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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Gossamer.
Setting labels used: contemporary setting, domestic setting, foster home, dream world, liminal reality, nighttime
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A burned-out woman begins disappearing and must trace her art-wielding father through the houses of her past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · American setting · multiple homes · house-centered · small-scale domestic setting · magical reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1287
A woman trapped at home during a sudden invasion of human-like mimics fights to survive as society collapses around her.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern home · rainy night · societal collapse · apocalyptic setting · domestic space · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1632
A genius with hallucinatory expert companions tackles a mystery involving a camera that can capture the past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · real world setting · mansion
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1646
A woman’s ordinary life is disrupted when her future self arrives with a warning that could change everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · domestic setting · household setting · future and present · uncanny realism · surreal overlay
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1672
A husband’s gift of a cuckoo clock turns a strained marriage into a creepy battle of jealousy, desire, and revenge.
Why this is here
Setting labels: domestic setting · modern USA · ordinary household · low fantasy · slightly off center reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1689
A boy imagines and narrates his wildly inventive dream house, room by room, in playful rhyming verse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: domestic setting · house setting · fantastical reality · retro-futuristic world · mid-century aesthetic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1713
A blackout, a runaway child, and a stolen mind-altering machine pull four gifted friends into their most dangerous puzzle yet.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary world · small town · house setting · prison setting · urban blackout · home base · contained setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1720
Five eerie Stephen King tales turn ordinary situations into quick, grotesque, and sometimes darkly funny horror.
Why this is here
Setting labels: suburban setting · domestic setting · workplace horror · everyday reality · supernatural reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1791
A time-stopping sex-powered couple faces relationship strain, mental health struggles, and a widening secret world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · fictionalized reality · time travel · secret world · adult life · therapy setting · library setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1829
Seven surreal fairy-tale retellings push modern characters through strange quests, hauntings, and transformations.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary world · modern day · futuristic settings · post-apocalyptic future · airport hotel · Vermont woods · remote house · Christmas setting · Hell · liminal spaces · far-off planets · urban fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1844
A boy sneaks into a guest room and wakes into a chain of stranger, scarier realities each time he falls asleep.
Why this is here
Setting labels: suburban home · guest room · middle school · high school · nighttime · alternate realities · parallel universes · reality warp · dreamlike reality · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1850
A science-savvy girl’s 10th birthday splits into two realities, forcing her to solve a universe-bending mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: home setting · domestic space · black void · ever-shifting reality · parallel universe · cosmic setting · contemporary reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1851
