Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

El Pozo de la Ascensión (Trilogía Original Mistborn 2)

By: Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: Francesc Belda

Length: 28 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha El Pozo de la Ascensión, el segundo volumen de la saga "Nacidos de la Bruma [Mistborn]", una obra iniciada con El imperio final y parte imprescindible del Cosmere, el universo destinado a dar forma a la serie más extensa y fascinante jamás escrita en el ámbito de la fantasía épica. Durante mil años han caído las cenizas y nada florece.... Read more

Escape to Eden

By: Rachel McClellan

Narrated by: Stephanie Willing

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the future, mankind has learned to manipulate their DNA, harnessing only the good genes, like intelligence, strength, and height. They called this prime DNA and humans rushed to get these new pDNA injections, which gave them superhuman-like qualities. Centuries later, however, their DNA became so engineered that humans rarely lived past the... Read more

We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep

By: Andrew Kelly Stewart

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A Canticle for Leibowitz meets The Hunt for Red October in We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep, a lyrical and page-turning coming-of-age exploration of duty, belief, and the post-apocalypse from breakout newcomer Andrew Kelly Stewart.



Remy is a Chorister, rescued from the surface world and raised to sing in a choir of young boys. Remy is part of a... Read more

Stillicide

By: Cynan Jones

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell & Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful climate crisis story about love and loss that offers a glimpse of a tangible future in which water is commodified and vulnerable to sabotage that is "close to perfect," "imaginative and far reaching," and "very human and deadly serious" (The Guardian).



Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of... Read more

Machinehood

By: S.B. Divya

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo & Deepti Gupta

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Zero Dark Thirty meets The Social Network in this “clever…gritty” (Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings) science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future dominated by the gig economy—from Hugo Award nominee S.B. Divya.

Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire... Read more

The Atmospherians

By: Isle McElroy

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Best Book of 2021 by Esquire
Book You Need to Read in 2021 by Harper’​s Bazaar

“Darkly funny and glitteringly satirical, The Atmospherians unforgettably takes aim at wokeness, wellness, and toxic masculinity.” —Esquire

This “edgy, addictive” (Kirkus Reviews, starred) satire about two best friends who form The Atmosphere—a cult designed to... Read more

Firebreak

By: Nicole Kornher-Stace

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this “profound…resonant” (NPR), all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing take on Ready Player One, with a heavy dose of Black Mirror.

Ready Player One meets Cyperpunk 2077 in this eerily familiar future.

“Twenty minutes to power curfew, and my kill counter’s... Read more

Harrow

By: Joy Williams

Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic.
 
"She practices ... camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment,... Read more

The Centaur's Wife

By: Amanda Leduc

Narrated by: Victoria Carr

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures.

Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake.... Read more

The Effort

By: Claire Holroyde

Narrated by: Jay Ben Markson

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Station Eleven and Good Morning, Midnight comes an electric, heart-pounding novel of love and sacrifice that follows people around the world as they unite to prevent a global catastrophe.
When dark comet UD3 was spotted near Jupiter's orbit, its existence was largely ignored. But to individuals who knew better -- scientists like... Read more

The Fall of Koli

By: M. R. Carey

Narrated by: Theo Solomon, Saffron Coomber & Hanako Footman

Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the gripping story of a young boy struggling to find his place in a world where nature itself has turned against humanity in the unforgettable conclusion to the Rampart trilogy.

What will the future hold for those who are left?

Koli has come a long way since being exiled from his small village of Mythen Rood. In his search for the fabled... Read more

A Brief History of Living Forever

By: Jaroslav Kalfar

Narrated by: Juanita McMahon

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In an authoritarian near-future America obsessed with digital consciousness and eternal life, two long-lost siblings risk everything to save their mother from oblivion. When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in America with Tereza, the daughter she gave up at birth,... Read more

Notes from the Burning Age

By: Claire North

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2021
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF 2021

“A riveting tale of subterfuge and deadly self-indulgence” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from award-winning author Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age presents an extraordinary vision of the future that puts dystopian fiction in a whole new light.

