Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Landry Park

By: Bethany Hagen

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Downton Abbey” meets The Selection in this dystopian tale of love and betrayal

Sixteen-year-old Madeline Landry is practically Gentry royalty. Her ancestor developed the nuclear energy that has replaced electricity, and her parents exemplify the glamour of the upper class. As for Madeline, she would much rather read a book than attend yet... Read more

The Dark Wild

By: Piers Torday

Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong.  Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains: animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies.  And soon Kester realizes: he is the only one... Read more

Dove Arising

By: Karen Bao

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She’s barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government’s radar.

Then her mother is arrested.

The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading Shelter... Read more

The Kiss of Deception

By: Mary E. Pearson

Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Ryan Gesell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby...

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met.

On the morning of... Read more

The Book of Ivy

By: Amy Engel

Narrated by: Taylor Meskimen

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you kill for?
After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation. The Westfalls lost. Fifty years later, peace and control are maintained by marrying the daughters of the losing side to the... Read more

The Revolution of Ivy

By: Amy Engel

Narrated by: Taylor Meskimen

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Ivy Westfall is beyond the fence and she is alone. Abandoned by her family and separated from Bishop Lattimer, Ivy must find a way to survive on her own in a land filled with countless dangers, both human and natural. She has traded a more civilized type of cruelty-forced marriages and murder plots-for the bare-knuckled brutality required to... Read more

The Heart Goes Last

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Mark Deakins

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.

     Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car,... Read more

The Last Star

By: Rick Yancey

Narrated by: Phoebe Strole & Ben Yannette

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly-anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling 5th Wave series.

The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.

But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer.... Read more

Nightfall

By: Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The dark will bring your worst nightmares to light in this gripping and eerie survival story, perfect for fans of James Dashner and Neil Gaiman.

On Marin’s island, sunrise doesn’t come every twenty-four hours—it comes every twenty-eight years. Now the sun is just a sliver of light on the horizon. The weather is turning cold and the shadows are... Read more

The People of Sparks

By: Jeanne DuPrau

Narrated by: Wendy Dillon

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn’t long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember. The Emberites soon come across a town where they are welcomed, fed, and given places to sleep. But the town’s... Read more

The Dark Flight Down

By: Marcus Sedgwick

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the morning you should think
You might not last unto the night
In the evening you should think
You might not last unto the morn
Boy has survived the terrors of life with the magician Valerian, dark magic, and deadly chases, but he is still on the run. Now, as the City lies frozen, he is captured and incarcerated in the Emperor Frederick’s... Read more

A Friend of the Earth

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A Friend of the Earth opens in the year 2025, as Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tidewater ekes out a bleak living in southern California, managing a rock star's private menagerie. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most of the major mammalian species are extinct. Once Ty was so seriously committed to environmental causes that he... Read more

The Children of Men

By: P. D. James

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
 
Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman... Read more

The Dark River

By: John Twelve Hawks

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks introduced listeners to a dangerous world inspired by the modern technology that monitors our lives. As it ends, Gabriel Corrigan hesitates under the weight of responsibility. His brother Michael seizes opportunity–and joins the enemy. THE DARK RIVER opens in New York City with a stunning piece of news.... Read more

The Suicide Collectors

By: David Oppegaard

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of the most stunning debuts to come along in years, reminiscent of Philip K. Dick’s best work and P. D. James’s classic The Children of Men, David Oppegaard gives us a world whose near future presents some terrifying realities.

The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of the world’s population has inexplicably died by its own... Read more

Survivors by Terry Nation

By: Terry Nation

Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly virus spreads across the world. Within weeks, most of the human race is dead. Abby Grant ventures out into a strange new England, but she cannot settle until she knows the truth. Has her son survived? Read more

Shadows

By: E.C. Blake

Narrated by: Elizabeth Morton

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Masks, Mara Holdfast's life changed forever. As the daughter of the Autarch's Master Maskmaker, she had a clearly defined future: a quiet, ordered life in the capital, making Masks with her father and doing work important to the ruling Autarch. But when her Mask, specially made by her own father, cracked and fell to pieces during her Masking... Read more

Ink and Bone

By: Rachel Caine

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exhilarating series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time. …

Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the... Read more

Omega Days

By: John L. Campbell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight million walking dead stalk the San Francisco Bay Area, with more on the way. Scattered refugees - a priest with a bloody past, a college girl turned sniper, escaped San Quentin inmates and others - will quickly learn the three most important rules of survival: Make your bullets count. Don't fall behind. Don't...get...bitten! Fast-paced and... Read more

Ship of the Dead

By: John L. Campbell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In the weeks following the Omega Virus outbreak, survivors form desperate clusters, uniting to defend against hordes of the walking dead. But they can only hide for so long . Father Xavier Church never wanted to be a leader. Nonetheless, he's grown attached to his fellow survivors, and he won't let anyone cause them harm-though he may be the one... Read more

Independent Study

By: Joelle Charbonneau

Narrated by: Elizabeth Morton

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful second book in the New York Times bestselling Testing trilogy.

In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies—a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization.

In Independent Study, Cia is a... Read more

The Testing

By: Joelle Charbonneau

Narrated by: Elizabeth Morton

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Iowa Teen Award
Evergreen Young Adult Book Award (Washington)
Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)
IRA/CBC Young Adults’ Choice
VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers

The opening volume in the New York Times bestselling Testing trilogy. In Cia's dystopian society, it's an honor to be chosen for The Testing. But it’s not enough to pass the Test.... Read more

The Choosing

By: Rachelle Dekker

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she'd spent a lifetime preparing for-her Choosing ceremony-to end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she'll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society. She knows it's her duty to follow the true way of the... Read more

Burning Kingdoms

By: Lauren DeStefano

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

After escaping the city of Internment, Morgan and her fellow fugitives land on the ground to finally learn about the world beneath their floating island home. The ground is a strange place where water falls from the sky as snow, and people watch moving pictures and visit speakeasies. A place where families can have as many children as they want,... Read more