Find similar books by
Combine common axes
These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Toynbee Convector.
Setting labels used: Dublin, Los Angeles, Mars, Green Town, train, old manor house, graveyard, attic, bar, funeral, ordinary places, fictionalized Americana, speculative future, ghostly reality
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An ex-convict inherits a strange house and uncovers a layered web of magic, identity shifts, and hidden truths.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · American Midwest · small town · motel · abandoned house · old mansion · haunted house · ordinary town with supernatural intrusions · border between reality and faerie · modern-day magical reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2252
A near-future arcology in Los Angeles becomes a battleground over safety, privacy, power, and who gets to belong.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Los Angeles · near-future · urban future · arcology · enclosed city · corporate enclave · blighted city · post-fire landscape · near-future America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2314
A time-jumping occult spy story follows rival agents, secret experiments, and twin sisters through a cosmic crisis.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New England · Dublin · Maine · Mars · post-apocalyptic future · climate-changed future · world-spanning · secret world · oceanic horror · urban setting · near-future · far future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2331
A mixed-genre Bradbury story collection where robots, memory, Mars, and literary ghosts probe love, loss, and being human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Mars · small town America · Irish countryside · future · alternate history · liminal reality · everyday world with uncanny elements
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2333
A math-genius mercenary fights LA crime while her fractured memories, mind-control fallout, and allies push her toward collapse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Los Angeles · near future · contemporary world · city crime scene · urban setting · speculative reality · telepathy present · psychic powers present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2370
An amnesiac’s nightly disappearances pull two private investigators into a dark, supernatural case with a deadly family secret.
Why this is here
Setting labels: California · Los Angeles · urban setting · 1990s · contemporary setting · multilocational travel · otherworldly places · dark fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2400
A posthumous collection of unpublished Vonnegut short fiction, one essay, and an unfinished sci-fi fragment.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · urban life · suburbia · train journey · theater world · office setting · small town · science fiction future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2421
A grief-stricken reporter chases a possible plane-crash survivor into a conspiracy involving science, power, and secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Los Angeles · Colorado · graveyard · beach · research lab · shadow organization · contemporary setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2458
A newly dead bookshop owner boards a magical train to relive key moments of his life and face old regrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: afterlife · liminal space · train journey · train station · Venice · England · ghost world · midnight · life after death · past and present · nostalgic setting · magical reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2495
Kicked out of the Academy, Klaus drifts into Hollywood and a drug-fueled afterlife-adjacent mess of ghosts, vampires, and fame.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Hollywood · old Hollywood · subway underworld · afterlife · purgatory · limbo · urban fantasy · alternate reality · prequel timeline
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2511
A man inherits a haunted Massachusetts estate and uncovers a family legacy tied to occult forces and a forbidden threshold.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New England · Massachusetts · Arkham · Dunwich · rural estate · haunted house · forest · woods · old mansion · fictional town · cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2562
A handyman’s ordinary life fractures when strange dreams and a reality-bending mystery reconnect him to superheroes and zombies.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Los Angeles · LA area · local college · university campus · post apocalyptic world · zombie-free world · alternate reality · dream reality · fictionalized present day · safe haven
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2565
