Apocalyptic & Dystopian bestsellers

Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Jefferson White
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

“The fifth instalment in The Hunger Games series serves as a powerful exploration of propaganda and censorship, underscoring the Capitol's relentless efforts to maintain its tyrannical grip on power. It stands as a chilling reminder of the lengths authoritarian regimes will go to preserve the illusion of control over their citizens. Witnessing... Read more

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

The Hunger Games

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

“I just recently went through a deep dive reread of ALL The Hunger Games books (yes, in 2024!) and WOW do they still hold up! Do I remember loving them? Absolutely yes. Do I remember feeling inspired to overthrow the government? Also yes. But what I forgot, or maybe didn't fully understand at the time I first read them, was how delicately and... 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

“Voices and characters are crazy-well portrayed and the story is incredibly written. Don't miss this one!!! Read more

I Who Have Never Known Men

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

“What does it mean to be “human”—what is “humanity” when all we’ve used to define it is stripped away or was never there at all? Maybe that sounds trite, but no! This was a beautiful, isolating, and unexpectedly tender story that will stay with me for a long time and has become a new personal favorite. I’d especially recommend this to fans of... 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 Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Laila Lalami
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Barton Caplan
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ● READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.

Sara has just... Read more

Death of the Author

A Novel

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

“Death of the Author is a book within a book. It’s genre-bending. It’s a masterpiece. It’s not what you expect. And it will be hard to beat as my favorite book of 2025! 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

“Fans of Becky Chambers' writing refer to her style as 'cozy-punk' and I think this description couldn't be more fitting. Encompassing both grit and fluff, A Psalm for the Wild-Built seems to perfectly bridge the gap between the comfort of Young Adult Fiction and the challenging problems tackled in more serious literature. From philosophical... 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

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

“This collection of connected stories describes the world after a devastating plague. The book is beautiful — striking, unsettling, and darkly gorgeous. It defies categorization and creates its own genre. A shimmering gem of a book. 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

The Unworthy

A Novel

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

“The secluded Sacred Sisterhood sect thrives by being violent, abusive, and cruel but the narrator finds unexpected hope to survive. As the days, weeks, years pass by, 'The Unworthy' leaves you gut punched with more unsettling questions than answers -- ones the reader might not want explained. Read more

The Obelisk Gate

The Broken Earth: Book #2

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

“This is how to do a sequel right - if sequel is even the correct term. Picking up right where the The Fifth Season left off, this book is more mature as the situation matures, trusting that the reader is ready to deal with yet more depth and complexity. The world of the Stillness is revealed to be more definitively high fantasy - but the issues... Read more

Mickey7

A Novel

Mickey7: Book #1

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

Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17).

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

Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever... 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

Fable for the End of the World

By: Ava Reid
Narrated by: Gail Shalan & Emily Lawrence
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

“I fell HARD for this book! A semi-flooded world with a nod to climate change, corporate consumerist culture ruled by debt, society completely split into haves and have-nots , and it all feels all too possible in the way of great dystopian fiction. Plus, there’s a Hunger Games-esque live fight-for-survival-as-entertainment and a queer romance. I... Read more

The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
Narrated by: Daveed Diggs
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

“Solomon is perfectly suited to expand the concept of a civilization of merfolk whose origins were born in the violence of pregnant African women sent to the depths from the vessels of white slave traders. The Deep focuses on Yetu, whose role as historian is to be individually burdened with six centuries of memories of all the wajinru (merfolk),... 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

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

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

Iron Gold

Red Rising: Book #4

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer & 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

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

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

Light Bringer

A Red Rising Novel

Red Rising: Book #6

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 30 hours 8 minutes

Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age.

“Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR, on Dark Age

“The... 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

All the Water in the World

A Novel

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

“This is not a happy book, but it is overflowing with as much hope as there is water in this world. I think it is also an essential book to ignite the spark needed to avoid the climate catastrophe it describes; an educational book for any budding meteorologists, ecologists, activists, and museum enthusiasts. All the Water in the World arrived... Read more

Land of Milk and Honey

A Novel

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

“Brimming with seduction and desire, Zhang's sophomore novel offers a unique look at a dystopian climate future. When the world is covered with a smog that wipes out most of the food chain, simple pleasures like strawberries and a blue sky fade into distant memory. As xenophobia strands the main character, a chef, anywhere but her home country,... 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

Ready Player One

By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

“When it comes to listening to an audio book, I have to be drawn to the narrator’s voice almost if not more than the actual story. The way a narrator speaks really makes or breaks a story for me. Wil Wheaton made this story for me! He brought new life to a story I was already in love with. Wheaton made Wade Watts come to life, and was able to... Read more

Dark Age

Red Rising: Book #5

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk, James Langton & Rendah Heywood
Length: 33 hours 57 minutes

For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his... Read more

The Garden

By: Nick Newman
Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

“A hauntingly beautiful story that leaves you with as many questions as the answers you find. I kept thinking about it long after I finished. Like an amazing vacation to somewhere exotic. I definitely recommend. 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

