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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for My Real Children.
Setting labels used: England, Oxford, World War II era, 20th century, 2015, nursing home, care home, alternate history, moon base, Italy, travel
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Time-traveling Oxford historians get stranded in WWII Britain as the war—and history itself—starts to go awry.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Oxford 2060 · London Blitz · World War II England · wartime Britain · Dunkirk · 1940s · home front · evacuation countryside · historical setting · alternate future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2026
A Cambridge historian and a physicist try to erase Hitler from history, only to unleash a worse alternate world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cambridge · Princeton · England · Germany · United States · World War II era · World War I era · 1990s · alternate world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2251
Three Cambridge friends are haunted for decades by a partly forgotten ritual that may have opened a door to the divine.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cambridge · England · 1980s England · 1990s England · university years · middle age · Europe · Eastern Europe · pre-war Europe · alternate Europe · contemporary realism · liminal reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2320
A boy and his friends are thrown into WWII-era time travel, where saving lives could rewrite everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: wartime England · 1940s · 1990s · small-town England · fictional town · home front · World War II · alternate timeline · real-world fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2342
After a cosmic event blinds most of humanity, one sighted survivor must navigate collapsing society and deadly walking plants.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · Britain · England · mid-century England · post-apocalyptic world · ruined cities · abandoned countryside · Cold War era · postwar Britain · Earth · hospital · countryside refuge
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2366
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: 0.2375
In WWII Europe, an American soldier’s strange link to rocket strikes pulls him into a paranoid, sprawling web.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War II · postwar Europe · London · Germany · The Zone · wartime Europe · occupied Europe · 20th century
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2402
A wartime girl is swept into the future and must navigate grief, new allies, and a path back to her best friend.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1940 England · 2013 Wisconsin · World War II · wartime home front · modern United States · small town · school setting · library setting · historical-present dual setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2414
In Nazi-controlled 1953 Britain, a privileged woman who rewrites literature is sent to expose a rebellion in the city’s outlawed margins.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1953 · postwar Britain · occupied England · Nazi protectorate · alternate history Britain · London · Oxford · Widowland slums · German-controlled Europe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2416
Two estranged sisters are pulled back together by old war stories, a made-up ghost, and a very real ghostly horse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary Britain · First World War · Second World War · present day · wartime history · realist setting · near-present political climate · urban apartment
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2440
Four detectives in four eras investigate the same murdered body in London, uncovering a baffling, symbolic mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · East London · Whitechapel · Victorian era · World War II era · present day · near-future · post-apocalyptic future · Britain
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2444
An elderly British couple follows official nuclear-war advice as the world around them turns terrifying and absurd.
Why this is here
Setting labels: English countryside · Britain · Cold War era · 1980s · rural setting · homefront · nuclear wartime
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2450
