Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Nihala

By: Scott Burdick

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 23 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Kayla Nighthawk, born crippled and orphaned in the theocratic realm of Potemia, defies her society’s ban against reading the ancient books on sciencecraft. Her search for a cure for her deformities and for the meaning of existence itself becomes a matter of life or death for Kayla—as well as for all of humanity.This is the history of the next... Read more

Immortal Moon

By: June Stevens Westerfield

Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Anya Moon only has one personal rule: don’t date vampires. She never dreamed the price for breaking it could be her life.In his five hundred years as an assassin, Jarrett Campbell has never gone beyond a one-night stand with a woman. As a vampire, he knows a lasting relationship with a Norm is out of the question. But Anya Moon is just too... Read more

Extinction Evolution

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s a storm on the horizon …Central Command is gone, the military is fractured, and the surviving members of Team Ghost, led by Master Sergeant Reed Beckham, have been pushed to the breaking point. While the strong return to the battlefield, the wounded are forced to stay behind on Plum Island and fight their inner demons.Betrayed by the... Read more

Elysium

By: Jennifer Marie Brissett

Narrated by: Jamye Grant

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell—the story of two people, of a city lost to chaos, of survival and love. The program’s data, however, has been corrupted. As the novel’s characters struggle to survive the apocalypse, they are sustained and challenged by the demands of love in a shattered world both haunted and... Read more

The Weaver

By: Emmi Itäranta

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with this literary ecological tale in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin and Sheri S. Tepper, in which an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous island world.Eliana is a model citizen of the island,... Read more

The Rift Uprising

By: Amy S. Foster

Narrated by: Claire Coffee

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“High emotional stakes and an intriguing premise make this first entry in Foster’s new trilogy a solid next read for those who enjoyed Pierce Brown’s Red Rising or Veronica Roth’s Divergent."" -- Library JournalAn alternate reality that feels all-too-real, The Rift Uprising is the explosive start to a new trilogy that blurs the line between... Read more

The Running Man

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman. “Under any name King mesmerizes the reader” (Chicago Sun-Times).

Ben Richards is a desperate man. With no job, no money, no way out, and a young daughter in need of proper... Read more

Dark Tower IV

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 27 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Extras

By: Scott Westerfeld

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The final installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.

A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood takes down the Specials regime, a cultural renaissance sweeps the world. “Tech-heads” flaunt their latest gadgets, “kickers” spread gossip and trends,... Read more

The Fever Code (Maze Runner, Book Five; Prequel)

By: James Dashner

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MAZE RUNNER SERIES • “[A] mysterious survival saga that passionate fans describe as a fusion of Lord of the Flies [and] The Hunger Games” (Entertainment Weekly)

The story that fans all over the world have been waiting for — the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze — is finally here. You do not want to... Read more

Ninth City Burning

By: J. Patrick Black

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman, Lincoln Hoppe, Ryan Gese...

Length: 21 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Red Rising, Starship Troopers, and Ender’s Game comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut...

We never saw them coming. 

Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering... Read more

Marrow Island

By: Alexis M. Smith

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you give to save the thing you love the most?

It has been twenty years since Lucie Bowen left the islands. Twenty years ago, the May Day Quake set loose catastrophic waves along the west coast, from Alaska to California, shattering thousands of lives. Twenty years ago, Lucie’s father disappeared in an explosion at the Marrow Island oil... Read more

Dominion

By: John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The third thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders adventure from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard mixes classic sci-fi with gripping suspense and richly drawn characters.

Syl Hellais and Paul Kerr have traveled through Derith, the mysterious wormhole from which no traveler has ever returned. Yet Derith’s secrets... Read more

KIZUMONOGATARI

By: NISIOISIN

Narrated by: Keith Silverstein, Eric Kimerer & Cristina Vee

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Around midnight, under a lonely street lamp in a provincial town in Japan, lies a white woman, a blonde, alone, robbed of all four limbs, yet undead. Indeed, a rumor's been circulating among the local girls that a vampire has come to their backwater, of all places.

Koyomi Araragi, who prefers to avoid having friends because they'd lower his... Read more

Blood for Blood

By: Ryan Graudin

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The action-packed, thrilling sequel to Ryan Graudin's Wolf by Wolf.

There would be blood.

Blood for blood.

Blood to pay.

An entire world of it.

For the resistance in 1950s Germany, the war may be over, but the fight has just begun.

Death camp survivor Yael, who has the power to skinshift, is on the run: The world has just seen her shoot and kill... Read more

The Tourist

By: Robert Dickinson

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"A rare treat: a time travel tale that brings something new to the subgenre. . ..A wry social commentary and an uneasy tale of escalating paranoia." Guardian

THE FUTURE IS ALREADY WRITTEN.

THE FUTURE HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.

"Welcome to the 21st Century. Please don't feed the natives. . ..Echoes of Bradbury and Orwell, in the service of a crackerjack... Read more

The Emperor's Railroad

By: Guy Haley

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Global war devastated the environment, a zombie-like plague wiped out much of humanity, and civilization as we once understood it came to a standstill. But that was a thousand years ago, and the world is now a very different place.

Conflict between city states is constant, superstition is rife, and machine relics, mutant creatures and resurrected... Read more

Flawed

By: Cecelia Ahern

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In her breathtaking young adult debut, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern depicts a society in Flawed in which perfection is paramount and flaws are punished. And where one young woman decides to take a stand that could cost her everything.

Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates... Read more

Only Ever Yours

By: Louise O'Neill

Narrated by: Emma Weaver

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. freida and isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their... Read more

The Detainee

By: Peter Liney

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Liney honed his strong narrative skills and attention to detail during his long career as a writer of German, Australian, British, and South African television and radio programs. In his debut novel, The Detainee, Liney has created a dystopian world in which the state has gone bust and can no longer support its weakest members.

The Island... Read more

Replica

By: Lauren Oliver

Narrated by: Sarah Drew & Erin Spencer

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Two girls, two stories, one epic novel.From Lauren Oliver, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy, comes an epic, masterful novel that explores issues of individuality, identity, and humanity. Replica contains two narratives in one: Lyra’s story and Gemma’s story. The stories can be read separately, one after... Read more

Expiration Day

By: William Campbell Powell

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Expiration Day is an insightful coming-of-age novel set in the near future by debut author William Campbell Powell. It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she’s a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When... Read more

Extinction End

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hope rises in the hearts of those still left standing, but safety seems to be just an illusion. In a single night of shattering terror, Plum Island is destroyed, and key scientist Dr. Kate Lovato is abducted.The end has arrived …Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world. The remnants of the United States... Read more

ZFINITY

By: David Achord

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It's now two years since the zombie apocalypse changed the world. Survival is precarious for Zach Gunderson and his friends. They are encountering zombies who are evolving into something more than mindless automatons, and the group dynamic is threatened by the revelation of a murderer in their midst. They handle each situation in their own... Read more