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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Odd John.
Setting labels used: interwar Britain, 1930s, Pacific island, wilderness, urban society, contemporary world
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Two estranged sisters are pulled back together by old war stories, a made-up ghost, and a very real ghostly horse.
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Setting labels: contemporary Britain · First World War · Second World War · present day · wartime history · realist setting · near-present political climate · urban apartment
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1927
A pompous English poultry breeder learns the moon will strike Earth and records how his village faces the end.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural England · small village · London · Britain · 1930s · early 1940s · post-apocalyptic world · alternate history · future archaeology · isolated island
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2088
An archaeologist races Nazis to the Ark of the Covenant, crossing continents, traps, and old wounds.
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Setting labels: 1930s · 1936 · interwar period · World War II era · South America · Peru · Nepal · Cairo · Mediterranean · Berlin · Egypt · jungle · temple · university · Nazi Germany · fictionalized historical world
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Distance: 0.2100
A Hollywood millionaire obsessed with eternal life draws an English scholar into a caustic, idea-packed California satire.
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Setting labels: 1930s · prewar California · Los Angeles · Hollywood · Southern California · Britain · 18th century England · interwar period · Gothic mansion · castle estate · World War II brink
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Distance: 0.2116
Framed as public enemies, magic-powered fugitives race to clear their names while a world-ending threat closes in.
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Setting labels: alternate history · 1930s America · early 1930s · post-WWI world · magic-enabled reality · urban setting · global setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2141
A hardboiled ex-con with gravity powers is pulled into a secret war between magical factions in an alternate 1930s world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1930s · interwar period · alternate history · Great Depression · world wars · early 20th century · magic-infused world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2142
A prequel traces the founding and collapse of an underwater utopia, exposing the politics and rot behind its promise.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-World War II · mid-20th century · 1940s · 1950s · Atlantic Ocean · undersea city · retro-futuristic · art deco · isolated society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2156
Reawakening angels and a missing workforce push a colonial forest, Europe, and London toward a strange collision.
Why this is here
Setting labels: early 20th century · interwar period · 1920s · colonial Africa · Germany · London · England · Bedlam asylum · colonial city · mystical forest · alternative history · mythic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2215
A captain's exploitative deal with intelligent newts spirals into a worldwide satire of power, greed, and collapse.
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Setting labels: remote island · Indonesian islands · South Sea · global setting · interwar Europe · pre-WWII · Pacific · underwater civilization · alternate history · technological modernity
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2224
A shipwreck survivor lands on a remote island where a disgraced scientist is reshaping animals into humanlike beings.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Pacific island · remote island · South Pacific · shipboard setting · colonial island · isolated laboratory · late 19th century · Victorian era · England · tropical isolation
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2234
A forbidden wartime love story follows a Jewish violinist and a bookshop owner across prewar Germany and postwar absence.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Germany · Berlin · London · Paris · Vienna · United States · prewar Europe · postwar Europe · World War II era · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2244
Six interconnected stories race forward through time, then reverse, tracing recurring souls, power, and connection.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 19th century Pacific · 1930s Belgium · 1970s California · contemporary England · near-future Korea · post-apocalyptic Hawaii · historical fiction · future fiction · post-apocalyptic fiction
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2255
