Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

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

The Final Warning - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Jill Apple

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the planet while she's at it.

Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment. Max and the... Read more

The Deportees: and Other Stories

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Hugh Lee

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The eight tales in Roddy Doyle’s first-ever collection of stories have one thing in common: someone born in Ireland meets someone who has come to live there. New Boy describes the first day of school for a nine-year-old boy from Africa; while in The Pram, a terrifying ghost story, a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters... Read more

Blade Runner

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which inspired two major motion pictures: Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies... Read more

The Seems: The Glitch In Sleep

By: John Hulme

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The world as you know it was created and is still maintained by The Seems. From the Department of Weather to the Department of Emotions, The Seems ensure our world is just as we like it. Occasionally, something in one of these departments will break down, and a Fixer is sent in to repair it before there is damage to our world. Becker... Read more

The Dark River

By: John Twelve Hawks

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks introduced listeners to a dangerous world inspired by the modern technology that monitors our lives. As it ends, Gabriel Corrigan hesitates under the weight of responsibility. His brother Michael seizes opportunity–and joins the enemy. THE DARK RIVER opens in New York City with a stunning piece of news.... Read more

The Dark River - Abridged

By: John Twelve Hawks

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A frantic race to save a long-lost Traveler.
An epic battle for freedom.
Two brothers whose power puts them on a collision course . . .with each other.



In The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks introduced readers to a dangerous world inspired by the modern technology that monitors our lives. Under constant surveillance of the ‘Vast Machine,’ a... Read more

Outrageous Fortune

By: Tim Scott

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all . . . 

“Don’t you hate it when this happens?”

. . . that’s what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. It’s all the thieves ... Read more

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Valentina de Angelis

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, the time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution", a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race...and to terminate the... Read more

Kingdom Come - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The horrors of the Tribulation are over, and Jesus Christ has set up his perfect kingdom on earth. Believers all around the world enjoy a newly perfected relationship with their Lord, and the earth itself is transformed. Yet evil still lurks in the hearts of the unbelieving. As the Millennium draws to a close, the final generation of the... Read more

Prodigy

By: Dave Kalstein

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 2036, the world’s best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education—and developmental drug regimen—available. Graduates go on to dominate in all the top colleges, Forbes 500 companies, and government positions.But when... Read more

Animal Farm

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society... Read more

Life as we Knew It

By: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

When Miranda first hears the warnings that a meteor is headed on a collision path with the moon, they just sound like an excuse for extra homework assignments. But her disbelief turns to fear in a split second as the entire world witnesses a lunar impact that knocks the moon closer in orbit, catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. ... Read more

The Rapture - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the moments leading up to the Rapture, nobody knows it is coming as the clock silently ticks down. Choices are made. The stage is set as Nicolae Carpathia ruthlessly eliminates any obstacles in his rise to power. In the twinkling of an eye, loved ones disappear without a good-bye. Heaven rejoices as millions are welcomed into the unspeakable... Read more

School's Out--Forever - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Valentina de Angelis

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this eagerly awaited follow-up, brave bird-kid Max and her flock are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to "school." There is no such thing as an ordinary day as Max deciphers how and when she's supposed to save the world, and she faces her greatest enemy--a clone of herself.  Read more

The Prophet of Yonwood

By: Jeanne DuPrau

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 50 years before the settlement of the city of Ember, and the world is in crisis. War looms on the horizon as 11-year-old Nickie and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina. There, one of the town’s respected citizens has had a terrible vision of fire and destruction. Her garbled words are taken as prophetic instruction... Read more

The Messiah of Morris Avenue

By: Tony Hendra

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Messiah of Morris Avenue, Tony Hendra—the acclaimed satirist and New York Times bestselling author of Father Joe—poses the question: would we recognize the messiah if he appeared today? And delivers, in the words of Frank McCourt, “just what the country needs now—a good dose of merriment in the face of crawthumping righteousness.”

In the... Read more

Cell

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King!

On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make... Read more

I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense.In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man,... Read more

The Regime - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dynamic Romanian multimillionaire Nicolae Carpathia’s sphere of influence steadily grows as he parlays his looks, charm, charisma, and intellectual brilliance into success in business and politics. But is it mere coincidence that those who oppose or offend him suffer to the point of death? Meanwhile, a young Buck Williams begins his journalistic... Read more

The Dark Flight Down

By: Marcus Sedgwick

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the morning you should think
You might not last unto the night
In the evening you should think
You might not last unto the morn
Boy has survived the terrors of life with the magician Valerian, dark magic, and deadly chases, but he is still on the run. Now, as the City lies frozen, he is captured and incarcerated in the Emperor Frederick’s... Read more

The Angel Experiment - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Evan Rachel Wood

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Max soars above the world . . . but in James Patterson's thrilling adventure, fantasy can come crashing down to reveal the nightmares of the Angel Experiment.

Maximum Ride and her "flock" -- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel -- are just like ordinary kids, only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their... Read more

The Rising - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Rising is a Left Behind series that will give you a glimpse into the lives of your favorite characters before the Rapture. Have you ever wondered what life was like before the Rapture for Rayford, Irene, and Chloe Steele, Bruce Barnes, Buck Williams, and Tsion Ben Judah? Plus, see why Viv Ivins plays such a pivotal role in Nicolae... Read more

The Dark Tower VII

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 28 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited—breathtakingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and... Read more