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
The Tangleroot Palace
By: Marjorie Liu
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Marjorie Liu (Monstress) leads you deep into the heart of the tangled woods. In her dark, romantic, and spellbinding short fiction you will find dangerous magic and even more dangerous women: a bodystealing sorceress, a bone-collecting apprentice-witch, a princess-turned-actress, and a warrior protecting China... Read more
View audiobookThe World Gives Way
By: Marissa Levien
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Finalist
In a near-future world on the brink of collapse, a young woman born into servitude must seize her own freedom in this glittering debut with a brilliant twist—perfect for fans of Station Eleven, Karen Thompson Walker, and Naomi Alderman. In fifty years, Myrra... Read more
Fragile Remedy
By: Maria Ingrande Mora
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Sixteen-year-old Nate is a Gem—a Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogate—created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population. As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withers—a quarantined, lawless region. He manages to survive by... Read more
View audiobookRed Pill
By: Hari Kunzru
Narrated by: Hari Kunzru
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2020
ONE OF NPR's BEST BOOKS OF 2020
ONE OF THE A.V. CLUB'S 15 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020
From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth.
After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red... Read more
Afterland
By: Lauren Beukes
Narrated by: Bianca Amato
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Children of Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this "smartly written" and "splendid" thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men (Stephen King).
Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life continues—but a world... Read more
Lakewood
By: Megan Giddings
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation—part The Handmaid’s Tale, part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.One of The Millions’ Most Anticipated Reads (The Great First Half 2020 Books)When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed,... Read more
View audiobookSurrender
By: Ray Loriga
Narrated by: Michael Patrick F Smith
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"[A] riveting, and original, achievement."—WIRED
From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that “calls to mind The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago” (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation).
Ten long years have passed since war... Read more
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
By: Michael Zapata
Narrated by: Coral Peña
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
*Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction*
A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A BookPage Best Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020
A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from the Boston Globe and The Millions
A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, The Millions, LitHub and Vol 1.... Read more
The Resisters
By: Gish Jen
Narrated by: William DeMeritt
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten their every value—from the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon. • “Intricately imagined … [It] grows directly out of the soil of our current political moment.” —The New York Times Book Review
The time: not so long from... Read more
After the Flood
By: Kassandra Montag
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an... Read more
View audiobookEmpty Hearts
By: Juli Zeh
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists
A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. There's a global... Read more
The Warehouse
By: Rob Hart
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Jason Culp & Karissa Vacker
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.
“A thrilling story of corporate espionage at the highest level . . . and a powerful cautionary tale about technology, runaway capitalism, and the nightmare world we are making for ourselves.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
Native Tongue
By: Suzette Haden Elgin
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1984, this classic dystopian trilogy is a testament to the power of language and women's collective action.
In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has long been repealed and women are only valued for their utility. The Earth's economy depends on an insular group of linguists who "breed" women to be perfect interstellar... Read more
FKA USA
By: Reed King
Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Peter Ganim
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
"An epically concocted apocalyptic vision of America in all its faded glory." — Kirkus
"...a visionary head-trip of apocalyptic political satire; a kitchen sink quest story that reads like someone's high school RPG session gone full-on Technicolor bonkers.” — NPR.org
Reed King’s amazingly audacious audiobook is something of a cross between L.... 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
Internment
By: Samira Ahmed
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Rebellions are built on hope.
Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to... 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
The Water Cure
By: Sophie Mackintosh
Narrated by: Hannah Murray, Gemma Whelan & Morfydd Clark
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“A gripping, sinister fable!” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
NPR • GLAMOUR • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • LIT HUB • THRILLIST
King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The... Read more
Of Blood and Bone
By: Nora Roberts
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.Fallon Swift, approaching... Read more
View audiobookBright Ruin
By: Vic James
Narrated by: Avita Jay
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In the “thrilling conclusion”* to the dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City, the people of Britain rise up against their magically gifted masters. They must break the system—or be broken.
MAGIC RUINS. WE RISE.
The rules are simple, the system cruel: the lower classes must give ten years in service to Britain’s... Read more
Vox
By: Christina Dalcher
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S AND SHEREADS' BOOKS TO READ AFTER THE HANDMAID'S TALE
“[An] electrifying debut.”—O, The Oprah Magazine
“The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”—Cosmopolitan
Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one... Read more
The Gone World
By: Tom Sweterlitsch
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...
“I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter
Shannon Moss is part... Read more
American War
By: Omar El Akkad
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot... Read more
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