Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Black Stars

By: Dan Krokos

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Mason Stark has a problem with minding his own business. This worked to his advantage when he stole back his world from the alien Tremist. Now Mason is called upon to use that very curiosity as a spy at the Tremist school for soldiers. At least his best friend, Merrin, daughter of the Tremist king, is there to keep an eye on him. Mason's bound... Read more

CyberStorm

By: Matthew Mather

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York goes dark in the dead of winter…A terrifying mystery begins…But who is the enemy?Sometimes the worst storms aren’t from Mother Nature, and sometimes the worst nightmares aren’t the ones in our heads.Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them... Read more

The Well’s End

By: Seth Fishman

Narrated by: Katie Schorr

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Magic, adventure, and danger collide in an unsuspecting small town.Sixteen-year-old Mia Kish's small town of Fenton, Colorado, is known for three things: being home to the world's tallest sycamore tree, the national chicken thigh–eating contest, and one of the ritziest boarding schools in the country, Westbrook Academy. But when emergency sirens... Read more

Wastelands

By: John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethe...

Narrated by: various narrators, Susan Hanfield, Paul Boehmer...

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon—these are our guides through the Wastelands.From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and... Read more

Homeland

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful novel Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarilydetained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack onSan Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the wholemovement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against thetyrannical security state.A... Read more

The Last Ship

By: William Brinkley

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 29 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed "an extraordinary novel of men at war" (Washington Post), The Last Ship is the book that inspired the TNT miniseries starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, and Adam Baldwin, with Michael Bay as executive producer.The unimaginable has happened: the world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the USS Nathan... Read more

Fury

By: Henry Kuttner

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Beneath the rolling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps—fully enclosed cities that house descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to escape a dying earth. In massive superstructures built beneath the Venusian seas, a complex feudal society devoted simply to decadence has evolved. Presiding over that society are... Read more

Wastelands 2

By: John Joseph Adams

Narrated by: various narrators, Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Camp...

Length: 20 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon—these are our guides through the Wastelands.Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse is a new anthology of postapocalyptic literature from some of the most renowned authors in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres today, including... Read more

Chokepoint

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a semi-sequel to Dead of Night in which four army reservists are assigned to hold a small rural bridge during the early days of the zombie apocalypse. This short story was previously published in the collection Hungry Tales. Read more

The Wind through the Fence

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a downbeat psychological drama set in the bleak wastelands a few years after the zombie apocalypse. This short story was originally published in the collection Hungry Tales. Read more

The New Order

By: Chris Weitz

Narrated by: Jose Julian

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

They thought they were the only ones left. They were wrong.

After the unexpected revelation at the end of the first book, Donna and Jefferson are separated. Jefferson returns to NYC and tries to bring a cure to the Sickness back to the Washington Square tribe, while Donna finds herself in England, facing an unimaginable new world. Can the two... Read more

Maximum Ride Forever

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Kasey Lee Huizinga

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Navigate a post-apocalyptic world and experience a thrilling finale with the ultimate Maximum Ride novel.
Discover the ninth and ultimate Maximum Ride story! Legions of Max fans won't be disappointed by this encore episode in the beloved series about the incredible adventures of a teenage girl who can fly. As Maximum Ride boldly navigates a... Read more

The Remaining: Faith

By: D. J. Molles

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Dan Molles' stunning Remaining saga continues in the first novella in the series set in a world ravaged by a bacterium that has turned 90% of the population into ravenous animals.

The world is slipping into chaos. A mysterious plague has come stateside, and Clyde Bealey suddenly finds himself with nothing but a suitcase full of worthless things... Read more

Homecoming

By: Kass Morgan

Narrated by: Justin Torres

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity is coming home.
Weeks after landing on Earth, the Hundred have managed to create a sense of order amidst their wild, chaotic surroundings. But their delicate balance comes crashing down with the arrival of new dropships from space.
These new arrivals are the lucky ones-back on the Colony, the oxygen is almost gone-but after making it... Read more

After the Red Rain

By: Barry Lyga & Robert DeFranco

Narrated by: Peter Facinelli

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A post apocalyptic novel with a cinematic twist from New York Times bestseller Barry Lyga, actor Peter Facinelli, and producer Robert DeFranco.

On the ruined planet Earth, where 50 billion people are confined to megacities and resources are scarce, Deedra has been handed a bleak and mundane existence by the Magistrate she works so hard for.... Read more

The Gold Coast

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This second book in Kim Stanley Robinson's richly detailed Three Californias triptych reveals a second, all-too-plausible possible future for Orange County.North America, 2027. Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young... Read more

Biblical

By: Christopher Galt

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Michael Crichton and Margaret Atwood comes this apocalyptic thriller that pits cutting-edge science against God and asks, who will win?A strange phenomenon is sweeping the globe. People are having visions, seeing angels, experiencing events that defy reality. Bizarre accounts pour in from distant places: a French teenager... Read more

The Sound of His Horn

By: John William Wall

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

A horrifying masterpiece of science fictionThe Sound of His Horn is a classic novel of the uncanny. Alan Querdilion becomes a prisoner of war during World War II and then awakes, only to find himself in an alternative future in which the Nazis have won the war. Against a sylvan backdrop, the legend of the wild huntsman is revived and genetic... Read more

Frontera

By: Lewis Shiner

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Lewis Shiner's stunning science fiction debutAfter the world's governments collapsed, the corporations took control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors, but Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive; they have discovered a... Read more

Cannibal Reign

By: Thomas Koloniar

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

First the asteroid would come, slamming into the earth just north of the Montana border, followed by earthquakes, tsunamis, and unending night. And after that … Hell.Astronomer Marty Chittenden is the first to recognize the approaching doom—a discovery that makes him a marked man.Green Beret Jack Forrest knows the catastrophe is inevitable and... Read more

A Tale of Light and Shadow

By: Jacob Gowans

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A medieval adventure for young adults, A Tale of Light and Shadow is the story of a boy struggling to become a courageous and honorable man and a girl who is desperately in love with him despite her father’s disapproval. The book chronicles the extraordinary tasks their adventure asks of their band of five friends and how those demands can... Read more

Pacific Edge

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

North America, 2065. In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the making. Kevin Claiborne, a young builder who has grown up in this "green" world, now finds himself caught up in the struggle to preserve his community's idyllic way of life from the resurgent forces of greed and... Read more

The Wild Shore

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the award-winning Mars trilogy comes a vision of a radically different alternative future, where every day is a fight to survive.North America, 2047. For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young... Read more

Extinction Horizon

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The worst of nature and the worst of science will bring the human race to the brink of extinction.Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never lost a man. When a top secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark, Team Ghost is called in to face their deadliest... Read more