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These books are ranked using the relationships labels extracted for The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances.
Relationships labels used: found family, household bonds, parent-child estrangement, grief support, human-machine bond, caregiving, loyalty, friendship, community resistance, dependence
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their relationships embeddings are close.
A sheltered girl in a sealed compound begins to question everything after a strange transplant awakens her to Outside.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: found family · parent-child · siblings · community bonds · adult-child tension · trust betrayal · caretaking · peer friendship
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.0938
An ordinary man must shepherd two children through an England devastated by an inexplicable alien apocalypse.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: found family · guardian child bond · surrogate parent · protective responsibility · survivor bonds · human antagonism · trust under pressure · community breakdown
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.0954
A quarantined village’s children, spared by a color-draining plague, struggle to survive, reunite, and find hope.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: sibling bonds · found family · family separation · family reunion · friendship · community bonds · caregiving · dependence · chosen family · parent loss
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.0988
In a vast virtual-reality network, scattered allies race to uncover its secrets, survive it, and stop its deadly design.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: found family · romantic relationships · friendship · teamwork · rivalry · power imbalance · betrayal · community · parent-child · caregiving
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.0990
Misfit children with psychic gifts form a shared consciousness and must decide what power, identity, and humanity mean.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: found family · group bonding · dependency · psychic link · parent-child conflict · caretaking · community formation · collective identity · betrayal · power imbalance
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1000
In near-future Britain, three lives cross amid climate collapse, rural abandonment, and a chorus of feral cows.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: parent child · mother son · mother daughter · found family · companionship · friendship · romantic relationship · community bonds · prisoner visitation · family separation · care relationship · protective bond · intergenerational connection · betrayal
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1001
A group of strangers across America share eerie fears and memory gaps that slowly draw them to a Nevada motel.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: found family · friendship · community · trust-building · shared trauma · romance (light) · family bonds · marriage · group dependence · authority conflict · bonding under pressure
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1010
A grieving Taiwanese professor and an island boy from a sacrifice tradition are thrown together by an ocean of trash.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: found family · grief bond · cross-cultural bond · human-animal bond · father-son loss · romantic attachment · friendship · community ties · intergenerational connection · dependency · shared trauma
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1014
A linked anthology of post-apocalyptic short stories about survivors, rebuilders, and unfinished arcs after the end.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: family bonds · parent-child · sibling bonds · romance · same-sex marriage · community ties · caretaker dependence · survivor solidarity · authority conflict · betrayal
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1022
A kidnapped genius wakes up in a secret compound where children with psychic gifts are exploited and must fight to escape.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: found family · friendship bonds · caretaker abuse · parent-child loss · group solidarity · adult-child power imbalance · resistance against authority
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1029
Two years after a virus-driven collapse, survivors follow a rescue signal—while the infection evolves into something far stranger.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: sibling bond · parent-child separation · lost family · found family · group solidarity · betrayal · power struggle · community trust · survivor dependence
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1033
Twelve strange, folkloric stories use monsters, ghosts, and rebirth to explore grief, love, memory, and loss.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: marriage · parent-child bond · bereavement · infidelity · family grief · romantic estrangement · community · lost love · dependency · betrayal
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1037
