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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Mind of My Mind.
Setting labels used: 1970s California, contemporary setting, secret society, human society, psychic society
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A self-divided writer chases a pink-light revelation into Gnostic theology, madness, and the meaning of reality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s California · Northern California · contemporary world · mythic reality · historical layering · psychiatric setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1374
In 1970s America, a strange women-only illness drives some to vanish west, while three women chase, flee, and uncover the truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s America · 1970s United States · Pacific coast · historical alternate world · real world setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1992
A recovering writer in 1970s San Francisco is drawn into an occult mystery linking a forbidden book, a journal, and the city itself.
Why this is here
Setting labels: San Francisco · 1970s · modern city · urban realism · apartment building · hills and landmarks · occult cityscape · contemporary American city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2237
A punk rocker and a stuntwoman in different eras face hidden creatures, violent angels, and a world-scrambling conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s New York City · 2013 Los Angeles · punk scene · Hollywood · urban setting · sewers · subways · contemporary setting · cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2407
After a deadly accident, Erin discovers a hidden immortal gene and is dragged into a war for her life and loyalty.
Why this is here
Setting labels: urban setting · contemporary setting · secret world · hidden society · near-present day · supernatural reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2410
A down-on-his-luck LA detective who’s actually a disguised velociraptor is pulled into a fiery case with deadly secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Los Angeles · New York · contemporary · secret society · hidden world · human society · nightclub · noir cityscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2422
A grieving woman narrates an erudite bishop’s spiritual quest, as faith, death, and reality collide in late-1960s Berkeley.
Why this is here
Setting labels: late 1960s · Berkeley · California · real-world setting · post-hippie era
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2432
A forgotten teen and a trained assassin discover they can see each other—and the secret keeping them apart.
Why this is here
Setting labels: present day · alternative reality · secret society world · hidden-people system · energy-based reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2465
A cynical New York detective stumbles into a sprawling, hallucinatory conspiracy that may link secret societies, sex, and power.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York · 1970s · counterculture · contemporary world · across time and space
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2466
A half-demon monster hunter leads a new team against an ancient evil in disco-era Los Angeles.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s · 1970s Los Angeles · Los Angeles Basin · California · urban setting · nightclubs · Hollywood
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2508
A Black woman is pulled between 1970s California and slave-era Maryland, forced to preserve her own future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s California · Antebellum South · Maryland · plantation · slave quarters · historical setting · American South
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2510
A fragmented, satirical collage of druggy visions, social critique, and grotesque shocks in Burroughs’s signature style.
Why this is here
Setting labels: American society · 1960s America · urban underbelly · surreal reality · science-fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2526
