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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Life Before Legend.
Setting labels used: dystopian world, Republic, urban sectors, street survival, school setting, university setting, prequel timeline
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A grieving princess turns rebel, racing to topple her father’s regime while hiding a secret that changes everything.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · palace · city · wilderness · school system · safe haven · capital · post-apocalyptic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1156
A traumatized teen assassin tries to live as a normal civilian, but her past and rival killers catch up fast.
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Setting labels: dystopian city · closed city · walled city · enclave city · alternate world · parallel world · near-future · adult society with child assassins · guild rule · school setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1239
In a propaganda-ridden dystopia, a hunted resistance faces a final battle for freedom as truth, loyalty, and survival collide.
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Setting labels: dystopian world · nation-state · war zone · controlled society · revolutionary setting
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Distance: 0.1242
A teen mecha team faces apocalyptic threats while buried secrets, trauma, and shifting bonds push everyone to breaking point.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · school setting · military setting · urban destruction · secret base · near-future · dystopian world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1259
A queer teen enters a prestigious school that hides a conversion regime, then must outwit its control years later.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-climate disaster · post-apocalyptic · futuristic · authoritarian society · school setting · finishing school · coastal town · city · isolated facility
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1308
A rebellious young woman returns to a controlled world and must face power, war, and a choice with devastating stakes.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · two worlds · parallel worlds · controlled society · political unrest · war-torn world · futuristic city · enclosed institution
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1319
A half-demon necromancer bounty hunter hunts a psychic killer while being dragged back into her darkest past.
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Setting labels: futuristic city · near future · urban setting · dystopian · magic and technology · boarding school · institutional abuse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1320
A girls' boarding school in a war-torn future hides secrets, forcing four friends to survive and trust each other.
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Setting labels: future world · dystopian future · war-torn society · boarding school · isolated school · wilderness setting · schoolcamp
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1320
In a collapsing dystopian future, Alice must protect the people she loves as alliances shift and dangers mount.
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Setting labels: dystopian world · futuristic world · science-fiction world · city-state politics · postwar setting · human-android society
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Distance: 0.1344
In a state-run society, a boy’s mandatory intelligence test reveals a terrifying rule about intelligence.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · government-controlled society · school-like system · bureaucratic world · near-future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1351
In a brutal future school, manufactured girls compete for roles as wives, sex objects, or teachers under male rule.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · school setting · sealed female environment · patriarchy · post-catastrophe world · lab-created women · Euro-Zone · future society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1364
A post-initiation Dauntless novice weighs leadership, uncovers a conspiracy, and confronts a life-changing family secret.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · faction society · Dauntless · urban setting · post-initiation · controlled society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1371
