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Characterization labels used: psychology professor, mad scientist, narcissistic protagonist, student assistants, test subjects, young tourists, villain protagonist, oblivious victims, unlikeable characters

Relationships labels used: student-teacher, mentor-mentee, professional hierarchy, romantic obsession, sexual obsession, power imbalance, research team, friendship

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Assassin of Reality

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2023 · Vita Nostra (English)

A gifted student returns to an eerie magical institute where language shapes reality and failure could remake the world.

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Characterization labels: stubborn protagonist · older protagonist · intellectual curiosity · transcendent being · ambitious student · alienated protagonist · dark mentor · fascinating protagonist · humanity vs concept

Relationships labels: student-teacher rivalry · mentor-protégé · romance · pilot love interest · classmate distrust · peer support · familial leverage · protective friends · power imbalance

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1641

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The Two Doctors Górski

Isaac Fellman · 2022

A traumatized graduate student in magical psychiatry confronts an abusive mentor, mind reading, and a split self.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: brilliant student · traumatized protagonist · mind reader · abusive professor · mercurial mentor · homunculus double · tortured graduate student · isolated student · complex morally damaged characters · anxious protagonist · detached protagonist · survivor

Relationships labels: student-advisor relationship · abusive relationship · toxic relationship · mentor-student power imbalance · romantic abuse · emotional abuse · mirror selves · peer tension · self versus self

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1701

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The End of Mr. Y

Scarlett Thomas · 2006

A PhD student finds a cursed rare book and is pulled into a mind-travel mystery about reality, time, and thought.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: female academic · PhD student · curious heroine · flawed protagonist · intellectual heroine · obsessive reader · messy protagonist · sexually active protagonist · poor student · strong-willed · mentally complex

Relationships labels: mentor relationship · academic hierarchy · unhealthy romance · sexual relationship · love interest · rival pursuit · obsessive attachment · community of readers

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1715

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Making History

Stephen Fry · 1996

A Cambridge historian and a physicist try to erase Hitler from history, only to unleash a worse alternate world.

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Characterization labels: history student · graduate student · PhD candidate · physicist · professor · physicist scientist · Holocaust survivor · elderly · young adult · flawed protagonist · irritating protagonist · unsympathetic lead · wunderkind · hubristic · immature · self-deprecating · brutal antagonist · well-rounded characters

Relationships labels: romance · gay romance · heterosexual relationship · breakup · mentor-student · collaboration · academic partnership · friendship · familial guilt · parental trauma · power imbalance · partnership

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1744

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A Slip under the Microscope

H.G. Wells · 2015

Two short, ambiguous Wells stories explore a hidden doorway and an exam slip-up through regret, choice, and conscience.

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Characterization labels: student · scholar · rival student · professor · promising man · social climber · humble background · conscientious character · obsessive character · idealistic character

Relationships labels: student-teacher · academic rivalry · class competition · mentor-pupil · romantic rivalry · social hierarchy · peer comparison

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1805

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UR

Stephen King · 2009

A bookish English instructor buys a mysterious Kindle that opens onto alternate realities, lost books, and future danger.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: English instructor · book lover · reluctant technophobe · academic protagonist · everyman protagonist · obsessive reader · mild-mannered protagonist · curious outsider · supportive colleague · student ally

Relationships labels: breakup · ex-girlfriend · academic friendship · mentor-student · romantic tension · professional colleagues

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1838

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The Superteacher Project: A Hilarious Middle Grade Story about an AI Robot Teacher

Gordon Korman · 2023

A rule-breaking seventh grader suspects his new teacher is hiding an impossible secret in this humorous school mystery.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: troublemaker · class clown · rule-wrecker · sidekick · overachiever · rule-follower · dedicated student · principal · administrator · teacher figure · robot protagonist · AI learning · empathetic machine · lovable outsider · student teacher

Relationships labels: friendship · teacher-student relationship · peer teamwork · student alliance · parent-teacher tension · faculty dependence · rivalry · community support · protective group · mentor role

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1843

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Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi

Rob MacGregor · 1991 · Indiana Jones: Prequels

A young Indiana Jones is pulled from graduate studies into a Greek dig, where myth, politics, and danger collide.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: young protagonist · naive hero · college student · graduate student · linguistics scholar · future archaeologist · femme fatale · seductive professor · reckless adventurer · rebellious student · inexperienced hero · vulnerable hero · charismatic lead · complex antagonist · female antagonist · political operator

