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Premise labels used: teen runaway, nuclear disaster, homeless survival, false blame, identity reinvention, grief aftermath, street survival, found family

Setting labels used: Vermont, Burlington, rural Vermont, nuclear town, post-disaster aftermath, contamination zone, homeless street life, evacuation site, contemporary setting

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The Leftovers

Tom Perrotta · 2011

After a mass disappearance upends a suburban town, the survivors struggle with grief, cults, and unfinished lives.

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Premise labels: mass disappearance · left behind · grief aftermath · post-rapture · survivor crisis · community trauma · family fracture · meaning-making

Setting labels: small town · suburban setting · contemporary America · post-disaster world · post-rapture world · apocalyptic aftermath · fictional town · worldwide event

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Distance: 0.2001

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Green Angel

Alice Hoffman · 2004 · Green Angel

After a family tragedy leaves a teen girl alone in an ash-covered world, she must survive grief and rediscover hope.

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Premise labels: grief recovery · survival after disaster · family loss · coming of age · identity rebuilding · healing journey

Setting labels: unnamed town · unnamed city · country setting · post-disaster landscape · ash-covered world · lawless setting

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Distance: 0.2249

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Point of Impact

Kyla Stone · 2018 · Nuclear Dawn

A young woman in Miami races through the nuclear aftermath to rescue her sister before fallout and old enemies close in.

Why this is here

Premise labels: nuclear attack · survival aftermath · family rescue · foster care · trusted stranger · catastrophe response · end of the world · city evacuation

Setting labels: Miami · United States · Everglades · post-apocalyptic · nuclear fallout zone · urban disaster · contemporary

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Distance: 0.2289

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How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster

Muriel Leung · 2024

In a post-apocalyptic New York, a heartbroken woman, her family, and their ghosts search for love, contact, and meaning.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · climate disaster · love amid collapse · grief after breakup · found family · haunted apartment building · radio contact · afterlife questions · community under crisis

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic New York City · dystopian city · apartment building setting · militarized control · quarantined boroughs · toxic wasteland · acid rain · future NYC · urban collapse · ghost-haunted world

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Distance: 0.2293

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Cover of Nuclear Dawn #1-5: The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set by Kyla Stone

Nuclear Dawn #1-5: The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set

Kyla Stone · 2019 · Nuclear Dawn

After nuclear blasts hit U.S. cities, a guarded young woman and a troubled drifter race through fallout to rescue her sister.

Why this is here

Premise labels: nuclear attack · post-disaster survival · sister rescue · survival journey · ordinary survivors · trust under pressure · anarchy aftermath · road to safe haven · family protection · collaborative survival

Setting labels: Miami · Everglades · United States · nuclear fallout · post-apocalyptic world · radioactive ruins · wasteland · urban collapse · rural refuge · contemporary

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Distance: 0.2296

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Cover of The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros

The Blue Book of Nebo

Manon Steffan Ros · 2021

A mother and son survive a post-nuclear collapse in rural Wales by rebuilding life, language, and trust.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · family survival · rural self-sufficiency · found notebook · shared diary · going back to basics · language preservation · cultural preservation · nuclear aftermath · isolated household

Setting labels: North Wales · rural Wales · isolated cottage · hilltop house · post-apocalyptic world · post-nuclear world · near Anglesey · village outskirts · isolated countryside · future aftermath

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Distance: 0.2296

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Strung

Per Jacobsen · 2021 · Strung Trilogy

A returning writer finds his hometown transformed by eerie apathy, hanging corpses, and a search for his missing son.

Why this is here

Premise labels: homecoming · missing child · small-town collapse · widespread strange behavior · body-horror mystery · apocalyptic outbreak · author protagonist · family search · social contagion

Setting labels: modern day · small town · hometown · isolated cabin · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian world · town under collapse · hospital · roadside crime scene

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Strung II: The Valley of Death

Per Jacobsen · 2022 · Udhængt

In a post-apocalyptic survivor community, a new discovery deepens mistrust as an unseen enemy and hidden loyalties close in.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · hidden enemy · survivor community · trust under pressure · family in crisis · unsolved threat

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · after the collapse · survivor settlements · rural refuge · communes · farm community

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Distance: 0.2316

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Cover of The Last Stars in the Sky by Kate Hewitt

The Last Stars in the Sky

Kate Hewitt · 2024 · Lost Lake

A fractured family retreats to a remote Canadian cabin, only to face a sudden nuclear-collapse survival ordeal.

