Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Genesis

By: Poul Anderson

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Artificial intelligence has been developed to a point where human intelligence can be uploaded into a computer, achieving a sort of hybrid immortality. Astronaut Christian Brannock welcomes this technology, technology that will make it possible for him to achieve his dream and explore the stars.A billion years later, Brannock is dispatched to... Read more

Relic Master: the Hidden Coronet

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The third installment in the Relic Master quartet!The coronet, a potent ancient relic, might be the only way to defeat the power that is destroying Anara. But it has been lost for centuries, and only legend tells of its whereabouts. Will Galen and Raffi be able to find it before the Watch does? Read more

Thunder of Heaven

By: Tim LaHaye & Craig Parshall

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the second installment of The End series, not even Joshua Jordan's anti-nuclear technology can stop global events moving to catastrophic as terrorist missiles take down an American plane and a bomb explodes in the Mall of America.Joshua Jordan’s reputation is on the line when his controversial anti-nuclear system fails to protect a commercial... Read more

Vortex

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.

Turk and his... Read more

Flashback

By: Dan Simmons

Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Richard Davidson & Bryan Kennedy

Length: 21 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative dystopian thriller set in a future that seems scarily possible, Flashback proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers.

The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their... Read more

Blonde Bombshell

By: Tom Holt

Narrated by: Ray Sawyer

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

'As you'd expect from Holt, Blonde Bombshell is rife with puns, complicated setups for ridiculous gags, and a riveting story that is completely implausible.' - Booklist

'BLONDE BOMBSHELL is a clever, funny, tirelessly inventive, apocalyptic leg-hump of a book. Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas... Read more

Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box

By: Mira Grant

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant.
 
Every week five friends get together to play a game — a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before.
 
 
More... Read more

Relic Master: the Lost Heiress

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Even though Tasceron and its Emperor have fallen, there is a rumor that the heiress to the throne still lives. If so, her life is in grave danger, especially from the Watch. Galen and Raffi must race to find and protect her. Read more

Equations of Life

By: Simon Morden

Narrated by: Toby Leonard Moore

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Short-listed for the World Fantasy Award and a finalist for the Catalyst Award, bona fide rocket scientist Simon Morden has won a considerable fan base for his mind-bending brand of SF. The first in a planned trilogy, Equations of Life stars Samuil Petrovitch, a survivor of the nuclear fallout in a futuristic St. Petersburg. He's lived as long... Read more

Robopocalypse

By: Daniel H. Wilson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you.
 
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos... Read more

Blood Red Road

By: Moira Young

Narrated by: Heather Lind

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that will “blow you away”** has a dazzling new look in paperback!

Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh... Read more

Deadline

By: Mira Grant

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This electrifying sequel from the New York Times bestselling author of Feed reenters a world of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all. Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just... Read more

Relic Master: the Dark City

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Emma Galvin

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation, where nothing is what it seems: Ancient relics emit technologically advanced powers, members of the old Order are hunted by the governing Watch yet revered by the people, and the great energy that connects all seems to also be destroying all. The only hope for the world lies in... Read more

Enclave

By: Ann Aguirre

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Ann Aguirre's thrilling young adult novel Enclave is the story of two young people in an apocalyptic world--facing dangers, and feelings, unlike any they've ever known.

New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. When... Read more

Fever Crumb (The Fever Crumb Trilogy, Book 1)

By: Philip Reeve

Narrated by: Philip Reeve

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning, new novel by master storyteller Philip Reeve.Fever Crumb is a girl who has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the order of Engineers, where she serves as apprentice. In a time and place where women are not seen as reasonable creatures, Fever is an anomaly, the only female to serve in the order. Soon though, she... Read more

Angel

By: James Patterson

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Max Ride and her best friends are up against a deadly force, but Fang is gone just when they need him most. Will they be ready for the ultimate showdown?   Max Ride and her best friends have always had one another's backs-no matter what. Living on the edge as fugitives, they never had a choice. But now they're up against a deadly force that's... Read more

Delirium

By: Lauren Oliver

Narrated by: Sarah Drew

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren Oliver's powerful New York Times bestselling novel Delirium—the first in a dystopian trilogy—presents a world as terrifying as George Orwell's 1984 and a romance as true as Romeo & Juliet.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a... Read more

Across the Universe

By: Beth Revis

Narrated by: Carlos Santos & Lauren Ambrose

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Prometheus!

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?

Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. She has left her boyfriend, friends--and planet--behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark... Read more

Sapphique

By: Catherine Fisher

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The only one who escaped . . . And the one who could destroy them all.

Incarceron, the living prison, has lost one of its inmates to the outside world: Finn’s escaped, only to find that Outside is not at all what he expected. Used to the technologically advanced, if violently harsh, conditions of the prison, Finn is now forced to obey the rules... Read more

The Gift

By: James Patterson & Ned Rust

Narrated by: Elijah Wood, Spencer Locke & Peter Giles

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When Whit & Wisty were imprisoned by the wicked forces of the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, they were barely able to escape with their lives. Now part of a hidden community of teens like themselves, Whit and Wisty have established themselves as leaders of the Resistance, willing to sacrifice anything to save kids kidnapped and... Read more

Matched

By: Ally Condie

Narrated by: Kate Simses

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] superb dystopian romance.” – The Wall Street Journal
 
“Strong feminist ideals and impressive writing that’s bound to captivate.” – The Los Angeles Times 

In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.

Cassia has always trusted the Society’s choices. And when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, she is... Read more

Museum of Thieves

By: Lian Tanner

Narrated by: Claudia Black

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime.
Goldie Roth has lived in Jewel all her life. Like every child in the city, she wears a silver guardchain and is forced to obey the dreaded Blessed Guardians. She has never done anything by herself and won’t be allowed out on the streets unchained until... Read more

The Reapers Are the Angels

By: Alden Bell

Narrated by: Tai Sammons

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can’t remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until... Read more

Running Out of Time

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie’s mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help.

But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening than she could have imagined, and soon... Read more