Relationships labels: professor-student · mentor-temptation · love interest · romance · seduction · manipulation · pawn and manipulator · rival factions · political betrayal · community allegiance · father influence · friendship

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1845

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暗殺教室 2 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 2]

Yusei Matsui, 松井優征 · 2012 · 暗殺教室 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu]

A murderous alien teacher keeps coaching his lowest-ranked junior high class while new assassins, exams, and school trip dangers close in.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: dedicated teacher · mischievous mentor · alien protagonist · assassin teacher · corrupt principal · underdog students · sexually manipulative character · bullied students · confidence growth

Relationships labels: teacher-student relationships · mentor bond · classroom trust · authority conflict · rivalry · student solidarity · predator-prey dynamic · principal-student antagonism

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1847

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The Rithmatist

Brandon Sanderson · 2014 · Rithmatist

A chalk-based magic-school mystery follows a boy who can’t do the magic but knows it better than anyone.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: underdog · obsessive learner · nonmagical protagonist · quirky heroine · mentor figure · ambitious student · social outsider · flawed protagonist

Relationships labels: friendship · mentor-student · rivalry · found friendship · class divide · peer partnership

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1874

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The Tatami Galaxy

Tomihiko Morimi · 2022 · 四畳半シリーズ

An unnamed Kyoto college student relives four possible campus lives, chasing the one he thinks he missed.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · disaffected student · antihero · unlikable protagonist · self-deprecating narrator · aimless young adult · socially awkward · mischievous friend · obnoxious friend · eccentric supporting cast · frenemy · mischief-maker · self-pitying · morally messy

Relationships labels: friendship · rivalry · frenemy relationship · crush · romantic tension · campus community · male friendship · mentor figure · student clubs · love-hate friendship

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1877

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They Came with the Snow

Christopher Coleman · 2017 · They Came with the Snow

A campus affair is trapped by a May blizzard after a blast unleashes strange creatures in the snow.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: professor protagonist · student love interest · affair · cheating husband · guilt-ridden · conflicted character · unlikeable protagonist · survivor group

Relationships labels: teacher-student affair · marriage · extramarital affair · survivor band · betrayal · romantic tension · dependency · group cooperation

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1886

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Vita Nostra

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2018 · Vita Nostra (English)

A coerced teen enters a terrifying secret school where studying remakes reality, identity, and the self.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: teenage protagonist · gifted student · reluctant student · domineering mentor · scary teachers · morally grey characters · isolated protagonist · resilient heroine · authoritarian authority figures

Relationships labels: mother-daughter · mentor-student · teacher-student · peer relationships · coercive relationship · family endangerment · complicated family bond

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1905

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Nano

Robin Cook · 2012 · Pia Grazdani

A troubled medical student joins a secretive nanotech institute and uncovers dangerous experiments hidden behind corporate secrecy.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: medical student · medical researcher · socially awkward protagonist · unlikable protagonist · brilliant heroine · determined investigator · lecherous boss · corrupt executive · gay supporting doctor · estranged father · crime-boss father · obsessive antagonist · male gaze emphasis

Relationships labels: father-daughter · mentor-student · friends · potential romance · unrequited attraction · boss-employee · power imbalance · rescue dependency · rivalry

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1922

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暗殺教室 3 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 3]

Yusei Matsui, 松井優征 · 2013 · 暗殺教室 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu]

A bizarre class trip and new transfer student deepen the absurd, heartfelt mission to assassinate their alien teacher.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: good teacher · mentor figure · sympathetic monster · lovable antagonist · chaotic student · outsider students · academically struggling students · transfer student · assassin · robot student · competent adult · underdog students · protective teacher

Relationships labels: teacher-student bond · student class cohesion · rival school hierarchy · mentor-protégé · friendship · class solidarity · power imbalance · adult-child conflict

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1923

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Electric Forest

Tanith Lee · 1979

In a genetically perfect future, an ostracized woman accepts a new body from a mysterious benefactor with hidden motives.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: ugly protagonist · disabled protagonist · social outsider · beautiful antagonist · mad scientist · manipulative mentor · wealthy elite · ambiguous heroine · psychologically isolated · morally compromised

