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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for العرين. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: quest for knowledge, forbidden knowledge, supernatural mystery, occult encounter, coming-of-age
Setting labels used: village, supernatural world, world of الجن, world of الشياطين, mawra'iyat
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
A truth-seeking investigator returns to a frontier city to unravel wizard secrets, hidden technology, and a larger world mystery.
Why this is here
Premise labels: knowledge quest · truth-seeking · wizard conflict · investigation · mystery puzzle · power and secrecy · discovery
Setting labels: preindustrial world · medieval-like world · city setting · small communities · outskirts · wizards' world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2481
A curious teen in a walled village uncovers a hidden world, a dangerous truth, and a path toward escape.
Why this is here
Premise labels: hidden world · forbidden knowledge · escape quest · truth seeking · secret society · conspiracy
Setting labels: isolated village · forbidden forest · walled community · fantasy world · dystopian society · imaginary place · young adult secondary world · harsh rural setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2496
A girl from the Dust and a boy trapped in a vast library uncover secrets that bend time, knowledge, and identity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: bookish quest · library mystery · dual protagonists · crossing paths · knowledge power · truth and lies · coming of age · time-crossing
Setting labels: vast library · library city · desert outpost · dust wasteland · ancient library · war-torn city · time-disrupted world · multiple worlds
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2511
A final trilogy installment blends history, quantum ideas, and parallel selves as one man races to uncover his truth.
Why this is here
Premise labels: search for truth · identity quest · parallel worlds · time travel · historical mystery · hidden knowledge · science and history · good versus evil · double self · destiny
Setting labels: contemporary · past and present · past and future · Mamluk Egypt · medieval Islamic world · Saudi Arabia · Cairo · Jeddah · Riyadh · Tunis · Bukhara · Samarkand · Baghdad · Damascus · Alamut · America · parallel worlds
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2515
A Moscow magician-detective investigates impossible supernatural threats as Light, Dark, and Inquisition factions collide.
Why this is here
Premise labels: secret societies · supernatural truce · forbidden transformation · power balance · moral ambiguity · detective mystery
Setting labels: modern Russia · Moscow · Russian countryside · post-Soviet Russia · alternate supernatural world · parallel twilight realm
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2533
A bored young exile must survive a rule-bound wanderjahr and learn magic in a world split between Order and Chaos.
Why this is here
Premise labels: coming-of-age quest · exile quest · self-discovery · magic training · order vs chaos · misfit protagonist · wandering journey
Setting labels: fantasy world · isolated island society · ordered society · outside world · medieval fantasy world · high-concept world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2541
Adult Lyra and her daemon are torn apart by doubt, then drawn into a dangerous international quest.
Why this is here
Premise labels: adult coming-of-age · daemon estrangement · search quest · mystery hunt · political intrigue · spycraft · philosophical conflict · imagination vs reason
Setting labels: Oxford · Europe · Asia · alternate world · parallel worlds · fantasy world · college setting · Middle East
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2600
A scholar’s investigation into strange documents uncovers an ancient cosmic entity, a cult, and a dread beyond reason.
Why this is here
Premise labels: cosmic horror · ancient entity · forbidden knowledge · investigation · occult mystery · mythos · dream contact · eldritch threat
Setting labels: ocean depths · submerged city · ancient ruins · swamp · global locations · fictional cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2610
A truth-bound scholar follows mysterious jewels into a world where knowledge is power and magic may be science in disguise.
Why this is here
Premise labels: knowledge quest · mystery investigation · truth exchange · hidden technology · search for origin
Setting labels: fantasy world · medieval-ish · colonized world · feudal society · traveling across lands · roads and inns · outer lands · high technology disguised as magic
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2614
A war-weary warden questions his people’s beliefs and plunges into demon lore to uncover a truth that could shatter his world.
Why this is here
Premise labels: demon war · demon possession · search for truth · moral doubt · identity crisis · wholeness · quest
Setting labels: secondary world · demon realm · human realm · war-torn kingdom · postwar aftermath · fantasy world · spirit world · desert
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2619
An insomniac man discovers killing brings sleep, until a supernatural secret pulls his crimes into a stranger world.
Why this is here
Premise labels: insomnia cure · sleep through killing · serial killer protagonist · curse · demonic or jinn intervention · hidden supernatural cause · psychological breakdown
Setting labels: supernatural reality · world of jinn · parallel world · home setting · mythic setting · Arabic folklore
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2629
On the run after a betrayal, a woman with aura-reading powers lands in a village where ancient rites and darker forces await.
Why this is here
Premise labels: fugitive · aura reading · supernatural abilities · government pursuit · small village danger · ancient ritual · hidden powers · trouble magnet
Setting labels: small village · rural England · present day · hidden supernatural world · alternate realities · ancient ritual setting · country village
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2646
