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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands.
Setting labels used: Vermont, Burlington, rural Vermont, nuclear town, post-disaster aftermath, contamination zone, homeless street life, evacuation site, contemporary setting
Focused on “wasteland” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A skeptical professor follows letters and reports of strange Vermont sightings into a hidden alien mystery with cosmic stakes.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Vermont · Arkham · Miskatonic University · New England · isolated farmhouse · flood aftermath · cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2108
After a man-made supervirus collapses society, a U.S. marshal fights to protect a survivor town from violent chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · rural town · wasteland · collapsed government · pandemic aftermath · survivalist cabin · lawless frontier · small-town survival · post-collapse civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2447
A queer teen survives a Los Angeles apocalypse and sets out on a myth-inflected quest to find her missing family.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Los Angeles · Southern California · modern day · wasteland · flooded city · surreal landscape · earthquake aftermath · tsunami aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2449
A former librarian becomes a post-apocalyptic nomadic warrior and faces rivals, raiders, and absurd survival in the wasteland.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · wasteland · small town · rural survival · collapsed society · post-collapse communities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2453
A quarantined Iowa town unravels as one stoned, angry resident starts probing a deadly conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Iowa · small town · quarantine camp · containment zone · isolated community · post-disaster setting · contaminated environment · military-controlled zone · corporate-controlled zone
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2187
A pregnant nurse infected by a combustible plague fights to survive a collapsing world with help from a mysterious Fireman.
Why this is here
Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New Hampshire · New England · hospital setting · camp setting · collapsed civilization · small town · post-pandemic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2209
A girl searching for a cure and answers crosses a ruined America while a parallel fight for survival unfolds back home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · Manhattan · Long Island · Chicago · Denver · wasteland · ruins · toxic landscape · flooded city · deserted city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2516
After a supervolcano, Alex and Darla race to build a defendable community before winter, war, and human cruelty finish them off.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-Yellowstone eruption · ash winter · Midwest · Illinois · rural farm · small town · collapsed society · post-apocalyptic America · winter survival · war zone
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2236
In a collapsed America, a prepper father and his allies hunt kidnappers to save his daughter.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic United States · mountains of Virginia · rural Virginia · Appalachian setting · compound setting · mountaintop redoubt · former mine complex · after a terrorist attack · recent collapse · near future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2240
In a shattered future New York, a teen races through a brutal wasteland to rescue her kidnapped sister from death arenas.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York · Manhattan · Catskill Mountains · post-apocalyptic America · nuclear war aftermath · dystopian future · wilderness survival · ruined urban landscape · civil war aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2245
After a mass disappearance upends a suburban town, the survivors struggle with grief, cults, and unfinished lives.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · suburban setting · contemporary America · post-disaster world · post-rapture world · apocalyptic aftermath · fictional town · worldwide event
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2260
A post-apocalyptic teen must choose between enclave privilege and loyalty to his family in a harsh new class system.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · Tennessee · Pennsylvania (origin) · grub town · enclave · shantytown · safe town · future society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2273
