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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 “near future” 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 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
A scientist races to stop a deadly virus by mutating it into compassion—until kindness becomes its own danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · global setting · China · United Kingdom · research laboratory · political sphere
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2689
A grieving scientist tests a limited time-travel device that only observes her past, until reality begins to shift.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · corporate research setting · tech company setting · time travel lab · domestic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2701
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 shattered teen resistance fights a brain-hacking enemy in a high-tech war over free will and sanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate present · near future · multiple cities · Washington, DC · New York City · Chicago · Japan · microscopic level · macro and micro worlds · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2721
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 dispatcher in a world where murder rarely sticks gets pulled into a deadly conspiracy that makes him a suspect.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · alternate earth · near future · present day · what-if world · global phenomenon · corporate world · urban crime setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2766
A near-future U.S. crisis after a presidential death pulls politics, AI, and biotech into a race over humanity’s next stage.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · Washington, D.C. · Amazon rainforest · jungle laboratory · post-nuclear war · post-civil war tension · near future · 2054 · global geopolitical setting · urban political setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2779
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
