Apocalyptic & Dystopian bestsellers

Death of the Author

A Novel

By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris Djuma
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Recommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • Reader's Digest • and more!“This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times Book ReviewIn this exhilarating... Read more

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #1

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

“What do you do when you have everything you could ever need or want, but still aren't satisfied with what your life is? A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a short and sweet odd-couple road trip set in a beautiful world that could be our world — if we wanted it to be. Read more

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick

National Book Award Finalist

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch & Lee Osorio
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

“This book rocked me to my core. Adjei-Brenyah's writing is soul-shifting. He gives us a devastatingly unvarnished look at the US carceral system and a warning for what may to be come. The deep, multidimensional characters evoke empathy, empowerment, and sometimes disgust. I have never read a more evocative work of fiction. The audiobook is worth... Read more

How High We Go in the Dark

A Novel

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure & Jason Culp
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“The characters in these interconnected stories are so real and unique. Each person's perspective (each really lovingly narrated by different voice actors) adds another layer of understanding to the ways in which humanity reels from the aftereffects of pandemic and climate change. It's a touching book, and I was genuinely moved during some of the... Read more

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“This series is bound to become a classic. What begins as a story about dystopian gladiatorial games turns into a brilliant and exciting treatise on autocratic rule, human rights, and revolution. Read more

The Ministry for the Future

A Novel

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Inés del Castillo & Vikas Adam
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

“This hearty work of hard science fiction has been the antidote to my climate change despair. As a novel, it is good. As a thought experiment in imagining a near future in which humanity averts complete disaster and begins the transformation into an ecologically humane civilization—it is a masterpiece. Is it possible that we’ll overcome the... Read more

All the Water in the World

A Novel

By: Eiren Caffall
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

“Cli-fi does one of two things for me: immediate onset panic symptoms, or a slight lessening of the ever-present climate doom. This book does the latter. Like Mister Rogers, Eiren Caffall gifts us with a propulsive and lyric story sounding in love. Read more

Severance

A Novel

By: Ling Ma
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

“Will it take the end of the world for the world to wake up? Read more

I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Jacqueline Harpman
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Deep underground, 39 women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the 40th prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the... Read more

Sea of Tranquility

A novel

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey & Kirsten Potter
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

“Incredibly crafted mystery through time & space that attempts to answer if we exist in a simulation, or the reality that we have always accepted. Read more

Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Length: TBA

The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!When you've been set upto lose everything you love,what is there left to fight for?As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.Back in District 12,... Read more

Hollow Kingdom

By: Kira Jane Buxton
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

“You wouldn't think a foul-mouthed, wise-cracking crow named S. T. (short for Shit Turd) would be a great companion at the end of the world, but honestly? I couldn't imagine another living being to spend the apocalypse with. Buxton amazingly captures the natural world as the humans have devolved into zombie-like creatures, and given us the... Read more

Tender is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

“Having read Bradbury and Orwell it is easy to imagine the dystopia that Tender Is the Flesh seeks to convey. This book gave me goosebumps and it gave me a visceral reaction - it felt so real. Truly disturbingly well written. There is a theme of body autonomy in this book and mass consumption of animals. The ending will make you feel intense... Read more

Station Eleven

A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“I never knew an apocalypse could be so peaceful. "Station Eleven" is the perfect tragedy and the perfect comedy, worthy of its traveling Shakespeare performers indeed. Its story is ingenious, its prose haunting, its characters dynamic and their actions remarkably bold. Read more

The Bone Season

Tenth Anniversary Edition

The Bone Season: Book #1

By: Samantha Shannon
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 18 hours 38 minutes

“I’ve loved The Bone Season series from almost the very beginning. Samantha Shannon weaves a complex and rich version of London (and other wonderful cities), with a supernatural criminal underworld and a terrifying dystopian government. Despite how awful things are for our main character, Paige Mahoney, you can’t help but love the place and the... Read more

