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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for The Book of Lost Hours.
Tone labels used: atmospheric, haunting, melancholic, heartbreaking, hopeful, emotional, thought-provoking, immersive, mysterious, lyrical, tense
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
A history professor inherits family land and uncovers a generations-old curse that sends her ancestors back through time.
Why this is here
Tone labels: atmospheric · emotional · haunting · beautiful · bittersweet · thought-provoking · hopeful · tense · mysterious · heartbreaking · immersive · compelling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0610
A grieving woman on a storm-battered island confronts strange messages, ghostly echoes, and a vanishing world.
Why this is here
Tone labels: haunting · lyrical · atmospheric · melancholic · dreamlike · strange · hopeful · heartbreaking · poignant · mysterious · devastating · beautiful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0699
A restless woman boards a fishing boat to follow the last Arctic terns through a near-future world of extinction.
Why this is here
Tone labels: haunting · melancholic · heartbreaking · hopeful · poetic · atmospheric · quiet · grim · dark · soulful · intense · tragic · redemptive · lyrical · thought-provoking · emotional
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0857
A Civil War researcher follows a young woman’s eerie dreams into a tense mystery where history, love, and duty collide.
Why this is here
Tone labels: haunting · melancholic · somber · bleak · tense · mysterious · bittersweet · emotionally harrowing · moving · atmospheric
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0881
Twin sisters join a government reproduction program after humanity learns extinction is encoded in its DNA.
Why this is here
Tone labels: thought-provoking · dark · haunting · hopeful · melancholic · disturbing · atmospheric · emotionally heavy
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0892
When mysterious doors appear worldwide, twin sisters on opposite spiritual paths are pulled into grief, faith, and change.
Why this is here
Tone labels: haunting · eerie · atmospheric · emotional · thought-provoking · melancholic · quiet · surreal · uncanny · mesmerizing · heartbreaking · dreamlike · introspective
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0901
A troubled schoolgirl discovers she can alter reality through dreams, but every change deepens the danger around her.
Why this is here
Tone labels: atmospheric · ominous · tense · haunting · mysterious · dramatic · nerve-wracking · melancholic · disturbing · immersive
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0937
A young enslaved girl travels between worlds and uncovers buried truths that could upend everything she knows.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · tense · mysterious · emotional · sad · hopeful · adventurous · atmospheric
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0952
After civilization collapses, two orphaned sisters in a Northern California forest must learn survival, loss, and change.
Why this is here
Tone labels: haunting · lyrical · poetic · melancholic · atmospheric · suspenseful · dreary · quiet · dreamlike · disturbing · hopeful · intense · claustrophobic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0977
A nonlinear novella retells Hansel and Gretel across centuries, using Halley’s Comet to trace stories, siblings, and queer desire.
Why this is here
Tone labels: melancholic · lyrical · poetic · haunting · tender · sad · beautiful · hopeful · cosmic · intimate · devastating · thought-provoking · mysterious · reflective
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0997
A mother’s life and family unravel and transform after Earth receives a mysterious alien message spanning decades.
Why this is here
Tone labels: somber · heartbreaking · hopeful · emotional · luminous · compassionate · thought-provoking · immersive · atmospheric · relatable · dark · raw
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1002
A teen training in her family’s memory-erasing business uncovers missing time, town secrets, and a buried past.
Why this is here
Tone labels: atmospheric · twisty · emotional · haunting · mysterious · sinister · heart-pounding · thought-provoking · hopeful · gritty
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1020
