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Setting labels used: New York City, Brooklyn, Prospect Park, urban contemporary, library setting, psychiatry setting, single-parent household, hospital, daycare, public transit, pandemic-adjacent
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An off-grid fixer gets drawn into a deadly inheritance mystery and a separate theft case involving sick children.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York · urban setting · Greenwich Village · AIDS clinic · family house · inherited mansion · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2216
During a rabies-like outbreak in Massachusetts, a pregnant woman and her doctor friend race through quarantine to reach care.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Massachusetts · New England · hospital setting · quarantine setting · curfew setting · urban/suburban survival · post apocalyptic landscape · pandemic setting · contemporary setting · United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2295
A psychiatrist records sessions with a patient who claims to be an alien from K-PAX, and the truth stays uncertain.
Why this is here
Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · New York City · Manhattan · contemporary setting · outer space · alien world · utopian planet · single-site setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2356
A 40-year-old woman wakes up in her 16-year-old body and gets a chance to revisit her life and her dying father.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · Brooklyn · 1990s · 1996 · contemporary · private school · hospital · childhood home · urban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2358
A young psychologist is assigned to a rare psychiatric case, and the patient and hospital secrets quickly entangle them both.
Why this is here
Setting labels: hospital setting · psych ward · single-location setting · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2440
As a virus turns New York into a zombie outbreak, Cassie and her friends flee for survival, safety, and second chances.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Brooklyn · rural cabin · upstate New York · post-apocalyptic world · present-day contemporary · woodlands · safe zone
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2546
A U.S. Army platoon is recalled to Manhattan to contain a rabies-like plague and fight their way toward a possible cure.
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Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · United States · wartime homefront · apocalypse · pandemic outbreak · urban collapse · hospital setting · research facility · Iraq · Middle East · military base
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2569
A NYC medical examiner investigates a sudden death tied to transplantation, gene editing, and a feared outbreak.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · subway · hospital · medical examiner's office · transplant medicine · biotech lab · contemporary · pandemic scare · organ market
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2644
A dispatcher is pulled into a Chicago web of billionaires, crypto, and murder when a friend lands in the ER.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate present · near future · Chicago · hospital setting · emergency room · critical care unit · post-pandemic · speculative reality · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2649
When New York's buildings begin shifting nightly, emergency workers, missing loved ones, and a city in crisis must adapt fast.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · near future · urban disaster · contemporary setting · alternate reality · surreal city · emergency services · climate-stressed world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2665
A survivor joins a Manhattan cleanup crew after a zombie plague, navigating trauma, bureaucracy, and the ruins of civilization.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Manhattan · Lower Manhattan · post-apocalyptic New York · walled-off zone · reclamation zone · Buffalo government · near future · quarantined city · collapsed society · post-pandemic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2673
A homicide detective hunts a serial organ-harvesting killer while her career and identity come under threat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · near future · futuristic society · police department · medical world · urban streets · winter setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2706
