Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Immobility

By: Brian Evenson

Narrated by: Mauro Hantman

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

You open your eyes for what you know is not the first time and you remember nothing. You find out that a catastrophic event known as the Kollaps has destroyed life as we know it. Someone claiming to be your friend tells you that you're needed. Something crucial has been stolen—but under no circumstances can you know what or why. You've got to... Read more

The Return Man

By: V. M. Zito

Narrated by: Bernard Clark

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The outbreak tore the U.S. in two. The east remains a safe haven. The west has become a ravaged wilderness. They call it the Evacuated States. It is here that Henry Marco makes his living. Hired by grieving relatives, he tracks down the dead and delivers peace.

Now Homeland Security wants Marco for a mission unlike any other. He must return to... Read more

Starters

By: Lissa Price

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An international bestseller published in over thirty countries, this riveting sci-fi dystopic thriller is “a bona fide page-turner.” --MTV.com

Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and... Read more

The Voice

By: Anne Bishop

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An original novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Bridge of Dreams.

In a small village outside the city of Vision, the people know no sorrow or grief. But this seemingly idyllic community is hiding a terrible secret. As a young child, Nalah did not know why she was told to bring a cake to the mute girl known as the Voice whenever... Read more

Partials

By: Dan Wells

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of The Hunger Games, Battlestar Galactica, and Blade Runner comes the first book in the Partials Sequence, a fast-paced, action-packed, and riveting sci-fi teen series, by acclaimed author Dan Wells. Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population.... Read more

Pandemonium

By: Lauren Oliver

Narrated by: Sarah Drew

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in Lauren Oliver’s remarkable New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose.In this electrifying follow-up to Delirium, Lena is on a dangerous course that takes her through the unregulated Wilds and into the heart of a growing resistance movement. This riveting, brilliant novel... Read more

Article 5

By: Kristen Simmons

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Kristen Simmons' thrilling debut novel Article 5 is the first in an eagerly anticipated dystopian trilogy. In a world where soldiers have replaced police, arrests are made for minor infractions, and the Bill of Rights has been replaced with the Moral Statutes, 17-year-old Ember Miller longs for the days when things were different. But when her... Read more

The Healing Wars: Book II: Blue Fire

By: Janice Hardy

Narrated by: Luci Christian Bell

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Part fugitive, part hero, fifteen-year-old Nya is barely staying ahead of the Duke’s trackers.Wanted for a crime she didn’t mean to commit, she risks capture to protect every Taker she can find, determined to prevent the Duke of Baseer from using them in his fiendish experiments. But resolve isn’t enough to protect any of them, and Nya soon... Read more

The Healing Wars: Book I: The Shifter

By: Janice Hardy

Narrated by: Luci Christian Bell

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen-year-old Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Taker—with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body.But unlike her sister Tali and the other Takers who become Healer’s League apprentices, Nya’s skill is flawed: she can’t push that pain into pynvium,... Read more

Pure

By: Julianna Baggott

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Joshua Swanson, Kevin T. Collin...

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Julianna Baggott presents her beautifully written, riveting, breakout novel, PURE, the first volume in her new post-apocalypse thriller trilogy.

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .
Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she... Read more

A Pleasure to Burn

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork of twentieth-century American literature—a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. The origins and evolution of Bradbury’s darkly magnificent tale are explored in A Pleasure to Burn, a collection of sixteen... Read more

Under the Never Sky

By: Veronica Rossi

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne Flagler

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Fighting to survive in a ravaged world, a Dweller and a Savage form an unlikely alliance in New York Times bestselling author Veronica Rossi's ""unforgettable dystopian masterpiece"" (Examiner.com).Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. Then... Read more

The Space Merchants

By: Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and boasts some of the world's most powerful executives.

Through advertising, the public is constantly... Read more

The Fire

By: James Patterson & Jill Dembowski

Narrated by: Elijah Wood & Spencer Locke

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the resistance against the merciless totalitarian regime that governs their world. Its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One, has banned everything they hold dear: books, music, art, and imagination. But the growing strength of the siblings' magic hasn't been enough to stop the One's... Read more

Legend

By: Marie Lu

Narrated by: Mariel Stern & Steven Kaplan

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller!

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums,... Read more

Shatter Me

By: Tahereh Mafi

Narrated by: Kate Simses

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping first installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series.One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill.No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could... Read more

Crossed

By: Ally Condie & Jack Riccobono

Narrated by: Kate Simses

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated second book in the New York Times bestselling Matched trilogy!
 
Perfect for fans of 1984, Brave New World, Black Mirror, and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Chasing down an uncertain future, Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky--taken by Society to his certain death--only to find that he has escaped into the... Read more

Dead of Night

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he could be buried, the killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang…but a bite. Read more

Dearly, Departed: A Zombie Novel

By: Lia Habel

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest, Mike Chamberlain, Justine Eyre, ...

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Love can never die.

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?

The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique... Read more

The Death Cure (Maze Runner, Book Three)

By: James Dashner

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MAZE RUNNER SERIES • “[A] mysterious survival saga that passionate fans describe as a fusion of Lord of the Flies [and] The Hunger Games” (Entertainment Weekly)

WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete,... Read more

Flatland

By: Edwin A. Abbott

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

With this satirical novella, English schoolmaster Edwin A. Abbott provides both a mathematical fantasy and pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. The narrator, A. Square, resides in the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland. When he is visited by a sphere, he is suddenly faced with proof of the existence of... Read more

Eve

By: Anna Carey

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in Anna Carey’s chilling Eve trilogy, Eve is perfect for fans of The Handmaiden’s Tale. After a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth's population, the world is a terrifying place. Eighteen-year-old Eve has grown up isolated from the rest of the destroyed world in an all-girls school. But it isn’t until the night before her... Read more

City of Lies

By: Lian Tanner

Narrated by: Claudia Black

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilled liar. Along with her friend Toadspit, she's supposed to be one of the Keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt. But although she desperately wants to be a Keeper, she will not leave her sick parents to do so.
But when Toadspit's sister Bonnie is stolen, he and Goldie are forced to follow the... Read more

The Eleventh Plague

By: Jeff Hirsch

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In the aftermath of a war, America's landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen... Read more