Island Rule
By: Katie M. Flynn
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Corey Brill, Erin deWard, Kit...
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the āurgent and heartfeltā (San Francisco Chronicle) novel The Companions, a genre-bending collection of interconnected short stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan and Karen Russell.
An angry mother turns into a literal monster. A company in San Francisco can scrub your entire reputation and create a new oneā¦for a price. A... 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 coldābut this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. A groundbreaking Korean novel translated into English for the first time!
āThe Hunger Games meets Squid Game in Soyoung Park's dystopian... Read more
Your Shadow Half Remains
By: Sunny Moraine
Narrated by: Sunny Moraine
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage.
ONE LOOK CAN KILL.
Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive.
But when... 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
View audiobookEden
By: Jim Crace
Narrated by: Ben Allen
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden.
The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they care for their orchards and the land, and give thanks for their good fortune, because they know that beyond the garden walls is a world where disease... Read more
Users
By: Colin Winnette
Narrated by: Justin Price
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the... Read more
View audiobookLost in Time
By: A.G. Riddle
Narrated by: John Skelley
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read ..."āDiana Gabaldon
"Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this intricate outing which combines a fantastic premise ā¦ with a closed-circle whodunit. Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough."āPublishers Weekly, starred review
PANGEA, 202,320,641 BC
Quantum physicist... Read more
2 A.M. in Little America
By: Ken Kalfus
Narrated by: BJ Harrison
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world.
One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other... Read more
Tell Me an Ending
By: Jo Harkin
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
Length: 16 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Science Fiction Book of 2022 by The New York Times
āSharply, beautifully written.ā āThe New York Times Book Review
āIntriguing, frightening, witty, and humane.ā āThe Wall Street Journal
Black Mirror meets Severence in this thrilling speculative novel about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories, the consequences for those... Read more
Mickey7
By: Edward Ashton
Narrated by: John Pirhalla & Katharine Chin
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
*Soon to be the major motion picture Mickey17*
The Martian meets Dark Matter in Edward Ashton's high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an "expendable," refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place.
Dying isnāt any funā¦but at least itās a living.
Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition... Read more
A Snake Falls to Earth
By: Darcie Little Badger
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Kinsale Hueston
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEWBERY AWARD HONORNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTNATIONAL BESTSELLERNina is a Lipan girl in our world. Sheās always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, heās been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of... Read more
View audiobookFeral 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. . . .
Ā
When the world last checked-in with its... 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 twistāperfect 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 Gemāa Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogateācreated 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 Withersāa 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 THEĀ 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"Ā and "splendid" thrillerĀ 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 continuesābut 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,Ā LakewoodĀ evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentationāpartĀ The Handmaidās Tale, partĀ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.One of The Millionsā Most Anticipated Reads (The Great First Half 2020 Books)When Lena Johnsonās 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, andĀ original, achievement."āWIRED
From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacyĀ that ācalls to mind The Handmaidās TaleĀ by Margaret Atwood [and]Ā Blindness by JosĆ© Saramagoā (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation).
Ten long years have passed since war... 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 valueāfrom the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon. ā¢ āIntricately imagined ā¦ [It] grows directly out of the soil of our current political moment.ā āThe New York Times Book Review
The time: not so long from... Read more
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
By: Michael Zapata
Narrated by: Coral PeƱa
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
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 Americaās 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 isnāt just a place to work. Itās a place to live. And when youāre here, youāll never want to leave.
āA 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.āāBlake Crouch,Ā New York TimesĀ 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