Apocalyptic & Dystopian bestsellers

Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Jefferson White
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

“Fabulous prequel. Sets you right back into the games with just as much gore and violence as the original Hunger Games - with great characters and plot twists. Read more

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“This series is bound to become a classic. What begins as a story about dystopian gladiatorial games turns into a brilliant and exciting treatise on autocratic rule, human rights, and revolution. Read more

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick

National Book Award Finalist

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch & Lee Osorio
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

“This action-packed dystopian novel mixes real-life facts and horrors of the U.S. Prison Industrial Complex with an imagined and grotesque future. As the story unfolds, and more facts from present day seep into the narrative, that future starts to draw closer than we'd hope. Multiple voice actors and a cinematic narrative voice makes this book... Read more

Catching Fire: Movie Tie-in Edition (Hunger Games, Book Two)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Catching Fire, the second book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games series, is now available with all-new cover art from the feature film!The second book in the international bestselling Hunger Games series is now a feature film. Here is the original novel with exciting new movie artwork on the cover. (Original cover version also... Read more

I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Jacqueline Harpman
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

“What does it mean to be “human”—what is “humanity” when all we’ve used to define it is stripped away or was never there at all? Maybe that sounds trite, but no! This was a beautiful, isolating, and unexpectedly tender story that will stay with me for a long time and has become a new personal favorite. I’d especially recommend this to fans of... Read more

Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking... Read more

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #1

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

“Imagine a world with many, many cups of tea. Doesn’t this world sound amazing? Doesn’t it calm you just to think of it? Sibling Dex makes people tea as a way of life, but they are still struggling to find meaning in the world. Just when they think they’re about to figure it out by seeking out the supposedly-extinct cricket song, they stumble... Read more

The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Laila Lalami
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Barton Caplan
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“I was blown away by this book! It's a cross between EE Cummings' The Enormous Room, Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward, and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. It's a strange combo, but it works! In the near future, the Risk Assessment Administration assigns all citizens a risk assessment score. If your score exceeds 500, you are subject to... Read more

Death of the Author

A Novel

By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris Djuma
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

“Okorafor masterfully threads together a story about the art of storytelling, breaking barriers, and being true to yourself while pulling readers into the passion of being in the Nigerian community. Filled with unexpected friendships, challenges of having a disability, worldwide adventures -- and ROBOTS -- Zelu and Ankara's story will challenge... Read more

Hell Followed with Us

By: Andrew Joseph White
Narrated by: Shaan Dasani, Graham Halstead & Avi Roque
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“With much inspiration taken from the ancient horror stories of The Bible, Hell Followed with Us is a post-apocalyptic adventure featuring queer teens as the heroes. A new plague has been released upon the world by an evangelical cult, The Angels. Benji’s mother is one of their leaders, his father his greatest ally, and he: a trans boy trapped... Read more

How High We Go in the Dark

A Novel

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure & Jason Culp
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“An astounding first novel, Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go In The Dark is without a doubt going to be a major event in 2022's speculative fiction. It begins with a virus thawed by an Arctic exploration team, and branches out its far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. It will be a hard read right now for people recently dealing with the... Read more

Mickey7

A Novel

Mickey7: Book #1

By: Edward Ashton
Narrated by: John Pirhalla & Katharine Chin
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17).

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.

Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever... Read more

The Unworthy

A Novel

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

“Outside the walls of the convent waits a post-apocalyptic world where the land is poisoned and poisonous and people barely survive. Inside, a religious order that brutally tortures and punishes anyone who doesn’t follow their rules...and mutilates into 'saints,' 'spirits,' and 'auras' those who follow them too well. What happens in the convent... Read more

Sea of Tranquility

A novel

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey & Kirsten Potter
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

“A gem of a novel, spiraling out of place and time to shape our present hopes and anxieties into a story of peace and resilience. Mandel weaves effortlessly between historical and science fiction and is a master of immersive storytelling. Read more

The Obelisk Gate

The Broken Earth: Book #2

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

“This is how to do a sequel right - if sequel is even the correct term. Picking up right where the The Fifth Season left off, this book is more mature as the situation matures, trusting that the reader is ready to deal with yet more depth and complexity. The world of the Stillness is revealed to be more definitively high fantasy - but the issues... Read more

1984

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Theo Solomon
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before.“Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get... Read more

They Bloom at Night

By: Trang Thanh Tran
Narrated by: Nhi Do
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

““Sometimes we need the people to hunt the things inside of us that need to die but that we aren’t ready to kill” This was an incredible coming of age tale about a teenage girl Noon and her mother trying to survive a devastating hurricane in Mercy, Louisiana. But not only water came in that hurricane. Tran tackles many issues in this including... Read more

