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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for Tales from Earthsea.
Motifs labels used: true names, magic school, maps, languages, history, essays, earth, sea, dragons, wizards and witches, earthquakes, healing, song, stories within stories, hidden knowledge
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
A complete illustrated Earthsea omnibus tracing mages, islands, dragons, and the costs of power across a lifetime.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: true names · dragons · magic words · islands · sea · balance · shadows · maps · illustrations · afterwords
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1241
A gifted boy enters a wizard school, unleashes a shadow, and must learn true power through balance and self-knowledge.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: true name · shadow · dragon · sea · islands · balance · silence · light and dark · words · magic school · map · journey · hawks · birds · weather · death
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1509
Four women in a war-torn empire tell interwoven, lyrical stories of rebellion, memory, love, and who gets written into history.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: sword · stone · music · flight · song · poetry · history books · glossary · map · family tree · memory · feathers · body · voice · language · myths · monsters · holy text · desert
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1896
A sheltered farm boy is swept into a prophecy-laden quest to recover a stolen sacred object before war returns.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: orb · prophecy · ancient gods · magic stone · journey · map · names and titles · old stories · secrets · kitchen life · cabbages · horseman
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1969
A curious teen in a walled village uncovers a hidden world, a dangerous truth, and a path toward escape.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: maps · forest · monsters · magic items · invented language · secret messages · walls · illustrations
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1984
A magically created innocent must find his purpose while a prince navigates court intrigue, war, and ancient magic.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: shaping · shadow · magic words · names · birds · horses · ruins · fortress · maps · ancient road
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2016
A charity fantasy anthology of new, varied short works donated to help editor Shawn Speakman pay medical bills.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: magic · dragons · music · poetry · forewords · rhyme · myth · sickness · memory · roses · time · the forest · the road · baseball · dogs
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2031
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: 0.2085
A legendary guide in a place where worlds die is commemorated through stories that reveal Driftwood’s strange, shrinking reality.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: mist · Crush · fragments · maps · stories · memorial · songs · languages · weather · sun(s) · folklore
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2087
A scholar chasing forbidden truths in an empire of caste and secrecy collides with hidden magic and buried history.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: magic stones · forbidden texts · stories as weapons · skin tone · clothing as status · hair as status · maps · hidden history · lost islands · breathing forest · nature imagery
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2106
An assassin’s mission in a sky realm opens onto a fractured world of rival races, magic, and rebellion.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: dragons · airships · magic system · song · machine · labyrinth · water · floating continents · footnotes · maps and diagrams
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2108
