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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances.
Motifs labels used: music, books, literature, first editions, To Kill a Mockingbird, piano, household objects, routine, protocols, names
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
In a dying future, a self-taught reader, a rebel woman, and a suicidal android collide in a robot-run world.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books · reading · writing · diaries · silent films · subtitles · mockingbird phrase · drogues · sopors · television · robots · suicide · immolation · privacy · children · families · films · poetry
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2162
In a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, a teen girl is forced into a televised death contest that ignites rebellion.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: mockingjay · archery · berries · fires · bread · arena · television · whistle · symbolism · games · birds · spring
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2359
A teenage girl in an occupied city guards a hidden library and helps kindle resistance through books, speech, and memory.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books · library · voices · speech · writing · reading · stories · song · memory · fire · water · hidden rooms · oracle · religion
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2434
In an alien-ruled future, a book-loving teen and a music-loving outsider race to save humanity.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books · music · pop songs · chapter quotes · chapter epigraphs · lyrics · secret library · favorite band · pop culture references · road trip soundtrack · labels · pronouns
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2494
A bullied girl, her gifted brother, and a friend cross space-time to rescue a missing father from cosmic evil.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: darkness and light · tesseract · storm · kitchen · numbers and mathematics · quoted language · music and poetry · eyes · stars · conformity imagery · books and reading · extraordinary names
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2536
In a brutal dystopian future, two secret telepaths and unlikely allies are drawn into a war against their oppressive society.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: song · music · telepathy · harmony · birds · light/dark imagery · marriage · wives · slavery · lobotomy · war · propaganda
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2547
A girl from the Dust and a boy trapped in a vast library uncover secrets that bend time, knowledge, and identity.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: library · books · epigraphs · quotations · dust · water · time · mechanism · stairs · shelves · secrets · knowledge · language · stories
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2549
A bored book lover discovers a girl who can travel into stories, and both get pulled into a dangerous fictional world.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books within books · library · spell book · fictional characters · plot holes · acknowledgements · references to other books · portals · real world / story world
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2569
A bookseller uncovers a wartime love letter that leads him into a time-spanning mystery of two men searching for each other.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books · poetry · letters · photographs · archives · bookshops · notes tucked in books · war records · time travel
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2576
In a fractured post-apocalyptic world, hunted youths, rival powers, and a new outsider POV push fragile peace toward collapse.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: telepathy · songlight · bird names · airship · diary entries · light and sound · birds · cliffhanger · mirrors · cages · names and identity · coup
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2590
A Chicago teen and a time-traveling boy from the future fall into a romance that may alter both their lives.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: letters · running · travel · music · school cafeteria · timelines · beaches · bookstore
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2605
A quiet teen’s life unravels when strange neighbors arrive next door and pull her into a mythic time-travel mystery.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: time travel · mythology · stories within stories · keys · houses · chairs · organ music · role-playing games · sign language · poetry · names · doubling
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2622
