Apocalyptic & Dystopian bestsellers

Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Jefferson White
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

“Sunrise on the Reaping is a thrilling return to the world of Panem, offering fresh perspective and depth to a familiar story. Suzanne Collins masterfully weaves political tension and personal stakes into a gripping narrative that feels both timeless and urgently relevant. It's a must-read for any Hunger Games fan craving a deeper understanding... Read more

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #1

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

“EASILY my very favorite book of all time, quickly followed by its sequel. The narration is impeccable, adding rich character depth. The cozy context of two freshly acquainted travelling companions offer a comfortable and compact context to explore some of the best speculative fiction solarpunk has to offer. A perfectly bized-sized leap into... Read more

Red Rising

Red Rising: Book #1

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

“I am mostly a fantasy girly, but I kept feeling drawn to Red Rising. The story is fast-paced and divided into three parts. I really enjoyed the first two, while the third was action-packed and, at times, felt a bit like The Hunger Games without the same emotional charge. That said, the characters are very well fleshed out, and the... Read more

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick

National Book Award Finalist

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch & Lee Osorio
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

“Voices and characters are crazy-well portrayed and the story is incredibly written. Don't miss this one!!! Read more

Death of the Author

A Novel

By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris Djuma
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

“Okorafor might be the smartest writer I've read in a while. I was at turns mesmerized, annoyed, completely intrigued, and just downright flabbergasted at this book (or should I say books?). This is a novel within a novel- we watch as the main character writes her book about a future world of robots vs AI. But is that really what we are reading?... Read more

Golden Son

Red Rising: Book #2

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal... Read more about Golden Son

The Obelisk Gate

The Broken Earth: Book #2

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

“This is how to do a sequel right - if sequel is even the correct term. Picking up right where the The Fifth Season left off, this book is more mature as the situation matures, trusting that the reader is ready to deal with yet more depth and complexity. The world of the Stillness is revealed to be more definitively high fantasy - but the issues... Read more

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“I just recently went through a deep dive reread of ALL The Hunger Games books (yes, in 2024!) and WOW do they still hold up! Do I remember loving them? Absolutely yes. Do I remember feeling inspired to overthrow the government? Also yes. But what I forgot, or maybe didn't fully understand at the time I first read them, was how delicately and... Read more

The Compound: A GMA Book Club Pick

A Novel

By: Aisling Rawle
Narrated by: Lucy Boynton
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

“For fans of Love Island, Survivor and reality television competition shows. Throw in a dash of dystopia and this makes it quite the compelling listen! Read more

Morning Star

Red Rising: Book #3

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 21 hours 50 minutes

Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star. Read more about Morning Star

How High We Go in the Dark

A Novel

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure & Jason Culp
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“The description of this book as being dystopian and similar to Cloud Atlas is correct, but fails to convey how beautiful it is. The vignettes are so interesting, showing visions of a future plague that comes full circle. I did not expect to love it this much! Read more

Conform

A Novel

The Reform Series: Book #1

By: Ariel Sullivan
Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

“Think The Handmaid’s Tale, but with a sexy love triangle. Read more

Light Bringer

A Red Rising Novel

Red Rising: Book #6

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 30 hours 8 minutes

Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age.

“Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR, on Dark Age

“The... Read more about Light Bringer

1984

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Theo Solomon
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before.“Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get... Read more about 1984

Catching Fire: Movie Tie-in Edition (Hunger Games, Book Two)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Catching Fire, the second book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games series, is now available with all-new cover art from the feature film!The second book in the international bestselling Hunger Games series is now a feature film. Here is the original novel with exciting new movie artwork on the cover. (Original cover version also... Read more about Catching Fire: Movie Tie-in Edition (Hunger Games, Book Two)

Into the Drowning Deep

By: Mira Grant
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

“This book is a masterpiece. Horror story about mermaids. Such a good monster book. Read more

Dark Age

Red Rising: Book #5

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk, James Langton & Rendah Heywood
Length: 33 hours 58 minutes

For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his... Read more about Dark Age

Iron Gold

Red Rising: Book #4

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer & Aedin Moloney
Length: 23 hours 23 minutes

Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Trilogy. Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of... Read more about Iron Gold

Queen of Faces

Queen of Faces: Book #1

By: Petra Lord
Narrated by: Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, E. A. Castillo & Nicky Endres
Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

“A great dark academia fantasy novel, with a deep cast of characters and a lot of shifting loyalties. A world where people can shift from one body to another - if they have the resources to do so - which allows for avoidance of illness, bodily injury, age, or subterfuge. A magic system which relies on character development to increase the power... Read more

