Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Tomorrow’s Kin

By: Nancy Kress

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Aliens have landed in New York.A deadly cloud of spores has already infected and killed the inhabitants of two worlds. Now the plague is heading for Earth, threatening humans and aliens alike. Can either species be trusted to find the cure?Geneticist Marianne Jenner is immersed in the desperate race to save humanity, yet her family is tearing... Read more

After the Garden

By: Michelle Browne

Narrated by: Sam Smith

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Memories of another life and lover guide her, but are they even hers? She is a Bearer—keeper of past lifetimes and gifted with strange talents. Ember must find her answers away from safe Longquan Village, snared instead in the sensuality and dangers of the city. Hidden among spider farmers and slaves, prostitutes and weavers, a nest of people... Read more

The Null Prophecy

By: Michael Guillen

Narrated by: A. T. Chandler

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Space weather scientists in Northeast Canada have spotted holes opening in Earth’s magnetosphere. Now a massive, deadly eruption of solar radiation is barreling toward the planet at one million miles per hour. With only three days before impact, the president of the United States desperately turns to two unlikely heroes for help: inventor Calder... Read more

First Contact

By: Dean M. Cole

Narrated by: R.C. Bray

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Bestselling Author of Solitude!A routine test flight. A mysterious crash. Humanity’s first encounter with an alien race. When Major Anthony Spinelli takes his P-51 Mustang on a routine test flight over the deserts of New Mexico, he expects a few mechanical glitches—not to encounter a craft unlike anything built on Earth. After a storm... Read more

ACHE

By: Kelvin Myers

Narrated by: Levi Jacobs

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

With the advent of nanotech, happiness is just a brain hack. But if you can hack your brain, who else can?In the energy-scarce landscape of the former US, society has turned to mood-altering nanomachines to augment its grim reality. Like many, Lance Mireles walks the line between use and abuse, running shady side jobs to feed his habit while... Read more

The Song of the Orphans

By: Daniel Price

Narrated by: Rich Orlow

Length: 26 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in the genre-bending Silvers series-an io9 "can't miss" science fiction pick-about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an earth far different from our own. After their world collapsed in a sheet of white light, everything and everyone were gone-except for Hannah and Amanda Given. Saved from destruction by... Read more

Out in the Open

By: Jesús Carrasco

Narrated by: W. Morgan Sheppard

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"A harrowing, humane, and very beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You 

A searing dystopian vision of a young boy's flight through an unnamed, savaged country, searching for sanctuary and redemption—a debut novel from one of Europe's bestselling literary stars.
     
A young boy has fled his home. He’s pursued by... Read more

Lost in Arcadia

By: Sean Gandert

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Sean Gandert paints a startling dystopia that will resonate with fans of Station Eleven and A Visit from the Goon Squad.The America of 2037 is a country distracted by, infatuated with, and addicted to Arcadia. The brainchild of reclusive genius Juan Diego Reyes, Arcadia is a wickedly immersive, all-encompassing social-media platform and... Read more

Tage der Ewigkeit - Solarian, Band 6 (ungekürzt)

By: Thariot

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A.D. 2232. Von der Erde blieben nach dem Krieg nicht mehr als verbrannte Erinnerungen. 12 Millionen Menschen leben noch. Unfähig ihr Schicksal zu akzeptieren. Bedroht durch einen Feind, den sie nicht kennen. Scott hat neue Freunde gefunden und ist gemeinsam mit Istari weiter von der Erde weg als je Menschen zuvor. Leonie hat einen Fehler... Read more

The Space Between the Stars

By: Anne Corlett

Narrated by: Mary Woodvine

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Recommended Summer Read from The Verge and io9
A Recommended June Read from Hello Giggles and Tor.com

When the world ends, where will you go?

In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a devastating virus reduces most of humanity to dust and... Read more

Dead in Bed by Bailey Simms: The Complete First Book

By: Adrian Birch

Narrated by: Dana Dae

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Dead in Bed by Bailey Simms 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 by Bailey Simms follows... Read more

Wilders

By: Brenda Cooper

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Coryn Williams has grown up in the megacity of Seacouver, where her every need is provided for—except satisfaction with her life. After her parents’ suicides, her sister Lou fled the city to work on a rewilding crew, restoring lands once driven to the brink of ecological disaster by humans to a more natural state. Finally of age, Coryn leaves... Read more

Cormorant Run

By: Lilith Saintcrow

Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Aliens meets Under the Dome in this new post-apocalyptic novel from New York Times bestseller Lilith Saintcrow.