Hell Followed with Us

By: Andrew Joseph White
Narrated by: Shaan Dasani, Graham Halstead & Avi Roque
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“With much inspiration taken from the ancient horror stories of The Bible, Hell Followed with Us is a post-apocalyptic adventure featuring queer teens as the heroes. A new plague has been released upon the world by an evangelical cult, The Angels. Benji’s mother is one of their leaders, his father his greatest ally, and he: a trans boy trapped... Read more

Good Omens

A Full Cast Production

By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Rebecca Front, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Katherine Kingsley, Arthur Darvill, Peter Forbes, Gabrielle Glaister, Louis Davison, Pixie Davies, Chris Nelson, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, John Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves & Lemn Sissay
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

A brand new full cast audiobook production of the classic collaboration from internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett starring Rebecca Front as the Narrator, Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, and David Tennant as Crowley!""Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don... Read more

The Memory Police

A Novel

By: Yoko Ogawa
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

“On a small unnamed island, the government can make things disappear, never to return, lost to both memory and sense. Yet what is lost is never truly forgotten: some still remember, threatening the rule of the draconian Memory Police. This book fills you with a slow burning dread as the disappearances become increasingly sinister. The Memory... Read more

Iron Gold

Red Rising: Book #4

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, Julian Elfer, John Curless & Aedin Moloney
Length: 23 hours 22 minutes

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

The Obelisk Gate

The Broken Earth: Book #2

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR)

The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night.

Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead... Read more

Into the Drowning Deep

By: Mira Grant
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

“This book is a masterpiece. Horror story about mermaids. Such a good monster book. Read more

Wool

The Silo Saga: Book #1

By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Watch Silo, the new Apple TV+ sci-fi series starring Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins!The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival.The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo.... Read more

The Stone Sky

The Broken Earth: Book #3

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the power of... Read more

Land of Milk and Honey

A Novel

By: C Pam Zhang
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

“Zhang’s gorgeous prose sets a stark contrast between a world destroyed and a seemingly pristine utopia. While darkness pervades this literary thrill ride, thoughtful questions about humanity save the reader from total madness. Read more

1984

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Theo Solomon
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before.“Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get... Read more

The Legend of the Last Library

By: Frank L. Cole
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

In a world where paper is extremely scarce and books are priceless, Juni undertakes a dangerous quest to find a legendary lost treasure—the last library. Juni lives in a world without books. The Blight killed off all the trees, and since then, paper is worth more than just about anything else. Juni’s parents were killed in an archeological dig... Read more

Dark Tower I

The Gunslinger

The Dark Tower: Book #1

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.

A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last... Read more

The Stand

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 47 hours 43 minutes

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky... Read more

Dust

The Silo Saga: Book #3

By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

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

Mirrored Heavens

Between Earth and Sky: Book #3

By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, Shyla Lefner, Nicole Lewis, Kairyn Potts & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

“Fantastic ending to a brilliant series. Lord of The Rings and Game of Thrones fans will find plenty to enjoy in this epic fantasy trilogy. Superb ensemble cast does the reading. Read more

The School for Good Mothers

A Novel

By: Jessamine Chan
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

“What does it mean exactly to be a good mother? When Frida Liu’s husband leaves her for another woman, her young child Harriet gets sick and is crying incessantly, and Frida is feeling like an all-round failure, she snaps. She leaves her daughter at home to run to the office to pick up a couple of things. A neighbor hears the baby crying and... Read more

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #2

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

“Just as wonderful and as tender as A Psalm for the Wild-Built. A sweet and earthy cup of tea to warm the soul. New and old characters to giggle with, cry with, and just flat out fall in love with. A book that I will return to again and again. Read more

Catching Fire: Movie Tie-in Edition (Hunger Games, Book Two)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Catching Fire, the second book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games series, is now available with all-new cover art from the feature film!The second book in the international bestselling Hunger Games series is now a feature film. Here is the original novel with exciting new movie artwork on the cover. (Original cover version also... Read more

The One

By: John Marrs
Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Vicki Hall, Simon Bubb, Jot Davies & Sophie Aldred
Length: 11 hours 1 minute

***Over 1M Copies Sold!***

Now on Netflix!