Sea of Tranquility

A novel

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey & Kirsten Potter
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

“Sea Of Tranquility is a singular time-travelling novel: it contains a few characters from Mandel's previous books, but it also plays with a possibility that could change the way we view humanity, and our own time on Earth completely - or very much leave it untouched. Written with melancholic prose, and filled with hope, it's an outstanding work... Read more

Tender is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

“ This was one of the most difficult books I've ever read, right alongside the likes of José Saramago's BLINDNESS. TENDER IS THE FLESH takes the current reality of animal factory-farming, and reimagines a future where we've resorted to and normalized the same practices - but by farming humans. A stark look at what types of violence we find... Read more

The Stone Sky

The Broken Earth: Book #3

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the power of... Read more about The Stone Sky

Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking... Read more about Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three)

Dark Tower I

The Gunslinger

The Dark Tower: Book #1

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

“Not only is this my favorite book series ever, it’s also narrated by my favorite book narrator ever (the amazing George Guidall). A western/fantasy/horror epic crossing from the apocalyptic west to 70s New York to other King worlds, this is considered by both Stephen King fans and by King himself to be his magnum opus. From the characters to the... Read more

Silver Elite

Silver Elite: Book #1

By: Dani Francis
Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
Length: 19 hours 11 minutes

“THIS BOOK. When I say it's addictive, I mean it! This is the closest reading experience I've had to reading Fourth Wing (sans dragons, but there is still a "Shadow Daddy"), except, dare I say, I enjoyed this even more? As much as I love dragons (and I LOVE dragons), the sci-fi setting with psychic superhumans is incredible. This book was a... Read more

The Stand

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 47 hours 47 minutes

“This book is legendary. The story is amazing and I love the characters and the story line so much. Read more

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #2

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

“EASILY my very second favorite book of all time, trailing a hair behind the top of that list; it's predecessor. The narration is impeccable, adding rich character depth. The cozy context of two freshly acquainted travelling companions offer a comfortable and compact context to explore some of the best speculative fiction solarpunk has to offer.... Read more

Station Eleven

A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

“I never knew an apocalypse could be so peaceful. "Station Eleven" is the perfect tragedy and the perfect comedy, worthy of its traveling Shakespeare performers indeed. Its story is ingenious, its prose haunting, its characters dynamic and their actions remarkably bold. Read more

Wool

The Silo Saga: Book #1

By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 15 hours

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 about Wool

Fable for the End of the World

By: Ava Reid
Narrated by: Gail Shalan & Emily Lawrence
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

“I fell HARD for this book! A semi-flooded world with a nod to climate change, corporate consumerist culture ruled by debt, society completely split into haves and have-nots , and it all feels all too possible in the way of great dystopian fiction. Plus, there’s a Hunger Games-esque live fight-for-survival-as-entertainment and a queer romance. I... Read more

The Fireman

A Novel

By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
Length: 22 hours 19 minutes

“It's fun to experience both father's and son's take on the same basic story. Plus, The Fireman is performed by Kate Mulgrew! Read more

Dawn

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Julienne Irons
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

“An astonishing work of imagination that presents the reader with a series of sticky, impossible questions. Among them: When your people have lost to a colonizing force, and must face the end of their self-sovereignty, culture, and identity, how do you accept the new reality and keep living? Butler explores this historically common dilemma via... Read more

The Grace Year

A Novel

By: Kim Liggett
Narrated by: Emily Shaffer
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

“Take themes from The Handmaid’s Tale, The Lord of the Flies, and add a touch of The Hunger Games and you get this tale of a dystopian patriarchal society. This is a feminist story about what happens when everyone seems to embrace the oppressive laws of a society without question, and what happens when one young woman begins to question them and... Read more

The Unworthy

A Novel

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

“Taste the sin of being unworthy in this literary horror about a mysterious convent Read more

Roadside Picnic

By: Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky
Narrated by: Robert Forster
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

“It is clear what an influence this book has had on contemporary sci-fi authors. The Strugatsky brothers weren’t afraid to imagine human insignificance and limitations. A classic noir atmosphere, but with aliens. And try the Rosewater Trilogy by Tade Thompson if you like this. Read more

The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Laila Lalami
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Barton Caplan
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

