Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Rosewater

By: Tade Thompson

Narrated by: Bayo Gbadamosi

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosewater is the start of an award-winning trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.

*Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner
*Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel, winner

Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents... Read more

The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions... Read more

Pretties

By: Scott Westerfeld

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The second installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.

Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s completely popular. It’s everything she’s ever wanted.

But... 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

Wool

By: Hugh Howey

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Watch Silo, the new Apple TV+ sci-fi series starring Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins!The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival.The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo.... Read more

Julia

By: Sandra Newman

Narrated by: Louise Brealey

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A PEOPLE Magazine Must-Read Book for Fall 2023 | An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2023 | A Guardian Biggest New Book of 2023 | A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2023An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra... Read more

The One

By: John Marrs

Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Vicki Hall, Simon Bubb, Jot Davi...

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

***Over 1M Copies Sold!***

Now on Netflix!

The USA Today bestseller

A Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2018

“Just try to put this gripping thriller down once you pick it up.” —AARP

“A shock on every other page.” —Wall Street Journal

How far would you go to find The One?

A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon... Read more

The 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

Alebrijes

By: Donna Barba Higuera

Narrated by: Cisco Fernandez & Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning The Last Cuentista

This is the story as it was told to me by Leandro the Mighty

For over 400 years, the world has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel—or go it alone in the... Read more

Walkaway

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Amber Benson, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, ...

Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Cory Doctorow's first adult novel in eight years is an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza-known to his friends as Hubert, Etc-was too old to be at that Communist party.But... Read more

Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

Narrated by: Abigail Thorn

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.

“A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!”—Tamsyn Muir

MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the... Read more

Moon of the Turning Leaves

By: Waubgeshig Rice

Narrated by: Billy Merasty

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Waubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a restorative balm for my spirit.” — Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's DaughterIn this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by... 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

The Deluge

By: Stephen Markley

Narrated by: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Gibson Frazier, St...

Length: 40 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book
“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen King

From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.

In the first decades of the 21st... Read more

The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan & Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This richly imaginative, immersive, and “electrifyingly relevant” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.

Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being... Read more

Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

Narrated by: Jasmin Savoy Brown

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Savoy Brown enters the characters fully and makes their emotional changes audible and stunning—doubting to dreamy, bored to curious, saccharine to unhinged."—AudioFile

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly... 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

Elsewhere

By: Alexis Schaitkin

Narrated by: Ell Potter

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"The audiobook narrated by Ell Potter is riveting." -- Buzzfeed on Elsewhere

Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply,... Read more

Snowglobe

By: Soyoung Park

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo, Greta Jung & Jeena Yi

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold—but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. A groundbreaking Korean novel translated into English for the first time!

“The Hunger Games meets Squid Game in Soyoung Park's dystopian... 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

Day 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

Dead Astronauts

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own.Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of... 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

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