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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Five First Chances.
Themes labels used: regret, choice, personal growth, self-acceptance, grief, loss, bereavement, mental health, anxiety, miscarriage, cancer, death, friendship, family, kindness, forgiveness, acceptance, living fully, no regrets, what-ifs, fate, destiny, change, healing, love
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This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A newly dead bookshop owner boards a magical train to relive key moments of his life and face old regrets.
Why this is here
Themes labels: regret · forgiveness · letting go · presence · mortality · afterlife · meaning of life · choices · consequences · memory · love · loss · hope · acceptance · time · self-reflection · life lessons · priority shift · success versus meaning · present moment
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1032
A grieving teen uses a once-only time trip to try to save her brother, risking the past, present, and her future.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · acceptance · fate · destiny · free will · second chances · regret · sacrifice · love · hope · healing · responsibility · consequences · letting go · moving forward · personal growth · choice · mortality · timeline ethics
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0908
A grieving teen investigates a rumor-laden tunnel that can grant wishes at a cost, and meets a girl with her own secret agenda.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · acceptance · moving on · guilt · trauma · identity · legacy · regret · hope · love · memory · self-acceptance · adolescence · choice · sacrifice · time · personal growth · truth and denial · finding purpose
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0934
A 40-year-old woman wakes up in her 16-year-old body and gets a chance to revisit her life and her dying father.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · regret · mortality · appreciation · life choices · memory · time · acceptance · parenthood · aging · missed chances · self-trust · hope · love · letting go · present-mindedness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0950
Future letters push a shy high schooler and her friends to try to save a troubled boy and rewrite regret.
Why this is here
Themes labels: depression · suicide · mental health · fate · regret · friendship · love · loss · support systems · responsibility · self-worth · communication · stigma · choice · living intentionally · no regrets
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0955
A science-minded boy learns his family can travel through time and must race to save his missing mother.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · family · love · friendship · memory · identity · trust · faith · courage · choice · good vs evil · acceptance · worthiness · healing · redemption · time · fate · truth · change
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0970
A grieving husband follows his wife after a memory-erasing treatment, hoping to win back a love she no longer remembers.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · grief · love · loss · identity · trauma · forgiveness · self-discovery · choice · ethical dilemma · regret · letting go · recovery · marriage · friendship · motherhood · postpartum depression · abandonment · hope
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1046
A Tokyo cafe lets visitors revisit the past or glimpse the future, but only long enough to say what matters.
Why this is here
Themes labels: regret · grief · loss · closure · forgiveness · love · family · human connection · unspoken feelings · second chances · timing · memory · healing · hope · acceptance · living in the present · choices · parental sacrifice · personal growth · perspective
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1065
An older queer couple takes one last cross-country road trip as a black hole brings Earth’s final days closer.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · grief · loss · hope · mortality · aging · regret · forgiveness · humanity · human nature · connection · community · acceptance · endings · meaning of life · purpose · parenthood · adoption trauma · homophobia · bigotry · religious hypocrisy · mental health · trauma · death anxiety · existentialism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1074
A grieving physicist slips into 1977 Brooklyn and must decide how far she’ll go to save her mother.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · sacrifice · grief · loss · family · motherhood · memory · identity · selflessness · faith · choice · consequences · time · depression · suicide · rape · PTSD · abuse of power · addiction · mental health · healing · fate · destiny · free will · stories · hope · community · longing
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1077
A grieving man discovers time travel and races to save his vanished sister before the past runs out on him.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · guilt · hope · loss · fate · destiny · choice · regret · memory · family trauma · repair · consequences · butterfly effect · mental health · insomnia · mourning · second chances
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1086
A grieving man finds an extraordinary companion in the woods, and their strange bond helps him face loss.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · love · hope · healing · loneliness · mental health · suicide · bereavement · friendship · family · living forward · truth · memory · trauma · acceptance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1086