Ven was once a holy man, a... Read more

Sons of War 2: Saints

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The civil war is over, but the struggle for power is just beginning …In the aftermath of a devastating civil war, America has fallen into anarchy and chaos. Los Angeles is divided into different territories controlled by criminal organizations. Don Antonio Moretti has won a slice of the pie but is hungry for more. In his quest for power, he... Read more

Blade's Edge

By: Virginia McClain

Narrated by: Virginia McClain

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Two friends. Two forbidden powers. One chance to change everything.When Mishi is taken from her orphanage home, she fears she'll never see her best friend Taka again. And when Taka is taken to the infamous Josankō that same day, it seems as if more than distance will keep them apart.Suddenly alone in their fight to survive, each girl must come... Read more

The Will Of The People

By: Paul K Joyce

Narrated by: Paul K Joyce

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

BREXIT. CIVIL WAR. 5 TEENAGERSLife seemed okay for mixed-race teen, Joel Durand, until Brexit Day. At school, the power and phones are cut and tanks are on the street. With his troubled sister, girlfriend and the school bully in a stolen car, Joel begins a desperate race against time to find answers. The truth is even more incredible than he... Read more

Accepting the Abyss (The Abyss Trilogy Book 3)

By: A.C. Ward

Narrated by: Kae Marie Denino

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

She stopped the angels and demons. But now the Devil appears with an offer she has to refuse.Aubrey had never dreamed that she would feel such joy. She has a family, friends, and is falling in love. She’s even mended her relationship with the rebels. Together they’re changing the way abilities are viewed.But then the Devil offers her a deal; to... Read more

Ramble

By: D. B. Goodin

Narrated by: Brittany Goodwin

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

What would happen if all of our technology failed?
Alone and hurt, Alice is trying to pick up the pieces after the world crumbles around her. New York is just emerging from a devastating technological meltdown, and the authorities are blaming Alice. Just when she is feeling she can survive, she is jettisoned into a world she doesn’t recognize and... Read more

Girl of Glass: The Complete Collection

By: Megan O'Russell

Narrated by: Claire Duncan

Length: 25 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Two worlds. One glass wall. No turning back.The human race has been divided. The chosen few live in the safety of the domes, watching through their glass walls as those left on the outside suffer and die. But desperation has brought invention. New drugs have the ability to alter humans, giving them the strength to roam the poisoned night... Read more

Reservation 1

By: Krista Street

Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

To save the only man she's ever loved, she must pay a price.When Dr. Meghan Forester, a young researcher, helps create a vaccine for the deadly Makanza virus, her goal to annihilate the virus is coming true.But the question remains—what becomes of the Kazzies? They'll always be infected carriers of the terrifying virus. Despite being newly... Read more

Protected by Bears

By: Skye MacKinnon

Narrated by: Kyo Sija

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

I will fight for my family, no matter the cost. The Fates like to play with our lives. They're not malicious, just bored. But that also means that sometimes, we have to take our destiny in our own hands and defy the Fates.I will do anything to save the bear shifters from extinction, even if that means going against the will of the most powerful... Read more

Sentinel 555: AIR

By: Lyna Forge

Narrated by: James D Hogg

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In Maddison's last visit to the ancient city, she encountered a man. More surprising was what he lacked on his face....He wore no mask.A hundred years since the Great Disaster and he not only lived beyond infancy, but he breathed the air. No one breathed free air anymore at the risk of dying cancerous and crazed.Nothing of value is free—not the... Read more

Section 12

By: Krista Street

Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

To save them, she'll risk everything.The last time Dr. Meghan Forester saw Davin and the other infected Kazzies, she made a heart-wrenching choice. Now, her new life is filled with loneliness.Trying to carry on while Davin and her friends are held captive on Reservation 1, Meghan begins a daunting position at Compounds 10 and 11 in Washington... Read more

The Remnant

By: Diane Anthony

Narrated by: Renae Gigon

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Now that Olivia and David have discovered that their life in the city was a lie, their pursuit of the truth gives them a newfound purpose. Is there more to their Rare abilities than what they’ve discovered so far? Is there something about them that the government is trying to keep hidden?Taken captive and tortured by her oppressors, Olivia... Read more