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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Taking.
Setting labels used: small town, contemporary earth, high school aged world, roadside gas station
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
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: 0.1549
A stranded young techie and his friends uncover an invisible alien, a sentient spaceship, and a plot to seize Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · Ohio · modern day · mostly earthbound · small town · road trip
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1841
An alien princess hiding as a human boy on Earth must choose between safety and living openly when she falls in love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · small town · high school · outer space · alien planet · post-war refugee setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1895
Two teens awaken air powers during a deadly tornado and flee a scientist who engineered them for control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · modern day · American countryside · small town · high school · road trip · secret safe house · real world with powers
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1958
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: 0.2029
A mixed Stephen King collection of 22 stories and poems, ranging from creature horror to sci-fi, surrealism, and dark grief.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · supermarket · school bathroom · isolated lake · road trip · desert island · space travel · future setting · late 20th century · American setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2037
Daemon Black retells the first three Lux books in his own voice, revealing his secrets, sarcasm, and protective obsession.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · West Virginia · high school · Earth · alien refugees · secretive human society · hidden-in-plain-sight · contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2064
A superpowered teen alien hunter follows a deadly list of targets while chasing the alien who killed his parents.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · home planet · alien world · school setting · urban travel · small-town cover identity · contemporary setting · outer-space travel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2080
A Luxen boy and a human girl fall hard in a secret, forbidden romance that threatens both their families and future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small-town West Virginia · high school · Earth · alien-on-Earth · secret community · human-alien coexistence
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2086
A college student expecting an egg-donation payout instead gets chosen to bond with an alien visitor on Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary Earth · small town · Pennsylvania · festival setting · lab setting · rural town · human civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2089
A misfit teen girl in a near-future town falls for the new girl while both are shaped by family, space, and loss.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · small town · trailer park · high school · space travel · solar system · roof stargazing · NASA-like organization · private space company · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2118
A bookish English instructor buys a mysterious Kindle that opens onto alternate realities, lost books, and future danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small college town · university campus · contemporary setting · alternate realities · parallel worlds · digital age · technology-centered
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2144
