Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Love Minus Eighty

By: Will McIntosh

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Eileen Stevens & Ali Ahn

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the future, love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end. Love Minus Eighty follows several interconnected people in a disquieting vision of romantic life in the century to come.

There's Rob, who accidentally kills a jogger, then sacrifices all to visit her in a cryogenic dating facility, seeking forgiveness but instead falling in... Read more

The Last Dogs: Dark Waters

By: Christopher Holt

Narrated by: Andrew Bates

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Having narrowly escaped a pack of vicious wolves, canine heroes Max, Rocky, and Gizmo are happy to find a moment of peace as they travel down the mighty river. Soon, the trio come across a lavish boat moored close to shore. They're wary of facing another community of dogs, but when they climb on board, they discover that things are different on... Read more

The 100

By: Kass Morgan

Narrated by: Justin Torres & Phoebe Strole

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit CW television show.

No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now.

Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are... Read more

The Last Dogs: The Long Road

By: Christopher Holt

Narrated by: Andrew Bates

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A science experiment gone horribly awry has granted Max, Rocky, and Gizmo the unique ability to read and understand human words. Armed with this know-how, they continue to journey south, on the lookout for beacons planted by a trusted friend's owner -- beacons that promise to lead the trio to their people.
When the companions reach the ocean's... Read more

Burn

By: Julianna Baggott

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Casey Holloway, Kevin T. Collin...

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with Pure, recommended by People for those who loved The Hunger Games.

With his father now dead, Partridge has assumed leadership of the Dome, one of the last few refuges from the ravaged wastelands of the outside world. At first, Partridge is intent on exposing his father's lies, taking down the... Read more

Zom-B Gladiator

By: Darren Shan

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The sixth installment in Darren Shan's Zom-B series. Read more

The Three

By: Sarah Lotz

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott & Melanie McHugh

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right?

The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. With terrorist... Read more

California

By: Edan Lepucki

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence... Read more

The Gift

By: James Patterson & Ned Rust

Narrated by: Elijah Wood, Spencer Locke & Peter Giles

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When Whit & Wisty were imprisoned by the wicked forces of the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, they were barely able to escape with their lives. Now part of a hidden community of teens like themselves, Whit and Wisty have established themselves as leaders of the Resistance, willing to sacrifice anything to save kids kidnapped and... Read more

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

By: Mary E. Pearson

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?

Mary E. Pearson's The... Read more

Axis

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Now, in Spin's direct sequel, Axis, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that... Read more

Lamentation

By: Ken Scholes

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, William Dufris & ...

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lamentation, the first entry in the Psalm of Isaak series, an ancient weapon has completely destroyed the city of Windwir. From many miles away, Rudolfo, Lord of the Nine Forest Houses, sees the horrifying column of smoke rising. He knows that war is coming to the Named Lands.

Nearer to the Devastation, a young apprentice is the only... Read more

Julian Comstock

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 20 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New... Read more

Canticle

By: Ken Scholes

Narrated by: Scott Brick, William Dufris, Eliza Foss & Peter...

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Come back to the Named Lands in this compelling sequel to Ken Scholes amazing novel Lamentation.

It is nine months after the end of the previous book. Many noble allies have come to the Ninefold Forest for a Feast in honor of General Rudolfo's first-born child. Jin Li Tam, his wife and mother of his heir, lies in childbed.

As the feast begins,... Read more

Far North

By: Marcel Theroux

Narrated by: Yelena Schmulenson

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our... Read more

Enclave

By: Ann Aguirre

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Ann Aguirre's thrilling young adult novel Enclave is the story of two young people in an apocalyptic world--facing dangers, and feelings, unlike any they've ever known.

New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. When... Read more

Vortex

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.

Turk and his... Read more

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

By: David Hagberg

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The novel of the eagerly awaited sequel to the blockbuster film franchise. The Terminator films are landmarks in Hollywood filmmaking. Now, twelve years after Terminator 2: Judgment Day, comes the new film, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

Terminator 3 stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in his signature role. Other key roles are played by Claire... Read more

The Messiah of Morris Avenue

By: Tony Hendra

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Messiah of Morris Avenue, Tony Hendra—the acclaimed satirist and New York Times bestselling author of Father Joe—poses the question: would we recognize the messiah if he appeared today? And delivers, in the words of Frank McCourt, “just what the country needs now—a good dose of merriment in the face of crawthumping righteousness.”

In the... Read more

The Chosen One

By: Carol Lynch Williams

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated polygamous community without questioning her father's three wives and her twenty brothers and sisters. Or at least without questioning them much—if you don't count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with the boy she hopes to choose for... Read more

The Midnight Charter

By: David Whitley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spellbinding fantasy novel, newcomer David Whitley has imagined a nation at a crossroads: misshaped by materialism and facing a choice about its future. He has brought to life two children who will test the nation's values-and crafted a spellbinding adventure story that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.

In a society... Read more

The Fox Inheritance

By: Mary E. Pearson

Narrated by: Matthew Brown

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other—Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without... Read more

The Space Merchants

By: Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and boasts some of the world's most powerful executives.

Through advertising, the public is constantly... Read more

The Hunt

By: Andrew Fukuda

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't Sweat. Don't Laugh. Don't draw attention to yourself. And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them.

Gene is different from everyone else around him. He can't run with lightning speed, sunlight doesn't hurt him and he doesn't have an unquenchable lust for blood. Gene is a human, and he knows the rules. Keep... Read more