Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

By: Carrie Ryan

Narrated by: Vane Millon

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Mary's world there are simple truths.
   The Sisterhood always knows best.
   The Guardians will protect and serve.
   The Unconsecrated will never relent.
   And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth.
   But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her.... Read more

The Chosen One

By: Carol Lynch Williams

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated polygamous community without questioning her father's three wives and her twenty brothers and sisters. Or at least without questioning them much—if you don't count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with the boy she hopes to choose for... Read more

Silvertongue (Stoneheart Trilogy, Book 3)

By: Charlie Fletcher

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The battle between the statues and gargoyles of London rages on in the conclusion to the international blockbuster! Read more

Pastwatch

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Orson Scott Card, Scott Brick, Christopher Caze...

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In a not-too-distant future that is not quite ours, there has been a major scientific breakthrough, a way to open windows into the past, permitting historical researchers to view, but not participate in, the events of the past.A small group of scientists and historians, carefully trained, spend their days viewing the human past through a... Read more

Max

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Jill Apple

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Buckle up! Max and her flock take on their most daring rescue mission yet in James Patterson's #1 bestselling Maximum Ride series.
  Someone—or something—is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy's top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: rescue Max's... Read more

Lamentation

By: Ken Scholes

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, William Dufris & ...

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lamentation, the first entry in the Psalm of Isaak series, an ancient weapon has completely destroyed the city of Windwir. From many miles away, Rudolfo, Lord of the Nine Forest Houses, sees the horrifying column of smoke rising. He knows that war is coming to the Named Lands.

Nearer to the Devastation, a young apprentice is the only... Read more

Contagious

By: Scott Sigler

Narrated by: Scott Sigler

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity’s secret battle against a horrific enemy.

Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts,... Read more

The Suicide Collectors

By: David Oppegaard

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of the most stunning debuts to come along in years, reminiscent of Philip K. Dick’s best work and P. D. James’s classic The Children of Men, David Oppegaard gives us a world whose near future presents some terrifying realities.

The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of the world’s population has inexplicably died by its own... Read more

The House of the Scorpion

By: Nancy Farmer

Narrated by: Raul Esparza

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover this internationally bestselling, National Book Award–winning young adult classic about what it means to be human with an updated, reimagined cover!

Matt Alacrán wasn’t born. He was harvested.

His DNA came from El Patrón, the drug-lord ruler of the country of Opium. Most people hate and fear clones like Matt—except for El Patrón. El... Read more

The Gone-Away World

By: Nick Harkaway

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 24 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildly entertaining debut novel, introducing a bold new voice that combines antic humor (think Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut) with a stunning futuristic vision (á la A Clockwork Orange and 1984, with a little Mad Max thrown in) to give us an electrifyingly original tale of love, friendship, and the apocalypse.

There couldn’t be a fire along... Read more

The Dead and the Gone

By: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated listeners with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of... Read more

Die Straße (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Christian Brückner

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Welt nach dem Ende der Welt Die Welt nach der Welt gleicht der Welt vor der Schöpfung. "Die Erde war wüst und leer, und es war finster auf der Tiefe". (Moses 1,2) Ein Vater und sein Sohn wandern durch das verbrannte Amerika. Sie haben nichts als einen Revolver mit zwei Schuß Munition, ihre Kleider am Leib, eine Einkaufskarre mit der... Read more

Little Brother

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find... Read more

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

By: Mary E. Pearson

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?

Mary E. Pearson's The... Read more

Dawn's Light

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: Susie Breck

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice. Will they hoard their possessions to survive—or trust God to provide as they offer their resources to others? #1 bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if series in which global catastrophe... Read more

The Sky Inside

By: Clare B. Dunkle

Narrated by: Bruce Turk

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin lives in a perfect world. Every year, a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they’ve stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Every morning his family gathers around their television and votes, like everyone else, for whatever... Read more

Axis

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Now, in Spin's direct sequel, Axis, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that... Read more

The Final Warning - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Jill Apple

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the planet while she's at it.

Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment. Max and the... Read more

The Deportees: and Other Stories

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Hugh Lee

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The eight tales in Roddy Doyle’s first-ever collection of stories have one thing in common: someone born in Ireland meets someone who has come to live there. New Boy describes the first day of school for a nine-year-old boy from Africa; while in The Pram, a terrifying ghost story, a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters... Read more

The Dark River

By: John Twelve Hawks

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks introduced listeners to a dangerous world inspired by the modern technology that monitors our lives. As it ends, Gabriel Corrigan hesitates under the weight of responsibility. His brother Michael seizes opportunity–and joins the enemy. THE DARK RIVER opens in New York City with a stunning piece of news.... Read more

The Dark River - Abridged

By: John Twelve Hawks

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A frantic race to save a long-lost Traveler.
An epic battle for freedom.
Two brothers whose power puts them on a collision course . . .with each other.



In The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks introduced readers to a dangerous world inspired by the modern technology that monitors our lives. Under constant surveillance of the ‘Vast Machine,’ a... Read more

Outrageous Fortune

By: Tim Scott

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all . . . 

“Don’t you hate it when this happens?”

. . . that’s what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. It’s all the thieves ... Read more

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, the time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution", a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race...and to terminate the... Read more

Kingdom Come - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The horrors of the Tribulation are over, and Jesus Christ has set up his perfect kingdom on earth. Believers all around the world enjoy a newly perfected relationship with their Lord, and the earth itself is transformed. Yet evil still lurks in the hearts of the unbelieving. As the Millennium draws to a close, the final generation of the... Read more