Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: J.D. Kelly

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. A... Read more

The Dark Winter

By: Flint Maxwell

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Can you survive the cold?



After the initial series of summer blizzards, the snowfall has decreased, but the temperatures continue to drop, the icy wind still blows, and with each passing day, the darkness lasts longer and longer.



It is in the darkness the monsters thrive.



Confined to the lake house and having no communication with the outside... Read more

The Snow

By: Flint Maxwell

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This is how the world ends: with a single snowflake.



After a tragic accident at work, all Grady Miller wanted was an escape. He finds it months later with two of his closest friends. Together, the three of them travel south to Prism Lake for the upcoming holiday, where they plan on spending the sunny weekend drinking, grilling, and relaxing.



But... Read more

The Death of the Universe

By: Brandon Q. Morris

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1980s, physicists at a lab in the Soviet Union find traces of strange data in the cosmic background radiation. Because powerful forces in the military believe these findings can be turned into a weapon for use in the cold war, the information gleaned by the physicists is kept under strictest secrecy.



The scientists are limited to primitive... Read more

Bunker (Book 3)

By: Jay J. Falconer

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A Warrior Lives for Peace. Sometimes All He Finds is War.When the perpetrators finally reveal themselves, Jack Bunker finds himself the target of a deadly manhunt. He’s all that stands between them and complete control.Yet mortars, artillery, and machine guns are not the only threats Bunker must face.News of an airborne pathogen spreads panic... Read more

Alternative Apocalypse

By: Debora Godfrey, Bob Brown & various authors

Narrated by: various narrators, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de C...

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty stories from thirty authors, including Jane Yolen, Mike Resnick & J. J. Steinfeld.How will the world end? With aliens or angels? Or a ground hog? Bleak despair? Martial fervor? Or a belly laugh? Whatever the Apocalypse, It will be borne by people and their families and their dogs and most of all, it will challenge their notions of... Read more

Cage of Souls

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 23 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between... Read more

Flowers of Darkness

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay, Flowers of Darkness is a riveting and emotionally intense novel, set in a near future Paris, where a woman confronts past betrayal and present mystery.

Author Clarissa Katsef is struggling to write her next book. She’s just snagged a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment,... Read more

A Time to Endure

By: Kyle Pratt

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly virus sweeps across the nation!The exciting saga of Major Caden Westmore continues with A Time to EndureIn the first book Through Many Fires: Strengthen What Remains, nuclear terrorism destroys six American cities. Caden struggles to get home across a stricken, terrified nation.In the second book, A Time to Endure, the nation’s economy... Read more

Reactive

By: Becky Moynihan

Narrated by: Em Eldridge

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INESCAPABLE CITY. THREE DEADLY TRIALS. ONE WAY OUT.



Lune Tatum, adopted daughter of the Supreme Elite, has lived within her father's walled city for eleven years.



But she wants out.



Except she can't leave, and not because of the clans and mutated beasts that roam beyond the impenetrable, electrified walls protecting her life. Her plan has... Read more

The Lucky Prepper

By: Emma Zeth

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

What do you eat when the shops run out of food?



Zoe loves teaching science, she loves her garden, and most of all she loves her quiet peaceful bungalow. Then at school, people start falling ill. The virus is airborne and highly infectious. It starts with flu symptoms, confusion, and sleepiness, which worsen until one day they just don't wake up.... Read more

Crank Palace

By: James Dashner

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Newt has been to hell and back with his friends.



The Glade. The Maze. The Scorch. The inner halls of WICKED. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the others—the Flare. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus.



Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg... Read more

The Culling of Man

By: Craig Kobayashi

Narrated by: Michael Norman Johnson

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Slacker stoner hero has to try to save the world from the apocalypse. Fortunately, he's a gamer...
Garath was a gamer that spent his time adventuring in magical worlds behind a keyboard. He was exploring one of those very worlds when the planet that he actually inhabited became suddenly, and drastically more interesting.
The ability to shapeshift... Read more

The Electric Kingdom

By: David Arnold

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth.

When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised... Read more

Hawk

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dark dystopian tale, 17-year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City—until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight and protect her home.Where is Maximum Ride?

Ten years ago a girl with wings fought to save the world. But then she disappeared.

Now she's just a fading legend, remembered only in... Read more

Through Many Fires

By: Kyle Pratt

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Terrorists smuggle a nuclear bomb into Washington D.C. and detonate it during the State of the Union Address. Army veteran and congressional staffer Caden Westmore is in nearby Bethesda and watches as a mushroom cloud grows over the capital. The next day, as he drives away from the still burning city, he learns that another city has been... Read more

Ava the Brave

By: Jules Adrienn

Narrated by: Shaina Summerville

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old Ava Phoenix's unlikely defeat of the grand praetorian's son in a fighting contest triggers her father's murder and an official decree to destroy her village. Together with her first love, Beau, she races across a post-apocalyptic landscape to save her village while being hunted by her dystopian world's deadliest teenage... Read more

Garro: Collection

By: Connor Whiteley

Narrated by: Connor Whiteley

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore Garro's journey from Galaxy's End to the breath-taking battlegrounds of Earth in this boxset.Garro: Galaxy’s EndIn the future, humanity’s extinction is inevitable.They sent Grand Master Garro and his team to an abandoned space station. What Garro finds changes humanity’s future forever.Can Garro and his team save humanity, or will... Read more

Retribution

By: Luke Mitchell

Narrated by: Steven Barnett

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

THE VICTORY WAS HOLLOW.Too hard-fought. Too short-lived.Now, scattered and hunted by the monstrous rakul, Rachel and Jarek must do everything they can to protect their friends and keep their brewing Enochian weapons safe long enough for one slim chance at turning the tides. But first, they have to find each other. And with no comm network to... Read more

5 Blanks

By: Michelle Erickson

Narrated by: Derek Erickson & Michelle Erickson

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick is a pacifist whose been killed for the fourth time. His soul was transferred into the wrong Blank. Not just any Blank, but Creed: a Combat- Ready- E-series- Elimination- Drone.And he has to share it.It’s supposed to be impossible. His life defines the word so that isn’t what bothers him. It's the irony that he’s to blame for making the... Read more

Garro: End Times

By: Connor Whiteley

Narrated by: Connor Whiteley

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The End Times for the galaxy has come.Grand Master Garro knows the Order and other foes besiege earth. He knows he must walk an impossible path in hope of salvation. Garro must find allies for the battle ahead. Can Garro and his team unite the galaxy against the threat of the End Times? Or has humanity’s extinction come? If you love explosive,... Read more

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo as told by Marlow is an adventure story that examines the intent and effects of colonization. It remains one of the most controversial and profound writings of world literature.

Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, on December 3, 1857, in Russian... Read more

Eradication (Zombies Are Human, Book 3)

By: Jamie Thornton

Narrated by: Jamie Thornton

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Thornton. Find out how it all ends…THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD.Three years later, sixteen-year-old Maibe hides from the world, from her mistakes, from her friends. But the double infection that keeps them from becoming V isn't working like it did before.Maibe and her friends are... Read more

Contamination (Zombies Are Human, Book 1)

By: Jamie Thornton

Narrated by: Jamie Thornton

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Thornton.A thrilling science fiction series……once upon a time a plague ended the world.Can Corrina save the boy she loves?
"Thrilling...keeps you reading and wanting more." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★"I couldn't put this down." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★"This left me hungry for the next book." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
A single drop of... Read more