Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Mime Order

By: Samantha Shannon

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.

The stunning second novel in the New York Times bestselling Bone Season series expands Samantha Shannon’s epic world of Scion in a new heart-pounding story of revolution.

Paige Mahoney has escaped the clandestine prison city of Oxford. Now a fugitive in London,... Read more

Good Omens

By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon!“Reads like the Book of Revelation, rewritten by Monty Python.” — San Francisco ChronicleThe classic novel of angels, demons, and Armageddon from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, now a Prime original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.According to The Nice... Read more

Camp Zero

By: Michelle Min Sterling

Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Greta Jung & Emily Tremaine

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick

Libby Book Award Winner for Best Diverse Author

In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut that “delivers its big ideas with suspense,... Read more

Fever House

By: Keith Rosson

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace. Read Fever House now.”—STEPHEN KING

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown... Read more

Imago

By: Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind.
Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with... Read more

Dark Tower IV

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 27 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense…rip-roaring” (Publishers Weekly)—a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.

In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most ebullient…sweeping readers up in…swells of passion” (Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake... Read more

Roadside Picnic

By: Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into... Read more

Dawn

By: Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by: Julienne Irons

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.

When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali—a seemingly benevolent... Read more

Ready Player Two

By: Ernest Cline

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST• “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall... Read more

The Long Walk

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner—the one that survives.

Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and... 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

Dark Tower I

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.

A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last... Read more

The Brightness Between Us

By: Eliot Schrefer

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to The Darkness Outside Us, a Stonewall Honor Book, New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer delivers another ambitious, genre-bending novel and epic love story that spans thousands of years and the far reaches of the galaxy.Seventeen years have gone by since the Coordinated Endeavor crashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose... Read more

Flamefall

By: Rosaria Munda

Narrated by: Christian Coulson, Candice Moll & Aidan Kelly

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutionary flames ignite around Annie, Lee, and a brand new character in the follow-up to Fireborne.

After fleeing the revolution and settling into the craggy cliffs of New Pythos, the dragonlords are eager to punish their usurpers and reclaim their city. Their first order of business was destroying the Callipolan food supply. Now they're... 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

El camino de los reyes (El Archivo de las Tormentas 1)

By: Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: Francesc Belda & Esther Solans

Length: 45 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

El camino de los reyes es el primer volumen de «El Archivo de las Tormentas», el resultado de más de una década de construcción y escritura de universos, convertido en una obra maestra de la fantasía contemporánea en diez volúmenes. Con ella, Brandon Sanderson se postula como el autor del género que más lectores está ganando en todo el mundo.... Read more

This Great Hemisphere

By: Mateo Askaripour

Narrated by: Emana Rachelle

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thrilling page-turner.”—Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Wildly imaginative.”—The Washington Post

“Askaripour soars.”—The Boston Globe

A rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt invisible.

This Great Hemisphere is powerful, captivating novel about how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love. With the worldbuilding of N.... Read more

The Book of M

By: Peng Shepherd

Narrated by: James Fouhey & Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW!NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Elle • Refinery29 • PopSugar • Verge""Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage and Station Eleven."" —BooklistWHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER?Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the... Read more

Severance

By: Ling Ma

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Nancy Wu delivers an outstanding performance of this cheeky satirical novel...Listeners will be entertained by the world building; cast of amusing, eccentric characters; and bizarre charm of the aloof heroine." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner

Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial,... 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

Perilous Times

By: Thomas D. Lee

Narrated by: Nicola F. Delgado

Length: 20 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself—in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend.

“If you like Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, you’ll enjoy Perilous Times. . . . An utterly original take on Arthurian myth.”—The Times

A POPSUGAR BEST... Read more

Everything for Everyone

By: M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi

Narrated by: Charli Burrow & Soneela Nankani

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth... Read more

Alebrijes

By: Donna Barba Higuera

Narrated by: Cisco Fernandez & Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning The Last Cuentista

This is the story as it was told to me by Leandro the Mighty

For over 400 years, the world has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel—or go it alone in the... Read more

The Paradox Hotel

By: Rob Hart

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Time travel, murder, corruption, restless baby dinosaurs, and a snarky robot named Ruby collide in this excellent, noir-inflected, humor-infused, science-fiction thriller.”—The Boston Globe
 
An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. From the author of The Warehouse . . .

FINALIST FOR THE... Read more