Relationships labels: power imbalance · coercive relationship · abusive relationship · codependency · manipulation · mentor-mentee dynamic · sexual manipulation · love-hate relationship · objectification · dependency

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1935

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What We Can Know

Ian McEwan · 2025

A future scholar hunts a vanished poem in a flooded Britain, uncovering buried truths about love, memory, and history.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: scholar · academic obsession · unlikable characters · morally compromised · romantic fixation · researcher protagonist · female perspective shift · obsessive narrator · psychologically complex

Relationships labels: marriage · infidelity · love triangle · academic partnership · lover relationship · power imbalance · family conflict · betrayal · obsession

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1945

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Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft · 2017

A lavish collection of Lovecraft tales centered on forbidden knowledge, cosmic dread, and the Necronomicon mythos.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: academic protagonists · isolated men · curious investigators · obsessive scholars · introverted characters · morally compromised protagonists · psychological unraveling · sanity erosion

Relationships labels: mentor-student · investigator-source · family curse · community secrecy · cult ties · rival knowledge · ancestral legacy · possessed communication · human vs otherness

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Distance: 0.1946

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Cover of Herbert West—Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft

Herbert West—Reanimator

H.P. Lovecraft · 2008

An obsessed medical student pursues corpse reanimation, and his assistant watches the experiments spiral into terror.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: mad scientist · obsessed scientist · medical student · assistant narrator · narrator sidekick · clinical thinker · psychopath · enabler · morally compromised · scientific idealist · descending into madness · cold and clinical

Relationships labels: friendship · mentor-pupil · partnered experiments · codependency · enabling · observer and subject · professional collaboration · comradeship · morbid attachment

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1949

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Redemption Prep

Samuel Miller · 2020

At an elite remote prep school, a missing girl sparks a web of secrets, suspects, and a mystery that turns strange.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: gifted students · prodigy students · high achievers · creepy stalker · obsessive boy · addicted boyfriend · genius best friend · science-minded student · popular girl · underdeveloped characters · unlikable characters · two-dimensional characters · flat characters · socially awkward character · analytical mind

Relationships labels: best friends · boyfriend-girlfriend · roommates · stalker-target · class alliances · peer suspicion · betrayal · codependency · friendship under pressure · teacher-student power · group partnership

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1958

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Quantum Night

Robert J. Sawyer · 2016

A psychologist who can spot psychopaths uncovers a missing six months of his own life and a theory that could alter humanity.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: experimental psychologist · quantum physicist · professor · expert witness · utilitarian protagonist · flawed hero · psychopath · mentor figure · ex-girlfriend · scientist protagonists · academic characters · politically opinionated characters

Relationships labels: romantic reunion · ex-girlfriend · mentor-mentee · spouses · parent-child · friendship · collegial relationships · family conflict

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1963

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Doomsday Book

Connie Willis · 1992 · Oxford Time Travel

A young historian’s time-travel research goes wrong, trapping her in plague-era England as Oxford faces its own crisis.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: young historian · academic protagonist · mentor figure · bureaucratic academics · competent heroine · lovable characters · annoying characters · flawed characters · quiet heroism · inexperienced protagonist

Relationships labels: mentor student · academic hierarchy · rescuer rescued · community bonds · caretaking · familial attachment · parental concern

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1965

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Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2015 · Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

An alternate-universe Harry Potter uses science and rationality to probe magic, challenge Hogwarts, and remake his fate.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: child prodigy · rationalist · smart protagonist · annoying genius · arrogant protagonist · self-centered protagonist · overly mature child · relatable flaws · dark lord aspiration · logical villain · over-the-top characterization · female characters weak

Relationships labels: friendship · unlikely friendship · mentor-student tension · rivalry · family change · adoptive family · found family · student-teacher conflict · power imbalance · uncertain friendship

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1969

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Darker Than You Think

Jack Williamson · 1963 · Darker Than You Think

An alcoholic reporter investigates a deadly expedition mystery and is drawn into a seductive, shape-shifting conspiracy.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: alcoholic protagonist · weak-willed protagonist · hardboiled reporter · femme fatale · seductive villain · mentor figure · rival reporter · scientific expedition team · antagonistic cult · female agency

Relationships labels: mentor-student · romantic attraction · seduction · friendship · betrayal · rivalry · power imbalance · community threat · sexual manipulation

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1971

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