- Dystopian (225)
Bestsellers
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The City of Ember
- The First Book of Ember
- By: Jeanne DuPrau
- Narrated by: Wendy Dillon
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race....
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Good story; annoying narrator and background sound
- By Jolie B on 05-26-12
By: Jeanne DuPrau
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Messenger
- By: Lois Lowry
- Narrated by: David Morse
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Six years earlier, Matty had come to Village as a scrappy and devious little boy....
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The Giver stands alone... Messenger needs...
- By Jan on 05-14-12
By: Lois Lowry
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The Last Kids on Earth
- By: Max Brallier
- Narrated by: Robbie Daymond
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average 13 year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games, and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores....
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<<The last kids on the earth>>review.
- By Anonymous User on 03-29-20
By: Max Brallier
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Alone
- By: Megan E. Freeman
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This harrowing middle-grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town....
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WARNING
- By Cynthia A Samuels on 09-18-22
By: Megan E. Freeman
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The People of Sparks
- The Second Book of Ember
- By: Jeanne DuPrau
- Narrated by: Wendy Dillon
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off....
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Wonderful story
- By Robert on 06-17-06
By: Jeanne DuPrau
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The Unwanteds
- Unwanteds Series, Book 1
- By: Lisa McMann
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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When Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. That is the way of the people of Quill: Each year all the 13-year-olds are labeled as Wanted, Necessary, or Unwanted....
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WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN UNTIL IT HAPPENS
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-24-16
By: Lisa McMann
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The City of Ember
- The First Book of Ember
- By: Jeanne DuPrau
- Narrated by: Wendy Dillon
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race....
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Good story; annoying narrator and background sound
- By Jolie B on 05-26-12
By: Jeanne DuPrau
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Messenger
- By: Lois Lowry
- Narrated by: David Morse
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Six years earlier, Matty had come to Village as a scrappy and devious little boy....
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The Giver stands alone... Messenger needs...
- By Jan on 05-14-12
By: Lois Lowry
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The Last Kids on Earth
- By: Max Brallier
- Narrated by: Robbie Daymond
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average 13 year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games, and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores....
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<<The last kids on the earth>>review.
- By Anonymous User on 03-29-20
By: Max Brallier
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Alone
- By: Megan E. Freeman
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This harrowing middle-grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town....
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WARNING
- By Cynthia A Samuels on 09-18-22
By: Megan E. Freeman
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The People of Sparks
- The Second Book of Ember
- By: Jeanne DuPrau
- Narrated by: Wendy Dillon
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off....
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Wonderful story
- By Robert on 06-17-06
By: Jeanne DuPrau
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The Unwanteds
- Unwanteds Series, Book 1
- By: Lisa McMann
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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When Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. That is the way of the people of Quill: Each year all the 13-year-olds are labeled as Wanted, Necessary, or Unwanted....
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WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN UNTIL IT HAPPENS
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-24-16
By: Lisa McMann
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The Finisher (Vega Jane, Book 1)
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Fourteen-year-old Vega Jane lives in the village of Wormwood, where life is nasty, brutish, and short....
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An original great from Baldacci!
- By John Hopkins on 04-13-14
By: David Baldacci
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The Prophet of Yonwood
- The Third Book of Ember
- By: Jeanne DuPrau
- Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 50 years before the settlement of the city of Ember and the world is in crisis....
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lost connection
- By Kenneth hacker on 11-15-18
By: Jeanne DuPrau
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The Marrow Thieves
- By: Cherie Dimaline
- Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Excellent reading by the narrator.
- By Amanda L. Walsh on 12-19-23
By: Cherie Dimaline
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The Keeper (Vega Jane, Book 2)
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Vega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death....
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Looking forward to book 3
- By C. S. on 09-12-15
By: David Baldacci
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Island of Fire
- The Unwanteds, Book 3
- By: Lisa McMann
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The magical world of Artimé is gone. The Unwanteds have no food, no water, and no hope. And everyone is looking to Alex Stowe for answers....
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great
- By Chelsea Barnard on 07-08-24
By: Lisa McMann
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The Width of the World
- Vega Jane, Book 3
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Vega Jane discovered the truth about Wormwood. She made it through the Quag alive. She has come farther than anyone before her. But nothing can prepare her for the devastation that lies ahead....
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The series keeps getting better
- By Kindle Customer on 03-31-19
By: David Baldacci
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The Stars Below
- Vega Jane, Book 4
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The explosive conclusion to David Baldacci's instant number-one worldwide best-selling and award-winning fantasy series....
