Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Dark Tower II

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.

“Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters,” hails The Baltimore Sun. Beginning just less than... Read more

The Book of M

By: Peng Shepherd

Narrated by: James Fouhey & Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW!NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Elle • Refinery29 • PopSugar • Verge""Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage and Station Eleven."" —BooklistWHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER?Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the... Read more

Fever House

By: Keith Rosson

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace. Read Fever House now.”—STEPHEN KING

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown... Read more

Shift

By: Hugh Howey

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Watch Silo, the Apple TV+ series based on the bestselling Silo Saga, starting May, 2023!The second volume in the New York Times bestselling Silo series. Hugh Howey goes back to show the first days of the Silo, and the beginning of the end.In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that... Read more

Wanderers

By: Chuck Wendig

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & Xe Sands

Length: 32 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world’s last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes “a magnum opus . . . a story about survival that’s not just about you and me, but all of us, together” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD • ONE OF... Read more

The Dark Tower VI

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The penultimate volume in the Dark Tower series, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, a #1 New York Times bestseller, is a pivotal installment in the epic saga.

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the Dark Tower series is unlike anything you have ever read. Here is the... Read more

Antimatter Blues

By: Edward Ashton

Narrated by: John Pirhalla & Katharine Chin

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.

Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive—that last part thanks almost entirely to the... Read more

American War

By: Omar El Akkad

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot... 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

Always Coming Home

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi & Isabella Star LeBlanc

Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of [Le Guin's] most radical novels. . . . A study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like—for society and for the art of storytelling.""—The MillionsReissued for a new generation of readers, Always Coming Home is Ursula K. Le Guin’s magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing... Read more

Everything for Everyone

By: M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi

Narrated by: Charli Burrow & Soneela Nankani

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth... Read more

Lake of Darkness

By: Adam Roberts

Narrated by: Matt Addis

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Good is a construct. Evil is a virus.
The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon... by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single killer: Captain Alpha Raine.
Raine claims he's acting under the command of a voice emanating from the black hole: Mr Modo. No... Read more

The Mime Order

By: Samantha Shannon

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.

The stunning second novel in the New York Times bestselling Bone Season series expands Samantha Shannon’s epic world of Scion in a new heart-pounding story of revolution.

Paige Mahoney has escaped the clandestine prison city of Oxford. Now a fugitive in London,... Read more

Blade Runner

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which inspired two major motion pictures: Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies... Read more

Appleseed

By: Matt Bell

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BEST OF THE YEAR“Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell’s Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious.” —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselling author of Get in TroubleA “breathtaking novel of ideas unlike anything... Read more

The School for Good Mothers

By: Jessamine Chan

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize
Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022!

In this New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in judgement lands a young... Read more

Into the Drowning Deep

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life.

The ocean is home to many myths,

But some are deadly. . .

Seven years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a... Read more

The Memory Police

By: Yoko Ogawa

Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ***
*** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD ***
*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.

On an unnamed island off an... Read more

The Dawn Chorus

By: Samantha Shannon

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Dawn Chorus by Samantha Shannon, a novella in the internationally bestselling Bone Season series, which bridges the story between The Song Rising and The Mask Falling, read by Alana Kerr Collins.

Paige Mahoney and Arcturus Mesarthim have arrived in the Scion Citadel of Paris. Exhausted by her efforts against Scion, Paige... Read more

An Unkindness of Ghosts

By: Rivers Solomon

Narrated by: Cherise Boothe

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space... 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

Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

Narrated by: Katherine Pucciariello

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

STARRED Reviews in Library Journal and Booklist!
A Most-Anticipated Title in CrimeReads, BookRiot, Tor.com, Electric Lit, and more.
Featured in Autostraddle, Apartment Therapy, Goodreads, and more.

Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival.

“A modern... Read more

The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...

“I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

Shannon Moss is part... Read more

Dust

By: Hugh Howey

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Watch Silo, the Apple TV+ series based on the bestselling Silo Saga, starting May, 2023!Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall.Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn’t trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and... Read more