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Setting labels used: contemporary, Europe, United States, metro stations, city travel, global travel, urban, modern world, international locales, crowded transit
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A broke former singer is pulled into a hunt for a secret clothing brand, where fashion, power, and espionage collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary world · near future · London · Paris · New York · Iceland · Europe · global travel · fashion world · marketing world · corporate world · military-industrial world · present-day tech · globalized present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1718
In a secret gameshouse, a veteran player challenges the master in a world-spanning chess contest with everything at stake.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern day · global setting · worldwide · New York City · Venice · Bangkok · travel across continents · international · contemporary world · alternate hidden society · offstage geopolitics
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1849
A dark prequel-sequel reveals the Ronin’s lost years while introducing the next generation of turtles.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Japan · Asia · Europe · global travel · post-apocalyptic · future timeline · present timeline · alternate continuity · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1885
A detective probes a murder in one city and a forbidden neighboring city occupying the same space, where seeing itself is a crime.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · Eastern Europe · fictive city · twin cities · overlapping geography · shared streets · shared borders · urban sprawl · decaying city · prosperous city · alternate present · present day · borderland
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1932
New York’s living avatars must unite other cities to stop a multiversal threat and a very human political takeover.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · modern day · contemporary urban setting · global cities · multiverse · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1998
A former NYC mayor and allies race to stop a secretive mastermind using underground monsters to blackmail the world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · subway tunnels · under the Hudson River · London · Paris · switzerland · worldwide · underground · post-WWII backstory · modern day · international locations
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2058
Bethany Anne and her growing team push Earth’s war toward space while settling old scores and expanding their power.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary Earth · global travel · space transition · moon base · urban fantasy world · present day · Earth defense · international locations
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2078
A global craze for camera-eyed toy pets links strangers in invasive, unsettling ways, exposing loneliness and hidden impulses.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · global setting · homes · international locations · digital reality · contemporary world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2095
A suddenly growing Central Park volcano links a global cast through disaster, transformation, and shifting realities.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Central Park · Manhattan · Jersey City · Mexico City · Tokyo · Greece · Kunduz · Afghanistan · Mongolia · Hawai'i · Alaska · alternate reality · contemporary world · global setting · 2016
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2122
A woman everyone forgets becomes a thief and gets pulled into a battle against a manipulative self-optimization app.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · global · international · urban · digital society · technologically mediated world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2127
A young woman begins leaping through her own life out of order each New Year’s, forced to navigate love, memory, and fate.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Brooklyn · London · 1980s · 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · contemporary · decade shifts · urban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2128
A chef in a fractured near-future Europe gets pulled into a shadowy courier-spy network and a widening conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-EU Europe · balkanized Europe · microstates · borderlands · Eastern Europe · Kraków · Berlin · transcontinental railway
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2139