It could have been aliens, it could have been a trans-dimensional rift, nobody knows for sure. What's known is that there was an Event, the Rifts opened up, and everyone caught inside died.


Since the Event certain people have gone into... Read more

The Evaporation of Sofi Snow

By: Mary Weber

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The line between virtual and reality is about to EVAPORATE.In a world where skycams follow your every move and the details of your life are uploaded each hour, Sofi knows that her eyes are the only caring ones watching her brother, Shilo.As an online gamer, she works behind the scenes to protect Shilo as he competes in a mix of real and virtual... Read more

Germination (Zombies Are Human, Book 0)

By: Jamie Thornton

Narrated by: Jamie Thornton

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times best-selling author Jamie Thornton.A thrilling science fiction series. Follow a group of unlikely heroes deep into an apocalypse.ONCE UPON A TIME A PLAGUE ENDED THE WORLD. Mary knows how to thrive on the street. She makes it her mission to keep other kids away from everyday monsters. But when she's attacked by a crazed man... Read more

A Time of Changes

By: Robert Silverberg

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As Kinnall Darival writes "I" in his journal, he knows this pronoun is forbidden by his people of Manneran because it is too personal. But through the use of a powerful, mind-altering drug, he has learned to understand what people are really feeling and to speak for himself. Now he is compelled to share his message of liberation, regardless of... Read more

Unity

By: Adrienne Lecter

Narrated by: Tess Irondale

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

United we stand, divided we fall
Once again reunited, the Lucky Thirteen set out to hunt down their adversaries—only to be met with an entirely new set of unexpected obstacles. As much as Bree is burning to finally get her revenge, it soon becomes obvious that on their own they are no match for the forces opposing them. With giving up not an... Read more

Bunker (Book 3)

By: Jay J. Falconer

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A Warrior Lives for Peace. Sometimes All He Finds is War.When the perpetrators finally reveal themselves, Jack Bunker finds himself the target of a deadly manhunt. He’s all that stands between them and complete control.Yet mortars, artillery, and machine guns are not the only threats Bunker must face.News of an airborne pathogen spreads panic... Read more

Mount Weather

By: David Achord

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ongoing saga of the Zombie Rules series, Zach, his family and friends are lured from their home in Tennessee and relocate to a post-apocalyptic bunker known as Mount Weather, nestled in rural Virginia. They have been promised a better life by none other than the President himself. Zach's apparent immunity to the zombie virus may hold the... Read more

Trackers 2: The Hunted

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The deadly hunt continues as the hunters become the hunted …Five days ago North Korea detonated three nuclear warheads over the United States, triggering an electromagnetic pulse that crippled the country. A second attack destroyed the nerve center of America in a nuclear blast that flattened the nation’s capital. As the United States descends... Read more

The Enoch Plague

By: Matthew William

Narrated by: Matthew William

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A plague has wiped out more than 99% of earth's population. Less than 200,000 humans survive. Among them, only eighteen-year-old Kizzy Cartwright is capable of having children. But becoming a mother is not in her plans. When a violent mutation strikes the male population, the fate of the human race falls on Kizzy's shoulders. Rebooting UNCLE, an... Read more

Crazy House

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The heart-pounding New York Times bestselling thriller!
 
There were no charges. There was no trial. There will be no escape.
 
In the United, the population is strictly regulated, disease has been eradicated, and crime is nonexistent. Seventeen-year-old Cassie has never stepped out of line. When she tries to tell people that her suddenly... Read more

D’Arc

By: Robert Repino

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of the War with No Name, the Colony has been defeated, its queen lies dead, and the world left behind will never be the same. In her madness, the queen used a strange technology to uplift the surface animals, turning dogs and cats, bats and bears, pigs and wolves into intelligent, highly evolved creatures who rise up and kill... Read more

The Boy on the Bridge

By: M. R. Carey

Narrated by: Finty Williams

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting post-apocalyptic standalone set in the same world as the USA Today-bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts.

Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy.

The people thought the boy could save them, so... Read more