Tender is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

“Having read Bradbury and Orwell it is easy to imagine the dystopia that Tender Is the Flesh seeks to convey. This book gave me goosebumps and it gave me a visceral reaction - it felt so real. Truly disturbingly well written. There is a theme of body autonomy in this book and mass consumption of animals. The ending will make you feel intense... Read more

The Ministry for the Future

A Novel

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Inés del Castillo & Vikas Adam
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

“This hearty work of hard science fiction has been the antidote to my climate change despair. As a novel, it is good. As a thought experiment in imagining a near future in which humanity averts complete disaster and begins the transformation into an ecologically humane civilization—it is a masterpiece. Is it possible that we’ll overcome the... Read more

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #2

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

“Just as wonderful and as tender as A Psalm for the Wild-Built. A sweet and earthy cup of tea to warm the soul. New and old characters to giggle with, cry with, and just flat out fall in love with. A book that I will return to again and again. Read more

Station Eleven

A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“I never knew an apocalypse could be so peaceful. "Station Eleven" is the perfect tragedy and the perfect comedy, worthy of its traveling Shakespeare performers indeed. Its story is ingenious, its prose haunting, its characters dynamic and their actions remarkably bold. Read more

Dark Age

Red Rising: Book #5

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk, James Langton & Rendah Heywood
Length: 33 hours 57 minutes

For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his... Read more

Light Bringer

A Red Rising Novel

Red Rising: Book #6

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 30 hours 8 minutes

Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age.

“Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR, on Dark Age

“The... Read more

Dawn

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Julienne Irons
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

“An astonishing work of imagination that presents the reader with a series of sticky, impossible questions. Among them: When your people have lost to a colonizing force, and must face the end of their self-sovereignty, culture, and identity, how do you accept the new reality and keep living? Butler explores this historically common dilemma via... Read more

Walkaway

By: Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Amber Benson, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Amanda Palmer, Lisa Renee Pitts, Wil Wheaton & Mirron Willis
Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

“What does it mean to live in a post-scarcity world that can’t let go of capitalism? Walkaway deftly explores this sticky subject and I enjoyed each of its twists and turns. Those who refuse to play by the rules of the old system, those who walk away, discover something the ultra-rich of a dying world desperately want. Set in the near future,... Read more

Fable for the End of the World

By: Ava Reid
Narrated by: Gail Shalan & Emily Lawrence
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

“I fell HARD for this book! A semi-flooded world with a nod to climate change, corporate consumerist culture ruled by debt, society completely split into haves and have-nots , and it all feels all too possible in the way of great dystopian fiction. Plus, there’s a Hunger Games-esque live fight-for-survival-as-entertainment and a queer romance. I... Read more

The Stone Sky

The Broken Earth: Book #3

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the power of... Read more

Iron Gold

Red Rising: Book #4

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer & Aedin Moloney
Length: 23 hours 22 minutes

Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Trilogy. Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of... Read more

We

A Novel

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin
Narrated by: Louise Brealey, Margaret Atwood & Toby Jones
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell while he was writing 1984, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le Guin

In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled over by an all-powerful “Benefactor,” the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState are regulated by spies and secret... Read more

The One

Dark Future: Book #1

By: John Marrs
Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Vicki Hall, Simon Bubb, Jot Davies & Sophie Aldred
Length: 11 hours 1 minute

***Over 1M Copies Sold!***

Now on Netflix!

The USA Today bestseller

A Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2018

“Just try to put this gripping thriller down once you pick it up.” —AARP

“A shock on every other page.” —Wall Street Journal

How far would you go to find The One?

A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon... Read more

Leech

By: Hiron Ennes
Narrated by: Abigail Thorn
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

“This is a story that twists as much as it writhes. Elements of gothic horror mix with post apocalyptic science fiction in this tale of a parasite -- venerable, civilized, a doctor, possibly all doctors -- faces off against another parasite in a frozen manor cut off from the world at large. I kept finding excuses to keep listening. I just had to... Read more

The Stand

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 47 hours 43 minutes

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky... Read more

The Grace Year

A Novel

By: Kim Liggett
Narrated by: Emily Shaffer
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

“The Grace Year is a brutal, feminist gut-punch of a book that grips you tight and never lets go. Ugly crying will happen and readers are likely to get some serious lockjaw from gritting their teeth in suspense. Narrator Emily Shaffer nuanced performance of main character Tierney James is unforgettable, as she captures each little passive... Read more

All the Water in the World

A Novel

By: Eiren Caffall
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

“All the Water in the World is as full of heart as it is heartbreaking. We are all made of water and are connected because of it. Read more