The USA Today bestseller

A Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2018

“Just try to put this gripping thriller down once you pick it up.” —AARP

“A shock on every other page.” —Wall Street Journal

How far would you go to find The One?

A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon... Read more

Mickey7

A Novel

Mickey7: Book #1

By: Edward Ashton
Narrated by: John Pirhalla & Katharine Chin
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

*Soon to be the major motion picture Mickey17*

The Martian meets Dark Matter in Edward Ashton's high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an "expendable," refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place.

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.

Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition... Read more

The Last Bookstore on Earth

By: Lily Braun-Arnold
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two teen girls fall in love and fight for survival in an abandoned bookstore weeks before another cataclysmic storm threatens to bring about the end of the world in this unforgettable YA debut. Perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last of Us.

“A thoroughly original, intimate, and sometimes harrowing meditation... Read more

Dawn

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Julienne Irons
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

“An astonishing work of imagination that presents the reader with a series of sticky, impossible questions. Among them: When your people have lost to a colonizing force, and must face the end of their self-sovereignty, culture, and identity, how do you accept the new reality and keep living? Butler explores this historically common dilemma via... Read more

Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking... Read more

Dark Tower IV

Wizard and Glass

The Dark Tower: Book #4

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 27 hours 32 minutes

The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense…rip-roaring” (Publishers Weekly)—a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.

In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most ebullient…sweeping readers up in…swells of passion” (Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake... Read more

Hum

By: Helen Phillips
Narrated by: Ariel Blake
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

“A very true, raw, and interesting look at the not-so-distant future. Really good story involving AI… the ending really makes you think. Read more

The Last Cuentista

By: Donna Barba Higuera
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

“It’s 2061. Because of their scientific expertise, Petra’s parents have been chosen to accompany a trio of spaceships to colonize a new planet, leaving behind their home—and Petra’s beloved abuelita—in New Mexico just before a comet hits Earth. But even before their ship lifts off, things aren’t going according to plan. Amid the worrying events... Read more

Dark Tower II

The Drawing of the Three

The Dark Tower: Book #2

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.

“Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters,” hails The Baltimore Sun. Beginning just less than... Read more

Everything for Everyone

An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072

By: M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
Narrated by: Charli Burrow & Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth... Read more

Shift

The Silo Saga: Book #2

By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

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

The Dark Tower V

Wolves of the Calla

The Dark Tower: Book #5

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 25 hours 48 minutes

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

Julia

A Novel

By: Sandra Newman
Narrated by: Louise Brealey
Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

“A great companion piece to George Orwell's 1984. It tells the story of Winston Smith's lover, Julia, as she tries to navigate the dangerous world of Big Brother, doublespeak, Room 101 and the aftermath of their forbidden affair. Taut and terrifying,  this is highly recommended. Read more

Ready Player Two

A Novel

By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST• “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall... Read more

The Mime Order

The Bone Season: Book #2

By: Samantha Shannon
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Bloomsbury presents The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.

The stunning second novel in the New York Times bestselling Bone Season series expands Samantha Shannon’s epic world of Scion in a new heart-pounding story of revolution.

Paige Mahoney has escaped the clandestine prison city of Oxford. Now a fugitive in London,... Read more

American Rapture

By: CJ Leede
Narrated by: Moniqua Plante
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

“Wow! Absolutely phenomenal! I was hooked from the second I started this audiobook until the very end. If you are a fan of the show or video game, The Last of Us this is a must read for you. Read more

Always Coming Home

A Novel

By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi & Isabella Star LeBlanc
Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

“One of [Le Guin's] most radical novels. . . . A study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like—for society and for the art of storytelling.""—The MillionsReissued for a new generation of readers, Always Coming Home is Ursula K. Le Guin’s magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing... Read more