“Laila Lalami crafts a compelling narrative about surveillance, technology and human resilience. The novel centers on Sara, a scientist unexpectedly detained at LAX when an algorithm flags her as a potential threat to her husband , thrusting her into a nightmarish detention center that criminalizes dreams. This dystopian thriller examines... Read more

The Memory Police

A Novel

By: Yoko Ogawa
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

“On a small unnamed island, the government can make things disappear, never to return, lost to both memory and sense. Yet what is lost is never truly forgotten: some still remember, threatening the rule of the draconian Memory Police. This book fills you with a slow burning dread as the disappearances become increasingly sinister. The Memory... Read more

Hollow Kingdom

By: Kira Jane Buxton
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

“This is the zombie apocalypse like you’ve never seen it before! Things go sideways when S.T. the crow’s human, Big Jim, loses an eyeball. Jim’s worsening condition propels S.T. to leave the safety of domestic life, along with the simple, slobbering bloodhound, Dennis. Together they roam the ruins of Seattle, searching for purpose in this new,... Read more

Virtual Light

Bridge Trilogy: Book #1

By: William Gibson
Narrated by: Jason Keller
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES bestseller • 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California.

The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working  for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is... Read more about Virtual Light

An Unkindness of Ghosts

By: Rivers Solomon
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

“Matilda, a colony spaceship with a racially stratified society (think antebellum South, in space), has been moving among the stars for hundreds of years. Increasing blackouts reveal a plot that Solomon uses to explore ideas of gender, race, class, religion, and the myriad ways we can harm one another. Devastating. Phenomenal. Read it. Read more

The Testaments

The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Derek Jacobi, Tantoo Cardinal & Margaret Atwood
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

“Sequal to The Handmaids Tale. I loved this! Read in part by Anne Dowd as Aunt Lydia. Read more

The Ministry for the Future

A Novel

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Inés del Castillo & Vikas Adam
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. 

The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world,... Read more about The Ministry for the Future

The Compound

By: Aisling Rawle
Narrated by: Lucy Boynton
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

“For reality show addicts like myself (who are also overwhelmingly aware of the increasing dystopia we live in), this was a perfect thriller! It was fast-paced and clever, dark and entertaining. Read more

I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Jacqueline Harpman
Narrated by: Sarah Lambie
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

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THE HEART-BREAKING POST-APOCALYPTIC TIKTOK SENSATION

Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world.

Deep underground, 39 women are kept in isolation in a cage. Aboveground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?

Watched over by... Read more about I Who Have Never Known Men

Walkaway

By: Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Amber Benson, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, Amanda Palmer, Lisa Renee Pitts, Wil Wheaton & Mirron Willis
Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

“What does it mean to live in a post-scarcity world that can’t let go of capitalism? Walkaway deftly explores this sticky subject and I enjoyed each of its twists and turns. Those who refuse to play by the rules of the old system, those who walk away, discover something the ultra-rich of a dying world desperately want. Set in the near future,... Read more

The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
Narrated by: Daveed Diggs
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

“Solomon is perfectly suited to expand the concept of a civilization of merfolk whose origins were born in the violence of pregnant African women sent to the depths from the vessels of white slave traders. The Deep focuses on Yetu, whose role as historian is to be individually burdened with six centuries of memories of all the wajinru (merfolk),... Read more

World War Z: The Complete Edition - Abridged

An Oral History of the Zombie War

By: Max Brooks
Narrated by: Various
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

“If you’re gonna listen to one audio book in your life, make it this one. It is fully cast, and the talent bringing this book to life will astound you. But more than that, there is something entirely enthralling about getting to listen to a story that is meant as an oral history. The book will force you to consider how you and the people you know... Read more

Mirrored Heavens

Between Earth and Sky: Book #3

By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, Shyla Lefner, Nicole Lewis, Kairyn Potts & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

“All of the best things have to end, I guess, but it still hurts like nothing else. This poetically written ending was almost Homeric in the way it maintained an epic and suspenseful sense of awe and wonder— this dynamic series did not disappoint, but this finale put me through the WRINGER! Read more

The Forest on the Edge of Time

By: Jasmin Kirkbride
Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown, Frankie Porter & Shakira Shute
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

“The Forest on the Edge of Time is both mind-bending and heart-wrenching. A story of two women separated by aeons, trying their hardest to save the world. It will grab your attention and keep you on the edge of your seat the whole way through. Read more

Dark Tower II

The Drawing of the Three

The Dark Tower: Book #2

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.

“Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters,” hails The Baltimore Sun. Beginning just less than... Read more about Dark Tower II