Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

High-Opp

By: Frank Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Published posthumously, this dystopian novel was written between Frank Herbert's classics The Dragon in the Sea and Dune.EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the... Read more

Man in the Empty Suit

By: Sean Ferrell

Narrated by: Mauro Hantman

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Say you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and... Read more

The Country of Ice Cream Star

By: Sandra Newman

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 26 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive thriller.In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before... Read more

Boundary

By: Heather Terrell

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

After surviving the Hunger Games–like Testing, Eva becomes the Aerie's first female Archon. The second installment of the Books of Eva continues the harrowing struggle between past and present, Aerie and Boundary.Eva is the first Maiden in Aerie history to train as an Archon: a sacred leader of the New North. All eyes are watching as she... Read more

Drowned

By: Nichola Reilly

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

No one can escape the rising of the tides.Coe is one of the few remaining teenagers on the island of Tides. Deformed and weak, she is constantly reminded that in a world where dry land dwindles at every high tide, she is not welcome. The only bright spot in her harsh and difficult life is the strong, capable Tiam—but love has long ago been... Read more

Stranger

By: Rachel Manija Brown & Sherwood Smith

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies & Chris Patton

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Fast-paced, enormously cinematic, and full of inventive world-building, diverse characters, and moral complexity, Stranger is speculative fiction and its best—and its most true to our lives.Many generations ago, a mysterious cataclysm struck the world. Governments collapsed and people scattered to rebuild where they could. A mutation called the... Read more

The Invasion of the Tearling

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting sequel to the national bestseller The Queen of the Tearling, the evil kingdom of Mortmesne invades the Tearling, with dire consequences for Kelsea and her realm.With each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into her new responsibilities as Queen of the Tearling. By stopping the shipments of slaves to the neighboring kingdom of... Read more

Darknet

By: Matthew Mather

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of CyberStorm comes a wild ride through the Wall Street underworld.One minute Jake O'Connell is on top of the world with a beautiful family and bright future as a stock broker in New York; the next, it's all ripped away when he's embroiled in a fraud investigation, his childhood friend is murdered, and he finds... Read more

Breaking Sky

By: Cori McCarthy

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this high-flying, adrenaline-fueled thriller, America's best hope is the elite teen fighter pilots of the United Star Academy.Fly to the last drop of fuel. Fight to the last drop of blood.Showoff, reckless, maverick—Chase Harcourt, call sign "Nyx," isn't one to play it safe. In the year 2048, America is locked in a cold war, and the country's... Read more

Extinction Edge

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A bioweapon designed to save the world …A scientific discovery that will alter human history …And a new threat that will bring humanity to the Edge of Exctinction.The dust from Dr. Kate Lovato’s bioweapon has settled. Projections put death counts in the billions. Her weapon was supposed to be the endgame, but it turned a small percentage of... Read more

Relic

By: Heather Terrell

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The truth will test you.For fans of Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games, high fantasy and dystopia meet in this high-stakes tale of a civilization built on lies and the girl who single-handedly brings it down.When Eva's twin brother, Eamon, falls to his death just a few months before he is due to participate in the Testing, no one expects Eva... Read more

The Undying: Shades

By: Ethan Reid

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Undying “screams for a sequel” (Publishers Weekly)—and Ethan Reid delivers, in this riveting follow-up to “a thriller that brings a genuinely fresh take to a monstrous mythology” (Andrew Pyper, #1 bestselling author of The Demonologist).

THE FATE OF THE WORLD IS IN HIS HANDS.

The Undying: SHADES finds American student Jeanie and her young... Read more

The House of the Scorpion

By: Nancy Farmer

Narrated by: Raul Esparza

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover this internationally bestselling, National Book Award–winning young adult classic about what it means to be human.

Matt Alacrán wasn’t born. He was harvested.

His DNA came from El Patrón, the drug-lord ruler of the country of Opium. Most people hate and fear clones like Matt—except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself,... Read more

Empire

By: John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

With the fate of the world at stake, Syl and Paul battle the sinister forces of the Nairene Sisterhood in this second thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders novel from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard that “should not be missed” (The Guardian).

The Illyri have conquered and occupied the Earth. The Resistance are... Read more

Conquest

By: John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautiful book…one that should not be missed!” (The Guardian): The first in a stunning science fiction trilogy, this mesmerizing novel introduces a world where young rebels must unlock their powers to rescue humankind from a powerful alien rulership.

Earth has been invaded by the Illyri—a beautiful, civilized, yet ruthless alien species. But... Read more

Raging Star

By: Moira Young

Narrated by: Heather Lind

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Saba’s passion kept her allies alive. Now it may destroy them all in the gut-wrenching third book in the highly praised Dust Lands trilogy, which MTV’s Hollywood Crush blog called “better than The Hunger Games.”

Saba is ready to seize her destiny and defeat DeMalo...until she meets him and he confounds all her expectations with his seductive... Read more

Rebel Heart

By: Moira Young

Narrated by: Heather Lind

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing is certain and no one is safe in the scorching sequel to Blood Red Road, which MTV’s Hollywood Crush blog called “better than The Hunger Games.”

There is a price on Saba’s head. She brought down a ruthless tyrant and saved her kidnapped brother. But winning has come at a terrible cost. Saba is haunted by her past—and a new enemy is on the... Read more

The Wind Through the Keyhole

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In his New York Times bestselling The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga to tell a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain in his early days.

The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. This... Read more

The Lord of Opium

By: Nancy Farmer

Narrated by: Raul Esparza

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In the riveting sequel to the acclaimed bestseller The House of the Scorpion, Matt reels from the change in status quo and struggles to do the right thing; find out his story’s end in this new edition with a reimagined cover!

Matt Alacrán is a fourteen-year-old drug lord.

Until recently, Matt was just a clone grown from a strip of El Patrón’s... Read more

Blood Red Road

By: Moira Young

Narrated by: Heather Lind

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that will “blow you away”** has a dazzling new look in paperback!

Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh... Read more

The Dark Tower V

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 25 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Wolves of the Calla is the thrilling fifth book in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series—a unique bestselling epic fantasy quest inspired many years ago by The Lord of the Rings.

In the extraordinary fifth novel in Stephen King’s remarkable fantasy epic, Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World. Their path... Read more

Cell

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King!

On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make... Read more

The Undying

By: Ethan Reid

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

THEY HAVE COME FROM THE STARS…
In this riveting apocalyptic thriller for fans of The Passage and The Walking Dead, a mysterious event plunges Paris into darkness and a young American must lead her friends to safety—and escape the ravenous “undying” who now roam the crumbling city.

Jeanie and Ben arrive in Paris just in time for a festive New... Read more

On Such a Full Sea

By: Chang-rae Lee

Narrated by: BD Wong

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea, [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lonely human heart.”—Andrew Sean Greer, The New York Times Book... Read more