The Bone Season

Tenth Anniversary Edition

The Bone Season: Book #1

By: Samantha Shannon
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 18 hours 38 minutes

“This is the *perfect* book for adults that miss the underground London, dark academia vibes of HP but with a female MC and a strong one at that. Love this book more than any book ever. Read more

The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
Narrated by: Daveed Diggs
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

“Rivers Solomon seems to consistently bring something fresh and completely unprecedented to the genre in a most magnificent way. I’ll let you read the back of the book for the plot, as there’s so much going on—from the Middle Passage to magical mer-people to shared memories and the strength of one young person to save her people. Solomon pulls it... Read more

Ready Player One

By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

“When it comes to listening to an audio book, I have to be drawn to the narrator’s voice almost if not more than the actual story. The way a narrator speaks really makes or breaks a story for me. Wil Wheaton made this story for me! He brought new life to a story I was already in love with. Wheaton made Wade Watts come to life, and was able to... Read more

The Brightness Between Us

By: Eliot Schrefer
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by the Chicago Public Library!In this sequel to The Darkness Outside Us, a Stonewall Honor Book, New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer delivers another ambitious, genre-bending novel and epic love story that spans thousands of years and the far reaches of the galaxy.Seventeen years have gone by... Read more

Good Omens

A Full Cast Production

By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Rebecca Front, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Katherine Kingsley, Arthur Darvill, Peter Forbes, Gabrielle Glaister, Louis Davison, Pixie Davies, Chris Nelson, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, John Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves & Lemn Sissay
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

A brand new full cast audiobook production of the classic collaboration from internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett starring Rebecca Front as the Narrator, Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, and David Tennant as Crowley!""Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don... Read more

Dark Tower IV

Wizard and Glass

The Dark Tower: Book #4

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 27 hours 32 minutes

The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense…rip-roaring” (Publishers Weekly)—a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.

In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most ebullient…sweeping readers up in…swells of passion” (Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake... Read more

The Seep

By: Chana Porter
Narrated by: Shakina Nayfack
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

“Weird, emotional little book! Aliens in the form of weird tech, people becoming babies again, it's chaotic in the best way. Read more

Hollow Kingdom

By: Kira Jane Buxton
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

“We need more heroes like S.T. — a foul-mouthed, idealistic, moral crow with unquenchable courage — and his sidekick, a befuddled bloodhound. Kira Jane Buxton speaks crow, gull, dog, housecat, and owl with such fluency and poetry that I could not put this book down. Her vision of the zombie apocalypse is a strange and wonderful journey I want to... Read more

Mirrored Heavens

Between Earth and Sky: Book #3

By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, Shyla Lefner, Nicole Lewis, Kairyn Potts & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

“All of the best things have to end, I guess, but it still hurts like nothing else. This poetically written ending was almost Homeric in the way it maintained an epic and suspenseful sense of awe and wonder— this dynamic series did not disappoint, but this finale put me through the WRINGER! Read more

The Garden

By: Nick Newman
Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

“A hauntingly beautiful story that leaves you with as many questions as the answers you find. I kept thinking about it long after I finished. Like an amazing vacation to somewhere exotic. I definitely recommend. Read more

Severance

A Novel

By: Ling Ma
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

“Candace Chen is a first-generation Chinese millennial immigrant who tries to make a life in New York City by succumbing to the role of the office drone who helps create cheap bibles. But when Shen Fever—a plague that causes its victims to perform a rote task until death—hits, only a few survive, including Candace. She soon finds herself in a... Read more

Wool

The Silo Saga: Book #1

By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Watch Silo, the new Apple TV+ sci-fi series starring Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins!The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival.The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo.... Read more

Absolution

The Southern Reach Series: Book #4

By: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.When the Southern Reach trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times... Read more

The Mask Falling

The Bone Season: Book #4

By: Samantha Shannon
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 18 hours 30 minutes

Bloomsbury presents The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.

The stunning fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling Bone Season series reaches new corners of Samantha Shannon’s richly imagined world.

Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and sent to a safe house in the Scion Citadel... Read more

Dark Tower II

The Drawing of the Three

The Dark Tower: Book #2

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.

“Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters,” hails The Baltimore Sun. Beginning just less than... Read more

The Book of M

A Novel

By: Peng Shepherd
Narrated by: James Fouhey & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

“Peng Shepherd’s The Book of M is as mysterious as it is fantastical. Beginning in India before spreading worldwide, almost like a magical epidemic, people are suddenly losing their shadows. For those that do, it always follows that they begin to forget. Whether slowly or rapidly, the forgetting always befalls those who have become “shadowless.”... Read more