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Premise labels used: gender apocalypse, last man, survival quest, plague mystery, world without men, search for loved one, female-led world, end-of-world fallout

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic Earth, world without men, majority-female society, global journey, Paris finale, France

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Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book One

Goran Sudžuka · 2008 · Y: The Last Man

After a plague kills every male mammal on Earth, one young man and his monkey must survive a fractured world.

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Premise labels: last man · worldwide plague · sex-specific plague · gender apocalypse · survival quest · save humanity · find lost love · mystery survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · global crisis · United States · Washington DC · San Francisco · Australia · international setting · alternate reality

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The Last She

H.J. Nelson · 2021 · The Last She

In a plague-ravaged world where women are nearly gone, a lone survivor is captured by men and pulled into a dangerous mission.

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Premise labels: last woman · plague survival · female extinction · captivity · escape · search for father · mysterious mission · survival romance · love triangle · end-of-world quest

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · ruined world · clans · survival camp · abandoned mall · forest · city ruins · not-too-distant future

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The Book of Flora

Meg Elison · 2019 · The Road to Nowhere

In a brutal post-plague world, Flora travels between fragile communities while battling oppression, identity, and a looming threat.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · gender identity · reproductive crisis · quest for home · found family · oppression resistance · human evolution

Setting labels: post-plague world · post-apocalyptic USA · gendered society · scarce-women society · island setting · underground city · settlement politics · blighted landscape

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Distance: 0.1868

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Empty Earth

Jacqueline Druga · 2022

A suicidal woman wakes to an empty world and must uncover what happened, why she survived, and what it means.

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Premise labels: end-of-world · sole survivor · mystery survival · answers-seeking · wake to a dead world · apocalypse aftermath

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · empty world · silent city · earthbound catastrophe

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Distance: 0.1878

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Woman World

Aminder Dhaliwal · 2018

In a post-men world, women rebuild society through short, funny comic vignettes about life, love, and memory.

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Premise labels: world without men · women rebuild society · extinction premise · female-dominated society · post-extinction survival · gender-flipped world

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · small communities · village life · future earth · nonpatriarchal society · collapsed civilization · all-female world

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Maximum Ride Forever

James Patterson · 2015 · Maximum Ride

A genetically engineered teen and her flock race to survive a shattered Earth and uncover who caused the apocalypse.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · final mission · answers quest · world-ending aftermath · save the world · genetic experiment survivors

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · Earth · dystopian future · global disaster zone · lab-created fictional reality

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The First City

Joe Hart · 2017 · The Dominion Trilogy

In a ravaged future where women are scarce, Zoey races to uncover the truth before a fight for humanity destroys her.

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Premise labels: female scarcity · repopulation crisis · survival quest · chosen one · human extinction · search for answers · last city · protective heroine

Setting labels: dystopian world · post-apocalyptic world · last American city · Seattle · wastelands · future America · depopulated society

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Distance: 0.1974

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The Purple Cloud

M.P. Shiel · 2000

After a deadly purple cloud wipes out life on Earth, one Arctic survivor wanders a silent world and slips into madness.

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Premise labels: last man · world catastrophe · polar expedition · poisonous cloud · global depopulation · survival aftermath · survival quest · apocalyptic journey

Setting labels: North Pole · Arctic expedition · silent world · post-apocalyptic world · global travel · Europe · England · Turkey · London · Paris · Constantinople · end-times reality

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Pure

Julianna Baggott · 2012 · Pure

In a nuclear-ravaged world split between Dome-dwellers and mutated survivors, two teens risk everything to find truth.

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Premise labels: nuclear aftermath · split society · survival quest · escape from dome · lost mother search · apocalyptic mutation · controlled enclave · outside world survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · nuclear holocaust aftermath · domed enclave · wasteland · ash-covered world · controlled society · ruined Earth · climate-controlled dome

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Dog Blood

David Moody · 2010 · Hater

In a ravaged England, an infected father hunts for his daughter while rival factions fight to survive and dominate.

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Premise labels: survival · catastrophe · infected faction · faction conflict · family search · daughter quest · apocalypse · war for survival · infiltration

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · England · London · city centers · quarantine zones · refugee areas · war zone · ravaged landscape

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Z for Zachariah

Robert C. O'Brien · 1976

A teen girl surviving alone after nuclear war faces a stranger whose arrival turns refuge into danger.

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Premise labels: last survivor · nuclear aftermath · isolated valley · mysterious stranger · survival standoff · end-of-the-world loneliness

Setting labels: post-nuclear world · isolated valley · rural farm · microclimate refuge · wasteland beyond

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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · 2011

The last human on Earth battles vampire-like infected by day and isolation by night, while searching for answers.

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Premise labels: last human · vampire plague · survival · lonely survivor · scientific investigation · find a cure · last man on earth

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · ruined civilization · isolated house · night survival · daylight survival · urban ruins

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Distance: 0.2099

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