Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Far North

By: Marcel Theroux

Narrated by: Yelena Schmulenson

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our... Read more

Canticle

By: Ken Scholes

Narrated by: Scott Brick, William Dufris, Eliza Foss & Peter...

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Come back to the Named Lands in this compelling sequel to Ken Scholes amazing novel Lamentation.

It is nine months after the end of the previous book. Many noble allies have come to the Ninefold Forest for a Feast in honor of General Rudolfo's first-born child. Jin Li Tam, his wife and mother of his heir, lies in childbed.

As the feast begins,... Read more

The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One)

By: James Dashner

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MAZE RUNNER SERIES • A teenager with no memory must navigate a deadly maze to survive in book one of this post-apocalyptic phenomenon.

“[A] mysterious survival saga that passionate fans describe as a fusion of Lord of the Flies [and] The Hunger Games” (Entertainment Weekly)

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the... Read more

The Year of the Flood

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne, Katie MacNichol & Mark Bramhall

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the... Read more

The Midnight Charter

By: David Whitley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spellbinding fantasy novel, newcomer David Whitley has imagined a nation at a crossroads: misshaped by materialism and facing a choice about its future. He has brought to life two children who will test the nation's values-and crafted a spellbinding adventure story that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.

In a society... Read more

The Children of Men

By: P. D. James

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
 
Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman... Read more

Julian Comstock

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 20 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New... 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

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 Dark Planet (Atherton, Book 3)

By: Patrick Carman

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the final thrilling chapter of this epic triology, we meet an engaging new cast of characters and Dr. Harding's ultimate plan comes together in an incredibly satisfying conclusion. 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 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

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

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

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