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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.
Setting labels used: New York City, Greenwich Village, West Village, 1985, 1918, 1941, 20th century, wartime home front, pandemic era
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A U.S. Army platoon is recalled to Manhattan to contain a rabies-like plague and fight their way toward a possible cure.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · United States · wartime homefront · apocalypse · pandemic outbreak · urban collapse · hospital setting · research facility · Iraq · Middle East · military base
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1864
An alien virus reshapes post-WWII America, spawning heroes, monsters, and a shared-world saga of linked stories.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-World War II · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · New York City · Manhattan · United States · alternate history · shared-universe world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2262
Three linked stories across centuries trace alternate Americas shaped by love, illness, power, and the search for paradise.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Washington Square · 1890s · 1990s · 2090s · alternate history · dystopian future · pandemic setting · AIDS crisis · Hawaii · Free States · totalitarian regime
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2288
A dying doctor’s life unfolds backward, exposing a reversed world whose logic turns Holocaust horror inside out.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York · Auschwitz · Europe · Portugal · Italy · Germany · Poland · prewar Europe · World War II · postwar United States · 20th century · America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2295
A telepath in middle age watches his mind-reading power fade, forcing a reckoning with loneliness, guilt, and selfhood.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · 1970s · 1960s · late 1960s · early 1970s · mid-century America · postwar childhood · urban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2323
A CDC pathologist investigates bizarre deaths in New York and uncovers a bioterror plot tied to a deadly engineered virus.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Atlanta · Washington DC · subway tunnels · present day · late 1990s · urban outbreak
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2353
A woman’s life is repeatedly altered by a mysterious protector whose true origins tangle time, destiny, and danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: late 20th century · 1980s · World War II era · present day · orphanage · foster care
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2396
In 1945 Maine, a teen boy and his friends confront a truth-spewing craze that hides a far stranger alien danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1940s America · 1945 · small town · wartime home front · Maine · Second World War · alternate Earth · Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2464
A Wall Street analyst is drawn into a sweeping time-travel romance that links modern New York to WWI France.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Wall Street · Amiens · France · World War I · 1916 · 2008 · modern day · financial industry · war front · country house
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2467
Frozen WWII hero Captain America wakes in the 21st century and must decide where he belongs.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War II · 1940s · 21st century · modern America · New York City · suspended animation · time travel · alternate continuity
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2480
A queer speculative short-story collection where monsters, grief, and rage expose the harms of society.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York · home foreclosure crisis · Stonewall era · AIDS epidemic era · Russian Revolution era · post-apocalypse · subprime mortgage crisis · small town · rural town · near future dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2483
A young New Yorker becomes tied to a tattoo machine that exposes hidden truths, then faces its fallout over decades.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · 1960s · 1990s · 2000s · near future · alternate history · post-9/11 · urban · counterculture · apartment setting · real-world history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2488
