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Setting labels used: forest school, remote wilderness, isolated towers, contemporary America, Michigan
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
After an EMP ends civilization, a terminally ill teen must survive the wilderness, the Changed, and unstable human survivors.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Michigan wilderness · post-apocalyptic landscape · remote woods · ranger station · survivalist enclave · fortified town · school-year present day · near-future collapse · apocalyptic Earth · rural isolation
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2031
An amnesiac teen follows clues in his backpack to uncover his identity, and a secret experiment tied to his forgotten past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · school age · anonymous isolated setting · wilderness opening · institution setting · American setting (contested)
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2291
After solar flares plunge half the world into darkness, survivors race a serial killer, rising chaos, and each other.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural wilderness · Michigan Upper Peninsula · small town · global apocalypse · post-collapse world · solar flare aftermath · darkened world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2330
A werewolf monster-hunter leader faces an old enemy and a new supernatural threat in a snowbound Michigan town.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Northern Michigan · small town · remote woods · snowstorm · winter setting · isolated town · upper peninsula · local community · contained location · contemporary setting · urban fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2388
At an elite remote prep school, a missing girl sparks a web of secrets, suspects, and a mystery that turns strange.
Why this is here
Setting labels: remote Utah · forest campus · boarding school · elite school · isolated campus · 1990s · religious school · chapel setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2396
A glacier expedition in a cursed wilderness unravels into vanishing bodies, warped time, and a second investigation.
Why this is here
Setting labels: wilderness · forest · mountain · glacier · Pacific Northwest · western United States · remote wilderness · isolated cabin · academic field site · liminal space · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2452
Two isolated teen boys build a life-changing friendship by letters, despite conditions that make meeting impossible.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · USA · Germany · woods · isolated cabin · high school · school bullying · teen world · cross-continental
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2484
A high school vanishes to an alien moon, forcing students and staff to survive monsters, chaos, and power struggles.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · alien planet · moon · otherworldly wilderness · primordial wilderness · suburban Milwaukee · school building · forest · off-world · apocalyptic isolation
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2528
A teen fugitive finds a supposedly safe town is just another layer of the same deadly experiment.
Why this is here
Setting labels: isolated school · small town · woods · confined setting · experimental facility · controlled community · near-future dystopia · fictional reality · camp
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2548
In a climate-ravaged near future, Indigenous teens flee harvesters who seek their bone marrow to restore dreaming.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · climate-ravaged landscape · North America · Canada · rural Ontario · northern wilderness · woods · camps · schools
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2591
As enemy forces close in, a small Michigan town must choose flight or a desperate final stand to survive.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · rural town · Michigan · upper Michigan · winter · post-apocalyptic world · EMP aftermath · collapsed society · United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2621
A bookish teen in a mountain town wakes changed, craving blood, and must uncover what’s happening before it consumes her.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · mountain town · forest setting · wilderness · Adirondacks · contemporary setting · high school · rural setting · isolated community · natural landscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2631