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Thank you David Baldacci...Your truly an author
- By Kindle Customer on 03-01-19
By: David Baldacci
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Time Zero
- By: Carolyn Cohagan
- Narrated by: Monica Wolfe
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Fifteen-year-old Mina Clark lives in a future Manhattan that is ruled by extremists. Girls aren’t allowed to get an education, they need permission to speak to boys, and all marriages are negotiated by contract....
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Pick this up
- By Jaclyn679 on 07-02-20
By: Carolyn Cohagan
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Moongarden
- Plotting the Stars, Book 1
- By: Michelle A. Barry
- Narrated by: Emily Shaffer
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Myra Hodger is in her first year at an elite school on the Moon, and she's crumbling under the pressure. She doesn't fit in, and worse, the tattoos that signal her Number Whisperer magic aren't developing....
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More STEM propaganda ...
- By Nepatibi on 03-09-24
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Alebrijes
- By: Donna Barba Higuera
- Narrated by: Cisco Fernandez, Frankie Corzo
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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 wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don’t last long....
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ok, not amazing fantasy world
- By AE on 01-10-25
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Fractured
- Slated Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Teri Terry
- Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Kyla's memory has been erased, her personality wiped blank, her memories lost forever. Or so she thought....
By: Teri Terry
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Project F
- By: Jeanne DuPrau
- Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this post-apocalyptic story set hundreds of years in the future, life is simple and modern conveniences are a thing of the past until a boy enchanted by technology is forced to choose between doing the right thing for his community and pursuing his dreams of adventure....
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I wish I could blacklist narrators
- By Amanda Robinson on 06-26-24
By: Jeanne DuPrau
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The Healing Wars, Book II: Blue Fire
- By: Janice Hardy
- Narrated by: Luci Christian
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Part fugitive, part hero, fifteen-year-old Nya is barely staying ahead of the Duke of Baseer's trackers. Wanted for a crime she didn't mean to commit, she risks capture to protect every Taker she can find....
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A wonderful story.
- By Jessica on 05-31-23
By: Janice Hardy
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Town with No Mirrors
- By: Christina Collins
- Narrated by: Merissa Czyz
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In a modern-day utopian community where mirrors, photos, and even words like beautiful and ugly are forbidden, a girl who has never seen her own face harbors a guilty curiosity about the outside world....
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Could have been better
- By L. S. on 06-23-24
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Through the Flames
- Left Behind®: The Kids, Book 3
- By: Jerry B. Jenkins
- Narrated by: Scott Shina
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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For many of those who have been left behind, the sudden disappearance of millions of people throughout the world is completely baffling....
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What happens next????????
- By hephzibah on 01-18-23
By: Jerry B. Jenkins
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Falling Out of Time
- Running Out of Time, Book 2
- By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Narrated by: Lillie Ricciardi
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Margaret Peterson Haddix, where Zola discovers she’s related to Jessie Keyser and her seemingly perfect utopian world is covering up a dark reality....
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Ehhhh
- By S. E. on 06-18-23
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Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
- Maximum Ride, Book 3
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Kasey Lee Huizinga
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution", a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race...and to terminate the rest.
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Dramatic situations
- By Brandi on 12-31-24
By: James Patterson
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Fated
- By: Teri Terry
- Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale, Laura Aikman
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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I'm just one girl. What can I do? Sam's cosy life as daughter of the deputy prime minister is about to end. These are turbulent times. Borders have closed, and protests are turning violent. The government blames the country's youth and is cracking down hard....
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part of the Slated series
- By L. O'Dell on 05-15-21
By: Teri Terry
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The Healing Wars, Book I: The Shifter
- By: Janice Hardy
- Narrated by: Luci Christian
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Taker - with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body....
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Absolutely love
- By October Light on 02-26-24
By: Janice Hardy
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The Big Dark
- By: Rodman Philbrick
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In this thrilling adventure by Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick, a solar event knocks out our planet's electricity, and a boy must risk his life to save his sick mother....
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Amazing book
- By Deb Gray on 08-07-18
By: Rodman Philbrick
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The Last Wild
- By: Piers Torday
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either....
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My ela project book
- By Anonymous User on 01-03-22
By: Piers Torday
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The Consequence Girl
- By: Alastair Chisholm
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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The world of Colony is in ruins. No one knows what caused society to begin tearing itself apart—but the secret may lie with Cora, a girl living on the mountainside far away from others. Cora possesses an extraordinary gift: the power to see back in time....
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Museum of Thieves
- By: Lian Tanner
- Narrated by: Claudia Black
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Welcome to the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime....
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Asked too much of me
- By Katherine on 01-31-13
By: Lian Tanner
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The List
- By: Patricia Forde
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In the post-apocalyptic, neo-medieval city of Ark, speech is constrained to 500 sanctioned words....
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Love is Language
- By Jennie Smith on 02-19-21
By: Patricia Forde