Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

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

Sapphique

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The only one who escaped . . . And the one who could destroy them all.

Incarceron, the living prison, has lost one of its inmates to the outside world: Finn’s escaped, only to find that Outside is not at all what he expected. Used to the technologically advanced, if violently harsh, conditions of the prison, Finn is now forced to obey the rules... Read more

The Gift

By: James Patterson & Ned Rust

Narrated by: Elijah Wood, Spencer Locke & Peter Giles

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When Whit & Wisty were imprisoned by the wicked forces of the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, they were barely able to escape with their lives. Now part of a hidden community of teens like themselves, Whit and Wisty have established themselves as leaders of the Resistance, willing to sacrifice anything to save kids kidnapped and... Read more

Matched

By: Ally Condie

Narrated by: Kate Simses

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] superb dystopian romance.” – The Wall Street Journal
 
“Strong feminist ideals and impressive writing that’s bound to captivate.” – The Los Angeles Times 

In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.

Cassia has always trusted the Society’s choices. And when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, she is... Read more

The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner, Book Two)

By: James Dashner

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Book two in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! And don’t miss The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how the maze was built!
 
   Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But... Read more

Museum of Thieves

By: Lian Tanner

Narrated by: Claudia Black

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime.
Goldie Roth has lived in Jewel all her life. Like every child in the city, she wears a silver guardchain and is forced to obey the dreaded Blessed Guardians. She has never done anything by herself and won’t be allowed out on the streets unchained until... Read more

The Reapers Are the Angels

By: Alden Bell

Narrated by: Tai Sammons

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can’t remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until... Read more

Running Out of Time

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie’s mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help.

But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening than she could have imagined, and soon... Read more

The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The earth's surface is no longer habitable. All humanity is sequestered beneath the ground, couched in isolation and contentment. The Machine provides the needs of humanity. Mankind becomes subservient drones to the life-supporting Machine. But what happens when the Machine stops? Read more

Edge of Apocalypse

By: Tim LaHaye & Craig Parshall

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A former war hero designs a weapon the whole world is trying to get their hands on. As world events show signs of the apocalypse, what price will he pay to save his country? From the co-author of the renowned Left Behind series, this epic story chronicles the unfolding end of the world.Joshua Jordan, former US spy-plane hero now turned weapons... Read more

The Bradbury Report

By: Steven Polansky

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 2071. It is a world very recognizable to our own, only now the United States has implemented a wide-scale, government-run cloning program that is tied directly to health insurance. Each US citizen has a “Copy” living separately in a cleared zone in the Midwest. If an “Original” is sick or injured and requires surgery, whatever he or... Read more

Feed

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Paula Christensen & Jesse Bernstein

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Feed is an electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own that the New York Times calls “Astonishing” — a novel of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all — from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant.
 
The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But... Read more

This World We Live In

By: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The heart-wrenching companion to the bestselling novels Life As We Knew It and The Dead & The Gone.

It’s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. Miranda and her two brothers spend their days scavenging for food and household items, while their mother stays at home and desperately tries... Read more

Fang

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Jill Apple

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Angel says that Fang will be the first to die, and Angel is never wrong. Maximum Ride is used to living desperately on the run from evil forces sabotaging her quest to save the world--but nothing has ever come as close to destroying her as this horrifying prophetic message. Fang is Max's best friend, her soul mate, her partner in the leadership... Read more

Incarceron

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Incarceron is a prison unlike any other: Its inmates live not only in cells, but also in metal forests, dilapidated cities, and unbounded wilderness. The prison has been sealed for centuries, and only one man, legend says, has ever escaped.
           
Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, can’t remember his childhood and believes he came from... Read more

Witch & Wizard

By: James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet

Narrated by: Elijah Wood & Spencer Locke

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When a dystopian government controls every aspect of society, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood may be the world's only hope in this magical beginning of James Patterson's Witch & Wizard series.

The world is changing: the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now, kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her... Read more

Blind Faith

By: Ben Elton

Narrated by: Glen McCready

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.


Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.

Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in... Read more

Dark Is the Sun

By: Philip José Farmer

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies and its molten core long cooled. The sunless planet is nearing the day of final gravitational collapse in the surrounding galaxy. Mutations and evolution have led to a great disparity of life-forms, while civilization has resorted to... Read more

Far North

By: Marcel Theroux

Narrated by: Yelena Schmulenson

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our... Read more

Canticle

By: Ken Scholes

Narrated by: Scott Brick, William Dufris, Eliza Foss & Peter...

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Come back to the Named Lands in this compelling sequel to Ken Scholes amazing novel Lamentation.

It is nine months after the end of the previous book. Many noble allies have come to the Ninefold Forest for a Feast in honor of General Rudolfo's first-born child. Jin Li Tam, his wife and mother of his heir, lies in childbed.

As the feast begins,... Read more

The Midnight Charter

By: David Whitley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spellbinding fantasy novel, newcomer David Whitley has imagined a nation at a crossroads: misshaped by materialism and facing a choice about its future. He has brought to life two children who will test the nation's values-and crafted a spellbinding adventure story that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.

In a society... Read more

The Children of Men

By: P. D. James

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
 
Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman... Read more

Julian Comstock

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 20 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New... Read more