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These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Hocus Pocus.

Plot structure labels used: nonlinear narrative, fragmented chronology, episodic structure, frame narrative, memory fragments, piecewise reveal, circular structure, mystery-like reveal, retrospective narration, scattershot plotting

Focused on “nonlinear narrative” where exact label matches exist.

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their plot structure embeddings are close.

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Cover of The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs

The Place of Dead Roads

William S. Burroughs · 2001 · The Red Night Trilogy

A nonlinear cowboy sci-fi odyssey follows a gay gunslinger outlaw through violence, rebellion, and cosmic escape routes.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0752

Cover of Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte

Ultrasound

Conor Stechschulte · 2022 · Generous Bosom

A stranded traveler accepts help from a strange couple, then tumbles into a mind-bending web of memory, control, and conspiracy.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0806

Cover of My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi

My Volcano

John Elizabeth Stintzi · 2022

A suddenly growing Central Park volcano links a global cast through disaster, transformation, and shifting realities.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0852

Cover of Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

Sacred and Terrible Air

Robert Kurvitz · 2023

Three childhood friends keep searching for four missing girls as a collapsing world and strange force called the Pale close in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0949

Cover of The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs

The Western Lands

William S. Burroughs · 1988 · The Red Night Trilogy

An aging writer’s hallucinatory pilgrimage through Egyptian myth, apocalypse, and mortality searches for escape beyond death.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0951

Cover of How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey

How It Unfolds

James S.A. Corey · 2023 · The Far Reaches

A cloned astronaut on an interstellar colonization mission faces repeated second chances—and one unresolved past.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0979

Cover of Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett

Destroyer of Light

Jennifer Marie Brissett · 2021

On a tidally locked alien world, refugees, modified humans, and conquerors collide in a nonlinear Persephone retelling.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0997

Cover of Star Wars: Kanan, Vol. 2: First Blood by Greg Weisman

Star Wars: Kanan, Vol. 2: First Blood

Greg Weisman · 2016 · Star Wars: Kanan

A wounded rebel relives his early Jedi training as flashbacks reveal how Caleb Dume became Kanan Jarrus.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1000

Cover of John Dies at the End by David  Wong

John Dies at the End

David Wong, Jason Pargin · 2009 · John Dies at the End

Two slacker friends gain bizarre vision from a strange drug and stumble into an interdimensional supernatural crisis.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0735

Cover of Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

John Crowley · 2017

An immortal crow tells a human his long, strange story across ages, worlds, and the many meanings of death.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0833