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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for 200 Monas.
Setting labels used: college town, university campus, San Francisco, adult contemporary
Focused on “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 professor loses his physicist lover to a strange, selective void created in a campus lab.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university campus · physics laboratory · academic environment · California · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2248
A bookish English instructor buys a mysterious Kindle that opens onto alternate realities, lost books, and future danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small college town · university campus · contemporary setting · alternate realities · parallel worlds · digital age · technology-centered
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1961
A college freshman trapped in a time loop teams up with her physics rival as friendship turns romantic.
Why this is here
Setting labels: college campus · university setting · dorm life · physics class · college newspaper · fraternity party · contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2256
A skeptical professor loses four hours and his hat, then reality around him begins to warp into menace.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university town · academic setting · small town · academic community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2282
An elite-campus app promises to grant desires, but its seductive help spirals into chaos, lust, and danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university campus · elite university · college campus · near-future tech setting · AI age · present-day social media world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2490
An aging poet accepts a lucrative corporate challenge to co-write a poem with an AI and is changed by the collaboration.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Silicon Valley · San Francisco · New York · tech headquarters · corporate campus · modern day · contemporary · realist setting · speculative setting · poetry world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2512
A lonely young woman adopts a sentient blob and tries to shape it into the ideal boyfriend, with unsettling results.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Midwestern college town · modern day · hotel setting · bar alley · drag show · urban contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2564
An ordinary volunteer is swept into a cosmic struggle between good and evil, with reality, time, and choices at stake.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · college town · contemporary setting · alternate reality · parallel universes · cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2584
A teen falls for a girl, loses her, and gets repeated chances to rewind time—at a cost to everyone else he loves.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · college transition · party setting · contemporary setting · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2601
A teen gets a magical do-over after cheating on her boyfriend, but changing one mistake scrambles everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2608
A sleeping sickness strikes a California college town, and the wakeful struggle to protect each other as dreams deepen.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Southern California · college town · small town · campus setting · dormitory · hospital · quarantine zone · contemporary setting · isolated community · fictional town
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2645
An unnamed Kyoto college student relives four possible campus lives, chasing the one he thinks he missed.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Kyoto · university campus · college dorm · Japanese campus life · tatami room · contemporary Japan
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2667
