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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Anansi Boys.
Setting labels used: modern day, London, Florida, Caribbean island, contemporary fantasy world, real-world plus mythic realm, West African folklore
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Myles and Beckett face a revenge-obsessed enemy, ghostly chaos, and fairy complications in a wild final showdown.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary fantasy · London · Tower of London · Thames · Florida · Louisiana · Scilly Isles · human world · fairy world · shared universe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1297
A musician’s quest for a world-changing song draws her through prophecy, love, and the power to become Nature.
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Setting labels: modern world · fantasy world · Europe · Ireland · India · United States · circus setting · traveling community · mythic reality · urban fantasy setting · mixed mythic-modern setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1749
A mixed short-fiction collection where Neil Gaiman remixes myth, horror, fantasy, and poetry into dark, sly, often explicit tales.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary world · mundane world · mythic overlay · folklore-inflected setting · Hollywood · English countryside · urban settings · otherworldly realms · cosmic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1815
A newly awakened vampire builds a ruthless team to impose order on a chaotic supernatural world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern-day America · Romania · Florida · UnknownWorld · urban fantasy world · paranormal world · alien-influenced world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1849
An ordinary Englishman inherits a cursed magic ring and is dragged into a comic battle between modern life and Norse gods.
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Setting labels: modern England · Somerset · country road · contemporary world · mythic overlay · real world fantasy · twentieth century
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1856
A varied collection of eerie, whimsical short fiction and poems, often with twists, homages, and unsettling turns.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · fantasy worlds · ghost story settings · urban legend · Scottish settings · British settings · ancient city · mythic setting · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1857
A teen criminal mastermind’s fairy-tech scheme backfires, forcing him into a dangerous heist to recover it.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern world · England · New York · underground fairy world · secret magical society · contemporary fantasy · high-tech hidden world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1881
A suicidal musician is transformed by an alien encounter and pulled into a hidden global struggle over strange powers.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern day · Earth · Los Angeles · Australia · London · Roswell · secret world · urban fantasy setting · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1895
A grieving man writes his life as fiction, only to find his autobiography splitting into rival realities.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · country cottage · Dream Archipelago · imagined world · alternate reality · fictional archipelago · island यात्रा · Britain · psychological interiority · contemporary-like world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1937
A teen and his family flee a fast-moving plague that melts living things—and seems to think for itself.
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Setting labels: modern-day England · London · New York · Africa · Norwich · post-apocalyptic world · global pandemic · contemporary fictional reality · train journey · survival enclave
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Distance: 0.1980
A mutant team is pulled into Otherworld politics, magic, and war as Betsy Braddock becomes the new Captain Britain.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Otherworld · Avalon · Krakoa · Great Britain · England · Arthurian world · fantasy realm · modern-day crossover
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1999
A man trapped between two linked realities must survive terror, revelation, and spiritual war to save both worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern world · alternate world · two realities · dreamscape · apocalyptic setting · symbolic fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2028
