Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Impact

By: Andreas Christensen

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2072 an object from outer space was discovered that threatened human civilization. A race against time began, and in 2080 the starship Exodus left Earth orbit, saving a small piece of humanity. This is the story of those left behind. Read more

Yellow Locust

By: Justin Joschko

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Selena Flood is a fighter of preternatural talent. But not even her quick fists and nimble feet could save her parents from the forces of New Canaan, the most ruthless and powerful of the despotic kingdoms populating America-that-was. Forced to flee the tyrannical state with her younger brother Simon in tow, Selena is now the last chance for... Read more

Drop by Drop

By: Morgan Llywelyn

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From Morgan Llywelyn, the bestselling author of Lion of Ireland and the Irish Century series, comes Drop by Drop, her first near-future science fiction thriller where technology fails and a small town struggles to survive global catastrophe.In this first book in the Step by Step trilogy, global catastrophe occurs as all plastic mysteriously... Read more

All Roads End Here

By: David Moody

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The second audiobook in the new series from Hater author David Moody is perfect for listeners who like action and horror

Set in the world of David Moody's Hater trilogy, All Roads End Here is the sequel to the "top drawer horror" (Booklist, starred review) One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning.

It’s taken Matthew Dunne almost three months to get home.... Read more

Happy Doomsday

By: David Sosnowski

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The end of the world is the weirdest time to come of age.Welcome to the end of the world. One minute, people are going about their lives, and the next—not. In the wake of the inexplicable purge, only a handful of young misfits remains.When it all went down, “Wizard of Odd” Dev Brinkman was seeking shelter from the taunts of his classmates. Goth... Read more

Rebels of Eden

By: Joey Graceffa

Narrated by: Sarah Grayson

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The electrifying conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Children of Eden series that follows Rowan as she leaves behind the paradise she’s always dreamed of to save Eden—and the world—from a terrible fate.

Rowan is finally in Harmonia, an Earth-friendly, sustainable commune in the wilderness she always believed was dead. Even in this... Read more

The Crossing

By: Jason Mott

Narrated by: Amy Landon, Adam Verner & John Lescault

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Returned comes a high-concept dystopian novel that imagines a world at war and two siblings who are forced on the run, challenged to do whatever it takes to protect themselves and each other.Stay and die or run and survive.Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own... Read more

The Three Secret Cities

By: Matthew Reilly

Narrated by: Sean Mangan

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The “king of hardcore action” (Brad Thor, New York Times bestselling author) and New York Times and #1 international bestselling author weaves a breathless thriller starring Jack West, Jr. that’s “a clever mix of history, mythology, and geography” (Associated Press).

A shadow world behind the real world…

When Jack West, Jr. won the Great Games,... Read more

Ember

By: Brock Adams

Narrated by: Angele Masters, Nicholas Tecosky & Casey Holloway

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Three years ago, the sun began to die. In a desperate attempt to reignite the failing star, the United States joined the rest of the planet in unloading its nuclear arsenal at the flickering ember. The missiles burst from silos in Wyoming and Bangladesh, cocooning the earth in tendrils of smoke as they began their two-and-a-half year journey... Read more

Pacifica

By: Kristen Simmons

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An all-new stand-alone, near-future pirate adventure from the critically acclaimed author of Article 5 and The Glass Arrow The critically acclaimed author of Article 5 and Metaltown brings her trademark action, romance, and frightening prescience to this tale of high seas adventure. For too long our people have suffered, plagued by overcrowding,... Read more

Coming to You Live

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A Newflesh novella from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant.

Shaun and Georgia Mason got out. That's the story people tell, anyway. They told the truth and they lived happily ever after, somewhere in the wilds of Canada. But running away is complicated, and when circumstances force them to return to what they... Read more

Hazards of Time Travel

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates “Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future)... Read more

Trouble No Man

By: Brian Hart

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

American War meets Into the Wild in Brian Hart’s epic saga of one man’s struggle to survive a hostile world—tracing his path from a self-destructive, skateboarding youth in the 90s to the near future as he journeys across a desolate, militia-controlled American West to find his missing family—perfect for fans of Edan Lepuki and Cormac... Read more

Rebel Born

By: Amy A. Bartol

Narrated by: Kate Reinders

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Roselle faces a mind-reeling showdown with the deep state agent controlling her psyche in the Wall Street Journal bestselling conclusion to the Secondborn series.Roselle St. Sismode is many things: victim of a conspiracy, unwilling host of an ever-evolving mind algorithm, spy for a rebel army, and heir to the Fate of Swords. As a warrior, she’s... Read more

The Emissary

By: Yoko Tawada

Narrated by: Julian Cihi

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima... Read more

The Fall of Crazy House

By: James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The best series since The Hunger Games just got better: Escape is just the beginning in this dystopian story of two fearless sisters who must defeat a powerful regime -- or risk becoming what they despise.
Twin sisters Becca and Cassie barely got out of the Crazy House alive. Now they're trained, skilled fighters who fear nothing -- not even the... Read more

Drifters

By: John L. Campbell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The heart-pounding and inventive zombie apocalypse series continues-from "one of the shining stars of the zombie genre." --Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author The survivors of the Omega Virus make a desperate effort to find the living. But the walking dead aren't done with them yet. Helicopter pilot Vladimir Yurish is a man of his... Read more

Born Of Fire

By: PJ McDermott

Narrated by: Daniel Greenberg

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

AD 2095—The Doomsday Clock Strikes MidnightThe theft of an ancient manuscript takes the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Religious leaders are at each other’s throats and governments seem powerless to stop the approaching apocalypse.If you've ever wondered how the end of the world might come about (minus the zombies) and if you like... Read more

The Wild Lands

By: Paul Greci

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Greci's The Wild Lands is a pulse-pounding YA thriller full of shocking plot twists. It’s the ultimate survival tale of humanity’s fight against society’s collapse.

Natural disasters and a breakdown of civilization have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Now, as food runs out and the few who remain turn on each other,... Read more

End Time

By: Daniel Greene

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The protests in front of the embassy aren’t what they seem …In the dark primal jungles of the Congo Basin, something is ravaging the local population. When protests turn violent in front of the US embassy in Kinshasa, only the foreign policy experts paid attention. Civil war erupts, and people rip each other apart in the streets of the African... Read more

A Study in Honor

By: Claire O'Dell

Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection in Parade’s roundup of “25 Hottest Books of Summer 2018” A Paste Magazine’s Most Anticipated 25 books of 2018 pickA Medium’s Books pick for We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 listSet in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon—Sherlock Holmes—in which Dr. Janet Watson and... Read more

The Rising

By: Daniel Greene

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

You either build your world or you burn in someone else’s.With every fleeting moment, the whole world draws closer to being overcome by the deadliest virus known to man.Steele’s family home lies in burnt ruins on the shore of Lake Michigan. His group hunts for his missing mother in the apocalyptic wilderness filled with the dead. Instead he... Read more

The Breaking

By: Daniel Greene

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The hunt is on to find Patient Zero …Both the East and the West Coasts of the United States have collapsed, and the US military is in full retreat. All their attempts to stem the tide of the dead have failed.Former counter-terrorism agent Mark Steele and his fellow survivors have been bushwhacked in the West Virginia hills. The fringe West... Read more

Bits & Pieces

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter & Dana Fredsti

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to the zombie apocalypse wasteland that is the Rot & Ruin in this short story collection from Jonathan Maberry. Benny Imura's zombie-infested adventures are well-chronicled in the gripping novels Rot & Ruin, Dust & Decay, Flesh & Bone, and Fire & Ash. But what else was happening while he was on his quest? Who were the... Read more