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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Making History.
Setting labels used: Cambridge, Princeton, England, Germany, United States, World War II era, World War I era, 1990s, alternate world
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Three Cambridge friends are haunted for decades by a partly forgotten ritual that may have opened a door to the divine.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cambridge · England · 1980s England · 1990s England · university years · middle age · Europe · Eastern Europe · pre-war Europe · alternate Europe · contemporary realism · liminal reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1650
A surgeon’s quest to confront his father’s killer collides with a Europe-wide murder conspiracy and a hidden apocalyptic plot.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Europe · Paris · London · Germany · Switzerland · international · mid-1990s · postwar references · World War II references · United States · global
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1651
A WWII B-17 crew is swept into a ruined future world, where survival, duty, and fate collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War II Europe · Germany · England · post-apocalyptic future · alternate reality · dystopian future · war-torn world · air war · European theater
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1725
During WWII, an alien invasion forces bitter enemies on Earth into an uneasy global war of survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War II · 1941 · 1942 · global setting · Europe · United States · Soviet Union · China · Britain · wartime Earth · alternate history world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1818
In an alternate WWII, a British spy faces Nazi super-soldiers and turns to forbidden warlocks to fight back.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1939 · 1940 · 1941 · World War II · alternate history · wartime Europe · Britain · England · Germany · Spain · historical reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1878
In WWII Europe, an American soldier’s strange link to rocket strikes pulls him into a paranoid, sprawling web.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War II · postwar Europe · London · Germany · The Zone · wartime Europe · occupied Europe · 20th century
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1891
A man who relives his life after every death must uncover a time-linked conspiracy before history unravels.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 20th century · early 1900s · historical periods · England · Britain · Russia · United States · global travel · world history · alternate timeline · same starting point
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1928
Six near-omnipotent people must keep their uneasy balance or risk ending the world in an alternate-history Cold War.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1999 · 1940s to 1990s · Cold War era · alternate history · Earth · post-World War II · atomic age · world politics · geopolitical setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1933
A fugitive prince and a disguised airman cross paths in an alternate World War I where machines battle engineered beasts.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War I era · 1914 · alternate Europe · Austro-Hungarian Empire · Britain · global journey · airships · battlefields · fictionalized history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2008
A flashback-heavy installment uncovers the hidden origins of The Boys and the supers, while tensions race toward war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history · World War II · post-war era · contemporary period · United States · military setting · spy world · corporate America · superhuman reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2016
Two estranged sisters are pulled back together by old war stories, a made-up ghost, and a very real ghostly horse.
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Setting labels: contemporary Britain · First World War · Second World War · present day · wartime history · realist setting · near-present political climate · urban apartment
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2019
In an alternate 1914, a divided America enters World War I on opposite sides, and ordinary lives are swept into war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history · 1914 · World War I era · North America · Europe · United States · Confederate States · Canada · trench warfare · home front
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2031
