Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Cries of a Dying World

By: G. Michael Hopf

Narrated by: TJ Clark

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today bestselling author, G. Michael Hopf comes a human story of loss, love, sacrifice, courage, and second chances.



What would you do if you only had two weeks to live?



That's the very question billions of people are grappling with after news an asteroid, named Colossus, will impact Earth and bring about an extinction level event.



Many... Read more

The Failed Technomancer

By: Boo Ludlow

Narrated by: Boo Ludlow

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s no room for failure in the robot apocalypse, not if you don’t want to get eaten.With the world destroyed by insane, man-eating robots, only technomancers stand between humanity and utter annihilation.Unfortunately, 64Bit might be the one technomancer who can’t command robots with his mind. As an acolyte, he has managed to hide his shame,... Read more

Harvest Day

By: Heidi Catherine & Tamar Sloan

Narrated by: Elizabeth Godley

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Humans saved bees from extinction…and created the deadliest threat we’ve seen yet★★★★★ “Lines up effortlessly with The Hunger Games and Divergent.”The loss of bees was heralded as the sixth wave of extinction. Economies crashed. Ecosystems collapsed. Wars were waged as countless starved. Luckily, humans were able to alter bees’ genetic code to... Read more

FauxVille

By: DK Pike

Narrated by: Dan Matha

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

'After the pandemic, people hugged, friends and families reconnected, but a few short years later we were back to shooting each other.'David Miller is an amnesiac war veteran struggling to put the pieces of his life back together and adjust to civilian life in 2049's PortCity.His life is turned upside down when an old friend from the conflict... Read more

Alarum

By: Talis Jones

Narrated by: Paige Reisenfeld

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

I fled as they destroyed my home.I watched as they murdered my family.I stood silent as they stole my name and threw my life in chains.
I stare coldly at my fading reflection with only one question to ask:Them or Me?
Set in a future where the United States has fallen, a girl is ripped from her home as a child and forced to endure the harshness... Read more

El Todo

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Después de El Círculo, regresa Dave Eggers con una sátira apasionante que nos muestra un futuro totalitario sobre la dictadura y el monopolio de Google, Amazon y Facebook. «Un visionario. Uno de los mejores autores de su generación».
Iker Seisdedos, El País Cuando la empresa de internet del momento, El Círculo, se fusiona con la mayor plataforma... Read more

Unleashed

By: Cindy Gunderson

Narrated by: Cindy Gunderson

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An impossible burden with Real World consequences.Tasked with building a new system for both Reals and Unreals, the Coalition makes plans to travel back to Southwest Territory and Paradise 3 Community.The reality they’re fighting to realize is as fleeting as a dream, and just as fragile.Southwest Territory is already flailing and Paradise 3 is... Read more

Path of Totality

By: Heather Kreke

Narrated by: Christy Lou

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Jadzia Mills never wanted to be a killer, but when war erupts, she’s torn from her family, and forced to join the military. When her best friend is killed, she embarks on a perilous cross-country journey trying to stay ahead of the ones hunting her.Help comes in an unexpected way when she meets Ryker, and he insists upon helping her. Jadzia’s... Read more

Strung

By: Per Jacobsen

Narrated by: Michael Lucio

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Randall Morgan is on his way home after spending fourteen days in the secluded cabin where he always goes to write the endings of his books. However, when he arrives in his hometown, East Alin, he is greeted by a disturbing sight.At a traffic light near the city limits, someone has turned a lamppost into a makeshift gallows, and in it a... Read more

The Scriptures

By: Dekker Green

Narrated by: L Steven Taylor

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

FOR FANS OF THE LAST OF USThe Scriptures is a thrilling debut about the end of the world following a nuclear attack on New York.
It is the end of days. A nuclear strike hits New York. Alfie, a young black male, survives but with no memory of what has happened. The only thing he can remember with any clarity is how to play his guitar and a few... Read more

Hyperspace War: Behemoth

By: Joshua T. Calvert

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity's only colony in the distant Archimedes system is in turmoil ...Contact with Earth has been lost for generations and mysterious waves of disappearing colonists have been shaking the five moons for decades.When a wormhole suddenly appears in the middle of the system, the Union Navy faces an ancient danger from the darkness of deep... Read more

