Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Buried

By: Kennedy Plumb

Narrated by: Devon Barrington

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Life in the Underground really freakin’ sucks.No freedom, no sunlight, and the whole place smells like armpit.That's what life has been like for Sam and his little sister Ella for the past eight years, ever since the Draft took their parents. So pretty much hell. But at least they had each other.Until they didn’t.As if Underground life couldn’t... Read more

Endurance

By: M.L. Banner

Narrated by: David A. Conatser with Storyline Voice-Over

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The sequel to the #1 international best-seller, Highway.Terrorists’ nuclear explosions brought down America, and plunged the country into chaos.Lexi and her brother barely escaped, finding refuge in an off-grid home in Florida. With their godfather, they hoped to just dig in and ride out society’s collapse.But the enemy is on the move, intent on... Read more

Gray silence

By: Vincent Engel

Narrated by: Matthew Jessner

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

AT FIRST, THE PANDEMICS DECIMATED THE OLD. Written in 2015, before the coronavirus outbreak, Gray Silence is a dystopian novel in which seniors' end-of-life care is now in the hands of the State. An ideal lifestyle in an idyllic setting... But the reality is quite different as the State discreetly gets rid of the most vulnerable. Alexandre... Read more

Les Vieux ne parlent plus - Abridged

By: Vincent Engel

Narrated by: Vincent Engel

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

DANS UN MONDE FRAGILISÉ PAR LES PANDÉMIES, ON AVAIT D'ABORD SACRIFIÉ LES VIEUX. Écrit en 2015, avant la pandémie du coronavirus, Les vieux ne parlent plus est une dystopie où l'État rend petit à petit en main la fin de vie des personnes âgées. La promesse ? Une vie digne et paisible dans un cadre idyllique. Mais la réalité est tout autre…... Read more

The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

Narrated by: Karie Richards

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for Canada Reads 2023 • One of Tor.com’s Can’t Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews’ Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • A Kirkus Review Work of Translated Fiction To Read Now • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 In an alternate history in which the... Read more

Green Shadow

By: JS Kennedy

Narrated by: Justine Eyre & Charles Lawrence

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Two paths, one fate.



Lucan now knows who—and what—Mackenzie truly is. She is Terra, the supernatural boogieman whose tales of carnage are used by parents to bring wayward children in line.



But she's captive, and the longer it takes to free her, the less choice he has—break the bond, or die.



Mackenzie—thrust back into the nightmare of her... Read more

Antarctica Station

By: A.G. Riddle

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of the world, a groundbreaking scientific experiment will change everything.Dr. Laura Reynolds had it all. A job she loved. The respect of her peers. Student debt she was slowly chipping away at.And one day, it all went away.She saw the wrong thing—a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her.Laura's only option is to join a... Read more

Der Prozess - Abridged

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Moritz Brendel

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Prozess Ein Roman von Franz Kafka, gesprochen von Moritz Brendel. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Bankangestellte Josef K., gegen den ein Prozess anhängig ist. Das Gericht agiert im Geheimen, und bis zu seiner Hinrichtung erfährt K. nicht einmal den Grund der Anklage. Ort der Handlung ist eine fiktive deutsche Großstadt. Die Zeit der Handlung... Read more

Der Vampir, Die komplette zweite Staffel

By: Oliver Döring

Narrated by: Douglas Welbat, Bernd Vollbrecht, Melanie Isako...

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Vampir - Die komplette zweite Staffel: Seit Wochen jagt Scotland Yard die "Bestie von London", aber der wahnsinnige Frauenmörder ist einfach nicht zu fassen. Bis jetzt! Ein kleiner Fehler bringt D.I. Malicia Bennet auf seine Spur. Doch anstatt, dass der Horror mit einem Showdown endet, beginnt für Bennet nun eine Odyssee des Grauens. Ist der... Read more

Green Haven

By: Gregory Young

Narrated by: Gregory Young

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Green Haven," a riveting post-apocalyptic tale, readers are plunged into a world reshaped by an unspecified global catastrophe. This novel, blending elements of survival, hope, and a quest for a sustainable future, follows the journey of Alex and a group of resilient survivors.The story begins in the ashen remains of a once-thriving world,... Read more

We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin

Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921.  The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It is believed that the novel had a... Read more

