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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Cobweb.
Setting labels used: Midwest, Iowa, Washington, DC, Gulf War era, First Gulf War, 1990s, university town, college town, government offices, Middle East, US home front, America
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A teen time traveler trapped in WWII battles must survive trauma, family strain, and a new chance at love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: present day · World War II · 1945 · Europe · Iowa · small town · rural setting · home front · battlefield · front lines · western front · war zone
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2134
A genius student who can glimpse possible futures helps a fleeing princess outrun pursuers, danger, and his own doubt.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Saudi Arabia · Middle East · America · college campus · contemporary · cross-cultural · political unrest · royal court · road trip
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2361
In 1945 Maine, a teen boy and his friends confront a truth-spewing craze that hides a far stranger alien danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1940s America · 1945 · small town · wartime home front · Maine · Second World War · alternate Earth · Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2396
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: 0.2400
In an alternate WWII, teen girls are drafted into combat and must survive training, prejudice, and battle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1940s · 1942 · World War II · alternate history · United States · North Africa · Tunisia · battlefront · army camp · field hospital · segregated military · home front · wartime America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2565
A Cambridge historian and a physicist try to erase Hitler from history, only to unleash a worse alternate world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cambridge · Princeton · England · Germany · United States · World War II era · World War I era · 1990s · alternate world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2580
After all white people vanish in America, a wrongfully imprisoned Black father and his biracial daughter cross a changed nation together.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · America · Wisconsin · South · Alabama · Kingdom of Alabama · post-cataclysm · isolated enclave · airport · Howard University · Mobile
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2592
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: 0.2604
A photographer’s future-seeing camera leads him to prevent disaster—then the government turns on him.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Afghanistan · United States · Chicago · 9/11 era · modern-day · detention center · solitary confinement · CIA custody · FBI custody · post-9/11 America · war on terror
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2621
A retired avant-garde composer turns a home biology experiment into a fugitive, late-life reckoning with art, family, and fear.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-9/11 America · small-town America · college town · road novel · home laboratory · contemporary setting · security-state environment · music world · academic world · retirement age
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2634
A wounded legacy hero steps into Captain America’s role while a conspiracy unravels into government chaos and violence.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary United States · Washington politics · S.H.I.E.L.D. · government institutions · news media · urban unrest · alternate Marvel universe · wartime legacy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2634
A wartime girl is swept into the future and must navigate grief, new allies, and a path back to her best friend.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1940 England · 2013 Wisconsin · World War II · wartime home front · modern United States · small town · school setting · library setting · historical-present dual setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2636
