Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Curt Bonnem

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Earth was being watched from afar ... by creatures far greater than man ... and which coveted what man possessed.

The War of the Worlds is invasion literature at its finest. H.G. Wells' popular classic has never been out of print, and is presented here in a stunning new, modern edition.

Bonnem's insightful narration runs the gamut of emotions,... Read more

Synapse of Ash

By: D. B. Goodin

Narrated by: Keira Grace

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

She must unlock the secrets of her past life—before her future is written for her.
When cyborg Treeka wakes from an interrupted cryogenic sleep in a genetics lab, she does so in a brave new world, one where immortality is no longer a concept but a construction. Now, the consciousness of a person can live on in a body that can outperform the... Read more

Bridge 108

By: Anne Charnock

Narrated by: Will M. Watt, Fiona Hardingham, Steve West, Jam...

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author, a dystopian novel of oppression set in the climate-ravaged Europe of A Calculated Life, a finalist for the Kitschies award and Philip K. Dick Award.Late in the twenty-first century, drought and wildfires prompt an exodus from southern Europe. When twelve-year-old Caleb is separated from his mother... Read more

Saving Eden

By: Rachel McClellan

Narrated by: Stephanie Willing

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Continue with book three in the Original series. Fans are calling this trilogy, “The best books to read after The Hunger Games and Divergent!” From Rachel McClellan, the USA Today bestselling author who brought you the Devil series, comes a new dystopian series that fans can’t stop talking about.With Max and Colt taken by the Institute, Sage is... Read more

The Every

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous—and, oddly enough, most beloved—monopoly ever known: the Every.

Delaney Wells is an unlikely... Read more

5 More Perfect Days

By: Mark Tullius

Narrated by: John Anthony Davis

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Because 25 Perfect Days wasn't enough, here comes 5 More.5 More Perfect Days is the companion to 25 Perfect Days, which was named one of IndieReader's Best Indie Books for 2013.Five interlinked stories, each written from a different character's point of view, 5 More Perfect Days continues the dystopian nightmare of 25 Perfect Days, with more... Read more

Leave The Shadow A

By: Yang Ge Ge

Narrated by: Nikki Delgado

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Keeping to the shadows, the cold of the night wrapping tightly around me, I moved silently toward where we'd been told they were being kept. No one could be certain. Where is my love. Read more

Unity

By: Adrienne Lecter

Narrated by: Tess Irondale

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

United we stand, divided we fall
Once again reunited, the Lucky Thirteen set out to hunt down their adversaries—only to be met with an entirely new set of unexpected obstacles. As much as Bree is burning to finally get her revenge, it soon becomes obvious that on their own they are no match for the forces opposing them. With giving up not an... Read more

Valentines in an Apocalypse

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: John Pirhalla & Stephanie Németh-Parker

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when the apocalypse is over; to love, strained and torn?   How do you pick up the pieces, when life stabilises?   It's a question our heroes must ask themselves, when they're no longer fighting off swarms of monsters, no longer struggling for Credits and Levels.   Valentines in the Apocalypse is set four years after the System... Read more

The System Apocalypse Short Story Anthology 1

By: Tao Wong, Alexis Keane, Craig Hamilton, IX Phoe...

Narrated by: Neil Hellegers, Shamaan Casey, Gary Bennett, Ch...

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A bounty hunting survivor. A Galactic dark elf. A woman who has given up her humanity to become something more.   These stories and more are available in the first short story anthology for the System Apocalypse, covering year one on Earth. When the world ends, humanity steps up, finding new ways to survive in a world with Classes, magic and... Read more

The Island

By: Jen Minkman

Narrated by: Coco Bell

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

I walk toward the sea. The endless surface of the water extends to the horizon, whichever way I look.Our world is small. We are on our own, and we only have ourselves to depend on. We rely on the Force deep within us, as taught to us by our forefathers.If I were to walk westward from here, I would come across a barrier – the Wall. Behind it,... Read more

Quantum Shift

By: Kyle Johnson

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

PHASE SHIFT INCOMING!



Your local sector has been selected to undergo a Quantum Phase Shift in order to increase its habitability. Any humans who survive this process will receive more information on these changes.



