Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

To Paradise

By: Hanya Yanagihara

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Feodo...

Length: 28 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS

To Paradise is a... Read more

The 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

Red 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

Surrender

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 Seep

By: Chana Porter

Narrated by: Shakina Nayfack

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“A unique alien invasion story that focuses on the human and the myriad ways we see and don’t see our own world. Mesmerizing.”
—Jeff VanderMeerA blend of searing social commentary and speculative fiction, Chana Porter’s fresh, pointed debut explores a strange new world in the wake of a benign alien invasion.Trina FastHorse Goldberg-Oneka is a... 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

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

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

Empty 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 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

Wanderers

By: Chuck Wendig

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & Xe Sands

Length: 32 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world’s last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes “a magnum opus . . . a story about survival that’s not just about you and me, but all of us, together” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD • ONE OF... 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

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

Bright 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

Census

By: Jesse Ball

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns.When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely... 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