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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Hourglass.
Setting labels used: Southern town, boarding school, small town, present day, historic buildings, secret facility, mental institution
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A young woman with dangerous mutant powers is pulled into a hidden world and forced to choose her own path.
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Setting labels: small southern town · Mississippi · diner setting · abandoned cabin · small town life · modern day · contemporary setting · mutant world · secret lab · school recruitment
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2018
A girl who can fly is sent to a secret school for exceptional kids, where friendship and danger collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · rural setting · farm · country town · school setting · boarding school · secret institute · underground facility · contemporary setting · mixed-era feel · laboratories · top-secret facility · maximum-security school
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2076
When the dead start returning unchanged, one grieving family is pulled into a global crisis of faith, fear, and identity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Southern town · rural America · global setting · contemporary setting · holding camp · detention center
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2089
A coerced teen enters a terrifying secret school where studying remakes reality, identity, and the self.
Why this is here
Setting labels: remote village · provincial town · boarding school · university · beach vacation · small town · institutional setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2093
A sleeping sickness strikes a California college town, and the wakeful struggle to protect each other as dreams deepen.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Southern California · college town · small town · campus setting · dormitory · hospital · quarantine zone · contemporary setting · isolated community · fictional town
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2163
Two teens who may be soulmates fall hard for each other as a secret operation and strange weather turn love into a threat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: British town · small-town setting · contemporary setting · secret facility · band scene · teen life
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2197
A grieving teen is blackmailed into a strange school study, where buried truths, old feelings, and new possibilities collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · high school · school campus · summer camp · Michigan · teen research study · contemporary setting · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2225
An ordinary volunteer is swept into a cosmic struggle between good and evil, with reality, time, and choices at stake.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · college town · contemporary setting · alternate reality · parallel universes · cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2251
With a month left before an asteroid ends the world, a misfit teen hunts the truth behind her friend’s death.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · coastal town · high school · pre-apocalyptic future · present-day contemporary reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2264
A shy new kid at school discovers only she can see mysterious creatures tied to fear, friendship, and danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: new town · new school · school setting · home setting · woods · modern world · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2351
A murdered man wakes up in his childhood body and races through new lives to find the wife he lost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: fictional town · small town · military school · school setting · afterlife · parallel worlds · dimension shifts · multiple timelines · childhood setting · adult life revisited
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2390
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: 0.2390
