Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Proxy

By: Alex London

Narrated by: Andrew Sweeney

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The adventure novel of the year! Inspired by The Whipping Boy and Feed, this adrenaline-fueled thriller will appeal to fans of The Hunger Games for its razor-sharp insights into the nature of human survival and its clever writing.

Knox was born into one of the City's wealthiest families. A Patron, he has everything a boy could possibly want—the... Read more

Love Minus Eighty

By: Will McIntosh

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Eileen Stevens & Ali Ahn

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the future, love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end. Love Minus Eighty follows several interconnected people in a disquieting vision of romantic life in the century to come.

There's Rob, who accidentally kills a jogger, then sacrifices all to visit her in a cryogenic dating facility, seeking forgiveness but instead falling in... Read more

The Last Dogs: Dark Waters

By: Christopher Holt

Narrated by: Andrew Bates

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Having narrowly escaped a pack of vicious wolves, canine heroes Max, Rocky, and Gizmo are happy to find a moment of peace as they travel down the mighty river. Soon, the trio come across a lavish boat moored close to shore. They're wary of facing another community of dogs, but when they climb on board, they discover that things are different on... Read more

A Matter of Days

By: Amber Kizer

Narrated by: Alex McKenna

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

   On Day 56 of the pandemic called BluStar, sixteen-year-old Nadia's mother dies, leaving her responsible for her younger brother Rabbit. They secretly received antivirus vaccines from their uncle, but most people weren't as lucky. Their deceased father taught them to adapt and survive whatever comes their way. That's their plan as they trek... Read more

The Testing

By: Joelle Charbonneau

Narrated by: Elizabeth Morton

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Iowa Teen AwardEvergreen Young Adult Book Award (Washington)Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)IRA/CBC Young Adults’ ChoiceVOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School ReadersThe opening volume in the New York Times bestselling Testing trilogy. In Cia's dystopian society, it's an honor to be chosen for The Testing. But it’s not enough to pass the Test.... Read more

Test of Fire

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Dean Sluyter

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Earth has been devastated by a massive solar flare. Now a small group of survivors fights to rebuild civilization.Cities became ovens, grasslands seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet, its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland began to melt; floodwaters poured down on burning... Read more

World War Z: The Lost Files - Abridged

By: Max Brooks

Narrated by: Max Brooks, Martin Scorsese, F. Murray Abraham ...

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fans of Max Brooks’ original abridged recording of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War will be thrilled to add this companion piece to their audio library. Offering listeners five hours of previously unrecorded content, World War Z: The Lost Files features 21 Hollywood A-list actors and sci-fi fan favorites performing stories not... Read more

Breaking Point

By: Kristen Simmons

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Kristen Simmons captivated audiences with Article 5, the first of her dystopian series featuring two teens living in a world ruled by the Federal Bureau of Reformation. In Breaking Point, Ember Miller and Chase Jennings are taken in by the Resistance after escaping from prison. But their plans to lie low are foiled when a sniper starts taking... Read more

The 5th Wave

By: Rick Yancey

Narrated by: Brandon Espinoza & Phoebe Strole

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."—Entertainment Weekly (Grade A)

The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies:... Read more

Obsidian Mirror

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Katherine Skinner

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The obsidian mirror. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it, and the future annihilated by it. Or this is what will happen unless the mirror is destroyed. Three people seek the mirror: the first has been sent from the future to shatter its power; the second will protect the mirror at... Read more

The Age Atomic

By: Adam Christopher

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Empire State is dying. The Fissure connecting the pocket universe to New York has vanished, plunging the city into a deep freeze and the populace are demanding a return to Prohibition and rationing as energy supplies dwindle.Meanwhile, in 1954 New York, the political dynamic has changed and Nimrod finds his department subsumed by a new... Read more

Fox Forever

By: Mary E. Pearson

Narrated by: Matthew Brown

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With Fox Forever, Mary E. Pearson brings the story she began in The Adoration of Jenna Fox and continued in The Fox Inheritance to a breathtaking conclusion as Locke discovers that being truly human requires much more than flesh and blood.

Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black... Read more

Requiem

By: Lauren Oliver

Narrated by: Sarah Drew

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The third and final book in Lauren Oliver’s powerful New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion has ignited into an all-out revolution, and Lena is at the center of the fight. After rescuing Julian from a death... Read more

Die Tribute von Panem 1. Tödliche Spiele

By: Suzanne Collins

Narrated by: Maria Koschny

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Hunger Games als Hörbuch. In einer nicht näher definierten Zukunft, nachdem Nordamerika durch Kriege und Naturkatastrophen zerstört wurde, entstand die diktatorische Nation Panem, bestehend aus dem regierenden reichen Kapitol und 13 ärmeren Distrikten. Nicht zufällig erinnert Panem  an Panem et circenses, lateinisch für Brot und Spiele, aus... Read more

Dualed

By: Elsie Chapman

Narrated by: Alicyn Packard

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hunger Games meets Matched in this high-concept thriller where citizens must prove their worth by defeating the other version of themselves—their twin.

Two of you exist. Only one will survive.

West Grayer is ready. She's trained for years to confront her Alternate, a twin raised by another family. Survival means a good job, marriage—life.

But... Read more

Fragments

By: Dan Wells

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Dan Wells is back with the sequel to the sci-fi blockbuster Partials, which Pittacus Lore called a ""thrilling sci-fi adrenaline rush, with one of the most compelling and frightening visions of Earth's future I've seen yet.""After discovering the cure for RM, Kira Walker sets off on a terrifying journey into the ruins of postapocalyptic... Read more

Extinction Point

By: Paul Antony Jones

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

First comes the red rain: a strange, scarlet downpour from a cloudless sky that spreads across cities, nations, and the entire globe. In a matter of panicked hours, every living thing on earth succumbs to swift, bloody death. Yet Emily Baxter, a young newspaper reporter, is mysteriously spared—and now she’s all alone.But watching the happy life... Read more

Fuse

By: Julianna Baggott

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Kevin T. Collins, Casey Hollowa...

Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Julianna Baggott presents the second volume in her new post-apocalyptic, dystopian thriller trilogy.

We want our son returned.

This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time.

To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations that scarred the earth, and sheltered... Read more

Unravel Me

By: Tahereh Mafi

Narrated by: Kate Simses

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series.It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defense mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from.She and Adam... Read more

Man in the Empty Suit

By: Sean Ferrell

Narrated by: Mauro Hantman

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Say you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and... Read more

The Kiss

By: James Patterson & Jill Dembowski

Narrated by: Spencer Locke, Justin Long & Cassandra Morris

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Magical siblings Whit and Wisty have known each other their whole lives . . . but when a mysterious stranger captures Wisty's heart, she is forced to make the ultimate choice.

Whit and Wisty Allgood, a witch and wizard with extraordinary abilities, have defeated the ruthless dictator who long overshadowed their world. But for the first time in... Read more

The Prey

By: Andrew Fukuda

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Action-packed, heart-pounding, page-flipping action. I'm thoroughly in love with this riveting, thrilling read. –YA Reads

Don't miss the electrifying second book in the must-listen trilogy of the year!

With death only a heartbeat away, Gene and the remaining humans must find a way to survive long enough to escape the hungry predators chasing... Read more

Promised

By: Caragh M. O'Brien

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

After defying the ruthless Enclave, surviving the wasteland, and
upending the rigid matriarchy of Sylum, Gaia Stone now faces her biggest
challenge ever.  She must lead the people of Sylum back to the Enclave
and persuade the Protectorat to grant them refuge from the wasteland. In Gaia's absence, the Enclave has grown more cruel, more desperate... Read more

Prized

By: Caragh M. O'Brien

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Striking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a crime. In order to see her sister again, Gaia must... Read more