Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

City of Bohane

By: Kevin Barry

Narrated by: Kevin Barry

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award

Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award


Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower... Read more

A Calculated Life

By: Anne Charnock

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Debut Novel) AwardLate in the twenty-first century, big business is booming and state institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic engineering, which have produced a compliant population free of addictions. Violent crime is a rarity.Hyper-intelligent Jayna is a... Read more

Gods of Earth

By: Craig DeLancey

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Thousands of years after a war against the gods drove humanity nearly extinct, something divine stirs. It awakens the Guardian, an ancient being pledged to destroy the gods—a task it believes long-accomplished. Through deep caverns, he makes his way to the desolate surface of Earth and stalks toward the last human settlements, seeking the source... Read more

The People of the Ruins

By: Edward Shanks

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Not only have his fellow Londoners forgotten most of what humankind used to know, before civilization... Read more

The Seventh Day

By: Scott Shepherd

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven years after the Strangers decimated the planet, Joad is one of the Remaining, the few left unharmed when most of humanity was obliterated. He was halfway around the world when disaster struck and has been trying ever since to get home to Nemo, where he prays his wife waits for him.Days from his destination, Joad’s thrown off-course by four... Read more

The Last Dogs: The Long Road

By: Christopher Holt

Narrated by: Andrew Bates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A science experiment gone horribly awry has granted Max, Rocky, and Gizmo the unique ability to read and understand human words. Armed with this know-how, they continue to journey south, on the lookout for beacons planted by a trusted friend's owner -- beacons that promise to lead the trio to their people.
When the companions reach the ocean's... Read more

Nightmare City

By: Andrew Klavan

Narrated by: Andrew Klavan

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

As a reporter for his high school newspaper, Tom Harding was tracking the best story of his life - when, suddenly, his life turned very, very weird. He woke up one morning to find his house empty...his whole town empty...empty except for an eerie fog - and whatever creatures were slowly moving toward him through the fog. How did it happen? Is it... Read more

World After

By: Susan Ee

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world. When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken. Penryn... Read more

The Trap

By: Andrew Fukuda

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From author Andrew Fukuda comes The Trap, the explosive finale to The Hunt trilogy.

After barely escaping the Mission alive, Gene and Sissy face an impossible task: staying alive long enough to stop an entire world bent on their destruction. Bound on a train heading into the unknown with the surviving Mission girls, Gene, Sissy, David, and Epap... Read more

Champion

By: Marie Lu

Narrated by: Steven Kaplan & Mariel Stern

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive finale to Marie Lu’s New York Times bestselling LEGEND trilogy—perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and DIVERGENT!

He is a Legend.
She is a Prodigy.
Who will be Champion?  
 
June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic—and each other—and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the... Read more

Prodigy

By: Marie Lu

Narrated by: Mariel Stern & Steven Kaplan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request - June and Day must assassinate the new... Read more

The Last Dogs: The Long Road

By: Christopher Holt

Narrated by: Andrew Bates

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A science experiment gone horribly awry has granted Max, Rocky, and Gizmo the unique ability to read and understand human words. Armed with this know-how, they continue to journey south, on the lookout for beacons planted by a trusted friend's owner -- beacons that promise to lead the trio to their people.
When the companions reach the ocean's... Read more

Surviving Home

By: A. American

Narrated by: Duke Fontaine

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

No electricity. No running water. No food. No end in sight. If life as you knew it changed in an instant, would you be prepared?

In A. American’s first novel, Going Home, readers were introduced to Morgan Carter, the resourceful, tough-as-nails survivalist who embarks on a treacherous 250-mile journey across Florida following the collapse of the... Read more

Going Home

By: A. American

Narrated by: Duke Fontaine

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

If society collapsed, could you survive?

When Morgan Carter’s car breaks down 250 miles from his home, he figures his weekend plans are ruined. But things are about to get much, much worse: the country’s power grid has collapsed. There is no electricity, no running water, no Internet, and no way to know when normalcy will be restored—if it ever... Read more

Escaping Home

By: A. American

Narrated by: Duke Fontaine

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When society ceases to exist, who can you trust?

After the collapse of the nation’s power grid, America is under martial law—and safety is an illusion. As violence erupts around him, Morgan Carter faces one of his most difficult decisions yet: whether to stay and defend his home, or move to a more isolated area, away from the prying eyes of the... Read more

Horde

By: Ann Aguirre

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic conclusion to Ann Aguirre's USA Today bestselling trilogy.

The horde is coming.

Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a... Read more

Relic

By: Heather Terrell

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The truth will test you.For fans of Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games, high fantasy and dystopia meet in this high-stakes tale of a civilization built on lies and the girl who single-handedly brings it down.When Eva's twin brother, Eamon, falls to his death just a few months before he is due to participate in the Testing, no one expects Eva... Read more

Horde

By: Ann Aguirre

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The epic conclusion to Ann Aguirre's USA Today bestselling trilogy. The horde is coming. Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a... Read more

Allegiant

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Emma Galvin & Aaron Stanford

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that captivated millions of readers and film fans in Divergent and Insurgent. One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed... Read more

Exodus

By: Paul Antony Jones

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Baxter feared she was the sole survivor of a deadly alien plague that swept through New York City, the nation, and the world in a downpour of bloodred rain. And when the dead began transforming into a terrifying new form of life, she feared her survival might be brutally short-lived. Then a human voice crackled from a satellite phone,... Read more

The Circle

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). 

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime.... Read more

Lighthouse Island

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist News of the World Paulette Jiles, the bestselling author of the highly praised novels The Color of Lightning, Stormy Weather, and Enemy Women, pushes into new territory with Lighthouse Island—a captivating and atmospheric story set in the far future—a literary dystopian tale resonant with love... Read more

Theodore Savage

By: Cicely Hamilton

Narrated by: Rosie Best

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When war breaks out in Europe - modern, aerial war whose tactics include displacing entire populations - British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named Theodore Savage, an educated and idle civil servant, must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain...one where science and technology swiftly come to be regarded with... Read more

Dark Days

By: Manel Loureiro

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The electrifying sequel to international best seller Apocalypse ZThe Russian-spawned virus that kills swiftly then ghoulishly resurrects its victims as ravenous cannibals has breached international borders. The infernal progression…From outbreak to epidemic and pandemic to sheer panic, the virus has shredded global civilization. Promised safe... Read more