Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Level 2

By: Lenore Appelhans

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gripping exploration of a futuristic afterlife, a teen discovers that death is just the beginning.

Since her untimely death the day before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward has been trapped in Level 2, a stark white afterlife located between our world and the next. Along with her fellow drones, Felicia passes the endless hours... Read more

Prodigy

By: Marie Lu

Narrated by: Steven Kaplan & Mariel Stern

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in Marie Lu’s New York Times bestselling LEGEND trilogy—perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and DIVERGENT!

June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day... Read more

Through the Ever Night

By: Veronica Rossi

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A world-defying love is put to the ultimate test in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Veronica Rossi's ""masterpiece,"" Under the Never Sky (Examiner.com ). In this second book in her spellbinding Under the Never Sky trilogy, bestselling author Veronica Rossi combines fantasy and dystopian elements to create a love story as... Read more

Altered

By: Jennifer Rush

Narrated by: Casey Holloway

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When you can't trust yourself, who can you believe?
Everything about Anna's life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There's Nick, solemn and brooding; Cas, lighthearted and playful; Trev,... Read more

Birthmarked

By: Caragh M. O'Brien

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the wall and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife, Gaia Stone, who live outside. Gaia has always believed it is her duty, with her mother, to hand over a small quota of babies to the Enclave. But when Gaia's mother and father are arrested by the very people... Read more

Ashes of Twilight

By: Kassy Tayler

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city that was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to protect the royal bloodline of England when astronomers spotted a comet on a collision course with Earth. Humanity would be saved by the most groundbreaking technology of the time. But after nearly two hundred years of life beneath the dome,... Read more

Deviants

By: Maureen McGowan

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Glory’s world, different means deviant—and dead.In a post-apocalyptic world, where the earth is buried by asteroid dust that’s mutated the DNA of some humans, an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Glory, must hide and protect her younger brother. If their Deviant abilities are discovered, they’ll be expunged—kicked out of the dome to be tortured and... Read more

Rebel Heart

By: Moira Young

Narrated by: Heather Lind

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing is certain and no one is safe in the scorching sequel to Blood Red Road, which MTV’s Hollywood Crush blog called “better than The Hunger Games.”

There is a price on Saba’s head. She brought down a ruthless tyrant and saved her kidnapped brother. But winning has come at a terrible cost. Saba is haunted by her past—and a new enemy is on the... Read more

The Beginning of the End

By: Manel Loureiro

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The dead rise… A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news—it’s the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates monsters of men. Humanity falls… A lawyer, still grieving over the death of his young wife, begins to write as a form of therapy. Bur he never... Read more

The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)

By: Justin Cronin

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 26 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The end of the world was only the beginning. 

In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward . . .

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Path of Beasts

By: Lian Tanner

Narrated by: Claudia Black

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The city of Jewel is in peril once again, as it is held captive by the frightful Fugleman, his band of Blessed Guardians, and an army of merciless mercenaries. There's no doubt that Goldie and Toadspit want to get their city back, but how can a small group of children fight against such overwhelming forces of evil? And how, as Goldie is ... Read more

Pirate Cinema

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Bruce Mann

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by sampling and reassembling footage he downloads from the net. In the near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; if you’re caught three times, your entire household is cut off from the Internet for a year, with no... Read more

Outpost

By: Ann Aguirre

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ann Aguirre's Outpost, the Freaks from Enclave are back, and this time they're much smarter.

Deuce's whole world has changed. Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she's a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. She doesn't fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight.

To... Read more

Brink of Chaos

By: Tim LaHaye & Craig Parshall

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the third installment of The End series, Joshua Jordan remains in Israel during his self-imposed exile out of the reach of U.S. authorities who have trumped-up false criminal treason charges against him.Joshua Jordan stands accused of treason. The charges paint him as a domestic terrorist who used his own defense-contracting firm and the... Read more

Safekeeping

By: Karen Hesse

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Radley's parents had warned her that all hell would break loose if the American People's Party took power. And now, with the president assassinated and the government cracking down on citizens, the news is filled with images of vigilante groups, frenzied looting, and police raids. It seems as if all hell has broken loose.

Coming back from... Read more

Breakdown

By: Katherine Amt Hanna

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An influenza plague decimates humanity…A man loses his wife and baby daughter…Six years after a pandemic devastates the human population, former rock star Chris Price finally makes it from New York to Britain to reunite with his brother. His passage leaves him scarred, in body and mind, by exposure to humankind at its most desperate and... Read more

The League

By: Camille Picott

Narrated by: Karen Savage

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Who says smart girls can’t fight?“The world was impeccable and the characters were outstanding.”“With its superb writing and vivid images, Sulan is one of the best books I've read in a long time.”“Every chapter springs its own surprise and ends with a perfect cliffhanger that won't let you put the book down.”-Reviews from Goodreads
Sulan is... Read more

The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)

By: James Dashner

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Book four 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!
 
   Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun... Read more

The Dog Stars

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the chance to... Read more

The Age of Miracles

By: Karen Thompson Walker

Narrated by: Emily Janice Card

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
People ∙ O: The Oprah Magazine ∙ Financial Times ∙ Kansas City Star ∙ BookPage ∙ Kirkus Reviews ∙ Publishers Weekly ∙ Booklist

With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles... Read more

The Long Earth

By: Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel in a brilliant collaboration between the visionary Discworld® creator Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science fiction novelist Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports readers to an infinity of new worlds—a series of parallel “earths"" with doorways leading to adventure, intrigue, excitement, and an escape into the furthest... Read more

Blackout

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Paula Christensen & Michael Goldstrom

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant — a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all.

The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.

The year was 2039.... Read more

2312

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 19 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.

The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances... Read more

A Confusion of Princes

By: Garth Nix

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

You’d think being a Prince in a vast intergalactic empire would be about as good as it gets. Particularly when Princes are faster, smarter, and stronger than normal humans. Not to mention being mostly immortal.

But it isn’t as great as it sounds. Princes need to be hard to kill—as Khemri learns the minute he becomes one—for they are always in... Read more