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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Chrysalids.
Setting labels used: post nuclear world, rural village, agricultural community, isolated community, Labrador, fringes, badlands, harsh theocracy, future Earth
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An orphaned, disabled girl with a rare artistic gift is pulled into a harsh village’s secrets and control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · future society · isolated village · harsh community · primitive world · controlled community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1339
A teen girl surviving alone after nuclear war faces a stranger whose arrival turns refuge into danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-nuclear world · isolated valley · rural farm · microclimate refuge · wasteland beyond
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1408
In post-nuclear America, a curious boy and his cousin leave a repressive village to seek a rumored haven of forbidden knowledge.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · post-nuclear future · small towns · agrarian society · religious theocracy · forbidden cities · rural America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1445
In a post-apocalyptic survivor community, a new discovery deepens mistrust as an unseen enemy and hidden loyalties close in.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · after the collapse · survivor settlements · rural refuge · communes · farm community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1469
A suicidal teen in a ruined future is offered an apprenticeship that could help save humanity—or force her to kill to survive.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · future Earth · mountain communities · small villages · isolated settlements · poisoned lowlands · rural survival · high technology pockets · climate-ravaged world · pandemic aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1475
In a post-apocalyptic society split by class and wilderness, a bored professor’s daughter crosses into danger and desire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · post-nuclear world · fortified villages · steel and concrete towers · walled enclave · forest wilderness · ruined cities · marshlands · tribal society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1481
A hidden psychic girl is sent to a mountain stronghold where other outcasts and dangerous secrets threaten her survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · nuclear fallout · ruined world · rural settlement · mountain compound · dystopian future · feudal order · theocratic rule
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1503
A teen flees an alien regime that brainwashes adults with metal caps and heads for a rumored refuge in the mountains.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post apocalyptic Earth · future England · future Europe · feudal future · ruined cities · pre industrial society · rural village · Alps
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1503
A hybrid child raised between humans and aliens grows toward adulthood while both species fight over humanity's future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-nuclear Earth · healed Earth · post-apocalyptic future · resister villages · trade villages · alien spacecraft · off-world habitat · shared-human-alien settlement · lawless frontier
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1503
A former librarian becomes a post-apocalyptic nomadic warrior and faces rivals, raiders, and absurd survival in the wasteland.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · wasteland · small town · rural survival · collapsed society · post-collapse communities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1538
A hard-trained teen guards her family’s water source in a dry, violent world, then must survive when her life changes.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near-future · rural Ohio · isolated farmhouse · wilderness · resource-scarce society · city vs countryside
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1547
Separated in a harsh future wasteland, Lemon Fresh and her friends fight cults, corporations, and each other’s secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian wasteland · irradiated landscape · ruined cities · corporate-controlled future · religious enclave · robotic world · glassy desert · post-collapse society · USA (implied)
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1557
