Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

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

The Fox Inheritance

By: Mary E. Pearson

Narrated by: Matthew Brown

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other—Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without... Read more

Countdown

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Brian Bascle

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestseller Mira Grant comes Countdown, a novella prequel set in the thrilling and treacherous world of Feed.
 
The year is 2014, the year everything changed. We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died.

This is the story of how we rose.

When will you rise?
 
 
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Theories of Flight

By: Simon Morden

Narrated by: Toby Leonard Moore

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Simon Morden draws upon his expertise as a bona fide rocket scientist to deliver mindbending science fiction. In Theories of Flight, Petrovich is the guardian of several secrets. For starters, he knows how to make anti-gravity. And if that's not impressive enough, he also knows which secret server farm hides a sentient... Read more

Relic Master: the Margrave

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth installment in the Relic Master quartet!Galen and Raffi's quest has brought them to the Pits of Maar. There, below the surface of the world, in the deepest darkness, a most evil thing is waiting for them to come. Read more

Genesis

By: Poul Anderson

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Artificial intelligence has been developed to a point where human intelligence can be uploaded into a computer, achieving a sort of hybrid immortality. Astronaut Christian Brannock welcomes this technology, technology that will make it possible for him to achieve his dream and explore the stars.A billion years later, Brannock is dispatched to... Read more

Relic Master: the Hidden Coronet

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The third installment in the Relic Master quartet!The coronet, a potent ancient relic, might be the only way to defeat the power that is destroying Anara. But it has been lost for centuries, and only legend tells of its whereabouts. Will Galen and Raffi be able to find it before the Watch does? Read more

Thunder of Heaven

By: Tim LaHaye & Craig Parshall

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the second installment of The End series, not even Joshua Jordan's anti-nuclear technology can stop global events moving to catastrophic as terrorist missiles take down an American plane and a bomb explodes in the Mall of America.Joshua Jordan’s reputation is on the line when his controversial anti-nuclear system fails to protect a commercial... Read more

Vortex

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.

Turk and his... Read more

Flashback

By: Dan Simmons

Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Richard Davidson & Bryan Kennedy

Length: 21 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative dystopian thriller set in a future that seems scarily possible, Flashback proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers.

The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their... Read more

Blonde Bombshell

By: Tom Holt

Narrated by: Ray Sawyer

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

'As you'd expect from Holt, Blonde Bombshell is rife with puns, complicated setups for ridiculous gags, and a riveting story that is completely implausible.' - Booklist

'BLONDE BOMBSHELL is a clever, funny, tirelessly inventive, apocalyptic leg-hump of a book. Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas... Read more

Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Mira Grant

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant.
 
Every week five friends get together to play a game — a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before.
 
 
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Relic Master: the Lost Heiress

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Even though Tasceron and its Emperor have fallen, there is a rumor that the heiress to the throne still lives. If so, her life is in grave danger, especially from the Watch. Galen and Raffi must race to find and protect her. Read more

Robopocalypse

By: Daniel H. Wilson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you.
 
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos... Read more

Blood Red Road

By: Moira Young

Narrated by: Heather Lind

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that will “blow you away”** has a dazzling new look in paperback!

Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh... Read more

Deadline

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Chris Patton & Nell Geisslinger

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This electrifying sequel from the New York Times bestselling author of Feed reenters a world of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all. Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just... Read more

Relic Master: the Dark City

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Emma Galvin

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation, where nothing is what it seems: Ancient relics emit technologically advanced powers, members of the old Order are hunted by the governing Watch yet revered by the people, and the great energy that connects all seems to also be destroying all. The only hope for the world lies in... Read more

A Time for Patriots

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“A master….[Brown] puts readers right into the middle of the inferno.”
—Larry BondNew York Times bestselling thriller-master Dale Brown delivers a story for our times. A Time for Patriots is one of his most explosive novels to date—a frightening, all-too-possible look into the near future, when the nation’s economic collapse turns thousands of... Read more

Divergent

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover or return to the dystopian series that's captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers! This first in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet.   Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and... Read more

Enclave

By: Ann Aguirre

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Ann Aguirre's thrilling young adult novel Enclave is the story of two young people in an apocalyptic world--facing dangers, and feelings, unlike any they've ever known.

New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. When... Read more

Fever Crumb (The Fever Crumb Trilogy, Book 1)

By: Philip Reeve

Narrated by: Philip Reeve

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning, new novel by master storyteller Philip Reeve.Fever Crumb is a girl who has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the order of Engineers, where she serves as apprentice. In a time and place where women are not seen as reasonable creatures, Fever is an anomaly, the only female to serve in the order. Soon though, she... Read more

Angel

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Max Ride and her best friends are up against a deadly force, but Fang is gone just when they need him most. Will they be ready for the ultimate showdown?   Max Ride and her best friends have always had one another's backs-no matter what. Living on the edge as fugitives, they never had a choice. But now they're up against a deadly force that's... Read more

Delirium

By: Lauren Oliver

Narrated by: Sarah Drew

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren Oliver's powerful New York Times bestselling novel Delirium—the first in a dystopian trilogy—presents a world as terrifying as George Orwell's 1984 and a romance as true as Romeo & Juliet.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a... Read more

Across the Universe

By: Beth Revis

Narrated by: Carlos Santos & Lauren Ambrose

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Prometheus!

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?

Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. She has left her boyfriend, friends--and planet--behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark... Read more