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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley.
Setting labels used: 1916-2016, WWI era, WWII era, early 20th century, present day, Canada, North America, Europe, Berlin, Vancouver
Focused on “2016 California” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A forbidden wartime love story follows a Jewish violinist and a bookshop owner across prewar Germany and postwar absence.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Germany · Berlin · London · Paris · Vienna · United States · prewar Europe · postwar Europe · World War II era · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1837
A grief-stricken ex-soldier is sent to 1914 to stop a pivotal assassination and avert a century of war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1914 Europe · prewar Europe · Sarajevo · Berlin · Vienna · Constantinople · Cambridge · 2024 · first world war era · early 20th century
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1852
A woman chasing her missing father is pulled into a dual-timeline mystery linking Wikipedia edits, Vienna academics, and time travel.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 2016 California · San Francisco Bay Area · Berkeley · 1930s Vienna · pre-WWII Europe · interwar period · academic setting · university setting · off-grid domestic life · boat dwelling
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2339
A divorced history teacher is pulled into time-travel missions to save lives—and maybe find her own ending.
Why this is here
Setting labels: present day · Sheffield · London · World War II · Blitz · Edwardian England · 1920s · 1870s · American West · old American West · historical time slip
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2060
In an alternate WWII, a British spy faces Nazi super-soldiers and turns to forbidden warlocks to fight back.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1939 · 1940 · 1941 · World War II · alternate history · wartime Europe · Britain · England · Germany · Spain · historical reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2084
In an alternate 1914, a divided America enters World War I on opposite sides, and ordinary lives are swept into war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history · 1914 · World War I era · North America · Europe · United States · Confederate States · Canada · trench warfare · home front
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2190
A fugitive prince and a disguised airman cross paths in an alternate World War I where machines battle engineered beasts.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War I era · 1914 · alternate Europe · Austro-Hungarian Empire · Britain · global journey · airships · battlefields · fictionalized history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2198
In WWII Europe, an American soldier’s strange link to rocket strikes pulls him into a paranoid, sprawling web.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War II · postwar Europe · London · Germany · The Zone · wartime Europe · occupied Europe · 20th century
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2201
A man who relives his life after every death must uncover a time-linked conspiracy before history unravels.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 20th century · early 1900s · historical periods · England · Britain · Russia · United States · global travel · world history · alternate timeline · same starting point
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2211
A dying doctor’s life unfolds backward, exposing a reversed world whose logic turns Holocaust horror inside out.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York · Auschwitz · Europe · Portugal · Italy · Germany · Poland · prewar Europe · World War II · postwar United States · 20th century · America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2218
During WWII, an alien invasion forces bitter enemies on Earth into an uneasy global war of survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War II · 1941 · 1942 · global setting · Europe · United States · Soviet Union · China · Britain · wartime Earth · alternate history world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2236
In an alternate 1916, a Black Chamber spy poses as a revolutionary to stop a German superweapon from striking America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1916 · World War I · alternate timeline · Europe · Germany · United States · transatlantic travel · airship travel · German countryside · Boston · alternate America · steampunk-tinged world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2274
