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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Monarch.
Setting labels used: 1990s, late 20th century, United States, Midwest, Iowa, university setting, Norway, desert facility, deep state underworld, government bureaucracy, beauty pageant circuit, college campus, midwestern gothic
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A death-haunted professor and his blended family face a toxic disaster in a darkly comic, media-saturated world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Midwestern college town · campus setting · supermarket setting · suburban setting · 1980s America · small town · domestic setting · media-saturated world · toxic disaster zone · contemporary reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2717
A shy office worker survives a zombie outbreak and journeys through a hellish Midwest with a hardened veteran guide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Midwest USA · Des Moines · Iowa countryside · farmstead · office setting · post-apocalyptic world · zombie-infested world · collapsed society · hell allegory · nine circles
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2818
A punished teen from a surveilled future is exiled to 1950s Wisconsin, where identity, love, and reality blur.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future America · North American States · 1950s Wisconsin · university setting · campus setting · small college town · post-9/11 future · Cold War era · dystopian society · alternate America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2824
A horny, confused teen in small-town Iowa records the apocalypse as giant praying mantises overrun the world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small-town Iowa · modern day · 2013 era · rural America · small town · bunker · underground shelter · post-apocalyptic future · American Midwest
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2869
A lonely young woman adopts a sentient blob and tries to shape it into the ideal boyfriend, with unsettling results.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Midwestern college town · modern day · hotel setting · bar alley · drag show · urban contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2869
A first-person barrage of absurd, hyper-referential vignettes where plot yields to wordplay, satire, and manic invention.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · 1990s culture · American setting · media-saturated world · cyberpunk world · futuristic world · alternate reality · semi-scientific reality · dystopian future · urban America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2961
A small-town Iowa deputy and a CIA analyst uncover a bioweapon plot tangled in government bureaucracy during the Gulf War.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Midwest · Iowa · Washington, DC · Gulf War era · First Gulf War · 1990s · university town · college town · government offices · Middle East · US home front · America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3000
A doctor-to-be and his friends race to stop a strange virus that turns people into something not quite human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · college town · hospital setting · American town · global outbreak · late 1990s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3064
A secret agent uncovers a slug-like alien mind-control invasion spreading through Iowa and the U.S. government.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Iowa · United States · Cold War era future · 2007 future · post nuclear war future · rural town · secret government · spacefaring future · Titan
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3094
A chronological anthology of Lovecraft Mythos tales by Lovecraft and later writers, tracing cosmic horror across decades.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New England · academic setting · small town · cosmic horror world · 20th century · future setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3106
Joe Ledger races to stop a cyberterrorist from unleashing stolen bioweapons and resurrecting America’s worst nightmares.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · American heartland · contemporary · secret facility · government black ops · near-present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3107
A sheltered teen with psychic gifts uncovers her mother’s supernatural secret and a hidden war threatening her city.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Minneapolis · Twin Cities · urban setting · contemporary setting · underworld · alternate supernatural reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3111
