Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Inventor's Secret

By: Andrea Cremer

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

New from Andrea Cremer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightshade novels, comes an action-packed alternate-history steampunk adventure.

In this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth, they have... Read more

Revelations

By: Paul Antony Jones

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

There is nowhere left to run. In the wake of the deadly plague that virtually annihilated the human race, a vast red jungle teeming with alien creatures and lethal plants is devouring Earth, swallowing buildings whole and ruthlessly decimating what life remains. A witness to the terrifying transformation, survivor Emily Baxter thinks the odds... Read more

The Word Exchange

By: Alena Graedon

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert & Richard Powers

Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange is a fresh, stylized, and decidedly original debut about the dangers of technology and the power of the printed word.In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted "death of print" has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are a thing of the... Read more

The Here and Now

By: Ann Brashares

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, The Here and Now is an epic star-crossed romance about a girl who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to.

Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.
 
The world Prenna James comes... Read more

The Waves

By: Jen Minkman

Narrated by: Matthew Mickenberg

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The first memory I have of my grandfather is of a moment that we share together. I’m sitting on his knee looking out over the harbor. Grandpa is smoking a pipe. He points at the horizon. “Look, Walt. Our ships are out there. And one day, another even more beautiful ship will appear at the horizon. A mighty ship to take us all away. And Annabelle... Read more

The Believers

By: Katie French

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

They've escaped the Breeders, yet their journey has just begun.



Riley and Clay are once again on the run from the Breeders. The group may have escaped the deranged experiments at the hospital, but as one of the world's last free women, Riley can never be safe. On the road back home, Riley and her crew are captured by a band of savage men. Their... Read more

The Breeders

By: Katie French

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old Riley Meemick is one of the world's last free girls. When Riley was born, her mother escaped the Breeders, the group of doctors using cruel experiments to bolster the dwindling human race. Her parents do everything possible to keep her from their clutches-moving from one desolate farm after another to escape the Breeders' long... Read more

Remnants of Tomorrow

By: Kassy Tayler

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Wren is in the last place she ever wanted to be: back inside the dome. Held as a prisoner of her father, the Master General Enforcer, she is completely cut off from the outside. After a harrowing escape attempt, and finding Levi trapped in a cell, Wren's world is further turned upside down by what could be Pace's ultimate betrayal. Only Pace's... Read more

The Finisher (Vega Jane, Book 1)

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy novel for all ages by master storyteller David Baldacci -- now in paperback!SHE WILL NOT BREAKVega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but a forest filled with danger and death. And she always believed it - until the night she saw Quentin... Read more

The Winner's Curse

By: Marie Rutkoski

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Winning what you want may cost you everything you love
 
As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for... Read more

Extinction

By: J.T. Brannan

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary discovery in the Sahara desert will turn history on its head...

A series of unexplained phenomena create shockwaves across the globe - a huge religious statue moves its arm, and there's a spate of floods and earthquakes. Many think it's the end of the world...

Investigative journalist Alyssa Durham receives a call from an old... Read more

The Well’s End

By: Seth Fishman

Narrated by: Katie Schorr

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Magic, adventure, and danger collide in an unsuspecting small town.Sixteen-year-old Mia Kish's small town of Fenton, Colorado, is known for three things: being home to the world's tallest sycamore tree, the national chicken thigh–eating contest, and one of the ritziest boarding schools in the country, Westbrook Academy. But when emergency sirens... Read more

Grasshopper Jungle

By: Andrew Smith

Narrated by: Philip Church

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend Robby have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things.

This is the truth. This is history.
It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it.
You know what I mean. 
Funny, intense,... Read more

Three

By: Kristen Simmons

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase, the only boy she has ever loved, arrests her rebellious mother, Ember must take action Read more

Conquest

By: John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautiful book…one that should not be missed!” (The Guardian): The first in a stunning science fiction trilogy, this mesmerizing novel introduces a world where young rebels must unlock their powers to rescue humankind from a powerful alien rulership.

Earth has been invaded by the Illyri—a beautiful, civilized, yet ruthless alien species. But... Read more

Annihilation

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award–winning novel that “reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world” (Kim Stanley Robinson). This 10th... Read more

Burn

By: Julianna Baggott

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Casey Holloway, Kevin T. Collin...

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with Pure, recommended by People for those who loved The Hunger Games.

With his father now dead, Partridge has assumed leadership of the Dome, one of the last few refuges from the ravaged wastelands of the outside world. At first, Partridge is intent on exposing his father's lies, taking down the... Read more

Mark of Evil

By: Tim LaHaye & Craig Parshall

Narrated by: Daniel Butler

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the final installment of The End series, economies have collapsed, freedom has been suppressed, and peace is a distant memory.The world is falling apart. Joshua Jordan’s protégé Ethan March, along with Jimmy Louder and Rivka Reuban, have been left behind in a world that is rapidly coming under the complete influence of the... Read more

Landry Park

By: Bethany Hagen

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Downton Abbey” meets The Selection in this dystopian tale of love and betrayal

Sixteen-year-old Madeline Landry is practically Gentry royalty. Her ancestor developed the nuclear energy that has replaced electricity, and her parents exemplify the glamour of the upper class. As for Madeline, she would much rather read a book than attend yet... Read more

The Flight of the Silvers

By: Daniel Price

Narrated by: Rich Orlow

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling genre-bending saga about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an Earth far different from their own. Without warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white. The electricity falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. But the Givens are saved by mysterious... Read more

Into the Still Blue

By: Veronica Rossi

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The race for survival comes to a thrilling close in the earth-shattering conclusion to Veronica Rossi's New York Times bestselling Under the Never Sky trilogy.Their love and their leadership have been tested. Now it's time for Perry and Aria to unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders in one last desperate attempt to find the fabled Still Blue and... Read more

Zom-B Gladiator

By: Darren Shan

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The sixth installment in Darren Shan's Zom-B series. Read more

On Such a Full Sea

By: Chang-rae Lee

Narrated by: BD Wong

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea, [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lonely human heart.”—Andrew Sean Greer, The New York Times Book... Read more

The Atopia Chronicles

By: Matthew Mather

Narrated by: Luke Daniels, Angela Dawe, Tanya Eby, Amy McFad...

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

What could be worse than letting billions die?In the near future, to escape the crush and clutter of a packed and polluted Earth, the world’s elite flock to Atopia, an enormous corporate-owned artificial island in the Pacific Ocean. It is there that Dr. Patricia Killiam rushes to perfect the ultimate in virtual reality: a program to save the... Read more