Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

An Unkindness of Ghosts

By: Rivers Solomon

Narrated by: Cherise Boothe

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space... 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

Underground Airlines

By: Ben H. Winters

Narrated by: William DeMeritt

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?

A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkus Reviews, AudioFile Magazine, and Amazon

A... Read more

And Again

By: Jessica Chiarella

Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Joy Osmanski, Rebekkah Ross & Cor...

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do if you had a second chance at life?

Hannah, David, Connie, and Linda have been given the second chance of a lifetime—genetically perfect bodies as part of a medically advanced pilot program seeking FDA approval. Their new bodies are exact replicas of their old selves—without the deadly illnesses they suffered from. Even better,... Read more

A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.In a nightmarish, ruined... Read more

Ice

By: Anna Kavan

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Anticipating climate fiction and the new weird literary genre, while garnering fans from Doris Lessing and J. G. Ballard to China Miéville and Patti Smith since it was first published in 1967, this fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe reads as though author Anna Kavan had seen the future.



Ice is... Read more

We Lived on the Horizon

By: Erika Swyler

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of the “dazzling” (Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Book of Speculation returns with an engrossing new novel about a bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI as they are drawn into a revolution.

The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to... Read more

Neighborhood Watch 8

By: E.E. Isherwood

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank always wanted to live the island life . . . but this is far from it.



The last few days have seen nothing but tension between Frank and the person operating aerial drones throughout his neighborhood watch area. He can't trust a thing the man says, but when one of Frank's people gets captured, the mysterious operator claims to know here he... Read more

Death of the Author

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris D...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

""Her best work yet... about fame and family, culture and change, the power of story, the writer’s life... and robots. This one has it all.” — George R.R. MartinIn this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame... Read more

Der Posten 2 - Abridged

By: Dmitry Glukhovsky

Narrated by: Stefan Kaminski

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zuverlässig von allen Seiten durch Sicherheitsposten und Kosakentruppen geschützt: ein tausendjähriges Moskau. Innerhalb der drei Verteidigungsringe und hinter der Mauer des Kremls: der Palast. Dort zeichnet der Imperator die Besten der Besten, die tapfersten der tapferen Offiziere aus. Dann müssen sie die Hauptstadt verlassen in die dunklen... Read more

HELDEN (Traveler 7)

By: Tom Abrahams

Narrated by: André Hupfer

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus Battle ist der Welt überdrüssig. Und er ist sich sicher, dass die Welt genauso empfindet. Doch als ein alter Freund seine Hilfe benötigt, kehrt er einmal mehr in die Welt der Gewalt und Korruption zurück, die er so lange zu meiden versucht hatte. Ein Jahrzehnt nach seinem Verschwinden hinter dem Wall, der Texas vom Rest seiner ehemaligen... Read more

The Last Bookstore on Earth

By: Lily Braun-Arnold

Narrated by: Bailey Carr

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Two teen girls fall in love and fight for survival in an abandoned bookstore weeks before another cataclysmic storm threatens to bring about the end of the world in this unforgettable YA debut. Perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last of Us.

“A thoroughly original, intimate, and sometimes harrowing meditation on survival, forgiveness, and... Read more

Grip of Frenzy

By: Sam J. Fires

Narrated by: Seth Podowitz, Tara Sands, Jorjeana Marie, Stac...

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Patrick Dunn, a fifty-something ex-cop, thought his days of action were over after a gunshot forced early retirement. But when an EMP plunges the country into darkness, Pat's mission to reach his children in Salem becomes a race against a brutal winter and devastating chaos. Alongside Holly, an escaped patient with a troubled past, and her... Read more

The Capital of Dreams

By: Heather O'Neill

Narrated by: Paige McKinney

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Capital of Dreams is not so much a novel to read but one to live (and dream) in. A dark, wistfully comic fable that's as imaginative as it is poignant. An entire world that only Heather O'Neill could create.”—Iain Reid, bestselling author of We Spread and FoeFrom the hugely acclaimed author beloved by literary lights, including Emily St.... Read more

All the Water in the World

By: Eiren Caffall

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.

"Captivating...The setting, the detailed emotive descriptions, and nail-biting adventure are incandescent." —Library Journal (starred)

All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a... Read more

Cold Storage

By: Michael C. Grumley

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by multi-award-winning narrator Scott Brick.

AN EXPANSIVE NEW STANDALONE THRILLER IN MICHAEL C. GRUMLEY’S REVIVAL SERIES, EXPLORING HUMANITY’S THIRST FOR IMMORTALITY AT ANY COST.

Technology never works well the first time. Or even the second. Army veteran John Reiff is living proof.
John is revived in the back of a... Read more

Among Serpents

By: Marc J Gregson

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Strap in for a high-octane mission that hurls Conrad and crew toward jaw-dropping discoveries that could trigger total obliteration, in Book Two of the Above the Black fantasy trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Marc J Gregson.

It takes guts to rise to the top of Meritocracy. It’ll take sheer ruthlessness to stay there. As militants... Read more

The Foundation

By: Melinda Salisbury

Narrated by: Lily Anne Lefkow

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling YA author Melinda Salisbury exposes the dark underbelly of new technologies in this gripping thriller. When keen gamer Ivy Finch is sent to the Ash Tree Foundation after an online encounter turns dangerous, all she can think about is getting through the internet-safety course her parents... Read more

Grip of Mercy

By: Sam J. Fires

Narrated by: GM Hakim, Tara Sands, Maria McCann, Stacy Gonza...

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author… The power’s out. And there's only one chance to escape. Grip of Mercy is the riveting fifth book in the After The End post-apocalyptic EMP survival series. If you like characters that jump off the page, spellbinding action, and edge-of-your-seat drama, then you’ll love bestselling author Sam J Fires’s... Read more

Mutie Nation [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Alejandro Ruiz, Teren...

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The expansion of organized muties from M-ville has reached fever pitch. Humanity is on the verge of being eradicated across the Eastern seaboard of the Deathlands. But Ryan Cawdor and his band of survivalists harbor a desperate plan to stop the muties--one that will put their lives at risk. The stakes are genocide, and the prize is the human... Read more

Blood and Qi

By: Anthony Alves

Narrated by: BJ Harrison

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

John, a vampire living for near six thousand years, has gone by many names in his life. Warrior, king, god. Such great age can also be a curse, as his mind has not kept up with the regeneration of his body, and he struggles to even remember his own name.



That is until powerful beings called the ascended come to Earth and remove a shield blocking... Read more

Six Kings

By: David J. VanBergen, Jr.

Narrated by: Trevor Wilson

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the end, there will be only one, but before that, there will be Six Kings. A Fantasy LitRPG series full of monsters, loot, leveling up, civilization building, dungeon diving, and a personal enhancement system that grants anyone near immortality if they can survive all the monsters… and each other. The Tournament of Kings is a major milestone... Read more

The Third Temple

By: Yishai Sarid

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Who will rule the Holy Land, and at what cost?



In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Shaken but devout, Jonathan, the royal family's third son, continues to hold services and offer animal sacrifices at the prophesied Third Temple, built to consecrate the founding... Read more

Neighborhood Watch 7

By: E.E. Isherwood

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Action, reaction . . .



In the apocalypse, cause and effect can have fatal consequences.



In a powerless world with society in full-on collapse, the appearance of an aerial drone does nothing to comfort Frank and his crew. The voice behind it knows many things about Frank's people, but he also shares critical details about the enemies surrounding... Read more