Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Circle

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). 

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime.... Read more

Dark Days

By: Manel Loureiro

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The electrifying sequel to international best seller Apocalypse ZThe Russian-spawned virus that kills swiftly then ghoulishly resurrects its victims as ravenous cannibals has breached international borders. The infernal progression…From outbreak to epidemic and pandemic to sheer panic, the virus has shredded global civilization. Promised safe... Read more

Lighthouse Island

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist News of the World Paulette Jiles, the bestselling author of the highly praised novels The Color of Lightning, Stormy Weather, and Enemy Women, pushes into new territory with Lighthouse Island—a captivating and atmospheric story set in the far future—a literary dystopian tale resonant with love... Read more

Perfect Ruin

By: Lauren DeStefano

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy: On the floating city of Internment, you can be anything you dream-- unless you approach the edge. Morgan Stockhour knows getting too close to the edge of Internment, the floating city in the clouds where she lives, can lead to madness. Even though her older brother, Lex,... Read more

Expatriates

By: James Wesley, Rawles

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, would you survive? When the United States suffers a major socioeconomic collapse, a power vacuum sweeps the globe. A newly radicalized Islamic government rises to power in Indonesia, invading the Philippines, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, and finally Northern Australia. No longer protected by American... Read more

Child's Garden of Verses

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Steve Blane

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Happy Thought" betokens all the joy and wonder of A Child's Garden of Verses. The poetic musings of this well-loved classic recapture childhood mysteries that range from the everyday rituals of home ("The Land of Nod," "Escape at Bedtime," and "My Bed Is a Boat") to the curiosities of a wider world ("Foreign Lands,"... Read more

Aesop's Fables for Children - Abridged

By: Aesop

Narrated by: Steve Blane

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For centuries, children and adults have treasured the stories handed down by Aesop, a slave who lived in ancient Greece approximately six centuries B.C. Known for their charm and simplicity, these simple tales feature brief adventures of animals, birds, and beasts—with a message hidden in each narrative. Every child should meet up with "The Hare... Read more

The Lord of Opium

By: Nancy Farmer

Narrated by: Raul Esparza

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In the riveting sequel to the acclaimed bestseller The House of the Scorpion, Matt reels from the change in status quo and struggles to do the right thing; find out his story’s end in this new edition with a reimagined cover!

Matt Alacrán is a fourteen-year-old drug lord.

Until recently, Matt was just a clone grown from a strip of El Patrón’s... Read more

MaddAddam

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne, Bob Walter & Robbie Daymond

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year: The Guardian, NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail
A GoodReads Reader's Choice

Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy points toward the ultimate... Read more

Four: The Transfer

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Aaron Stanford

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories!Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be captivated by ""Four: The Transfer,"" the first of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's perspective.In ""The Transfer,""... Read more

The 100

By: Kass Morgan

Narrated by: Justin Torres & Phoebe Strole

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit CW television show.

No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now.

Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are... Read more

Under the Empyrean Sky

By: Chuck Wendig

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Corn is king in the Heartland, and Cael McAvoy has had enough of it.It’s the only crop the Empyrean government allows the people of the Heartland to grow—and the genetically modified strain is so aggressive that it takes everything the Heartlanders have just to control it.As captain of the Big Sky Scavengers, Cael and his crew sail their rickety... Read more

Die Tribute von Panem 3. Flammender Zorn

By: Suzanne Collins

Narrated by: Maria Koschny

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Der dritte Band der Bestseller-Trilogie Entgegen aller Erwartungen hat Katniss die Hungerspiele zum zweiten Mal überlebt. Schwer verletzt wurde sie von den Rebellen befreit und in Distrikt 13 gebracht. Aber noch immer ist sie nicht in Sicherheit. Das Kapitol will Rache, die Auseinandersetzungen werden immer blutiger. Als Katniss herausfindet,... Read more

The Scarlet Plague

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Drew Ariana

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Outside the ruins of San Francisco, a former UC Berkeley professor of literature recounts the chilling sequence of events which led to his current lowly state - a gruesome pandemic which killed nearly every living soul on the planet, in a matter of days. Modern civilization tottered and fell, and a new race of barbarians - the western world's... Read more

Through Many Fires

By: Kyle Pratt

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Terrorists smuggle a nuclear bomb into Washington D.C. and detonate it during the State of the Union Address. Army veteran and congressional staffer Caden Westmore is in nearby Bethesda and watches as a mushroom cloud grows over the capital. The next day, as he drives away from the still burning city, he learns that another city has been... Read more

Assault on Sunrise

By: Michael Shea

Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner & Tom Taylorson

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced, cinematically explosive dystopian thriller by the author of The ExtraLess than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy have brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which Los Angeles may be the worst.Curtis, Japh, and Jool are... Read more

Aquifer

By: Jonathan Friesen

Narrated by: Paul Doherty

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Only He Can Bring What They Need to Survive.In the year 2250, water is scarce, and those who control it control everything. Sixteen-year-old Luca has struggled with this truth, and what it means, his entire life. As the son of the Deliverer, he will one day have to descend to the underground Aquifer each year and negotiate with the reportedly... Read more

Die Tribute von Panem 2. Gefährliche Liebe

By: Suzanne Collins

Narrated by: Maria Koschny

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Liebe kommt ins Spiel: Hunger Games geht in die zweite Runde. Sechs Monate sind vergangenen, seit Katniss und Peeta die Hungerspiele gewonnen haben. Sie sind längst in ihren Distrikt zurückgekehrt und hoffen auf eine friedliche Zukunft. Vor ihnen steht nun die Tour der Sieger – und noch eine schwere Aufgabe: Gerüchte machen die Runde, dass... Read more

The Night Land

By: William Hope Hodgson

Narrated by: Drew Ariana

Length: 18 hours

Abridged: No

In the far future, an unnamed narrator, who along with what remains of the human race dwells uneasily in an underground fortress-city surrounded by brooding, chaotic, relentless Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, 'Ab-humans,' Brutes, and enormous slugs and spiders, follows a telepathic distress signal into the unfathomable darkness.... Read more

This Is How You Die

By: Matthew Bennardo, David Malki & Ryan North

Narrated by: Dan Woren, Will Collyer, Robert Morgan Fisher, ...

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller, Machine of Death.

THIS IS HOW YOU DIE
Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death

The machines started popping up around the... Read more

The Registry

By: Shannon Stoker

Narrated by: Kate Reinders

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to a safe and secure new world, where beauty is bought and sold, and freedom is the ultimate crimeThe Registry saved the country from collapse, but stability has come at a price. In this patriotic new America, girls are raised to be brides, sold at auction to the highest bidder. Boys are raised to be soldiers, trained to fight and never... Read more

Fiend

By: Peter Stenson

Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s more than one kind of monster.

   When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he’s no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations.  
   But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the... Read more

The Battle Lord's Lady

By: Linda Mooney

Narrated by: Kate Udall

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Their love would spawn a dynasty.Three hundred years in the future, mankind still is trying to survive the Great Collision that changed the earth forever. People live in pockets of civilization called compounds, battling the elements and the mutations which have developed over the centuries, trying to live and survive day by day.Yulen D'Jacques... Read more

Ectopia (unabridged)

By: Martin Goodman

Narrated by: Daniel Hird & Emma Tierney

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Hird For sixteen years the Earth has baked and no girls have been born. Karen's the last girl and Steven's her gay twin. Dad turns their home into a fortress as women take the chance to rule the world. Their eyes are on Steven. Perhaps, with a little medical interference, he could be the saviour of the world. 'Steven is a brilliant... Read more