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
View audiobookRoadside 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
View audiobookShadow Speaker
By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Délé Ogundiran
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Haunted by vengeance. Destined for peace.
Niger, West Africa, 2074
When fifteen-year old Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, her world shatters. In a time of mind-blowing technology and seductive mysticism, Ejii embarks on a journey to track down her father's killer. With a newfound friend by her side, Ejii comes face to face with an earth... Read more
Manhunt
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
Narrated by: Katherine Pucciariello
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
STARRED Reviews in Library Journal and Booklist!
A Most-Anticipated Title in CrimeReads, BookRiot, Tor.com, Electric Lit, and more.
Featured in Autostraddle, Apartment Therapy, Goodreads, and more.
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival.
“A modern... 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
View audiobookPerilous 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
Blackfish City
By: Sam J. Miller
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“Miller gives us an incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of family in a scarily plausible future. Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder. Plus, it has lots of action and a great cast of characters. Not to mention an orca and a polar bear!” —Ann Leckie, New York Times... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
Upright Women Wanted
By: Sarah Gailey
Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.
"That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks."
Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her... 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
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
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
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
View audiobookDay Zero
By: C. Robert Cargill
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In this harrowing apocalyptic adventure—from the author of the critically acclaimed Sea of Rust—noted novelist and co-screenwriter of Marvel’s Doctor Strange C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between humans and robots in a crumbling world.It was a day like any other. Except it was our last . . .It’s on this day that... Read more
View audiobookThe Grace Year
By: Kim Liggett
Narrated by: Emily Shaffer
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Emily Shaffer delivers a dynamic performance of this dystopian audiobook... She masterfully connects listeners to the characters' emotions, creating passionate and realistic performances." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
A speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power.... Read more
The Lightest Object in the Universe
By: Kimi Eisele
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe tells the story of what... Read more
View audiobookA Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
By: C. A. Fletcher
Narrated by: C. A. Fletcher
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A "suspenseful, atmospheric tale. . .punctured by a gut-punch twist" (Entertainment Weekly), A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World is a story of survival, courage and hope amid the ruins of our world.
My name's Griz. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football.... Read more
The Dreamers
By: Karen Thompson Walker
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles.
“Stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven • “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”—Entertainment... Read more
Scribe
By: Alyson Hagy
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A haunting, evocative tale about the power of storytellingA brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated mountain valleys and shady hollows. The economy has been reduced to barter and trade.In this craggy, unwelcoming world, the central character of Scribe... Read more
View audiobookThe Wolves of Winter
By: Tyrell Johnson
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A post-apocalyptic debut novel in a tradition that includes The Hunger Games and Station Eleven, this vision of a possible future shows humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, the forging of vital bonds when everything is lost, and, most centrally, a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny.
Lynn McBride has... 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
View audiobookHell Divers
By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesThey dive so humanity survives …More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only... Read more
View audiobookMockingbird
By: Walter Tevis
Narrated by: Nicole Poole & Robert Fass
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. A dying world of no children and no art, where reading is forbidden. And a strange love triangle: Spofforth, who... Read more
View audiobookIsland Rule
By: Katie M. Flynn
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Corey Brill, Erin deWard, Kit...
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the “urgent and heartfelt” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel The Companions, a genre-bending collection of interconnected short stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan and Karen Russell.
An angry mother turns into a literal monster. A company in San Francisco can scrub your entire reputation and create a new one…for a price. A... Read more