Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Revelations

By: Paul Antony Jones

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

There is nowhere left to run. In the wake of the deadly plague that virtually annihilated the human race, a vast red jungle teeming with alien creatures and lethal plants is devouring Earth, swallowing buildings whole and ruthlessly decimating what life remains. A witness to the terrifying transformation, survivor Emily Baxter thinks the odds... Read more

The Wrath of the Just

By: Manel Loureiro

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From apocalypse...An act of terrorism unleashed an unspeakable biological weapon...and hell on earth. But as the masses felled by a hideous virus rose from the dead to prey on the living, a small band of survivors defied death and its ghastly spawn—determined to outrun the world’s end and somehow begin again.To Armageddon...But beyond the... Read more

Glory

By: Maureen McGowan

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Glory is a Deviant. That is what she was always taught, growing up in the domed city of Haven. She has the power to kill with her gaze, but she’s learned to control this power and use it only against the monstrous Shredders, who survive on the asteroid dust that mutated their DNA.Now living in a settlement Outside, Glory has the chance to... Read more

Shield and Crocus

By: Michael R. Underwood

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In a city built among the bones of a fallen giant, a small group of heroes looks to reclaim their home from the five criminal tyrants who control it.The city of Audec-Hal sits among the bones of a Titan. For decades it has suffered under the dominance of five tyrants, all with their own agendas. Their infighting is nothing, though, compared to... Read more

Blightborn

By: Chuck Wendig

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Cael McAvoy is on the run.He’s heading toward the Empyrean to rescue his sister, Merelda, and to find Gwennie before she’s lost to Cael forever. With his pals, Lane and Rigo, Cael journeys across the Heartland to catch a ride into the sky. But with Boyland and others after them, Cael and his friends won’t make it through unchanged.Gwennie’s... Read more

The Dystopia Chronicles

By: Matthew Mather

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in the bestselling Atopia series.Cast out from Atopia, Robert Baxter undertakes a globe-trotting quest to find his friend Willy’s lost body, which just may hold the key to understanding the dangers facing his home…and Jimmy Scadden’s role in the disasters that are spreading across the world.As Robert pieces together the puzzle,... 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

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

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

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

Some Fine Day

By: Kat Ross

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A generation ago, continent-sized storms called hypercanes caused the Earth to flood. The survivors were forced to retreat deep underground and build a new society.This is the story that sixteen-year-old Jansin Nordqvist has heard all of her life.Jansin grew up in a civilization far below the Earth’s surface. She’s spent the last eight years in... 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

Scripted

By: Maya Rock

Narrated by: Jessica Almasy

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Reality is deadly when you go off script.Bliss Island seems like an idyllic place to live—especially to the people suffering on the war-torn mainland. What's not so idyllic about Bliss is the fact that the Island is a set, and everyone's life is a performance; they're all stars of a hit reality TV show, Blissful Days. Characters on the show... 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

Lizard Radio

By: Pat Schmatz

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In a futuristic society run by an all-powerful Gov, a bender teen on the cusp of adulthood has choices to make that will change her life—and maybe the world. Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, an ardent nonconformist, Kivali has always been surrounded by... Read more

The Harvest

By: Chuck Wendig

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Blood will water the corn...It’s been a year since the Saranyu flotilla fell from the sky, and life in the Heartland has changed. Gone are the Obligations and the Harvest Home festivals. In their place is a spate of dead towns, the former inhabitants forced into mechanical bodies to serve the Empyrean—and crush the Heartland.When Cael awakens... Read more

The Phoenix Descent

By: Chuck Grossart

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 2025. Astronaut Caitlyn “Sif” Wagner and her team emerge from stasis to discover that their Mars mission has gone terribly awry—the crew has run off course in space and, they suspect, in time as well. Their damaged ship returns to an Earth reduced to overgrown cities and blasted terrain. Yet humans have somehow survived, living in... Read more

This Is the Night

By: Jonah C. Sirott

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world at war, four youths try to determine what’s really worth fighting for.For more than twenty years, the Homeland has been immersed in a brutal, unwinnable war. Young men are drafted and sent to fight in a faraway jungle. Those who come back are scarred in body and mind. Lance, two weeks shy of turning eighteen, has watched his older... Read more

Genesis

By: Paul Antony Jones

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

After an alien invasion devastates humanity, a battered group of survivors huddles in a remote outpost, fighting to endure in a now-hostile world. Resources are dwindling, and internal power struggles threaten to tear apart the fragile last vestige of human society.Emily Baxter remains haunted by vivid dreams of Earth’s new masters. With these... Read more

Written in Fire

By: Marcus Sakey

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive conclusion to the bestselling Brilliance TrilogyFor thirty years humanity struggled to cope with the brilliants, the one percent of people born with remarkable gifts. For thirty years we tried to avoid a devastating civil war.We failed.The White House is a smoking ruin. Madison Square Garden is an internment camp. In Wyoming, an... Read more

Rules for Werewolves

By: Kirk Lynn

Narrated by: Nick Podehl & Lauren Ezzo

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, a visionary debut novel about shelter, escape, family, violence, and dumpster-diving.It’s the story of a restless group of young squatters. They’ve run away from their families and their pasts, questing after knowledge of their most wild selves, roaming the half-empty suburbs of America, occupying... Read more

Sugar Skulls

By: Lisa Mantchev & Glenn Dallas

Narrated by: Scott Merriman & Kate Rudd

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Cyrene, a city where energy is currency and music is the lifeblood of its young citizens. Everyone lives on the grid, and the residents of the world’s largest playground are encouraged to pursue every physical and emotional pleasure imaginable.Vee is the lead singer of the Sugar Skulls, an all-girl band that is Corporate’s newest pet... Read more

New Charity Blues

By: Camille Griep

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo & Whitney Dykhouse

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this intense, post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Trojan War epic, two women clash when loyalty, identity, community, and family are all put to the ultimate test.After a devastating plague, two communities emerge as bastions of survival. One is called the City, and its people scrabble for scraps in the wasteland. The other, New Charity,... Read more

Toward Yesterday

By: Paul Antony Jones

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself twenty-five years in the past? For the nine billion people living in the year 2042 it’s no longer a question…it’s a reality.When a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded in the past alongside the rest of mankind. Here the old are young once more,... Read more