Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Giver

By: Lois Lowry

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is the quintessential dystopian novel, followed by its remarkable companions, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.

Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive... Read more

Ready Player One

By: Ernest Cline

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

“Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly

A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place.... 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

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

The Power

By: Naomi Alderman

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged—and only women have it (Washington Post). 

In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American... Read more

Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three)

By: Suzanne Collins

Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking... Read more

salt slow

By: Julia Armfield

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Artistic and perceptive, Armfield’s debut explores the ebbs and flows of human connection in lives touched by the bizarre." - Kirkus

From White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link.

In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s... Read more

The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & ...

Narrated by: Daveed Diggs

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Audie Award

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed... Read more

The Girl in Red

By: Christina Henry

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.

It's not safe for anyone  alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has... Read more

The Testaments

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Der...

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on... Read more

If, Then

By: Kate Hope Day

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the... Read more

Catching Fire: Movie Tie-in Edition (Hunger Games, Book Two)

By: Suzanne Collins

Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Catching Fire, the second book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games series, is now available with all-new cover art from the feature film!The second book in the international bestselling Hunger Games series is now a feature film. Here is the original novel with exciting new movie artwork on the cover. (Original cover version also... Read more

Hollow Kingdom

By: Kira Jane Buxton

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hilarious, "dazzling" romp, a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive a zombie apocalypse–think Watership Down meets Dawn of the Dead (Mona Awad, author of Bunny).

S.T. is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his human owner, Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. ""those idiots""), and enjoying... Read more

Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 37 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

For more... 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

After World

By: Debbie Urbanski

Narrated by: Sura Siu, Emily Tremaine, Cindy Kay & Kevin R. ...

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Booklist's Top 10 SF/Fantasy and Horror Debuts: 2024
One of Los Angeles Times’s Best Tech Books of 2023
One of San Francisco Chronicle’s Favorite Books of 2023
A Climate Reality Project Book Club Pick

An “intelligent, defiant” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut that follows an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it... Read more

Death of the Author

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris D...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

""Her best work yet... about fame and family, culture and change, the power of story, the writer’s life... and robots. This one has it all.” — George R.R. MartinIn this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame... Read more

The Dark Tower VI

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The penultimate volume in the Dark Tower series, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, a #1 New York Times bestseller, is a pivotal installment in the epic saga.

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the Dark Tower series is unlike anything you have ever read. Here is the... Read more

Shades of Grey

By: Jasper Fforde

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing standalone novel from the great literary fantasist and author of the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series and The Constant Rabbit, Jasper Fforde

As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure... Read more

Furysong

By: Rosaria Munda

Narrated by: Christian Coulson, Candice Moll, Aidan Kelly, A...

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"One of fantasy’s best series." —Booklist, starred review

In this explosive conclusion to the epic trilogy that began with Fireborne, Annie and Lee are fighting for their lives—and for each other—as invading dragonfire threatens to burn their home to the ground.

A new revolution is underway, and nobody will emerge unscathed.

In New Pythos, Griff is... Read more

The Girl With All the Gifts

By: M. R. Carey

Narrated by: Finty Williams

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ruins of civilization, a young girl's kindness and capacity for love will either save humanity -- or wipe it out in this USA Today bestselling thriller Joss Whedon calls "heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human."

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius."

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be... 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

Brave New World

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Tommy Anderson & Skye Stafford

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

No library's complete without the classics! This new audio collects the legendary masterpiece of Aldous Huxley.More than ever, everybody interested in upholding the human spirit has to listen to and comprehend Aldous Huxley's timeless outstanding work."A masterpiece... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." Wall Street JournalA profoundly... Read more

Sea of Rust

By: C. Robert Cargill

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic ""robot western"" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots.... Read more