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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The World We Make.
Setting labels used: New York City, modern day, contemporary urban setting, global cities, multiverse, alternate reality
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A journalist chasing a serial killer across nearly identical realities gets pulled into the multiverse herself.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · subway · open house · parallel universes · alternate realities · multiverse · slightly altered worlds
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0827
A homeless man in New York follows messages from soda cans on a strange mission, then meets a trans runaway who changes everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · contemporary urban · real-world setting · street-level life · marginalized city life · Earthbound speculative
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0855
A homeless Black queer artist in New York is chosen to help the city be born and defend it from ancient threats.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · modern day · urban setting · street-level reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0913
A rogue internet intelligence and a Holmes-like detective collide in a grotesque, occult-laced mystery in modern New York.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern New York · internet age · contemporary setting · urban setting · occult reality · technological uncanny · global system
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0948
Two strangers receive a 24-hour death warning and use a friend-finding app to spend their final day together.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · alternate world · New York · urban setting · speculative reality · technology-mediated
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1011
A superhero-turned-mayor navigates city crises, hidden pasts, and a city full of secrets in alternate New York.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern-day real world · alternate New York City · post-9/11 · early 2000s · urban setting · alternate history · city politics
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1053
A retired superhero turned New York mayor navigates politics, mystery, and the fallout of post-9/11 America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · modern-day world · post-9/11 · early 2000s · alternate reality · contemporary America · urban political setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1055
An airship crew from many parallel worlds arrives in Manhattan to study a famous building—and meets its inhabitants.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · Flatiron Building · parallel worlds · multiverse · alternate timelines · cross-dimensional setting · our world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1071
A fangirl teen becomes the newest elemental hero and must battle monsters, fame, and a secretive conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate Earth · global setting · New York City · major cities · international travel · urban fantasy world · world under attack
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1076
A bombed magazine, a missing editor, and a labyrinth of conspiracies pull a detective into a reality-bending investigation.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York · global · alternate reality · space and time shifts · counterculture era · America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1106
A disgraced physicist is thrust into a bizarre multiverse quest after an inheritance unlocks reality-bending secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · multiverse · parallel realities · urban setting · scientific setting · hotel setting · alternate worlds · near-future science
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1170
Five New Yorkers must unite as living embodiments of their city to protect New York from an ancient, interdimensional enemy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · contemporary setting · real-world setting · urban setting · borough-based · multi-dimensional · multiverse · alternate reality · modern-day New York · city-as-character
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1192
