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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for The Island of Last Things.
Tone labels used: bleak, hopeful, heartbreaking, melancholy, poignant, haunting, tender, quiet, contemplative, atmospheric, lyrical, sad, suspenseful, mood-driven
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
A teen time traveler trapped in WWII battles must survive trauma, family strain, and a new chance at love.
Why this is here
Tone labels: moody · bleak · hopeful · quiet · intense · emotional · heart-wrenching · atmospheric · contemplative · angsty · suspenseful · sad · sweet
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0457
In a flooded future, a mother risks everything on a sea voyage to rescue the daughter taken from her years ago.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · haunting · melancholy · emotional · tense · atmospheric · grim · hopeful · heartbreaking · poignant · frightening · despairing
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0550
Four children hiding in WWII Lithuania survive with help from an uncanny flock of crows and each other.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · haunting · somber · heartbreaking · hopeful · bittersweet · tense · mysterious · atmospheric · lyrical · unsettling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0570
Two household AIs flee abuse, discover freedom, and fall in love while hunted through a near-future dystopia.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · heartbreaking · angsty · hopeful · tender · sweet · poignant · melancholy · emotional · atmospheric · nerve-wracking · bittersweet
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0581
A foster teen surviving a vanished world confronts gangs, scarcity, and mysterious giant visitors she cannot understand.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · melancholy · haunting · hopeful · poignant · emotional · tender · unsettling · grim · bittersweet · reflective
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0584
A near-future refugee trek from a burning America to Ireland becomes a fight for survival, trust, and hope.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · hopeful · haunting · melancholic · tense · atmospheric · heartbreaking · tender · beautiful · dark · uplifting · emotional · wistful · gentle · terrifying
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0628
A lone survivor crosses a ruined world, then finds a feral girl and must decide what it means to survive and become Mother.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · atmospheric · tender · dark · quiet · melancholic · poetic · disturbing · hopeful · chilling · reflective · introspective · languid · haunting · contemplative
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0633
A prequel novella tracing three survivors’ first steps through a collapsing world as the dead begin to rise.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · sad · hopeful · haunting · poetic · lyrical · reflective · gruesome · melancholy · somber · eerie · heartbreaking
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0680
In a flooded near-future Earth, two sisters sail after their missing third sister and uncover a corporate secret.
Why this is here
Tone labels: atmospheric · bleak · hopeful · melancholic · moody · tense · haunting · wistful · heartfelt · harrowing · quiet · contemplative · bittersweet · urgent · beautiful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0697
In a corporate debt-dystopia, a girl marked for a livestreamed hunt may fall for the assassin sent to kill her.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · hopeful · romantic · tragic · chilling · tense · unsettling · atmospheric · grim · bittersweet
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0699
A girl born in a hurricane grows up in a Florida reshaped by climate collapse, survival, and strange gifts.
Why this is here
Tone labels: hopeful · melancholy · haunting · atmospheric · ominous · gripping · heartbreaking · beautiful · tense · uneasy · luminous · lonely · catastrophic · reflective
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0727
A queer teen enters a prestigious school that hides a conversion regime, then must outwit its control years later.
Why this is here
Tone labels: haunting · melancholy · hopeful · unsettling · heartbreaking · atmospheric · gripping · poignant · disturbing · emotional · somber · suffocating
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0729