Why this is here

Premise labels: family survival · nuclear disaster · isolated cabin · home loss · second chance · civilizational collapse · family reset

Setting labels: rural Canada · isolated cabin · lake house · wilderness · Ontario · cottage · post-collapse world · North America · winter setting

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Distance: 0.2342

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Zombie Rules

David Achord · 2013 · Zombie Rules

A 16-year-old prepper-in-training survives a zombie outbreak and the worse danger of ruthless living survivors.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival story · prepper survival · teen survivor · human threat · lawless aftermath · infected world · friends under siege

Setting labels: rural farm · Tennessee · Middle Tennessee · near Nashville · post-apocalyptic America · worldwide infection · lawless society · small-town survival · farmstead · apocalypse aftermath

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Distance: 0.2375

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Cover of And After by Sarah Lyons Fleming

And After

Sarah Lyons Fleming · 2014 · Until the End of the World

A safe haven in a zombie apocalypse starts to fail, forcing Cassie and her survivors to face loss, love, and danger.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival community · safe zone collapse · found family · love under pressure · post-apocalyptic rebuilding

Setting labels: zombie apocalypse · post-apocalyptic America · farm community · safe zone · winter-to-spring transition · rural refuge · new world

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Distance: 0.2381

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Cover of Sunrise by Mike Mullin

Sunrise

Mike Mullin · 2014 · Ashfall

After a supervolcano, Alex and Darla race to build a defendable community before winter, war, and human cruelty finish them off.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · community rebuilding · resource scarcity · civilization collapse · local power struggle · leadership under pressure · homestead building · defensible settlement · survival against humans · survival against environment · hope after disaster

Setting labels: post-Yellowstone eruption · ash winter · Midwest · Illinois · rural farm · small town · collapsed society · post-apocalyptic America · winter survival · war zone

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Distance: 0.2384

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Cover of Grace Lost by M. Lauryl Lewis

Grace Lost

M. Lauryl Lewis · 2012 · Grace

A zombie-plagued escape into the mountains turns personal when one survivor develops a dark telepathic link to the undead.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival journey · fleeing danger · found family · telepathic link · smart zombies · love amid disaster

Setting labels: rural hometown · mountains · post-apocalyptic world · zombie-infested world · apocalypse survival setting · wilderness refuge

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Distance: 0.2386

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Cover of The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Wild Shore

Kim Stanley Robinson · 1995 · Three Californias Triptych

A teen in quarantined post-nuclear California is pulled toward rebellion when outsiders arrive with news of the wider world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · coastal community · quarantined nation · teenage coming of age · resistance movement · post-nuclear society · isolation · subsistence living

Setting labels: southern California · Orange County · coastal village · post-nuclear future · 2047 · isolated communities · alternate history · ruined infrastructure · low-tech society · quarantine

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Distance: 0.2386

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Cover of The Shade of the Moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer

The Shade of the Moon

Susan Beth Pfeffer · 2013 · Last Survivors

A post-apocalyptic teen must choose between enclave privilege and loyalty to his family in a harsh new class system.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic society · class divide · enclave society · survival after catastrophe · family split · moral dilemma · coming of age

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · Tennessee · Pennsylvania (origin) · grub town · enclave · shantytown · safe town · future society

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Distance: 0.2387

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Cover of Sick Bastards by Matt Shaw

Sick Bastards

Matt Shaw · 2014 · Sick Bastards

A memoryless family survives nuclear fallout in isolation, but hunger, taboo, and hidden truths reshape them.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival horror · nuclear fallout · family survival · amnesia · identity mystery · extreme horror · post-apocalyptic survival · moral collapse

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · nuclear aftermath · isolated house · remote wilderness · collapsed world · infected outside · unknown reality

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Distance: 0.2392

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Cover of Flowertown by S.G. Redling

Flowertown

S.G. Redling · 2012

A quarantined Iowa town unravels as one stoned, angry resident starts probing a deadly conspiracy.

