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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for Dr. Rat.
Tone labels used: dark satire, black humor, grotesque, bleak, horrific, tragic, biting, absurd, disturbing, sardonic, gruesome
Focused on “wicked” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
In an overpopulated near future, one marriage is caught in a collapsing system of birth controls, scarcity, and social upheaval.
Why this is here
Tone labels: darkly comic · satirical · grim · hilarious · horrific · grotesque · wicked · apocalyptic · absurd · uneasy · cynical
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1005
A covert anti-superhero team digs into the secret history of corporate-made heroes while new loyalties and rivalries ignite.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · cynical · satirical · black humor · grotesque · depraved · disturbing · tense · grim · darkly comedic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0779
A drafted farm boy is dragged into a galactic war and survives by stumbling through absurd military chaos and satire.
Why this is here
Tone labels: darkly funny · satirical · cynical · absurdist · biting · bleak · sardonic · dark humor · violent comedy · depressing (mixed)
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0817
A debut collection of darkly comic near-future stories about workers, outsiders, and survival in a collapsing America.
Why this is here
Tone labels: darkly funny · blackly comic · satirical · absurd · bleak · bittersweet · grotesque · disturbing · moving · sardonic · offbeat · caustic · tragicomic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0823
A superteam called The Boys is attacked by a rival squad, then forced to confront the hidden origins of its own members.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · violent · gory · brutal · satirical · black humor · grim · outrageous · hilarious (mixed) · tragic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0836
A dying doctor’s life unfolds backward, exposing a reversed world whose logic turns Holocaust horror inside out.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · horrific · comic · blackly comic · grotesque · intense · unsettling · tragicomic · sardonic · baffling · surreal
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0838
A starving Moscow stray becomes the subject of a reckless experiment, with grotesque and satirical fallout.
Why this is here
Tone labels: satirical · black comedy · darkly funny · unsettling · grotesque · bitter · cynical · absurd · playful · sharp
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0853
A screenwriter’s discarded script opens into a savage post-nuclear vision of a ruined America ruled by fear and cult belief.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · satirical · bleak · ironic · grotesque · misanthropic · cynical · blackly humorous · pessimistic · chilling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0863
A Russian zoologist’s accidental scientific breakthrough is commandeered by the state, with disastrous results.
Why this is here
Tone labels: darkly comic · satirical · grotesque · horrific · bitter · absurd · ironic · bleak · macabre · playful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0871
A satirical short-story collection uses surreal, SF-tinged fables to skewer modern Russia’s power, corruption, and myths.
Why this is here
Tone labels: satirical · ironic · darkly funny · bitter · cynical · grotesque · sarcastic · depressing · uneasy · absurd · black humor · critical
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0875
Gifted teens vanish into a billionaire-run system that surveils, sorts, and sells talent for a future of servitude.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark satire · dark humor · biting · unsettling · absurd · bizarre · grotesque · comic · clinical · disorienting · shocking · menacing · unhinged
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0902
A London psychologist investigates a bombing and gets pulled into a bizarre middle-class revolt fueled by boredom and violence.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark satire · black comedy · sardonic · caustic · dry wit · nihilistic · grumpy · disturbing · prescient · cynical
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0913
