Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Ruby & the Huntsman of Midnight

By: Susan EE

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A monster hunter in a castle. Werewolves in a dark forest. And a young woman trapped between the two.



Ruby will do anything to escape the infamous dungeons of Midnight Castle. She dares to dream of reaching the safety of her grandmother's house. But in order to get there, she'll need to outrun hunters and monsters alike through the deadly... Read more

The Arrest

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happens when much of what we take for granted—cars,... Read more

The Death of the Universe

By: Brandon Q. Morris

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The new heart of the Milky Way is a quasar, enclosed by a huge shell. It will provide energy to humankind for a long time. But then one maintenance probe after another disappears. Is someone trying to manipulate the quasar to destroy our galaxy in a giant explosion? Or is it just a few outlaws who are trying to steal some of the quasar's energy... Read more

Storm Warning

By: William Allen

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

William Allen presents Book 2 in the Tertiary Effects series. Read more

Rogue Planet

By: John Andrew Karr

Narrated by: John Skelley

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The mission: make Mars inhabitable for humans with a thermonuclear reawakening. But for the adventurous remnants of the Space Consortium of America, the biggest threat isn't from the erupting rage of the Red Planet. It's from a treacherous blue marble called Earth . . . ROGUE PLANET You'd think Captain Ry Devans was a hero when he jumpstarted... Read more

Buried for Now

By: Bob Howard

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A zombie apocalypse was a ridiculous idea to people who were making plans to survive the end of the world. Everyone thought it would be a nuclear war, but when a virus destroyed civilization and contaminated the environment, survivors were left to forage for food and shelter. This is the continuing story of a handful of survivors who came... Read more

Shelter for Now

By: Bob Howard

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A strange infection has spread across the entire planet leaving death in its path. The zombie apocalypse that everyone believed to be impossible has brought mankind to the brink of extinction, yet small groups of people have managed to survive. No one has been spared contact with the infected dead, not even the most powerful elected official in... Read more

Exist for Now

By: Bob Howard

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the barrier islands of South Carolina to the scenic shores of Lake Norman in North Carolina and a hospital ship sailing alone in the Atlantic Ocean, the infected dead have destroyed most of the population of the world. Small groups of people band together, some with leaders who take their people down the road toward death and some with... Read more

Die for Now

By: Bob Howard

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

No one can be totally prepared for a zombie apocalypse. No matter what preparations are made, some flaws can only be overcome by luck. When a group of well funded people decided years before to prepare for the end of civilization by building impenetrable shelters, they unknowingly left a legacy for a small band of survivors. Hordes of infected... Read more

Survive for Now

By: Bob Howard

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When a group of well funded people decided years before to prepare for the end of civilization by building impenetrable shelters, they unknowingly left a legacy for a small band of survivors. Hordes of infected dead have swarmed across the world and destroyed civilization. Most of the world's population is dead, yet some people are determined to... Read more

Crosshairs

By: Catherine Hernandez

Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

USA TODAY’s 5 Books Not to Miss
Marie Claire’s 2020 Books to Add To Your Reading List

“A beautiful, unapologetic, and unwatered-down...dystopian [novel] that holds a sobering mirror up to our own world” (Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author) from the author of the acclaimed novel Scarborough.

In the wake of the escalating global battle for... Read more

Day of Reckoning

By: John Winchester

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When a coronal mass ejection threatens to send the United States back to the Stone Age, Jim Graves must rush to prepare his family for the coming apocalypse. As the world around him plunges into anarchy, can he rise to the occasion? Jim's love for his family and will to survive are put to the ultimate test.



Contains mature themes. Read more

Rebel Sisters

By: Tochi Onyebuchi

Narrated by: Nkeki Obi-Melekwe

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the epic, action-packed sequel to the "brilliant" (Booklist, starred review) novel War Girls, the battles are over, but the fight for justice has just begun.

It's been five years since the Biafran War ended. Ify is now nineteen and living where she's always dreamed--the Space Colonies. She is a respected, high-ranking medical officer and has... Read more

The Divide

By: Erica Stevens

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In less than a day, everything they’ve ever known vanished and the world fell into chaos. Uncertain where to turn and who to trust in this strange new world, they must band together in an attempt to survive. However, they slowly begin to realize it’s not only the crumbling earth and treacherous people around them that are a threat, but also... Read more

Zombies on The Block

By: Mike Evans

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The neighborhood isn't getting any safer. Everyone is going through their own personal hell and those that can fight together are doing so. Some of the neighbors have already fallen to those that walk with death in their eyes. They now seek to make others their first course. Follow along as the humor, sarcasm, and action develop into even worse... Read more

Zombies on The Block

By: Mike Evans

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The zombie outbreak is affecting more than just the Evans Family. Book 2 dives into not just what is happening to Mike and his family but begins to fall further into the zombies on the block, or better said, those that are not yet zombies. The heart-pounding action continues as does the humor and sarcasm. Who will survive? Who will perish? What... Read more

Zombies on The Block

By: Mike Evans

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When the flu season struck America, it impaired the population, crippling what the collected power of the people were capable of doing to fight the outbreak. Unfortunately, it was not the same for everyone. There were three types of people. The first had no diseases, the second had the flu, and the third were busy fostering a zombie virus that... Read more

Driftwood

By: Marie Brennan

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this first novel set in award-winning author Marie Brennan's incomparable Driftwood fantasy universe, enter a post-apocalyptic realm where the apocalypse has not ended, where fragments of worlds cohere into shifting myths. Yet even as everything fades, Drifters gather to tell conflicting legends of Last, the guide—the one man who seemed... Read more

First Song

By: Blaise Corvin & Outspan Foster

Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The entire world has changed, and Noah has changed with it. A year after the Shift, the plans he'd laid, caches he'd hidden, and infrastructure he'd put in place have saved millions, but the world's death toll has still been astronomical.



Now he continues his struggle to protect the people he cares about and to atone for his past weakness.... Read more

The Pairings

By: Ramona Finn

Narrated by: Heather Costa

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The secret is locked in her mind—and they'll do anything to get it.



Generations ago, humanity was devastated by a virus that wiped billions from the planet. If not for AmeriGlobe's Pairing program to match immune survivors, and VaxWell's immunity-boosting biomods, humans would've died out.



Lora Flannigan has sought to conform to the strict laws... Read more

The Illusory Prophet (Singularity 3)

By: Susan Kaye Quinn

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you could paint with reality?
Elijah Brighton can bring a girl back from the dead, travel outside his body, and absorb a lifetime of memories from anyone he touches in the fugue state. Everyone seems to think he’s the prophet they’re waiting for… including the girl he’s falling in love with. The truth is, the fugue is bleeding over into... Read more

The Holding

By: Daniel Greene

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The seeds of mutiny are growing …The northernmost outpost of the eastern flank has gone dark. Captain Steele and the commanders of Operation Homefront shift forces north to find out what happened to the Marines stationed there.But, all is not right at Camp Forge.An outbreak of debilitating illness ravages through the base, forcing Gwen on a... Read more

Zombies on The Block

By: Mike Evans

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Friendly is not the best explanation for this zombie outbreak. Book 4 continues with your favorite characters while introducing you to more of the ac. Follow as the dead hunt the living with a hunger that will never be tamed. The action, humor, and never knowing what happens next continues! Who will survive, who will perish? Read more

Songs for the End of the World

By: Saleema Nawaz

Narrated by: Alex Paxton-Beesley, Amelia Sargisson, Tyrone S...

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn't put it down." –Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The Wagers

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. An immersive, deeply engaging, and hopeful novel about the power of... Read more