Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Followers

By: Megan Angelo

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This dark, pitch-perfect novel about our dependence on technology for validation and human connection is as addictive as social media itself.” —People

A TIME AND NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY PEOPLE MAGAZINE · THESKIMM · KATIE COURIC’S “WAKE UP CALL” · ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY · VOGUE.COM · MARIE CLAIRE · PARADE.COM · BITCH MEDIA · HELLO... Read more

Zed

By: Joanna Kavenna

Narrated by: Elliot Hill

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Kavenna is a diligent scholar of her form, melding a massively complex plot à la Thomas Pynchon and the wicked social satire of Evelyn Waugh with a healthy dose of Gogol's absurdist dysphoria thrown in for good measure." Kirkus (starred review)

A blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly... Read more

Ascent

By: J.S. Arquin

Narrated by: J.S. Arquin

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in the dust…A boy must fight for everything.
But can he survive the Game?
Twist’s grandparent’s died in a prison colony on a hostile planet. His parents did too. Now Twist has one chance to save himself and his sister from the same fate.
The only way out is through the Guardian Tournament, where he can win a place among the elite warriors who... Read more

Soulwaves

By: Tom Evans

Narrated by: Tom Evans

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Soulwaves is a metaphysical and cosmological adventure across space and time.If you’ve ever wondered where we are heading, this book explores a possible near-future for humanity, and the Earth.If you’ve ever wondered where we came from, be prepared to turn your thinking on its head.If you’ve ever wondered if anyone is pulling your strings, this... Read more

12|21|12

By: Larry Enright

Narrated by: Larry Enright

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The world ends for someone every day. One day it will end for everyone. Read more

A Different Yesterday

By: Linda Mooney

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Michael Tollson, aka "The Silent Wraith", was a man who roamed from settlement to outpost to city, offering his protection from scavengers and renegades. Years ago, right before the sun had exploded, when he had been a boy growing up in a small Texas town, he had felt his first crush for the little tomboy he knew as Jo. Now, as a grown... Read more

Chasing Extinction

By: R.M. Hamrick

Narrated by: Shoshannah Kramer

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Die together or die alone. At the brink of war, Osprey Point might first collapse from within as the final wave of the z-virus sweeps through the community. While Audra resolves to upend Lysent corp without the aid of others, Lysent singles her out too. They target her forgotten zombie tags for collection. People she found and did not... Read more

Qualityland

By: Marc-Uwe Kling

Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?
Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated... Read more

The Last Book in the Universe

By: Rodman Philbrick

Narrated by: Jeremy Davies

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.

It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged... Read more

Madness Rising

By: Hayley Lawson & Michael Anderle

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryder had gone from the impossible to the highly improbable with Massimo and Leandro. But can she do better? While the vegetarian vampire, werewolf, and bearded mountain man are willing to support her, Ryder needs an army to attack Afana if she wants to do better than throw away the lives of herself and her new friends. Will Massimo and Leandro... Read more

This Battle Lord's Quest

By: Linda Mooney

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The last time Yulen spoke to her, Atty was heading east, along with Fortune Kalich and several other hunters. With the latest onslaught of Bloods gone, so was the game, until there was little left to hunt to feed the growing population of Alta Novis. Since very few hunters went east, they figured it might yield good results. She planned to be... Read more

Blood Will Tell - The Blood is the Key - The Blood series, Book 1 (Unadbridged)

By: Colleen S. Myers

Narrated by: Victoria Ortiz

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Twilight meets Divergent. Unbeknownst to eighteen-year old Isabelle, her dad inserted a vital DNA sequence into her blood that made her resistant to the Immortalus virus, but unlocked other capabilities that prove to be the key to the war between the human and vampire race. Read more

Chaos Rising

By: Kyla Stone

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In a heartbeat, everything grinds to a halt. On Christmas Eve, the lights go out. Vehicles stop working. Communications break down.Reclusive former soldier Liam Coleman doesn't want to be anywhere near bustling downtown Chicago the day before Christmas. But his twin brother and his pregnant sister-in-law need him. Minutes after leaving O'Hare,... Read more

Resonance

By: A. J. Scudiere

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Carrington MacDuffie, Arte Johnso...

