Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Reckoning

By: Tricia Wentworth

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 19 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the final moments of The Fracturing, Reagan Scott was taken. While the rest of the country casts their votes for the next Presidential Couple, Reagan must now fight to survive.



It's no longer just about winning the Culling, it's about ending the war with the drifters once and for all. As the darkness spirals out of control and threatens to... Read more

The Fracturing

By: Tricia Wentworth

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 18 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the final moments of The Culling, Reagan Scott was betrayed. This betrayal changes everything. Not just for the Culling but for the country.



As the competition for Presidential Couple continues and the final four are solidified, the campaigning begins, sending Reagan on a tour of the townships to vie for the votes and hearts of the nation.... Read more

The Culling

By: Tricia Wentworth

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 17 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

150 years after a virus wipes out most of the world's population, Reagan Scott finds herself chosen for the State of the Union's fifth Culling. She will compete against forty-nine of the country's brightest girls. And then, of course, there are the fifty boys. She'll have to pair up with one for her shot at becoming the next Presidential Couple.

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Outside

By: Shalini Boland

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The future is divided by Perimeters: high-security gated communities where life goes on as normal. If you're inside you're lucky. If you're outside, life expectancy takes a nose dive.



Riley is fortunate to have been born on the right side of the fence. But her life of privilege comes crashing down when someone breaks through and murders her... Read more

Cinder & the Prince of Midnight

By: Susan EE

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An orphan girl. A dark and twisted kingdom. An ongoing shadow war resulting in enslaved fairies.



This is the world of Cinder. A world where a girl like her can be sold to be human prey for a ritualistic hunt.



But on this night, even the predators might have something to fear. On this night, even a royal prince might find himself trapped by the... Read more

The Perimeter

By: Shalini Boland

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Perimeter is a darkly captivating dystopian tale of adventure, danger, love and redemption that will have you on the edge of your seat and up at night, turning the pages to find out what happens in the end . . .



In this fractured world, a sinister force is coming for Riley, and the only things keeping her safe are a perimeter fence and the... Read more

The Clearing

By: Shalini Boland

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ravaged future, children are disappearing.



Riley lives safely behind her Perimeter Fence, but soon she'll have to confront the terrible truth of what's happening outside. An old enemy is approaching. Threatening to extinguish her way of life.



To save herself, Riley must fight to save another. She must put herself in the last place she ever... Read more

My Dead World 3

By: Jacqueline Druga

Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity is not extinct.



It's the calm before the storm and the complacent survivors are ill prepared as the sleeping world is about to get a wake up call.



Nowhere is safe. Nowhere will ever be. Read more

My Dead World 2

By: Jacqueline Druga

Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious outbreak has spread quickly, ravaging the globe. The illness is debilitating and deadly. Those who suffer from the virus succumb to a horrible death. Unfortunately, it doesn't end there. The infection transforms them into an unstoppable force of mindless killing machines.



At the onset of the epidemic, Nila Carter and her family... Read more

The Last Woman 2

By: Jacqueline Druga

Narrated by: Kristin James

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

With no desire to live in a world void of all human life, Faye sets a goal of making it home to die. Then she encounters Dodge and two young boys, who ignite a spark long lost in her: the will to live.



Following radio calls, they discover they are not alone and decide to join a growing camp of survivors. But another discovery threatens their... Read more

Gravity's Truth

By: AK Alliss

Narrated by: Curt Bonnem

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfect world, at any price.Miller Frank’s Utopian ideal is not such a good thing for Jimmy Renfro. Charged with fraud, he now works the tube, an atmosphere breaking conduit for the wealthy to travel to the Ouroboros space station, Imago. Within the mysterious station, their personalities are uploaded to robotic shells known as Zeroes.When... Read more

Blue Ticket

By: Sophie Mackintosh

Narrated by: Freya Mavor

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

*BELLETRIST'S AUGUST 2020 BOOK PICK*

"[Mackintosh's] writing is clear and sharp, with piercing moments of wisdom and insight that drive toward a pitch-perfect ending...Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." --New York Times Book Review

From the author of the Man Booker Prize... Read more

Crater

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A sixteen-year-old must battle his way across a thousand miles of deadly lunar terrain and face genetically altered super warriors in his quest to recover an astonishing object that will alter the lives of everyone on the moon . . . and beyond.It’s the 22nd Century. A tough, pioneering people mine the moon produce energy for a desperate,... Read more

Los testamentos (latino)

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Jane Santos, Fabiola Stevenson, Ana Osorio, Ale...

