Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Strange Bird

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—expands and weaves deeply into the world of his critically acclaimed novel Borne.The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege, and the... Read more

Dead in Bed by Bailey Simms: The Complete Second Book

By: Adrian Birch

Narrated by: Dana Dae & Casey Turner

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Dead in Bed is a new release from Hachette Audiobooks: Powered by Wattpad -- an innovative collaboration between Hachette Book Group, a leading publisher, and Wattpad, a passionate storytelling community of over 45 million people. Your favorite online stories, now available in your headphones!

Dead in Bed follows Ashley Young after a... Read more

Defiance

By: William H. Weber

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Imprisoned by the Cartel, Dale Hardy must battle to escape his captors and find a way home before everything and everyone he holds dear is lost forever.



For the Cartel, it turns out subduing the small town of Encendido was only the beginning. Ruthless crime boss Fernando Ortega has his sights set on reclaiming great swaths of the American... Read more

Nomad Avenged

By: Craig Martelle & Michael Anderle

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A rogue Forsaken with the power of a pod. He wants the purple-eyed Werewolf. He wants what’s in Cheyenne Mountain. Terry Henry Walton is the key to both. When the Forsaken captures Terry, everyone’s world gets turned upside down. What will the Alpha and her pack do?What will become of the Force de Guerre?Nomad Avenged - nonstop action from start... Read more

The Machine

By: James Smythe

Narrated by: Emma Gregory

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK’s brightest new literary talents. Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory. Now the... Read more

Nomad's Justice

By: Craig Martelle & Michael Anderle

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Consistent characters, intriguing plots, and just enough twists to keep you on your toes.” Amazon Five-Star ReviewNorth Chicago begins to thrive and a return trip to New York City shows Terry and Char something they didn’t expect.Terry Henry Walton envisioned the Force de Guerre as a unit to keep evil away from those who wanted to live in... Read more

The List

By: Patricia Forde

Narrated by: Imogen Wilde

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the post-apocalyptic, neo-medieval city of Ark, speech is constrained to five hundred sanctioned words. If somewhere were to speak outside that approved lexicon, they'd face banishment. The only exceptions to this rule are the Wordsmith and his apprentice, Letta. Together, they are the keepers and archivists of all language. But when Letta's... Read more

Story of a Superhero

By: Jeff Child

Narrated by: John H. Fehskens

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The city's superhero stands before a challenging dilemma.This story book is about a superhero called Kareem. He has powers, important ones, valuable ones. His mission in life is to help those in need, but when his character gets tested, he finds himself in an awful situation, having to decide between extremely difficult options. The way is... Read more

Destiny

By: Matthew Mather

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

After the destruction of the planet by Nomad, the final fight for the future comes to a staggering conclusion as Earth drops toward Saturn and Jessica Rollins must decide whether to save the ones she loves, or save the human race.Destiny is the fourth and final novel in a four-book saga that follows one family’s fight to survive on a new Earth... Read more

The Finisher (Vega Jane, Book 1) (Library Audio Download Edition)

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

NARRATOR: Nicola BarberFORMAT: UnabridgedWhy would Quentin Herms flee into the Quag? There was nothing in the Quag except certain death.Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But this isn't unusual -- nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin... Read more

The Keeper (Vega Jane, Book 2) (Library Audio Download Edition)

By: David Baldacci

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Vega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she believed it - until the night she stumbled across a secret that proved that everything she knew was a lie. Now just one thing stands between Vega Jane and freedom - the... Read more

The Dying Game

By: Asa Avdic

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins & Steve West

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state—for fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Dave Eggers’ The Circle, and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games
 
Do you live to play? Or play to live?

The year is 2037. The Soviet Union never fell, and much of Europe has been consolidated under the totalitarian Union of... Read more

Secondborn

By: Amy A. Bartol

Narrated by: Kate Reinders

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Firstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Republic.On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St. Sismode’s eighteenth birthday arrives with harsh realizations: she’s to become a soldier for the... Read more

Lost Time

By: D. L. Orton

Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine & Erin deWard

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

If someone took everything you live for, how far would you go to get it back?
From the best-selling author D. L. ORTON and the Audie award-winning duo Noah Michael Levine and Erin deWard comes Book 2 in the Between Two Evils series...When a faulty time machine deposits Diego at the top of a pine tree, he knows he's in the wrong place—but has no... Read more

Gather the Daughters

By: Jennie Melamed

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.

Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of... Read more

Vanguard

By: Ann Aguirre

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times–bestselling Razorland saga from Ann Aguirre continues.

Since the war ended, Tegan has dreamed of an epic journey, so when she has the opportunity to sign on as ship's doctor, she can't wait. It's past time to chart her course. Millie Faraday, the kindest girl in the free territories, also yearns to outrun her reputation, and... Read more

Raid

By: K. S. Merbeth

Narrated by: Rachel Frawley

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Afull throttle, sand-in-your-eyes, no holds barred ride through a Mad Max-style wasteland." -- Delilah S. Dawson on Bite

Clementine is a bounty hunter in a world gone mad.

Bound and gagged in her passenger seat is the most revered and reviled raider king in the eastern wastes. She can't cash him in and she can't let him go, so together they... Read more

Hell Divers II: Ghosts

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesBetrayal and sacrifice in the skies …Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team. While... Read more

Nomad's Fury

By: Craig Martelle & Michael Anderle

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"Serenity and Clint Eastwood fans saddle up! This is a straight shooting futuristic story that celebrates honor and survival with a little paranormal on the side."Settled into their new home of North Chicago, Terry and Char find more enemies than they suspected. Faced with their greatest threat, they put the FDG into action against a Forsaken... Read more

Diary of a Wimpy Zombie

By: Jeff Child

Narrated by: John H. Fehskens

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A somewhat scary zombie story with a happy ending!They remember how it all started...how the experiment went wrong. Perhaps the answer lies at the school they came from. Sander and Sally find themselves fighting back hordes of zombies and wonder if it is ever going to stop. They should one zombie after another. But then they meet a zombie who is... Read more

Knight of Darkness

By: Linda Mooney

Narrated by: L. J. Hofer

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sorrow Knight knew that at any time the U'Nar would attack Earth, but he needed a few more days to come out of chrystasis before he could fight the deadly enemy. With his soul sword, Rall, he and the handful of other Surge Knights would gather wherever the enemy landed, and drive them off this world. A world with so many wonderful sights and... Read more

When the English Fall

By: David Williams

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath. Once-bright skies are now dark. Planes have plummeted to the ground. The systems of modern life have crumbled. With their stocked larders and stores of supplies, the Amish are unaffected... Read more

Ash and Quill

By: Rachel Caine

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire unite to save the Great Library of Alexandria from itself in this electrifying adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealously guards its secrets. But now a group of rebels poses a dangerous threat to its... Read more

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