The Glass Box

By: J. Michael Straczynski

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA Today bestseller“Echoes of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest reverberate through this cinematic tale…readers looking for an adrenaline-inducing resistance plot will find this worth their time.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski, The Glass Box is a hard-hitting, fast-paced sci-fi novel about the choices we... Read more

Iron Crow: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (The Crawling Girl Book 1)

By: Kim Petersen

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bowels of Seattle's ruins to the depths of a dark secret.Rayna knew the rules…And everybody was supposed to follow them.Would she?Within the sprawling ruins of Seattle, the Nest looms high above as a stronghold of the aristocratic Crow class, ruled with an iron fist by Lord Corvus. Rayna and her resilient Hydrans have long toiled at the... Read more

Deep Freeze

By: Michael C. Grumley

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by multi-award-winning narrator Scott Brick.

From the bestselling author of the Breakthrough series: In his next near-future thriller, Michael C. Grumley explores humanity’s thirst for immortality—at any cost...

“A fast-paced juggernaut of a story, where revelations pile upon revelations, building to a stunning conclusion... Read more

Dechipped: Owena

By: Taya DeVere

Narrated by: Anna Crowe

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s the smartest little girl in the world… and the most dangerous too.Owena is a genius – as well as a killer – but she’s still only six years old. After escaping the underground bunker where she lived with Nurse Saarinen, her main goal has been to find more candy. Now the Unchipped rebels have a mission for her, and if she agrees to perform... Read more

Blood Emperor

By: Boris Romanovsky

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

There are 36 hours left until the end of the Level Run. Only the top three finalists will have the chance to meet with the Dark Sphere and request its help. I'm fifth. And I need to make it into the top three. Because that's the only way I'll be able to save Anya... Read more

Blackout Trail

By: Linda Naughton

Narrated by: Elena Anderson

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When the world goes dark, a doctor embarks on a perilous journey.Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn... Read more

Happy Ending

By: Fredric Brown & Mack Reynolds

Narrated by: Scott Miller

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Happy Ending by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds - A world had collapsed around this man—a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting...There were four... Read more

Sky's End

By: Marc J Gregson

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Plummet into a kill-or-be-killed competition where a scrappy underdog hell-bent on revenge must claw his way to the top in this thrilling YA fantasy debut

Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his... Read more

The Immortal Games

By: Annaliese Avery

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo & Dan Stevens

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Blood Moon marks the start of the Immortal Games.The Gods of Olympus randomly select humans as their tokens and then gamble with their lives. The stakes are high and survival is unlikely.16-year-old Ara is seeking revenge on the Gods for allowing her sister to die in the games. She's determined to be selected as a token, but when she is, she... Read more

Age Of Resolve

By: Ilene Grydsuk

Narrated by: Anita Plewes & Herbert Alexander Wollgast

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s been one hundred years since the Correction, the great reset that erased the misguided ideology and spurious intentions of an ancient civilization seemingly bent on destroying itself. The Biodome’s universal moral compass is under attack. Known as the existential virus (EV), she is not to be trifled with. She is judge, jury, and—when need... Read more

The Ashes of Sagacity

By: D. B. Goodin

Narrated by: Siah Clark

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Playing with technology is fun… until it tries to reshape your humanity.Enter a world where technology becomes a lethal weapon, threatening to reshape humanity itself. In the heart-stopping finale of the Cyber Teen Project series, "Ashes of Sagacity," Nigel Watson is hurled into a harrowing battle against a relentless army of homicidal cyborgs... Read more

Saint Elspeth

By: Wick Welker

Narrated by: Maria McCann

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Why did they come? When they appeared across the sky, speculation wheeled around the world—the aliens were from heaven, the invaders were from hell… or they were proof that neither existed. But when they landed, curiosity gave way to suspicion and the nations reacted with nuclear force, setting off a chain reaction that left the world in ruins.... Read more

Three Months in Undead Shoes

By: Dee J. Holmes

Narrated by: Troy Kain & Freya Ravensbergen

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

After a harrowing journey through infected territory, Jane Finch, her loyal Great Dane, and her equally protective almost-zombie Grey have reached the military base in the mountains. It's supposed to be safe. But the last thing they can do is drop their guard. Surrounded by soldiers, reeling from her first kiss with Grey and the news that he has... Read more