Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

By: Becky Chambers

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."—AudioFile Magazine

In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future.

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their... Read more

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch & L...

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York... Read more

How High We Go in the Dark

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, Mac...

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE""Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits."" — New York Times Book Review""Haunting and luminous . . .... Read more

Good Omens

By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Rebecca Front, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Ka...

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

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 Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de O...

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. 

The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but... Read more

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

By: Becky Chambers

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Tender and healing... I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” —Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

"This hopeful listen, full of humor, illuminates a world listeners will yearn to return to." -AudioFile on A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness... Read more

Into the Drowning Deep

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life.

The ocean is home to many myths,

But some are deadly. . .

Seven years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a... Read more

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

By: Suzanne Collins

Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This Special Edition of The Hunger Games includes the most extensive interview Suzanne Collins has given since the publication of The Hunger Games; an absorbing behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series; and an engaging archival conversation between Suzanne Collins and YA legend Walter Dean Myers on writing about war. The Special... Read more

Always Coming Home

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi & Isabella Star LeBlanc

Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“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

Hollow Kingdom

By: Kira Jane Buxton

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hilarious, "dazzling" romp, a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive a zombie apocalypse–think Watership Down meets Dawn of the Dead (Mona Awad, author of Bunny).

S.T. is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his human owner, Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. ""those idiots""), and enjoying... Read more

The Obelisk Gate

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

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

American Rapture

By: CJ Leede

Narrated by: Moniqua Plante

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Blood-soaked, heart-wrenching, grim and glorious.”—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep

From CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly, comes a scorching new apocalyptic novel. American Gods meets The Last of Us in this epic and sweeping story about the end of the world as we know it.

A virus is spreading across America,... Read more

Sea of Tranquility

By: Emily St. John Mandel

Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey & Kirsten P...

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

One of the Best... Read more

Station Eleven

By: Emily St. John Mandel

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Now an original series on HBO Max. Over one... Read more

Mirrored 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

The Stone Sky

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Absolution

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.When the Southern Reach trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times... Read more

I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Jacqueline Harpman

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

Narrated by: Jasmin Savoy Brown

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Savoy Brown enters the characters fully and makes their emotional changes audible and stunning—doubting to dreamy, bored to curious, saccharine to unhinged."—AudioFile

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly... Read more

Silo: Complete Series Books 1, 2, and 3

By: Jay J. Falconer

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 24 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 24 hours of audio in this non-stop action-thriller from the master of mayhem, USA Today Bestselling Author Jay J Falconer. Performed by 2022 Audie Award Winner and NY Times Bestselling Audiobook Narrator Gary Tiedemann...A Dying World…Humanity Nearly Extinct...Only Armed Camps Remain...In a frozen wasteland where survival hangs by a thread,... Read more

Burn

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence

Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving... Read more

Run

By: Blake Crouch

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping apocalyptic thriller about a man and his family running for their lives in an America gone mad—from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion

No time to think. No time to ask why. Only time to run.

Five days ago, the epidemic of rage began.

Four days ago, the rash of senseless murders swept the nation.

Three days... Read more

Hum

By: Helen Phillips

Narrated by: Ariel Blake

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Goodreads, LitHub, and Book Riot
A Best Book of the Summer for Esquire, Electric Lit, and Town & Country
A People Book of the Week

From “one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction” (The New York Times), this “tense dystopian thriller” (Time) and “tender... Read more

The Stand

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 47 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

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