Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

After James

By: Michael Helm

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Ray Chase & Amy McFadden

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Joshua Cohen and Ben Lerner, After James captures the dystopian strangeness of our current world.A neuroscientist walks out of her life and isolates herself in the woods, intending to blow the whistle on a pharmaceutical company and its creativity drug gone wrong. A recently orphaned graduate school dropout is hired as a “literary... Read more

The Boy on the Bridge

By: M. R. Carey

Narrated by: Finty Williams

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting post-apocalyptic standalone set in the same world as the USA Today-bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts.

Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy.

The people thought the boy could save them, so... Read more

Children of Eden

By: Joey Graceffa

Narrated by: Sarah Grayson

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel from YouTube sensation Joey Graceffa dares to ask the question: What would you do in order to survive if your very existence were illegal?

Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends,... Read more

Cormorant Run

By: Lilith Saintcrow

Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Aliens meets Under the Dome in this new post-apocalyptic novel from New York Times bestseller Lilith Saintcrow.

It could have been aliens, it could have been a trans-dimensional rift, nobody knows for sure. What's known is that there was an Event, the Rifts opened up, and everyone caught inside died.


Since the Event certain people have gone into... Read more

Liberty

By: Rebecca Belliston

Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Chicago is burning. A rebellion rises, but that’s the least of Carrie’s concerns. Patrolman Simmons is assigned new partners who threaten the security and secrecy of Carrie’s clan. Tensions are high, lines are drawn, and Carrie feels a wedge growing between her and Greg.Haunted by past mistakes and impending tragedies, Greg knows he should... Read more

Extinction Aftermath

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A new monster emerges …Newly christened as the leader of Delta Force Team Ghost, Master Sergeant Joe Fitzpatrick arrives in Normandy over seventy years after Allied Forces joined the fight against the Nazis. The war to free survivors and eradicate pockets of adult Variants and their offspring is underway by the European Unified Forces. But as... Read more

Prodigy

By: Dave Kalstein

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 2036, the world’s best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education—and developmental drug regimen—available. Graduates go on to dominate in all the top colleges, Forbes 500 companies, and government positions.But when... Read more

Annihilation

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award–winning novel that “reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world” (Kim Stanley Robinson). This 10th... Read more

Remnants of Tomorrow

By: Kassy Tayler

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Wren is in the last place she ever wanted to be: back inside the dome. Held as a prisoner of her father, the Master General Enforcer, she is completely cut off from the outside. After a harrowing escape attempt, and finding Levi trapped in a cell, Wren's world is further turned upside down by what could be Pace's ultimate betrayal. Only Pace's... Read more

The Word Exchange

By: Alena Graedon

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert & Richard Powers

Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange is a fresh, stylized, and decidedly original debut about the dangers of technology and the power of the printed word.In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted "death of print" has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are a thing of the... Read more

Ashes of Twilight

By: Kassy Tayler

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city that was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to protect the royal bloodline of England when astronomers spotted a comet on a collision course with Earth. Humanity would be saved by the most groundbreaking technology of the time. But after nearly two hundred years of life beneath the dome,... Read more

Immobility

By: Brian Evenson

Narrated by: Mauro Hantman

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

You open your eyes for what you know is not the first time and you remember nothing. You find out that a catastrophic event known as the Kollaps has destroyed life as we know it. Someone claiming to be your friend tells you that you're needed. Something crucial has been stolen—but under no circumstances can you know what or why. You've got to... Read more

The Deportees: and Other Stories

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Hugh Lee

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The eight tales in Roddy Doyle’s first-ever collection of stories have one thing in common: someone born in Ireland meets someone who has come to live there. New Boy describes the first day of school for a nine-year-old boy from Africa; while in The Pram, a terrifying ghost story, a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters... Read more

The Harrows of Spring

By: James Howard Kunstler

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, The Harrows of Spring concludes the quartet of his extraordinary World Made by Hand novels, set in an American future of economic and political collapse, where electricity, automobiles, and the familiar social structures of the “old times” are a misty... Read more

The Extinction Cycle Boxed Set, Books 1–3

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 25 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are the first three books of the bestselling, award-winning, and top-rated Extinction Cycle series. Extinction HorizonThe worst of nature and the worst of science will bring the human race to the brink of extinction.Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force team, code named Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never... Read more

Culdesac

By: Robert Repino

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The war with no name rages on, setting the world on fire. Humanity faces extinction at the hands of the Colony, a race of intelligent ants seeking to overthrow the humans and establish a new order. To achieve this, the ants use their strange technology to transform the surface animals into highly evolved killing machines who rise up and murder... Read more

Domain

By: Steve Alten

Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object wasn’t an asteroid …For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice). Julius believes that certain mysterious... Read more

The Dying Game

By: Asa Avdic

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins & Steve West

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state—for fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Dave Eggers’ The Circle, and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games
 
Do you live to play? Or play to live?

The year is 2037. The Soviet Union never fell, and much of Europe has been consolidated under the totalitarian Union of... Read more

Tarnished City

By: Vic James

Narrated by: Avita Jay

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

MAGIC COMPELS. WE BLEED.

The captivating dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage continues. In a modern Britain where magic users control wealth, politics—and you—an uprising has been crushed. In its aftermath, two families will determine the country’s fate. The ruthless Jardines make a play for ultimate power. And the Hadleys, once an... Read more

Gather the Daughters

By: Jennie Melamed

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.

Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of... Read more

Raid

By: K. S. Merbeth

Narrated by: Rachel Frawley

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Afull throttle, sand-in-your-eyes, no holds barred ride through a Mad Max-style wasteland." -- Delilah S. Dawson on Bite

Clementine is a bounty hunter in a world gone mad.

Bound and gagged in her passenger seat is the most revered and reviled raider king in the eastern wastes. She can't cash him in and she can't let him go, so together they... Read more

Out in the Open

By: Jesús Carrasco

Narrated by: W. Morgan Sheppard

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"A harrowing, humane, and very beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You 

A searing dystopian vision of a young boy's flight through an unnamed, savaged country, searching for sanctuary and redemption—a debut novel from one of Europe's bestselling literary stars.
     
A young boy has fled his home. He’s pursued by... Read more

Grim Reaper

By: Steve Alten

Narrated by: Michael Braun

Length: 18 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Dante’s Inferno, his depiction of hell, was written while Europe was suffering through war, famine, the corruption of the Church, and the evils of the pogrom—the brutal massacre of countless Jews. Shortly after Dante’s passing, the black plague killed off half the world’s population, an end-of-days-like event that birthed a legend depicted in... Read more

Velocity

By: Chris Wooding

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Fast and the Furious meets The Hunger Games in acclaimed author Chris Wooding's blistering vision of the future.Buckle up for a fast-paced, high-octane thrill ride!Cassica and Shiara are best friends. They couldn't be more different, but their differences work to their advantage -- especially when they're drag racing. Cassica is fearless and... Read more