Expected Survival Rate: 1–5%



Phase Shift begins in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . Commence Phase Shift.



Troias Drakos awakens to find that the... Read more

Battle Tested

By: Michael Anderle

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

You cannot murder a person who never existed.



The story continues with, Battle Tested, book four in the Heretic of the Federation series, where the fights explode on Earth and for Dreth.



When the beast doesn't get his way, that which remained hidden becomes needed.



Perhaps a bit early. Read more

If Living Is Seeing I'm Holding My Breath

By: Sunny Moraine

Narrated by: Greer Morrison

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces—no eyes. Not if you want to survive. But Riley wants to look.

"If Living is Seeing I'm Holding My Breath" by Sunny Moraine is one of 9 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Come Join Us by the Fire S2: Originals is the second installment of Nightfire's... Read more

Emergency Landing

By: Seanan McGuire

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A nightmare at 20,000 feet is nothing compared to what greets you at your final destination...

"Emergency Landing" by Seanan McGuire is one of 18 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology. Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from... Read more

The Days of Flaming Motorcycles

By: Catherynne M. Valente

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Death changes a person, of course. But some habits will never be broken.

"The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" by Cat Valente is one of 18 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology. Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging... Read more

Resurgence

By: Adrienne Lecter

Narrated by: Tess Irondale

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Not so lucky anymore…
Civilization is on the brink of crumbling—and this time not just due to the zombie apocalypse. The roads have become dangerous, and what havens have been established are no longer safe. Murmurs of unrest—or maybe even a brewing civil war—are getting loud. No longer are zombies the only thing preying on those that think to... Read more

The Harvest (The Ark Project, Prequel)

By: J.W. & J.W. Elliot

Narrated by: Elliot & Shelby Hughes

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

They don’t just want her body. They want her mind.
Willow has just graduated as the youngest PH.D. in decades in the new field of Cognitive Redesign. She is desperate to find a cure for the disease that is slowly deteriorating her mother’s mind, tearing her mother from her. What she thought was a chance to work at a prestigious biotech company... Read more

Walk The Line

By: N.D. Roberts & Michael Anderle

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Jennifer Walton has pulled humanity back from the brink. Now she's on a mission to reconnect the world.WWDE+214 – Earth is caught in the grip of an unnatural winter.Salem has emerged as the center of civilization on the East Coast. The barriers between the factions dropped when the UnknownWorld stepped up to protect the unenhanced from the... Read more

Omelas Revisited

By: C. S. Johnson

Narrated by: Sophia Kasem

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Could you live a perfect life, knowing someone else took on all your pain and despair?
Skyla has always lived a perfect, happy life – just like everyone in her Community. Even if there are brief moments where she is certain she has experienced pain and regret, those moments are brief and quickly forgotten.
But when Aiden, Skyla's next-door... Read more

Humanity's Endgame

By: Eve Langlais

Narrated by: Marie Smith

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity’s endgame was only the beginning for me.Aliens ended life as we know it on Earth.Not on purpose I should add, though that didn’t matter to the billions who died. But it turned out, in some respects, surviving was even worse.My family used to say good thing I was pretty. In case you were wondering, it didn’t help when the end of the... Read more

A Different Yesterday

By: Linda Mooney

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Michael Tollson, aka "The Silent Wraith", was a man who roamed from settlement to outpost to city, offering his protection from scavengers and renegades. Years ago, right before the sun had exploded, when he had been a boy growing up in a small Texas town, he had felt his first crush for the little tomboy he knew as Jo. Now, as a grown... Read more

Affliction

By: Adrienne Lecter

Narrated by: Tess Irondale

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Something is rotten in the state of California…
The dawning civil war has ended in a truce. Scavengers and traders all over the country are settling down for the long, hard winter to come. With their new camp outside the maze of New Angeles at the coast growing every day, Bree, Nate, and the gang have their hands full—yet something is not quite... Read more

The Electric Heir

By: Victoria Lee

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the sequel to The Fever King, Noam Álvaro seeks to end tyranny before he becomes a tyrant himself.Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer’s image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the... Read more