Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Cold Pools

By: Chris Ward

Narrated by: Noah Lee Margetts

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet me at the end of the world ...As civilization comes to an end, Lewis and Karen take their last vacation to the only cold place left on Earth, the remote resort town of Cold Pools. There, they will say goodbye ...The Col Pools is a short story from Chris Ward an acclaimed science fiction writer from the United Kingdom. His other works... Read more

Reborn

By: Jennifer Rush

Narrated by: Nicholas Tecosky

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Branch is in shambles, but Anna, Sam, Cas, and Nick can't rest easy. Remnants of the organization lurk unseen and the flashbacks to their old lives are only getting stronger--especially Nick's.
Following scattered memories and clues from his Branch file, Nick sets off alone in search of answers and in search of the girl who haunts his dreams.... Read more

Chokepoint

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a semi-sequel to Dead of Night in which four army reservists are assigned to hold a small rural bridge during the early days of the zombie apocalypse. This short story was previously published in the collection Hungry Tales. Read more

Resurrecting Home

By: A. American

Narrated by: Duke Fontaine

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Against all odds, Morgan Carter and his family have endured despite the deteriorating conditions surrounding them. Armed with survivalist tactics, Morgan's crew, alongside their  new friends from the recently-liberated DHS camp, have worked together to build a sustainable communuity. But not all situations can be prepared for. When a massive... Read more

The Last Ship

By: William Brinkley

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 29 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed "an extraordinary novel of men at war" (Washington Post), The Last Ship is the book that inspired the TNT miniseries starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, and Adam Baldwin, with Michael Bay as executive producer.The unimaginable has happened: the world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the USS Nathan... Read more

Risk Alleviator

By: Camille Picott

Narrated by: Michele Carpenter

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

He was engineered for war...but can he be remade for peace?“As a short story, “Risk Alleviator” is packed with greatness...”“A second captivating volume with always endearing characters.”“I loved this little novella and finding out all about Riska. His back story was fascinating!!”-Reviews from Goodreads
Riska was designed as a war machine. 
The... Read more

Exceptional

By: Jess Petosa

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2022, the United States commissioned a group of scientists to experiment with genetic mutations. Their goal was to create a serum that would alter the human genetic code, making the subject stronger and faster. But not only had they created a super serum, but also an airborne virus. By 2025, seventy-five percent of the world's population had... Read more

The Lost

By: James Patterson & Emily Raymond

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch & Spencer Locke

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Whit and Wisty explore the nature of power in James Patterson's final, explosive conclusion to the bestselling Witch & Wizard saga.

Whit and Wisty Allgood have fought and defeated their world's most pernicious threats: the evil dictator, The One Who Is The One, as well as his wicked father and son. But just as the heroic witch and wizard... Read more

A Time to Endure

By: Kyle Pratt

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly virus sweeps across the nation!The exciting saga of Major Caden Westmore continues with A Time to EndureIn the first book Through Many Fires: Strengthen What Remains, nuclear terrorism destroys six American cities. Caden struggles to get home across a stricken, terrified nation.In the second book, A Time to Endure, the nation’s economy... Read more

The Fall of America: Book 1

By: W.R. Benton

Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What if it all came crashing down?It started with the "Biggest" stock market crash in history. Banks shut down under the weight of their bogus investments, and the financial sector failed. People looked to the government to make it all better. They couldn't! Hyper-inflation, mass unemployment and infrastructure started to breakdown. The food... Read more

Cannibal Reign

By: Thomas Koloniar

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

First the asteroid would come, slamming into the earth just north of the Montana border, followed by earthquakes, tsunamis, and unending night. And after that … Hell.Astronomer Marty Chittenden is the first to recognize the approaching doom—a discovery that makes him a marked man.Green Beret Jack Forrest knows the catastrophe is inevitable and... Read more

Empty Eyes

By: T. M. Bilderback

Narrated by: Michael C. Gwynne

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Stiles is spending his Saturday morning mowing his lawn, when his next door neighbor dies a peculiar and spectacular death on Paul's front lawn. Paul knows something terrifying is happening, but he doesn't realize that it's the beginning of a war of survival for humanity.Islamic terrorists have paid rogue Russian scientists to create a... Read more

The Vault of Dreamers

By: Caragh M. O'Brien

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Forge School is the most prestigious arts school in the country. The secret to its success: every moment of the students' lives is televised as part of the insanely popular Forge Show, and the students' schedule includes twelve hours of induced sleep meant to enhance creativity.
But when first-year student Rosie Sinclair skips her sleeping... Read more

Boundary

By: Heather Terrell

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

After surviving the Hunger Games–like Testing, Eva becomes the Aerie's first female Archon. The second installment of the Books of Eva continues the harrowing struggle between past and present, Aerie and Boundary.Eva is the first Maiden in Aerie history to train as an Archon: a sacred leader of the New North. All eyes are watching as she... Read more

Ticker

By: Lisa Mantchev

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A girl with a clockwork heart must make every second count.When Penny Farthing nearly dies, brilliant surgeon Calvin Warwick manages to implant a brass “Ticker” in her chest, transforming her into the first of the Augmented. But soon it’s discovered that Warwick killed dozens of people as he strove to perfect another improved Ticker for Penny,... Read more

Symbiont

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 16 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series.
 
The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde.

Now those who do not... Read more

Stranger

By: Rachel Manija Brown & Sherwood Smith

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies & Chris Patton

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Fast-paced, enormously cinematic, and full of inventive world-building, diverse characters, and moral complexity, Stranger is speculative fiction and its best—and its most true to our lives.Many generations ago, a mysterious cataclysm struck the world. Governments collapsed and people scattered to rebuild where they could. A mutation called the... 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

Chain of Events

By: Fredrik T. Olsson

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning debut thriller about a code that threatens humanity -- and the only man who can crack it.

William Sandberg, once a well-respected military cryptologist pursuing cutting-edge research, is a ruined man. His career is in shambles, his marriage is over, and he's succumbed to a dark depression.

But William's talents haven't gone... Read more

Into the Fire

By: Daniel Willcocks & Michael Anderle

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Caitlin may have freed her town from evil, but the Governor who oppressed them all is still on the loose. Now, Caitlin and her merry band of Revolutionaries take to the Mad-infested woods to hunt the Governor down and deliver revenge before he can do any further damage. But, when they arrive at a town bound under the spell of a strange group... Read more

The Fire Seekers

By: Richard Farr

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The time of our immortality is at hand.An undeciphered language in Crete. A rash of mysterious disappearances, from Bolivia to Japan. An ancient warning at the ruins of Babel. And a new spiritual leader, who claims that human history as we understand it is about to come to an end.Seventeen-year-old Daniel Calder’s world falls apart when a freak... Read more

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Kasey Lee Huizinga

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, the time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution", a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race...and to terminate the... Read more

Frontera

By: Lewis Shiner

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Lewis Shiner's stunning science fiction debutAfter the world's governments collapsed, the corporations took control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors, but Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive; they have discovered a... Read more

In the Afterlight

By: Alexandra Bracken

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

Ruby can’t look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government’s attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. Only Ruby can keep their highly dangerous prisoner in check. But with Clancy Gray, there's no guarantee you're fully in control, and everything comes with a price.When the Children's League... Read more