Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

All City

By: Alex DiFrancesco

Narrated by: Eboni Flowers, Eileen Stevens, Jayme Mattler & ...

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

All City is more than a novel, it’s a foreshadowing of a world to come.In a near-future New York City ravaged by climate change and economic inequality, a superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Among those who remain are twenty-four-year-old Makayla, who works in the city’s most ubiquitous... Read more

The Remnants

By: Robert J. Peterson

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove & JD Jackson

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The apocalypse happened, but no one knows how. All that’s left are a smattering of bizarro cities called remnants, each ruled by a grotesque potentate known as an Odd. If you wind up in hock to the Odds, they ship you to a chain-gang that stretches thousands of miles across desert, steppe, and tundra.A good-hearted drifter named Eldridge is a... Read more

3in1 Off the Grid Collection

By: Alyssa Cole

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 24 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Cole’s Off the Grid series succeeds because it captures the unsettling details of its dystopian setting beautifully, but also because its main characters are so very human and relatable.” —RT Book Reviews

Radio Silence
No one expects the apocalypse.

Arden Highmore was living your average postgrad life in Rochester, New York, when someone flipped... Read more

The Creed

By: WJ Lundy & AJ Powers

Narrated by: Andrew B Wehrlen

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Creed is post-apocalyptic short story.Deo, patriae, familia. God, country, family. In a world ravaged by nuclear war and tyrannical governments, these words bear no weight for most people. But for some, these words and this creed mean everything. It’s why they live. Why they fight. When one of them is threatened, they’re all threatened, and... Read more

The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted

By: Conor Grennan

Narrated by: Zach Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Young listeners will find action, suspense, and a perilous battle between good and evil in The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted from New York Times bestselling author Conor Grennan. For ages 10 and up, this dystopian fantasy novel follows a boy's unlikely journey to save humanity as he unravels his true identity and the responsibility it... Read more

Find Me

By: Tahereh Mafi

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Calling all fans of Tahereh Mafi’s New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series! This gorgeous paperback bind-up includes Shadow Me and Reveal Me, the third and fourth novellas in the series, both in print for the first time ever. In Shadow Me, Juliette is still reeling from Warner's betrayal, and Kenji is trying to balance his friendship with... Read more

salt slow

By: Julia Armfield

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Artistic and perceptive, Armfield’s debut explores the ebbs and flows of human connection in lives touched by the bizarre." - Kirkus

From White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link.

In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s... Read more

From the Ashes

By: Kyla Stone

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the ashes, heroes will rise...In an instant, Miami was devastated by a nuclear bomb. Millions fled the destruction as the lethal fallout descended.Now, the entire city is a hot zone. Hundreds of thousands of citizens are homeless, hungry, and growing more desperate with every passing hour.While the government scrambles to respond to the... Read more

From the Ashes

By: Kyla Stone

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the ashes, heroes will rise...In an instant, Miami was devastated by a nuclear bomb. Millions fled the destruction as the lethal fallout descended.Now, the entire city is a hot zone. Hundreds of thousands of citizens are homeless, hungry, and growing more desperate with every passing hour.While the government scrambles to respond to the... Read more

Trinity Sight

By: Jennifer Givhan

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Southwest Book Award“Our people are survivors,” Calliope’s great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots—could Bisabuela’s ancient myths be true?Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone... Read more

Villain

By: Michael Grant

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Michael Grant’s globally bestselling Gone series continues with Villain, where old foes return and new ones rise, with action-packed scenes, gory battles, and plot twists that will leave readers scrambling for more. It’s been four years since the events of GONE. The Perdido Beach dome is down, but the horrors within have spread.... Read more

Rebel

By: Marie Lu

Narrated by: Nile Bullock & Steven Kaplan

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"The plot is fast paced, the narrators are engaging, and the story is an excellent addition to Lu's popular dystopian works." — AudioFile Magazine

Respect the Legend. Idolize the Prodigy. Celebrate the Champion. But never underestimate the Rebel.

