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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Good Parts.
Setting labels used: Edinburgh, Scotland, college setting, Vermont, American university, contemporary setting, present day, past timeline
Focused on “Vermont” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A teen time traveler returns to Gilded Age New York to stop a dangerous device from rewriting the future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Scotland · Scottish Highlands · Gilded Age · Victorian era · late 19th century · 1895 New York City · historical setting · time travel world · alternate history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1927
A drug-fueled Scottish journalist chases a scoop as brutal murders mount and suspicion turns back on him.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Edinburgh · Scotland · early 1990s · Thatcher-era Britain · contemporary setting · regional realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2055
A Chicago detective and a mysterious traveler race to solve impossible murders tied to history, technology, and justice.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary Earth · Chicago · Bristol · Rhode Island · Nigeria · Edinburgh · multiple locales · global span · historical past · centuries-spanning
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2143
A queer teen uses a time machine to uncover her family’s hidden past and untangle a love story spread across history.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · historical periods · time travel · alternate timeline · dystopian elements · United Kingdom · Scotland · university setting · scientific lab · future society · historical battles
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2183
A newly married academic couple is pulled into a battle over mind control, myth, and spiritual evil on Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · England · university setting · college setting · academic setting · fantastic realism · mythic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2207
A linked collection of Lovecraft’s mythos tales, where investigators uncover ancient horrors, alien truths, and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural New England · Vermont · Antarctic exploration · ancient ruins · remote farm · university setting · small town · early 20th century · fictional mythos
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2552
A posthumous collection of Lewis fragments and stories exploring time, myth, space travel, and unsettling other worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Oxford · Cambridge · Mars · Moon · ancient Greece · Troy · Othertime · alternate reality · space-age future · academic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2254
A top student is recruited into a secret time-travel agency and must navigate conspiracies, rules, and a new identity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secret academy · government program · time travel organization · alternate present · historical past · United States · Boston · Massachusetts · Vermont
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2561
A secret U.S. agency uses witchcraft and time travel to restore magic, only to unleash bureaucracy, paradox, and chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · historical timelines · 1851 London · Elizabethan England · Puritan America · alternate world · contemporary world · government workplace · academic setting · multiple eras
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2377
A demon-hunting team must lure a deadly hellborn adversary before it kidnaps their witch ally and tears open the world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Burlington Vermont · university campus · Europe · Paris · Earth · Abyss · Hell · Faerie · modern day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2394
A skeptical professor loses four hours and his hat, then reality around him begins to warp into menace.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university town · academic setting · small town · academic community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2405
A shy teacher stranded in the future must phone a work nemesis to save her past self—and maybe fall in love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · high school · New York City · future timeline · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2408
