Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

After the Flood

By: Kassandra Montag

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an... Read more

The Warehouse

By: Rob Hart

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Jason Culp & Karissa Vacker

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.

“A thrilling story of corporate espionage at the highest level . . . and a powerful cautionary tale about technology, runaway capitalism, and the nightmare world we are making for ourselves.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Empty Hearts

By: Juli Zeh

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists

A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. There's a global... Read more

The Lightest Object in the Universe

By: Kimi Eisele

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe tells the story of what... Read more

FKA USA

By: Reed King

Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Peter Ganim

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"An epically concocted apocalyptic vision of America in all its faded glory." — Kirkus

"...a visionary head-trip of apocalyptic political satire; a kitchen sink quest story that reads like someone's high school RPG session gone full-on Technicolor bonkers.” — NPR.org

Reed King’s amazingly audacious audiobook is something of a cross between L.... Read more

The Girl in Red

By: Christina Henry

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.

It's not safe for anyone  alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has... Read more

Internment

By: Samira Ahmed

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebellions are built on hope.
Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to... Read more

If, Then

By: Kate Hope Day

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the... Read more

The Water Cure

By: Sophie Mackintosh

Narrated by: Hannah Murray, Gemma Whelan & Morfydd Clark

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“A gripping, sinister fable!” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
NPR • GLAMOUR • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • LIT HUB • THRILLIST

King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The... Read more

Of Blood and Bone

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.Fallon Swift, approaching... Read more

Bright Ruin

By: Vic James

Narrated by: Avita Jay

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the “thrilling conclusion”* to the dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City, the people of Britain rise up against their magically gifted masters. They must break the system—or be broken.

MAGIC RUINS. WE RISE.

The rules are simple, the system cruel: the lower classes must give ten years in service to Britain’s... Read more

Vox

By: Christina Dalcher

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S AND SHEREADS' BOOKS TO READ AFTER THE HANDMAID'S TALE

“[An] electrifying debut.”—O, The Oprah Magazine 
“The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”—Cosmopolitan

Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one... Read more

Census

By: Jesse Ball

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns.When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely... Read more

The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...

“I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

Shannon Moss is part... Read more

American War

By: Omar El Akkad

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot... Read more

Underground Airlines

By: Ben H. Winters

Narrated by: William DeMeritt

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?

A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkus Reviews, AudioFile Magazine, and Amazon

A... Read more

And Again

By: Jessica Chiarella

Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Joy Osmanski, Rebekkah Ross & Cor...

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do if you had a second chance at life?

Hannah, David, Connie, and Linda have been given the second chance of a lifetime—genetically perfect bodies as part of a medically advanced pilot program seeking FDA approval. Their new bodies are exact replicas of their old selves—without the deadly illnesses they suffered from. Even better,... Read more

The Dreamers

By: Ryan Elizabeth Penske

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Teenage Stella Grey has always felt an intense recurring sense of déjà vu … often plagued by strong dreams that feel more real than her waking moments. One ill-fated morning, her dream from the night before actually comes to life as she awakens and finds her house ransacked and her mother unconscious near their broken-in front door. Her next... Read more

Grip of Fury

By: Sam J. Fires

Narrated by: GM Hakim, Tara Sands & Andrea Emmes

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the frigid heart of a post-apocalyptic winter, can a retired ex-cop with OCD find the strength to protect his children and guide an escaped psychiatric patient to safety in a world where the lights have gone out? Patrick Dunn, a fifty-something ex-cop, thought he had left his days of action behind when a gunshot wound forced him into early... Read more

Grip of Panic

By: Sam J. Fires

Narrated by: GM Hakim, Maria McCann, Rob Vlock & Andrea Emmes

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author Sam J Fires… The power’s out. And only one chance to escape. Grip of Panic is the riveting fourth book in the After The End post-apocalyptic EMP survival series. If you like characters that jump off the page, spellbinding action, and edge-of-your-seat drama, then you’ll love bestselling author Sam J Fires’s... Read more

Talos: Book 3

By: Brian D. Anderson

Narrated by: Bradford Hastings

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

James Talos finds himself alone once again. Immune from its effects, he must locate and destroy the source of the signal driving people mad. Though his true goal has never changed: to find his wife and child. Despite the odds, he knows they still live. And he will not stop until they are safe in his arms and free from the horrors that have... Read more

THE END - DIE NEUE WELT

By: G. Michael Hopf

Narrated by: Robert Baumgärtner

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

★★★★★ "Extrem spannend, düster, beklemmend und brutal – auf vielfache Art und Weise." [Huffington Post] Für Gordon Van Zandt waren Treue und Pflicht gegenüber dem Vaterland so selbstverständlich, dass er direkt nach 9/11 das College hinschmiss und ins Marine Corps eintrat. Doch diesen jugendlichen Idealismus ließ er bald in einer... Read more

Arène Un: La Chasse aux Esclaves (Livre #1 de la Trilogie des Rescapés)

By: Morgan Rice

Narrated by: Jean (synthesized voice)

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Cet enregistrement a été produit numériquement par Morgan Rice, en utilisant une version synthétisée de la voix d’un narrateur sous licence. « Je n’avais jamais lu quoi que ce soit de post-apocalyptique auparavant. J’ai été très plaisamment surpris à quel point ce livre est addictif…Un de ces livres que vous lisez tard dans la nuit jusqu’à ce... Read more

Arène 3 (Tome n°3 de la Trilogie des Rescapés)

By: Morgan Rice

Narrated by: Jean (synthesized voice)

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Cet enregistrement a été produit numériquement par Morgan Rice, en utilisant une version synthétisée de la voix d’un narrateur sous licence. “Des échos des HUNGER GAMES imprègnent cette histoire, qui évolue autour de deux adolescentes courageuses déterminées à surmonter tous les obstacles pour reconquérir ceux qu'elles aiment. C'est un monde... Read more