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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Midnight Club.
Themes labels used: memory, nostalgia, regret, grief, truth, guilt, loss, time, identity, second chances, change, closure, fate, repression, acceptance, friendship, trauma, philosophical questions, past vs present, future anxiety, moral consequence
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A grieving widow wakes in her 18-year-old body and gets one strange chance to relive, and maybe save, her first love.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · love · second chances · self-discovery · regret · memory · fate · choices · what if · mortality · moving on · depression · suicidal ideation · identity · change · nostalgia · truth vs memory
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0807
A late Bradbury story collection of 21 brief, nostalgic vignettes mixing memory, mystery, humor, and uncanny turns.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · loss · nostalgia · aging · identity · death · time · love · sex · marriage · human connection · self-acceptance · regret · ordinary life · change · past versus present
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0950
A lonely bar owner turns a closet wormhole into a concert-time travel business, then must fix a disastrous timeline mistake.
Why this is here
Themes labels: nostalgia · regret · identity · love · friendship · loss · grief · trauma · memory · destiny · free will · ethics of time travel · butterfly effect · self-reinvention · changing the past · acceptance · meaning of life · what if · emotional healing · aging · music and memory · fate · consequences · human nature · suffering
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0955
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: 0.0970
A teen training in her family’s memory-erasing business uncovers missing time, town secrets, and a buried past.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · guilt · regret · memory and identity · forgetting vs remembering · ethical memory removal · truth and deception · betrayal · family loyalty · moral grayness · healing · loss · selfhood · redemption · trauma
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0974
Four strangers get one hour in their past, but a time-travel glitch strands them together and exposes a shared tragedy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · forgiveness · regret · redemption · second chances · fate · memory · closure · love · hope · identity · perspective · moving forward · trauma · accountability
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0997
A middle-aged man is sent back to 1980s Britain for one last chance to change a devastating love story.
Why this is here
Themes labels: second chances · regret · redemption · nostalgia · memory · change the past · life choices · self-forgiveness · fate vs agency · mortality · grief
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0997
A journalist gets a chance to undo the past through time travel, but the remedy opens a stranger, deeper reckoning.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · guilt · regret · nostalgia · identity · truth and fiction · repression · trauma · time · fate · free will · meaning of life · belonging · group membership · self-deception · unresolved past · storytelling
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1006
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: 0.1040
A grieving teen is pulled into a time-travel mystery that forces her to confront a past she wants to forget.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · mourning · memory · loss · trauma · identity · belonging · trust · fate · choice · acceptance · healing · time · change the past · secrets
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1046
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
Themes labels: grief · loss · memory · love · time · human connection · survivor's guilt · art and science · past and present · letting go · closure · trauma · parenthood · choice and consequence · identity · truth vs memory · moving forward · uncertainty
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1059
Twelve whimsical, nostalgic stories explore time travel, alternate possibilities, and the lure of better pasts.
Why this is here
Themes labels: nostalgia · escape · longing · regret · second chances · the past · simpler times · memory · faith · possibility · what if · change · loss · humane life · ordinary life
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1065
