her cycling through three versions of her life across different eras.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: grieving protagonist · depressed protagonist · meddlesome heroine · romantic heroine · eccentric aunt · gay brother · closeted character · devoted mother · bohemian · housewife · artist · psychiatrist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1853
A woman wakes as her clone with missing memories and must solve her own murder in a near-future cloning conspiracy.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: traumatized protagonist · feisty heroine · resilient heroine · depressed protagonist · reluctant investigator · sympathetic lead · music background · clone identity · estranged family · wealthy antagonist · shadowy operators · morally ambiguous characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1858
A nonverbal autistic outcast in a walled theocracy discovers the “demons” beyond the forest may be people.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: nonverbal protagonist · autistic protagonist · outcast · curious protagonist · scientist protagonist · brave heroine · resourceful protagonist · complex villain · strict father · supportive friend · traditionalist parent
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1859
A magazine writer’s trip to Calcutta for a missing poet turns into a suffocating descent into cult terror and dread.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: flawed protagonist · unlikeable protagonist · arrogant narrator · outsider protagonist · writer protagonist · poet protagonist · editor protagonist · family man · protective father · curious investigator · intellectual protagonist · flawed family dynamics
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1882
