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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
Focused on “California” 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 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
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2282
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2586
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
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
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
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
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2481
An FBI agent hunts a brutal killer and uncovers a GM-crop conspiracy that may hide an alien threat to humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · global setting · United States · California · Washington DC · Norway · research lab · seed vault · FBI milieu · government milieu · corporate milieu · military milieu
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2794
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
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2568
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2626