Metropolis

By: Thea Von Harbou

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is not of today or of the future. It tells of no place. It serves no cause, party or class. It has a moral which grows on the pillar of understanding: The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart. — Thea von Harbou, in the novel's original epigraph Originally published in German in 1925, this expressionist epic tells a story... 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

Reqiuem

By: D. B. Goodin

Narrated by: Brittany Goodwin

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon after realizing her ex-lover was killed by her alter ego Alice Parsons awakens to a new reality forever changed by the growing desolation that is the Appalachian Wasteland. If you like complex character studies, gritty worlds, and shocking twists, then you’ll love this dystopian.Note: This is a continuation of My Dear Alice and is set in... Read more

The Penrose Triangle

By: Kristopher Clewell

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In a ruined future split between those who have and those who do not, America has contracted like a singularity into a single city. There, citizens live under a divided society, split by five walls. At the center, their depraved leader, Gideon, rules with the iron fisted reach of propaganda and an oppressive governmental agency.Outside the city... Read more

Base Zero

By: A.G. Wilde

Narrated by: Marcus Rayne & Macie Miller

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

SamWhen the monsters came, I lost all hope.None of us expected we would get help.That we would be saved.And that help would come from a most unlikely source.
The Vullan are huge. Scary.They look like demons…yet, they saved us.They saved me.
But the fight isn’t over yet. We’re still being invaded.Destroyed.I have to focus on surviving and helping... Read more

Augmented States

By: Mattew A. Goodwin

Narrated by: Zachary Johnson

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The city is on lockdown, but the winds of change are blowing.When Moss learns of an opportunity to influence politics and work against the mega-corporations on another front, he and the crew delve into a dangerous new high-risk, high-reward world. To change the system for good, they need the help of additional allies, but with new friends come... Read more

A Brief History of Living Forever

By: Jaroslav Kalfar

Narrated by: Juanita McMahon

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In an authoritarian near-future America obsessed with digital consciousness and eternal life, two long-lost siblings risk everything to save their mother from oblivion. When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in America with Tereza, the daughter she gave up at birth,... Read more

Desolation

By: Adrienne Lecter

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

I survived the plague that killed millions.I escaped from the ravenous monsters when the dead refused to stay dead.I ran for my life when a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of the infection did nothing but blast the last remaining survivors to smithereens.Yet not all hope is lost.Along the way, I made friends for life. Former enemies... Read more

The Culling Series Boxed Set

By: Tricia Wentworth

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 55 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Books 1–3 in the Culling Series



Book 1, The Culling: 150 years after a virus wipes out most of the world's population, Reagan Scott finds herself chosen for the State of the Union's fifth Culling. She will compete against forty-nine of the country's brightest girls. And then, of course, there are the fifty boys. She'll have to pair up with one... Read more

Ashes

By: Ari Marmell

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The world has ended.Along with other scattered survivors, astronaut Cynthia Han and the remainder of ISS Expedition 81 have finally learned what happened to the people they’d left behind, and it’s worse than any of them could have imagined.But even if life as Cynthia knew it is over, her struggles most certainly are not. Joshua Lamb, granted... Read more

End of Story

By: Louise Swanson

Narrated by: Sophie Bentinck

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Too much imagination can be a dangerous thing


It's the year 2035 and fiction has been banned by the government for five years. Writing novels is a crime. Reading fairytales to children is punishable by law.

Fern Dostoy is a criminal. Officially, she has retrained in a new job outside of the arts but she still scrawls in a secret notepad... Read more

Golconda [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: Richard Rohan, Danny Gavigan, Bradley Foster Sm...

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Carving out a living in the Deathlands is no easy feat. To most, the only thing that matters is one more day spent above ground. To the man known as Trader, the only thing that matters is the bottom line.
After Trader and crew offload their last haul, they set their sites on the next score. An underground military installation.
But…In the... Read more

Lucha of the Night Forest

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

Narrated by: Elena Rey

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An edge-of-your-seat fantasy about a girl who will do anything to protect her sister—even if it means striking a dangerous bargain. Dark forces, forgotten magic, and a heart-stopping queer romance make this young adult novel a must-read.

A scorned god.
A mysterious acolyte.
A forgetting drug.
A dangerous forest.

One girl caught between the freedom... Read more