Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Only Ones

By: Carola Dibbell

Narrated by: Sasha Dunbrooke

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental ethics... Read more

The Invasion of the Tearling

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting sequel to the national bestseller The Queen of the Tearling, the evil kingdom of Mortmesne invades the Tearling, with dire consequences for Kelsea and her realm.With each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into her new responsibilities as Queen of the Tearling. By stopping the shipments of slaves to the neighboring kingdom of... Read more

The Line of Departure

By: G. Michael Hopf

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping new novel from one of the best-known names in survivalist fiction.

Former Marine-turned-author, G. Michael Hopf grabs readers from page one with his breathtaking blend of action, adventure, and political intrigue. The End—the first book in Hopf ’s New World series—has sold more than 50,000 copies, and word of mouth is quickly building... Read more

Survivors, Series 2 (Unabridged)

By: Ken Bentley, Louise Jameson & Matt Fitton

Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour, Ian McCulloch, Lucy Fleming, L...

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying. When most of the world's population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces. Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete. Mankind must start again: 1: Dark... Read more

High-Opp

By: Frank Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Published posthumously, this dystopian novel was written between Frank Herbert's classics The Dragon in the Sea and Dune.EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the... Read more

Outage

By: Ellisa Barr

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Chaos reigns after an electromagnetic pulse attack destroys the country’s power grid and sends the United States back to the Dark Ages. The hit leaves fifteen-year-old Dee stranded on a farm in rural Washington, where basic survival is the top priority. But without the essentials—electricity, clean water, even her cell phone—does Dee have a... Read more

The Remaining: Faith

By: D. J. Molles

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Dan Molles' stunning Remaining saga continues in the first novella in the series set in a world ravaged by a bacterium that has turned 90% of the population into ravenous animals.

The world is slipping into chaos. A mysterious plague has come stateside, and Clyde Bealey suddenly finds himself with nothing but a suitcase full of worthless things... Read more

The Subprimes

By: Karl Taro Greenfeld

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In a future America that feels increasingly familiar, you are your credit score. Extreme wealth inequality has created a class of have-nothings: Subprimes. Their bad credit ratings make them unemployable. Jobless and without assets, they've walked out on mortgages, been foreclosed upon, or can no longer afford a fixed address. Fugitives who must... 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

Maximum Ride Forever

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Kasey Lee Huizinga

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Navigate a post-apocalyptic world and experience a thrilling finale with the ultimate Maximum Ride novel.
Discover the ninth and ultimate Maximum Ride story! Legions of Max fans won't be disappointed by this encore episode in the beloved series about the incredible adventures of a teenage girl who can fly. As Maximum Ride boldly navigates a... Read more

The Undying: Shades

By: Ethan Reid

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Undying “screams for a sequel” (Publishers Weekly)—and Ethan Reid delivers, in this riveting follow-up to “a thriller that brings a genuinely fresh take to a monstrous mythology” (Andrew Pyper, #1 bestselling author of The Demonologist).

THE FATE OF THE WORLD IS IN HIS HANDS.

The Undying: SHADES finds American student Jeanie and her young... Read more

The Gold Coast

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This second book in Kim Stanley Robinson's richly detailed Three Californias triptych reveals a second, all-too-plausible possible future for Orange County.North America, 2027. Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young... Read more

Thicker Than Blood

By: Claire C. Riley & Madeline Sheehan

Narrated by: CJ Bloom

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Leisel and Evelyn lost everything. Husbands. Families. Friends. Lives that made sense. All they had left was each other, and a friendship that could withstand anything...even an apocalypse. Until one fateful night, the marginal safety they’d come to rely on comes to a vicious and brutal end, only to find themselves face-to-face with a much... Read more

Depth

By: Lev AC Rosen

Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

DEPTH follows private investigator Simone Pierce in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan submerged and surrounded by unforgiving ocean. Only the tallest skyscrapers are still habitable, fortified by cutting-edge Plasteel and connected by a network of bridges and boats (ranging from hyper-lux to barely seaworthy). A routine case turns into a deadly one... Read more

Mad World

By: Kate L. Mary

Narrated by: Hillary Huber & Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivian and Hadley find themselves in a situation that is even more threatening than the dead walking the earth. Kidnapped by armed men and taken deep into Las Vegas, they're cut off from anyone who cares about them and thrust into a world so sick and twisted that it can only be described as madness. With little hope of being found, Vivian and... Read more

True Son

By: Lana Krumwiede

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Powerful forces collide in this explosive conclusion to the middle-grade dystopian Psi Chronicles trilogy.Four months ago, Taemon was able to stave off an invasion by the Republik Army by using tricks to convince his enemies that the people of Deliverance still had the telekinetic ability known as psi. Now, though, the truth of his deception has... Read more

Darknet

By: Matthew Mather

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of CyberStorm comes a wild ride through the Wall Street underworld.One minute Jake O'Connell is on top of the world with a beautiful family and bright future as a stock broker in New York; the next, it's all ripped away when he's embroiled in a fraud investigation, his childhood friend is murdered, and he finds... 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

Second Activation

By: Darren Wearmouth & Marcus Wearmouth

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It began in First Activation, when military veterans Harry and Jack arrived at a silent JFK airport and a New York City full of madmen driven to kill one another.In Second Activation, the two brothers escape from Monroe, Michigan, and head for New York to face down Genesis Alliance, a despotic organization that is implementing the chaos to... Read more

A Tale of Light and Shadow

By: Jacob Gowans

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A medieval adventure for young adults, A Tale of Light and Shadow is the story of a boy struggling to become a courageous and honorable man and a girl who is desperately in love with him despite her father’s disapproval. The book chronicles the extraordinary tasks their adventure asks of their band of five friends and how those demands can... Read more

Shattered World

By: Kate L. Mary

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Stranded in the middle of the Mojave Desert, surrounded by zombies, Vivian and Axl are sure that they're facing the end. They meet a billionaire who's promised them safety and security, but it's almost too good to be true. Vivian hopes that she'll finally able to deal with the loss of Emily, her growing feelings for Axl, and the terrifying new... Read more

The Gemini Effect

By: Chuck Grossart

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Winner, Best Science Fiction NovelAmazon Breakthrough Novel Award FinalistA single raindrop opens a Pandora’s box when the spawn of perverse genetic research performed during World War II is unleashed on an unsuspecting modern world. By dawn, only a dead city remains, eerily quiet and still, except for... 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

First Activation

By: Darren Wearmouth & Marcus Wearmouth

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Brothers Harry and Jack leave Manchester for New York City for their annual weekend getaway. But upon arrival, they find a silent, deserted JFK, where the few ground crew they can spot have all been slaughtered.Harry and Jack are military veterans, but they’ve never encountered anything like this.As they witness the carnage and stumble across... Read more