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

En esta extraordinaria secuela de El cuento de la criada, la aclamada autora Margaret Atwood responde a las preguntas que han dejado expectantes a los lectores durante décadas. Novela ganadora del Man Booker Prize 2019 Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe tras Defred al final de El cuento de la criada, los lectores no tenían... Read more

Los testamentos

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Laura Monedero, Elisa Beuter, Miguel Ángel Jenn...

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

En esta extraordinaria secuela de El cuento de la criada, la aclamada autora Margaret Atwood responde a las preguntas que han dejado expectantes a los lectores durante décadas. Novela ganadora del Man Booker Prize 2019 Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe tras Defred al final de El cuento de la criada, los lectores no tenían... Read more

Alive for Now

By: Bob Howard

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on the coast of South Carolina, an unknown infection has caused people to die and come back to life as reanimated corpses, attacking any living person.



This is the story of the survival of one man who was the benefactor of a shelter that helped him to live through the onslaught of the infected dead. Beginning with the initial days of the... Read more

The Bear

By: Andrew Krivak

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony... Read more

Fantastic Hope

By: Laurell K. Hamilton & Patricia Briggs

Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis & Holter Graham

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of sixteen sci-fi and fantasy stories edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton and author William McCaskey.

A child’s wish for her father comes true. The end of the world has never been so much fun. Conquering personal demons becomes all too real. It’s not always about winning; sometimes it’s about showing... Read more

The Down Days

By: Ilze Hugo

Narrated by: Bianca Amato & Gideon Emery

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of The Book of M comes a “dynamic, fast-paced debut” (Publishers Weekly) and character-driven literary apocalyptic novel that explores life, love, and loss in a post-truth society.

In the aftermath of a deadly outbreak—reminiscent of the 1962 event of mass hysteria that was the Tangayika Laughter Epidemic—a city at the tip of Africa... Read more

The Last Book in the Universe

By: Rodman Philbrick

Narrated by: Jeremy Davies

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.

It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged... Read more

Corporate Gunslinger

By: Doug Engstrom

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Doug Engstrom imagines a future all too terrifying—and all too possible—in this eerie, dystopic speculative fiction debut about corporate greed, debt slavery, and gun violence that is as intense and dark as Stephen King’s The Long Walk.Like many Americans in the middle of the 21st century, aspiring actress Kira Clark is in debt. She financed her... Read more

Skin Dominion

By: Tania Hutley

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Milla couldn't have dreamed of climbing so high.



Now she'll face temptations and trials she never expected. Her limits will be tested, friendships and love will be put to the fire, and Milla's actions will decide the fate of both Triton and Deiterra.



When everything turns against her, Milla must sacrifice everything. But with all of Triton at... Read more

Skin Rebellion

By: Tania Hutley

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

On the run, Milla must find a way to survive.



Her desperate escape was just the beginning. The lives of Old Tritoners are at stake. If Milla doesn't fight back, innocent people will die.



Caught up in a dangerous war, Milla uncovers what's really going on. But she can't stop it alone.



What will happen when Cale learns she lied to him about who—and... Read more

Skin Hunter

By: Tania Hutley

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Desperate to escape the dangerous streets of Old Triton, the buried city, Milla takes the ultimate risk.



Could a dead girl's identity be her way out? A ticket to a richer, brighter world?



Now she's part of a high tech contest, with a prize beyond money, fame and everything she has ever known. A chance to become something . . . new.



But if anyone... Read more