Ready Player Two
By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly anticipated 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
AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY?
Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade... Read more »
The Ministry for the Future
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 40 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,... Read more »
The Fifth Season
By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)
This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.
It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent,... Read more »
Ready Player One
By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.
“Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly
A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?
In the year 2045, reality is an ugly... 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 »
The Power
By: Naomi Alderman
Narrated by: Naomi Alderman
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family.
But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with... Read more »
Followers
By: Megan Angelo
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 13 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“Terrific writing.” —Washington Post
“Dark, pitch-perfect novel.” —People
“Engaging confection wrapped around a thoughtful critique.” —USA Today
“Meet an all-too-real nightmare wrapped in an influencer bow...one you won’t be able to look away from.” —TheSkimm
“Followers is pure gold.” —Abbi Jacobson, bestselling author and co-creator of Broad... Read more »
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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 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 »
The Testaments
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Derek Jacobi, Tantoo Cardinal & Margaret Atwood
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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 Deep
By: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
Narrated by: Daveed Diggs
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clipping
Yetu... Read more »
Station Eleven
By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
2014 National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells 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... Read more »
Seveneves
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 »
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Mockingjay: Special Edition
By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Emmy Award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany narrates a brand-new recording of the final audiobook in the worldwide bestselling trilogy from Suzanne Collins! Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss’s family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really... Read more »
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The Sound of Stars
By: Alechia Dow
Narrated by: Joy Sunday & Christian Barillas
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves pop music work together to save humanity? A beautiful and thrilling debut novel for fans of Marie Lu and Veronica Roth.
Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world’s population.
Today,... Read more »
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Tropic of Kansas
By: Christopher Brown
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg & Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed short-story writer and editor of the World Fantasy Award nominee Three Messages and a Warning eerily envisions an American society unraveling and our borders closed off-from the other side-in this haunting and provocative novel that combines Max Barry's Jennifer Government, Philip K. Dick's classic Man in the High Castle, and China... Read more »
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The Memory Police
By: Yoko Ogawa & Stephen Snyder
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 »
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
By: C. A. Fletcher
Narrated by: C. A. Fletcher
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A "suspenseful, atmospheric tale. . .punctured by a gut-punch twist" (Entertainment Weekly), A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World is a story of survival, courage and hope amid the ruins of our world.
My name's Griz. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football.... Read more »
The Book of Koli
By: M. R. Carey
Narrated by: Theo Solomon
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"A captivating start to what promises to be an epic post-apocalyptic fable" (Kirkus), The Book of Koli is the unforgettable story of a young boy struggling to find his place in a world where nature itself has turned against humanity.
Everything that lives hates us...
Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an... 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 »
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Goldilocks
By: Laura Lam
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping science fiction thriller where five women task themselves with ensuring the survival of the human race—if you mixed ". . .The Martian and The Handmaid's Tale, this sci-fi novel would be the incredible result" (Book Riot).
Despite increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women on Earth, Valerie Black is spearheading the first... Read more »
The New Wilderness
By: Diane Cook
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
"The New Wilderness is a virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure."
—Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven
Helen Phillips meets Miranda July in this daring and imaginative debut novel that explores a moving mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and overpopulation, a... Read more »
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The Wolves of Winter
By: Tyrell Johnson
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A post-apocalyptic debut novel in a tradition that includes The Hunger Games and Station Eleven, this vision of a possible future shows humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, the forging of vital bonds when everything is lost, and, most centrally, a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny.
Lynn McBride has... Read more »
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Santino Fontana
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to out charm, outwit, and... Read more »
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