Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Second Activation

By: Darren Wearmouth & Marcus Wearmouth

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It began in First Activation, when military veterans Harry and Jack arrived at a silent JFK airport and a New York City full of madmen driven to kill one another.In Second Activation, the two brothers escape from Monroe, Michigan, and head for New York to face down Genesis Alliance, a despotic organization that is implementing the chaos to... Read more

Shattered World

By: Kate L. Mary

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Stranded in the middle of the Mojave Desert, surrounded by zombies, Vivian and Axl are sure that they're facing the end. They meet a billionaire who's promised them safety and security, but it's almost too good to be true. Vivian hopes that she'll finally able to deal with the loss of Emily, her growing feelings for Axl, and the terrifying new... Read more

A Tale of Light and Shadow

By: Jacob Gowans

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A medieval adventure for young adults, A Tale of Light and Shadow is the story of a boy struggling to become a courageous and honorable man and a girl who is desperately in love with him despite her father’s disapproval. The book chronicles the extraordinary tasks their adventure asks of their band of five friends and how those demands can... Read more

Survivors by Terry Nation

By: Terry Nation

Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly virus spreads across the world. Within weeks, most of the human race is dead. Abby Grant ventures out into a strange new England, but she cannot settle until she knows the truth. Has her son survived? Read more

The Gemini Effect

By: Chuck Grossart

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Winner, Best Science Fiction NovelAmazon Breakthrough Novel Award FinalistA single raindrop opens a Pandora’s box when the spawn of perverse genetic research performed during World War II is unleashed on an unsuspecting modern world. By dawn, only a dead city remains, eerily quiet and still, except for... Read more

The Wild Shore

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the award-winning Mars trilogy comes a vision of a radically different alternative future, where every day is a fight to survive.North America, 2047. For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young... Read more

First Activation

By: Darren Wearmouth & Marcus Wearmouth

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Brothers Harry and Jack leave Manchester for New York City for their annual weekend getaway. But upon arrival, they find a silent, deserted JFK, where the few ground crew they can spot have all been slaughtered.Harry and Jack are military veterans, but they’ve never encountered anything like this.As they witness the carnage and stumble across... Read more

Breaking Sky

By: Cori McCarthy

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this high-flying, adrenaline-fueled thriller, America's best hope is the elite teen fighter pilots of the United Star Academy.Fly to the last drop of fuel. Fight to the last drop of blood.Showoff, reckless, maverick—Chase Harcourt, call sign "Nyx," isn't one to play it safe. In the year 2048, America is locked in a cold war, and the country's... Read more

Extinction Edge

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A bioweapon designed to save the world …A scientific discovery that will alter human history …And a new threat that will bring humanity to the Edge of Exctinction.The dust from Dr. Kate Lovato’s bioweapon has settled. Projections put death counts in the billions. Her weapon was supposed to be the endgame, but it turned a small percentage of... Read more

Homecoming

By: Kass Morgan

Narrated by: Justin Torres

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity is coming home.
Weeks after landing on Earth, the Hundred have managed to create a sense of order amidst their wild, chaotic surroundings. But their delicate balance comes crashing down with the arrival of new dropships from space.
These new arrivals are the lucky ones-back on the Colony, the oxygen is almost gone-but after making it... Read more

Fury

By: Henry Kuttner

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Beneath the rolling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps—fully enclosed cities that house descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to escape a dying earth. In massive superstructures built beneath the Venusian seas, a complex feudal society devoted simply to decadence has evolved. Presiding over that society are... Read more

Empire

By: John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

With the fate of the world at stake, Syl and Paul battle the sinister forces of the Nairene Sisterhood in this second thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders novel from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard that “should not be missed” (The Guardian).

The Illyri have conquered and occupied the Earth. The Resistance are... Read more

Dove Arising

By: Karen Bao

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She’s barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government’s radar.

Then her mother is arrested.

The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading Shelter... Read more

Wastelands 2

By: John Joseph Adams

Narrated by: various narrators, Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Camp...

Length: 20 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon—these are our guides through the Wastelands.Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse is a new anthology of postapocalyptic literature from some of the most renowned authors in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres today, including... Read more

Some Fine Day

By: Kat Ross

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A generation ago, continent-sized storms called hypercanes caused the Earth to flood. The survivors were forced to retreat deep underground and build a new society.This is the story that sixteen-year-old Jansin Nordqvist has heard all of her life.Jansin grew up in a civilization far below the Earth’s surface. She’s spent the last eight years in... Read more

Ordinary

By: Jess Petosa

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"I think your issue is less about localized behavior and more about human nature. I've seen the history books. Someone always has to be better. Someone always has to conquer."



Ally and her friends are once again leaving the comfort of home and setting their sights on the Southern City. Does it exist? Will Ally find what she is looking for?



Someone... Read more

Extinction Horizon

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The worst of nature and the worst of science will bring the human race to the brink of extinction.Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never lost a man. When a top secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark, Team Ghost is called in to face their deadliest... Read more

The Glass Arrow

By: Kristen Simmons

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where females are scarce and are hunted, then bought and sold at market for their breeding rights, 15-year old Aya has learned how to hide. With a ragtag bunch of other women and girls, she has successfully avoided capture and eked out a nomadic but free existence in the mountains. But when Aya's luck runs out and she's caught by a... Read more

The Remaining: Trust

By: D. J. Molles

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

D.J.. Molles' stunning Remaining saga continues in the second novella in the series set in a world ravaged by a bacterium that has turned 90% of the population into ravenous animals.

While Captain Lee Harden struggles to fulfill his part in Project Hometown his trusted friend and ally Major Abe Darabie works to hold up his end of the mission. But... Read more

Scripted

By: Maya Rock

Narrated by: Jessica Almasy

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Reality is deadly when you go off script.Bliss Island seems like an idyllic place to live—especially to the people suffering on the war-torn mainland. What's not so idyllic about Bliss is the fact that the Island is a set, and everyone's life is a performance; they're all stars of a hit reality TV show, Blissful Days. Characters on the show... Read more

Drowned

By: Nichola Reilly

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

No one can escape the rising of the tides.Coe is one of the few remaining teenagers on the island of Tides. Deformed and weak, she is constantly reminded that in a world where dry land dwindles at every high tide, she is not welcome. The only bright spot in her harsh and difficult life is the strong, capable Tiam—but love has long ago been... Read more

The Lost Labyrinth

By: Gilliam Ness

Narrated by: Gilliam Ness

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE GREATEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN HISTORY.A WORLD ALTERING SECRET SUPPRESSED FOR MILLENNIA.AND A FATED CATACLYSM POISED TO TRANSFORM THE PLANET.THE LOST LABYRINTH is the second book in The Last Artifact Trilogy. Embark on a fast-paced chase from Italy to North Africa, and then to the Rock of Gibraltar. Here a desperate plan to... Read more

Rogue

By: Jess Petosa

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ally is finally outside the City walls, with her brother and her best friends.



Luke is still inside the City walls, with no memory of the girl he once loved.



Life in the Wilderness is dangerous, and ALly and her friends soon find out that they are not alone. Will Ally continue her journey to the Southern City, or will she risk it all to help the... Read more

The Dark Wild

By: Piers Torday

Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong.  Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains: animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies.  And soon Kester realizes: he is the only one... Read more