Why this is here

Premise labels: chemical spill · quarantine zone · contaminated town · conspiracy · corporate cover-up · survival under lockdown · toxic contamination · isolated community · failed detoxification · institutional abuse

Setting labels: rural Iowa · small town · quarantine camp · containment zone · isolated community · post-disaster setting · contaminated environment · military-controlled zone · corporate-controlled zone

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Distance: 0.2399

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Cover of The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem

The Arrest

Jonathan Lethem · 2020

In a Maine farm community after technology stops working, a writer’s past returns in a strange nuclear-powered vehicle.

Why this is here

Premise labels: technology shutdown · post-apocalyptic community · survivor enclave · outsider disruption · rural self-sufficiency · friction with past

Setting labels: rural Maine · coastal Maine · peninsula community · post-collapse America · near future · small fictional town · fragmented United States · post-technological world

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Distance: 0.2400

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Cover of Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts

Dark Inside

Jeyn Roberts · 2011 · Dark Inside

After world-shaking earthquakes, four teens race to survive as ordinary people become murderous, rage-filled hunters.

Why this is here

Premise labels: apocalyptic outbreak · survival · mass panic · humanity turns violent · moral collapse · fight to stay alive · hidden evil · infected humans · social breakdown · end times

Setting labels: contemporary · apocalypse onset · Earth · North America · United States · Canada · Seattle · Vancouver · small town · cities · rural areas · post-earthquake devastation · collapsed society

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Distance: 0.2402

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Cover of City of Orange by David Yoon

City of Orange

David Yoon · 2022

An amnesiac survivor wakes in a ruined landscape and slowly uncovers the truth about his past and his world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · post-apocalyptic survival · memory loss · grief · identity mystery · survival journey · end of the world

Setting labels: apocalyptic landscape · post-apocalyptic world · wasteland · desert · river basin · drained channel · concrete culvert · burned-out houses · abandoned housing development

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Distance: 0.2414

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Cover of Aurora by David Koepp

Aurora

David Koepp · 2022

A solar storm knocks out the world’s power, forcing estranged siblings to survive chaos in radically different ways.

Why this is here

Premise labels: global blackout · solar storm · CME disaster · survival crisis · estranged siblings · family under pressure · community survival · prepper contrast

Setting labels: Aurora, Illinois · Midwestern suburb · Silicon Valley · desert bunker · post-pandemic · near future · worldwide blackout · small-town survival

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Distance: 0.2417

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Cover of Nothing but the Rain by Naomi Salman

Nothing but the Rain

Naomi Salman · 2023

A quarantined town suffers memory-erasing rain, and one retired doctor journals a fight to survive and stay herself.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · amnesia rain · quarantine town · isolation · survival · collapse of self · locked-in community · mysterious disaster

Setting labels: small town · isolated town · rainy town · quarantine zone · postapocalyptic setting · dystopian setting · closed community · military blockade · constant rain · technology outage

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2418

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Cover of The Warning by James Patterson

The Warning

James Patterson · 2019

Two teens return to an evacuated town and uncover a hidden force behind the lockdown, strange behavior, and escalating danger.

Why this is here

Premise labels: quarantined town · isolated community · power plant accident · return home after evacuation · off the grid · hidden takeover · AI takeover · military lockdown · animal attacks · teen protagonists · dangerous homecoming · conspiracy mystery

Setting labels: small southern town · small South Carolina town · small town America · Mount Hope · post-evacuation · military-controlled town · nuclear power plant · quarantined community · lockdown setting · post-apocalyptic setting · futuristic setting · dystopian setting · isolated town

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2419

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Cover of The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele

The Lightest Object in the Universe

Kimi Eisele · 2019

After a grid failure and flu collapse society, two lovers on opposite coasts struggle toward reunion and renewal.

Why this is here

Premise labels: grid failure · societal collapse · cross-country search · lost lovers · rebuilding community · survival · hope after collapse · post-collapse adaptation · finding home · communication breakdown

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · near future · United States · East Coast · West Coast · California · New York · San Francisco · cross-country · railroad line · off-grid · pandemic aftermath · collapsed infrastructure · radio age

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2420

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