Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The City of Ember

By: Jeanne DuPrau

Narrated by: Wendy Dillon

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Ember is the only light in a dark world. But when its lamps begin to flicker, two friends must race to escape the dark. This highly acclaimed adventure series is a modern-day classic—with over 4 MILLION copies sold! 
 
The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are... 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

Fledgling

By: S. K. Ali

Narrated by: Suzie Rai, Safiyya Ingar, Vikas Adam, James Fou...

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in a gripping duology from acclaimed author S.K. Ali introduces a fractured world on the brink of either enlightenment or war.

Would you trade love for peace?

Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence. Ever dutiful, she accepts her father’s arrangement of her marriage to Lein, Crown Prince of the... Read more

The Last Cuentista

By: Donna Barba Higuera

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the John Newbery MedalWinner of the Pura Belpré AwardA Junior Library Guild SelectionHabía una vez …A girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.But Petra’s world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children—among them Petra and her... Read more

The Every

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous—and, oddly enough, most beloved—monopoly ever known: the Every.

Delaney Wells is an unlikely... Read more

The Bound Worlds

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

Narrated by: Ciaran Saward

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award‑winning author Megan E. O’Keefe.
 
Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they’ve built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of... Read more

Allegiant

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Emma Galvin & Aaron Stanford

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that captivated millions of readers and film fans in Divergent and Insurgent. One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed... 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

Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 

Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award
Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE,... Read more

Outlawed

By: Anna North

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Outlawed by Anna North, read by Cynthia Farrell.

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * INDIE NEXT SELECTION * LIBRARY READS SELECTION * AMAZON EDITORS' CHOICE * WASHINGTON POST BEST OF THE YEAR

The "terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling" (R.O. Kwon) adventure story of a... Read more

Light Bringer

By: Pierce Brown

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 30 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age.“Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR, on Dark Age“The... Read more

The Trials of Koli

By: M. R. Carey

Narrated by: Theo Solomon & Saffron Coomber

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Absorbing, stunning, and emotionally rich." --Locus
The journey through M. R. Carey's "immersive, impeccably rendered world" (Kirkus) -- a world in which nature has turned against us -- continues in The Trials of Koli, book two of the Rampart Trilogy.
The earth wants to swallow us whole...
Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village.... Read more

The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

Narrated by: Scott Brick & Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 19 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.”—STEPHEN KING
 
From the author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia—where the truth isn’t what it seems.

A POLYGON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

The islands of Prospera lie in a... Read more

The Shutouts

By: Gabrielle Korn

Narrated by: Gail Shalan

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant queer dystopian novel from the author of Yours for the Taking, following a cast of characters on the margins of a strange and exclusive new society.

The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. Deadly storms and uncontrollable wildfires are pummeling the country while political... Read more

Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

Narrated by: Jasmin Savoy Brown

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Savoy Brown enters the characters fully and makes their emotional changes audible and stunning—doubting to dreamy, bored to curious, saccharine to unhinged."—AudioFile

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly... Read more

My Name Is Iris

By: Brando Skyhorse

Narrated by: Alejandra Reynoso

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brilliant.” —The Washington Post * “Nuanced and compelling.” —The New York Times

From the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, an engrossing dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands turn second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens—“a well-imagined allegory of... Read more

Elsewhere

By: Alexis Schaitkin

Narrated by: Ell Potter

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"The audiobook narrated by Ell Potter is riveting." -- Buzzfeed on Elsewhere

Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply,... Read more

Utopia Avenue

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 25 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.”—The Washington Post
 
“A... Read more

American Rapture

By: CJ Leede

Narrated by: Moniqua Plante

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Blood-soaked, heart-wrenching, grim and glorious.”—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep

From CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly, comes a scorching new apocalyptic novel. American Gods meets The Last of Us in this epic and sweeping story about the end of the world as we know it.

A virus is spreading across America,... Read more

Songlight

By: Moira Buffini

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish, Saffron Coomber, Sam Crerar, J...

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Star-crossed lovers, against-all-odds friendship, and a brutally unforgiving world make this first in a trilogy utterly unforgettable.We’re two songs joined. And there’s a word for that. A harmony.Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for Rye, her distaste for a world ruled by men, and, most crucially, her gift... Read more

Snowglobe

By: Soyoung Park

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo, Greta Jung & Jeena Yi

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold—but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. A groundbreaking Korean novel translated into English for the first time!

“The Hunger Games meets Squid Game in Soyoung Park's dystopian... Read more

The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

Narrated by: Sarah Skaer

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sarah Skaer uses her considerable vocal skill to make each crewmember instantly recognizable. Asuka is strongly characterized by her insecurity and self-doubt, though listeners will likely have more faith in her.”- Library Journal

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with... Read more

Feral Creatures

By: Kira Jane Buxton

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning follow-up to Hollow Kingdom, the animal kingdom's "favorite apocalyptic hero"is back with a renewed sense of hope for humanity, ready to take on a world ravaged by a viral pandemic (Helen Macdonald).

Once upon an apocalypse, there lived an obscenely handsome American crow named S.T. . . .
 
When the world last checked-in with its... Read more

Appleseed

By: Matt Bell

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BEST OF THE YEAR“Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell’s Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious.” —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselling author of Get in TroubleA “breathtaking novel of ideas unlike anything... Read more