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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Boy in the Tower.
Setting labels used: London, tower block, housing estate, urban, citywide collapse, post-apocalyptic, contemporary, school setting, flat/apartment
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A teen survives a zombie outbreak while wrestling with racist conditioning, family abuse, and shocking twists.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · Ireland · school setting · urban setting · British setting · zombie apocalypse · post-apocalyptic · contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1369
A prequel set in zombie-ravaged London, following kids whose desperate survival tests friendship, fear, and hope.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · boarding school · school bus · museum · Tower of London · city survival · post-apocalyptic world · near-beginning of outbreak
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1541
A gifted child in a fortified lab-cum-school faces a world-shaking truth as a fungal apocalypse closes in.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic England · post-collapse UK · military base · research facility · classroom · cell block · wasteland · ruined cities · London · near-future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1609
An ordinary man watches sudden violence spread as neighbors, family, and strangers turn murderous in a collapsing world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: UK · urban suburb · council estate · home barricade · modern day · apocalyptic collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1618
A wealthy father and his young son are trapped in their home as economic collapse unleashes a violent mob outside.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · gated community · cul-de-sac · luxury home · residential neighborhood · near-future collapse · economic dystopia · apocalyptic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1656
In flooded near-future London, a healer, a journalist, and a pharma heir get pulled into water politics, secrets, and romance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-flood London · futuristic London · vertically built city · near-future setting · dystopian future · flooded city · high-inequality setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1696
In a post-sleep apocalypse, guilt-ridden scientists trapped in the Tower of London race to cure the monsters they helped create.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic London · Tower of London · isolated enclosure · dystopian city · scientific compound · collapsed civilization · late 21st century · claustrophobic setting · alternative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1699
Children crossing a ruined London face smarter infected adults, shifting alliances, and a dangerous search for lost friends.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · contemporary London · post-apocalyptic city · urban wasteland · Buckingham Palace · Tower of London · Parliament · Natural History Museum · Thames · near future · very near future · collapsed civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1714
In bombed-out, virus-ravaged London, a teen girl teams with a hidden band of lost kids to rescue her kidnapped sister.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic London · England · underground city · war zone · dystopian world · alternate reality · bombed city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1768
A teenage survivor navigates a nearly empty England after a deadly plague leaves him among the last people alive.
Why this is here
Setting labels: England · London · small English town · English coast · post-collapse · empty city · depopulated world · realist setting · contemporary world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1779
In a collapsing future London, a sheltered teen boards her father’s survival ship and questions its promised utopia.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future London · dystopian London · post collapse · post apocalyptic world · ship setting · open sea · near future · alternate future · ruined city · contained community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1839
A London teen wakes with smartphone-linked powers and must decide whether to use them for revenge or justice.
Why this is here
Setting labels: South London · London estate · housing projects · urban underclass · crime-ridden neighborhood · contemporary setting · school-age world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1851