Hell Followed with Us

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

“At the outset, 16-year-old Benji escapes the murderous doomsday cult he's been raised in, where his trans identity is not accepted, but not before they inject him with a biological weapon that will soon transform him into a monster. He lands at the Acheson LGBTQ+ Center in a nearby city, where he befriends a group of young queer survivors and... Read more

They Bloom at Night

By: Trang Thanh Tran
Narrated by: Nhi Do
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

““Sometimes we need the people to hunt the things inside of us that need to die but that we aren’t ready to kill” This was an incredible coming of age tale about a teenage girl Noon and her mother trying to survive a devastating hurricane in Mercy, Louisiana. But not only water came in that hurricane. Tran tackles many issues in this including... Read more

The Grace Year

A Novel

By: Kim Liggett
Narrated by: Emily Shaffer
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

“The Grace Year is a brutal, feminist gut-punch of a book that grips you tight and never lets go. Ugly crying will happen and readers are likely to get some serious lockjaw from gritting their teeth in suspense. Narrator Emily Shaffer nuanced performance of main character Tierney James is unforgettable, as she captures each little passive... Read more

Walkaway

By: Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Amber Benson, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Amanda Palmer, Lisa Renee Pitts, Wil Wheaton & Mirron Willis
Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

“What does it mean to live in a post-scarcity world that can’t let go of capitalism? Walkaway deftly explores this sticky subject and I enjoyed each of its twists and turns. Those who refuse to play by the rules of the old system, those who walk away, discover something the ultra-rich of a dying world desperately want. Set in the near future,... 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

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

The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

“Shannon Moss is a member of Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS), but she is from a branch of the Navy few have ever heard of. Shannon is part of Naval Space Command, a clandestine organization that sails deep space and time. Shannon is on the hunt for a killer: NSC officer, Patrick Mursult, who seems to have been driven mad during his... Read more

The Great Transition

A Novel

By: Nick Fuller Googins
Narrated by: Stacy Carolan & Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

“This book has been living rent free in my head since I finished it weeks ago. With every wildfire, flood, or other climate disaster popping up on my news feed, this book comes to mind. As our real world burns, more and more Climate Fiction is propelled to the top of book lists - and this one certainly deserves to top those lists. Told in... Read more

Tender is the Flesh

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

“Originally written in Spanish by Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica, this book is not for the squeamish. This dystopian novel looks at what happens to human society after a virus eradicates all animals and there is no meat. Cannibalism is the solution and it is depicted in all its violent stomach turning glory. It is brutal. Heads (humans) are... Read more

Fireborne

THE AURELIAN CYCLE: Book #1

By: Rosaria Munda
Narrated by: Christian Coulson, Candice Moll & Steve West
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

"One of fantasy’s best series." —Booklist, starred review

Game of Thrones meets Fourth Wing in a debut young adult fantasy that's full of rivalry, romance . . . and dragons.

Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone—even the lowborn—a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders.

Now... Read more

Dark Tower III

The Waste Lands

The Dark Tower: Book #3

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

The third volume in the #1 nationally bestselling Dark Tower Series, involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his ongoing quest for the Dark Tower, is “Stephen King at his best” (School Library Journal).

Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and in The Waste Lands, Roland’s two new tet-mates have become... Read more

Into the Drowning Deep

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

“In Into the Drowning Deep, Mira Grant has conjured up scary mermaids living in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. An expedition sets out to learn if mermaids truly exist and to uncover the fate of a previous expedition. The new crew is being recorded for a documentary, with the hope it will prove mermaids are real and clear the network of... Read more

Patternmaster

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

An all-powerful ruler's son vies for control over the human race in this brilliant conclusion to the Patternist saga, from the critically acclaimed author of Parable of the Sower.
In the far future, the human race is divided into two groups striving for power. The Patternmaster rules over all, the leader of the telepathic Patternist race whose... Read more

Severance

A Novel

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

“A disaffected young woman just scraping by in the big city. A rag-tag group of survivors on a journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape. These are familiar tropes in contemporary fiction (albeit not usually in the same novel). But with Ling Ma's steely-eyed, wry treatment, they grow into something far more complex. In an alternate 2011, Shen... Read more

The Seep

By: Chana Porter
Narrated by: Shakina Nayfack
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

“Weird, emotional little book! Aliens in the form of weird tech, people becoming babies again, it's chaotic in the best way. Read more

Julia

A Novel

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

“I've wanted to read this book ever since I read Nineteen Eighty Four. I am so glad Sandra Newman is the one who wrote it. Read more

Blade Runner

Originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

The classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which inspired two major motion pictures: Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies... Read more

The Mask Falling

The Bone Season: Book #4

By: Samantha Shannon
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 18 hours 30 minutes

Bloomsbury presents The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.

The stunning fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling Bone Season series reaches new corners of Samantha Shannon’s richly imagined world.

Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and sent to a safe house in the Scion Citadel... Read more