With unmatched suspense and her signature cinematic storytelling, #1 New York Times–bestselling... Read more

Ambush

By: Dean M. Cole

Narrated by: R.C. Bray

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author and narrator team from Solitude: Dimension Space Book One.A routine flight. An encounter with the impossible. A race against time.Captain Jake Giard's world is turned upside down when a routine training flight becomes an encounter with the impossible. After seeing a UFO with physics-defying abilities, Jake finds himself at... Read more

Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Typhoon

By: Wesley Chu

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting, “gory, and action-packed” (Jonathan Maberry) survival thriller, set in the expansive world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series, three people from different walks of life in China must join forces against the typhoon of undead as chaos sweeps over Asia.

In the aftermath of the zombie virus outbreak, what remains of the... Read more

The Wave

By: Todd Strasser

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hitler Youth, has its own salute, chants, and... Read more

Going Gone

By: Susan Kiernan-Lewis

Narrated by: Susan Kiernan-Lewis

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In Going Gone, Book 2 of the dystopian series, The Irish End Game, tragedy strikes the three Americans where they live in Ireland. Sarah Woodson is brutally taken across the Irish Sea to the pastoral beauty of England’s Cotswold’s and discovers the horrors of a post-apocalyptic sex slave trade.Determined to escape her captors—including a monster... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, winner of the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never... Read more

Los testamentos (latino)

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Jane Santos, Fabiola Stevenson, Ana Osorio, Ale...

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

En esta extraordinaria secuela de El cuento de la criada, la aclamada autora Margaret Atwood responde a las preguntas que han dejado expectantes a los lectores durante décadas. Novela ganadora del Man Booker Prize 2019 Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe tras Defred al final de El cuento de la criada, los lectores no tenían... Read more

Dystopian Health Collection

By: Mad Robots

Narrated by: Martin Landry

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

If you love dystopian stories, you came to the right place.This is an anthology of the short story series Dystopian Health Collection - stories about human health in dystopian societies. In each story, we explore a new topic around health and how modern developments can turn into a dystopian society. Four dark stories around health with a bonus... Read more

Verify

By: Joelle Charbonneau

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wow! Shades of Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell’s 1984. Painfully real and urgent. Read this book.” —Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone seriesBestselling author Joelle Charbonneau’s eerily timely, high-stakes page-turner is destined to start important conversations at this particular moment in our history. Meri Beckley lives... Read more

Running Start

By: J.A. Sutherland

Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you discovered you'd been sold?



For Mason Guthrie, a sudden arrest, railroad trial, and quick conviction for the "vandalism" of fixing things around his tenement building come as a shock.



For Rosa Fuentes, it's just more confirmation that, to Earth's rulers, they're nothing but commodities to be bought and sold.



Together—along with Rosa's... Read more

A Second Chance

By: Vasily Mahanenko

Narrated by: BJ Harrison

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

More Barliona adventures from the bestselling author of the Way of the Shaman LitRPG series!



Reality is cruel. The rising level of technological development has led to a rising level of unemployment. They're laying off everybody, from teachers to technical servicemen. What's the point of holding onto a person if they can be replaced by an... Read more

Earthquake Weather

By: Tim Powers

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 22 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman possessed by a ghost has slain the Fisher King of the West, Scott Crane. Now, temporarily freed from that malevolent spirit, she seeks to restore the King to life. But Crane's body has been taken to the magically protected home of Pete and Angelica Sullivan, and their adopted son, Koot Hoomie. Kootie is destined to be the next... Read more

Surrogate Protocol

By: Tham Cheng-E

Narrated by: Benjamin Chow

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Landon Locke is no ordinary barista. A man of many names and identities, he has lived through many lifetimes, but his memory spans only days. Danger brews as Landon struggles to piece together reality through his fog of amnesia. A mysterious organisation called CODEX bent on hunting him down, a man named John who claims to be a friend, and... Read more