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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Weave a Circle Round.
Setting labels used: suburbia, high school, contemporary Canada, British Columbia, neighborhood, alternate history, time travel, mythic reality, house with strange properties, multiple eras
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A boy sneaks into a guest room and wakes into a chain of stranger, scarier realities each time he falls asleep.
Why this is here
Setting labels: suburban home · guest room · middle school · high school · nighttime · alternate realities · parallel universes · reality warp · dreamlike reality · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1861
A retired temporal agent turned costume maker must track a deadly time-travel plague across history to save travelers.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Toronto · near-future · alternate future · alternate history · time travel world · 14th century Mali · 12th century Scotland · pre-Columbian North America · pre-Columbian Maine · ancient history · Canada · future Canada · alternate Earth · dystopian United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2027
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A chaotic teen crew battles aliens and spirits while jealousy, romance, and a cursed house complicate everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · modern day · school setting · haunted house · urban supernatural · alien-infested world · alternate spiritual reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2051
Elegant, intelligent monster dogs arrive in New York and a young woman helps uncover their strange, tragic history.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · near future · contemporary setting · alternate reality · Canada · remote settlement · castle setting · urban intrusion · hidden community · historical past
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2057
A teen with only weeks to live sets out with two unlikely friends to find his missing father in a bizarre knife-raining world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate world · surreal suburbia · school setting · British setting · knife weather · cyclical world · retro technology · domestic uncanny
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2074
A genre-bending short story collection where portals, marriages, and identity crises expose the costs of escape and desire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · small town · domestic sphere · boarding school · space · alternate reality · speculative reality · near future · mythic realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2119
A murdered man wakes up in his childhood body and races through new lives to find the wife he lost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: fictional town · small town · military school · school setting · afterlife · parallel worlds · dimension shifts · multiple timelines · childhood setting · adult life revisited
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2154
A teen who forgets each day but sees the future must navigate love, secrets, and a dark mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · suburban family life · school scenes · home scenes · teen social world · modern day · psychological realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2174
A father and daughter use a mysterious device to cross parallel worlds while shadowy forces hunt them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: California · small town · parallel worlds · multiverse · alternate Earths · contemporary setting · dystopian worlds · familiar-and-bizarre realities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2174
A tomboy hockey player wakes in an alternate life as a cheerleader and must untangle what changed—and why.
Why this is here
Setting labels: California · New Jersey · alternate dimension · alternate universe · past and present · high school · teen world · suburban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2183
A lonely girl finds a mysterious cinema and is drawn into time travel to uncover family truths and face her loss.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · fantasy reality · old cinema · school life · home setting · past and present · memory-space
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2186
In a near-future Victorian empire, a hidden princess’s summer debut leads to love, identity revelations, and tough choices.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate future · Victorian-inspired · Canadian setting · Toronto · Muskoka · British Empire · utopian society · technological monarchy · modern-Victorian blend · colonial alternate history · high society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2187
