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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for When the English Fall.
Setting labels used: Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Amish community, farmstead, rural setting, post-collapse America, current times, near future, apocalyptic setting, isolated community
Focused on “civil war setting” 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 sleepwalking epidemic pulls a girl, her sister, and a growing cross-country flock into a mysterious, collapsing America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Pennsylvania · across America · United States · post-apocalyptic · apocalyptic · present-day America · near-future America · collapsing society · shattered world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1532
In a Maine farm community after technology stops working, a writer’s past returns in a strange nuclear-powered vehicle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Maine · coastal Maine · peninsula community · post-collapse America · near future · small fictional town · fragmented United States · post-technological world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2104
A teenage girl’s diary tracks her family’s struggle to survive after a moon-shifting disaster upends Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Pennsylvania · small town · post-apocalyptic Earth · domestic confinement · single-household survival
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2123
A prison-executed serial killer becomes the spark for a fast-moving zombie outbreak in rural Pennsylvania.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Pennsylvania · small town · county setting · mortuary · prison · funeral home · stormbound setting · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2142
A teen science nerd and his prankster brother fake an alien invasion, and their small-town lie spirals wildly out of control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Pennsylvania · family farm · high school · contemporary setting · real-world setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2273
Two lifelong friends leave a Maine hunting trip to find a shattered world and a dangerous road home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Maine · wilderness · fall · near-future · civil war setting · post-collapse · North Central Maine
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2647
After an EMP attack wipes out electronics, a North Carolina town struggles to survive the sudden collapse of modern life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · North Carolina · contemporary America · post-apocalyptic · societal collapse · rural community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2371
A prepper group rides out a U.S. collapse from a fortified Idaho retreat, mixing survival tactics with political conflict.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · Midwest · northern Idaho · rural retreat · farmhouse · post-collapse America · early 2000s · dystopian America · civil war setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2704
In post-nuclear America, a curious boy and his cousin leave a repressive village to seek a rumored haven of forbidden knowledge.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · post-nuclear future · small towns · agrarian society · religious theocracy · forbidden cities · rural America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2405
A hard-trained teen guards her family’s water source in a dry, violent world, then must survive when her life changes.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near-future · rural Ohio · isolated farmhouse · wilderness · resource-scarce society · city vs countryside
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2438
In a fly-ravaged near future, three survivors follow separate quests that may reveal how to save what remains.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · rural New England · New England woods · small-town isolation · farmhouse setting · abandoned cinema · movie theatre setting · post-pandemic world · science-fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2443
In near-future East Tennessee, an exiled man returns home as family feuds, collapse, and an EMP push a small town toward war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Tennessee · Appalachia · East Tennessee · small town · rural community · farm setting · holler · post-collapse America · lawless country · grid failure
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2485