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Earth’s magnetic poles begin trading places, four scientists will have to race against time to save humanity.



Dr. Becky Sorenson has found a cache of frogs with a very high mutation rate...and some odd behaviors. Dr. David Carter’s core earth samples seem to indicate the next polar reversal will be worse than predicted. And CDC... Read more

El cuento de la criada

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Mercè Montalà, Cristina Mauri, Elisa Beuter & M...

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro de cabecera de una nueva generación. Amparándose en la coartada del terrorismo, unos políticos teócratas se hacen con el poder y, como primera medida, suprimen la libertad de prensa y los derechos de las mujeres. Esta trama, inquietante y oscura, que bien podría encontrarse en cualquier obra actual, pertenece en realidad a esta novela... Read more

The Choice

By: Claire Wade

Narrated by: Emma Gregory

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

'Electrifying' Christina Dalcher, Sunday Times Bestselling author of VOX

'A cleverly woven tale' The Times

*WINNER OF THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2020*

Imagine a world where...

Everything you ate was monitored by the government.
Every step you took was counted.
Your children were weighed every day at school.
Neighbours reported on... Read more

Sapiens Run Trilogy Boxed Set

By: Jamie Davis

Narrated by: Sarah Gise

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

She was raised to fear them. But now she's become her own worst enemy…Save 40% off individual book prices.America, 2055. Cass is equal parts excited and nervous to leave her hometown. Stepping away from her technologically-conservative family for the first time, she sets off for college with dreams of saving humanity. But as the Sapien falls for... Read more

Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov (Radio Theatre) - Abridged

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Geoffrey Beevers

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Foundation Trilogy (BBC Radio) Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy adapted in eight hour-long episodes by the BBC, first broadcast in 1973, and repeated in 1977 and 2002. 1 Episodes o 1.1 Psychohistory and Encyclopedia o 1.2 The Mayors o 1.3 The Merchant Princes o 1.4 The General o 1.5... Read more

Running Scared

By: J.A. Sutherland

Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosa and Mason once had a billion credits—sure, they stole them from a corrupt private-prison corporation, but the bastards deserved it.



Now, that company's tracked them down and kidnapped Mason's mother. The only way to keep her, and themselves, alive is to go to work for the company that once imprisoned them, then head for the Asteroid Belt to... Read more

Rebellion on Planet Sarvage

By: Frelon Bartley

Narrated by: Greg Thomas

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Under a death sentence on two planets, a hero, an outcast, the sole link to an ancient civilization, and the Champion of All Larches, he's Elias of Earth. He's an experienced explorer, a clever scientist, and a terrible planner. Another plan gone amiss pushes him to escape through a quantum portal to the planet of Sarvage, where he finds an... Read more

After the Fall

By: Ryan Casey

Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

With the lights still out, how far will you go to survive?

When an EMP devastated the nation's power supplies and left the country in ruins, Jack, Wayne, Susan, Emma and Logan all fought to seek shelter in a treacherous first day.

But surviving the first day was just the beginning.

Jack has found his way home. But when tragedy strikes, he is... Read more

Madness Unleashed

By: Hayley Lawson & Michael Anderle

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Two-hundred years ago the earth was destroyed by the World’s Worst Day Ever. Keeping his head down for the last few centuries, a mutated vampire has taken advantage of the new post-apocalyptic normal. Now, Ryder is provided an opportunity to escape his tyrannical rule...but she won’t stand for simply disappearing, it’s time for justice. Taking... Read more

First Strike

By: Ann Christy

Narrated by: Ann Christy

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Epidemiologist Giselle Quick is a happy woman. After being lured away from the CDC to work in the private sector, she now has it all: fulfilling work, a great paycheck, and time to spend with her sons. And seriously, who wouldn't like getting paid to play diabolical games all day? That those games save lives makes it perfect.Inside the BG... Read more

The First 7

By: Laura Pohl

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Clover Martinez and The Last Teenagers on Earth are busy exploring the galaxy after leaving earth behind...even if they can't help but be a little homesick. So when their ship receives a distress signal from their former planet, they hope against hope that it means other survivors. But as soon as they arrive, they realize something's deeply... Read more