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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The List.
Setting labels used: Chicago, United States, North America, lab setting, political setting
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A kidnapped physics professor wakes in a different life and must fight to return to the family he knows.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · small college · urban · contemporary · alternate realities · multiverse · lab setting · warehouse setting
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2052
An 18-year-old in superhero Chicago gains powers in a bombing and must choose between normal life and caped duty.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · university setting · contemporary world · alternate Earth · post-Event world · superhero society
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2282
A man with an intellectual disability undergoes an experiment that transforms his mind, then forces him to face the cost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: laboratory · school · workplace · United States
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2317
A brilliant autistic inventor’s sound-recreating device draws government and criminal forces into a deadly chase.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · government facility · institutional setting · secret research setting · urban chase · United States
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2362
Teen genius Riri Williams juggles MIT, Chicago, and superhero duty while confronting trauma and rising threats.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · MIT · Marvel Universe · street level · academy setting · garage workshop · lab setting · upstate New York · hostage crisis setting
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2409
A hidden Bengal Breed returns to claim the mate he left behind, while vengeance, secrets, and old wounds collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: lab setting · experimental facility · sanctuary · desert setting · Native American setting · urban fantasy world · contemporary setting
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2439
A snarky winged teen and her flock race to stop a corporation’s plan to remake humanity and cut the population in half.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · global travel · United States · Europe · Germany · Hawaii · Los Angeles · school lab setting · corporate headquarters · modern times
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2481
A depressed bisexual statistician is pulled into a mystery linking a deadly global catastrophe to an impossibly lucky casino.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Las Vegas · Chicago · United States · global catastrophe · casino setting · academic setting · contemporary setting · post-disaster world
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2509
When the Moon becomes cheese, a rotating cast of people across America faces humor, panic, and fallout over one lunar cycle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · United States · global · modern world · science and government settings · media culture
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2568
A professor loses his physicist lover to a strange, selective void created in a campus lab.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university campus · physics laboratory · academic environment · California · contemporary setting
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2586
A Chicago artist wakes in a different life with another set of memories and must uncover why reality has shifted.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · Michigan · small town · suburbs · art gallery · birthday party · contemporary setting · workplace tech startup
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2626
A wolf-breed alpha kidnaps his believed-unfaithful mate, forcing them to confront betrayal, desire, and a mad scientist.
Why this is here
Setting labels: lab setting · scientific facility · experimental reality · wolf-pack world · human-and-breed world
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2629
