Tender is the Flesh
By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made... Read more
The Testaments
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Der...
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on... Read more
The Grace Year
By: Kim Liggett
Narrated by: Emily Shaffer
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Emily Shaffer delivers a dynamic performance of this dystopian audiobook... She masterfully connects listeners to the characters' emotions, creating passionate and realistic performances." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
A speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power.... Read more
To Paradise
By: Hanya Yanagihara
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Feodo...
Length: 28 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS
To Paradise is a... Read more
Iron Gold
By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer...
Length: 23 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Trilogy. Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of... Read more
View audiobookSeveneves
By: Neal Stephenson
Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal & Will Damron
Length: 31 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.What would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against... Read more
View audiobookMirrored Heavens
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, S...
Length: 19 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky trilogy.
Even the sea cannot stay calm before the storm. —Teek saying
Serapio, avatar of the Crow God Reborn and the newly crowned Carrion King, rules Tova. But... Read more
Clay's Ark
By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful story of survival in unprecedented times, from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.
In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, Blake Maslin is traveling with his teenage twin daughters when their car is ambushed. Their attackers appear sickly yet possess inhuman strength, and they transport Blake's family to... Read more
The Memory Police
By: Yoko Ogawa
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ***
*** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD ***
*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island off an... Read more
Leech
By: Hiron Ennes
Narrated by: Abigail Thorn
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.
“A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!”—Tamsyn Muir
MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the... Read more
Rosewater
By: Tade Thompson
Narrated by: Bayo Gbadamosi
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Rosewater is the start of an award-winning trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.
*Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner
*Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel, winner
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents... Read more
The Deluge
By: Stephen Markley
Narrated by: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Gibson Frazier, St...
Length: 40 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book
“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen King
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.
In the first decades of the 21st... Read more
The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
Narrated by: Karie Richards
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for Canada Reads 2023 • One of Tor.com’s Can’t Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews’ Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • A Kirkus Review Work of Translated Fiction To Read Now • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 In an alternate history in which the... Read more
View audiobookOryx and Crake
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.
This is Margaret... Read more
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs
By: Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Adepero Oduye
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A haunting, provocative novel, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman’s unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save.Born at the end of the old world, Miriam grows up during The Great... Read more
View audiobookShift
By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Watch Silo, the Apple TV+ series based on the bestselling Silo Saga, starting May, 2023!The second volume in the New York Times bestselling Silo series. Hugh Howey goes back to show the first days of the Silo, and the beginning of the end.In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that... Read more
View audiobookShadow Speaker
By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Délé Ogundiran
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A deluxe, expanded edition of an out-of-print early novel from Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor, with a brand-new introduction from the author.
Niger, West Africa, 2074
It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great change has happened all over the planet, and the laws of physics aren't what they used to... Read more
Sand
By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But... Read more
View audiobookRoadside Picnic
By: Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky
Narrated by: Robert Forster
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into... Read more
View audiobookHomeland
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
View audiobookShades of Grey
By: Jasper Fforde
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
An astonishing standalone novel from the great literary fantasist and author of the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series and The Constant Rabbit, Jasper Fforde
As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure... Read more
Walkaway
By: Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Amber Benson, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, ...
Length: 19 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Cory Doctorow's first adult novel in eight years is an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza-known to his friends as Hubert, Etc-was too old to be at that Communist party.But... Read more
View audiobookSky's End
By: Marc J Gregson
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Plummet into a kill-or-be-killed competition where a scrappy underdog hell-bent on revenge must claw his way to the top in this thrilling YA fantasy debut
Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his... Read more
Dust
By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Watch Silo, the Apple TV+ series based on the bestselling Silo Saga, starting May, 2023!Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall.Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn’t trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and... Read more
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