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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Taste of Marrow.
Setting labels used: Louisiana marshlands, Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, alternate history America, late 1800s, lawless frontier, hippo-infested marshlands, riverboat setting, western setting, hippocentric world
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In an alternate Louisiana ruled by hippos, a ragtag crew takes on a government mission with revenge in mind.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Louisiana · Mississippi Delta · bayou · marshland · swamp · southern waterways · late 19th century · 1890s · alternate America · alternate South · riverboat setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1470
A streetwise teen in alternate New Orleans bargains for an airship berth, then gets swept into a race to stop a deadly weapon.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate New Orleans · post-Civil War America · neutral city-state · late 1800s · storm-walled city · airship port · alt-history America · Caribbean-linked world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2359
A boy returns home to apprentice as a blacksmith while learning to master his maker's power in an alternate America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history America · late 18th century · early 19th century · frontier · American South · town setting · historical fantasy · folk magic world · alternative colonial America · rural America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2446
A gifted Maker is sent to plague-stricken New Orleans, where he helps lead refugees toward a vision of freedom and a city of crystal.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history · frontier America · 1820s · New Orleans · Spanish occupation · Mississippi River · Mexica civilization · Mexico City · westward expansion
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2660
A vet and a border agent uncover mutated animals, a buried bioweapon project, and a threat that could remake humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Louisiana · New Orleans · Louisiana bayou · swamp setting · Caribbean islands · Iraq · Baghdad · post-war setting · post-hurricane setting · barrier island · research facility · zoo · isolated island
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2767
On a river voyage to the sea, Dag and Fawn gather an unlikely crew while trying to bridge a deep cultural divide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: river journey · flatboat travel · frontier setting · alternate world · American Midwest flavor · Mississippi-like river · Great Rivers · riverboat world · pastoral fantasy · settler frontier · nonmedieval fantasy · small-scale world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2784
A young Black woman is repeatedly pulled from 1970s California into slavery-era Maryland to keep her ancestor alive.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s California · antebellum Maryland · pre-Civil War South · plantation setting · 19th century South · American slavery era · dual-era setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2970
A modern woman falls through a bloodstone into 1600s Virginia, where survival and forbidden love collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: colonial America · Virginia · Jamestown · 1600s · early 17th century · Powhatan territory · Tsenacomoco · Native American settlement · English settlement · historical past · time slip setting · precolonial contact
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3029
An amnesiac man in French-ruled London follows a century-old postcard into a time-bending search for his true past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history · French-occupied London · French colony · 19th century · turn of the century · early 1900s · historical Britain · Scotland · lighthouse setting · naval setting · ships · sea travel · war setting · Outer Hebrides · Edinburgh · coastal setting · austere colonial world · gothic atmosphere
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3036
An ordinary man races through an alien invasion to find his wife, survive Earth’s fall, and maybe save everyone.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth under invasion · post-apocalyptic · Southern setting · Louisiana setting · bayou setting · crumbling civilization · intergalactic war · fantasy-on-Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3042
A haunted former Union soldier rides the post-Civil War West, following visions into monsters, other worlds, and hard-won peace.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1880s · post-Civil War · American West · frontier · American West landscape · deserts · canyons · caves · plains · grasslands · territorial West · rebuilding nation · borderland reality · hidden worlds · alternate dimensions · otherworldly frontier · historical fantasy setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3054
In an alternate America ruled by algorithms, a young Black woman assigned to power confronts love, control, and escape.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate United States · near-future America · Texas · Louisiana · dystopian society · militarized state · white supremacist regime · post-civil-war future · historical slavery · 1800s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3060
