Best Post-Apocalyptic Survival Fantasy Audiobooks

The highest-rated fantasy audiobooks featuring post-apocalyptic survival, ranked by listeners. Browse 11 titles.

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The best fantasy audiobooks featuring the post-apocalyptic survival trope, ranked by listener and reader ratings from Audible and Goodreads.

Post-Apocalyptic Survival shows up across many genres, but it plays out differently in fantasy — these are the highest-rated examples.

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    Of Blood and Bone

    Chronicles of The One • Book 2

    by Nora Roberts

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    4.60 ABR Score (65.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (49.4K) ★ 4.73 Audible (16.4K)
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    Julia Whelan gives Fallon's coming-of-age journey a quietly fierce intensity that makes Roberts' post-apocalyptic world feel genuinely lived-in and dangerous.

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    Nona the Ninth

    The Locked Tomb • Book 3

    by Tamsyn Muir

    Narrated by Moira Quirk

    4.51 ABR Score (60.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (57.2K) ★ 4.66 Audible (3.6K)
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    Nona wants a birthday party while zombies overrun her city and she inhabits a borrowed body. Quirk navigates Muir's genre-bending narrative with humor and haunting emotion across multiple timelines.

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    The Rise of Magicks

    Chronicles of The One • Book 3

    by Nora Roberts

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    4.49 ABR Score (50.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (39.6K) ★ 4.65 Audible (10.5K)
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    Julia Whelan captures the raw emotional weight of Fallon's journey with such nuance that the quiet moments of healing land harder than the battles. A satisfying trilogy closer that trusts its characters over spectacle.

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    Year One

    Chronicles of The One • Book 1

    by Nora Roberts

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    4.47 ABR Score (125.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (96.7K) ★ 4.56 Audible (28.6K)
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    Civilization collapses overnight from a deadly plague, but magic emerges among survivors in this post-apocalyptic fantasy. Roberts balances realistic disaster with emerging supernatural elements perfectly.

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    Fermentation

    Battle Mage Farmer • Book 4

    by Seth Ring

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    4.43 ABR Score (6.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (4.7K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.3K)
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    Michael Kramer returns to John's post-apocalyptic farming adventures, balancing the absurdity of saving the world through agriculture with the genuine stakes of dimensional threats.

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    Armageddon's Children

    Genesis of Shannara • Book 1

    by Terry Brooks

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    4.30 ABR Score (17.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (17.6K) ★ 4.74 Audible (218)
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    Brooks launches his Genesis of Shannara trilogy in a post-apocalyptic world where demons hunt the last survivors and ancient magic begins to stir.

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    Master of Puppets

    Master of Puppets • Book 1

    by Eric Ugland

    Narrated by Nick Podehl

    4.01 ABR Score (1.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (482) ★ 4.3 Audible (550)
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    Special Agent Del Roosevelt's apocalypse prep becomes useless when the world ends in ways no survivalist manual covered. Nick Podehl guides listeners through this agent's struggle to adapt when all that training proves inadequate.

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    Tower of Somnus Omnibus: Books 1-3 in A LitRPG Adventure Series

    Tower of Somnus • Book 1

    by Cale Plamann

    Narrated by Andrea Parsneau

    3.95 ABR Score (95 ratings)
    ★ 4.8 Goodreads (15) ★ 4.5 Audible (80)
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    First contact goes catastrophically wrong when humanity fails alien judgment, leaving unlimited power scattered for the taking across three full-length adventures in this comprehensive collection.

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    Magic Time

    Magic Time • Book 1

    by Marc Scott Zicree, Barbara Hambly

    Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Anne Marie Lee, Robertson Dean, Ned Schmidtke

    3.85 ABR Score (614 ratings)
    ★ 3.58 Goodreads (443) ★ 3.89 Audible (171)
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    Lawyer Cal Griffin watches civilization collapse when technology fails and humans begin transforming into monsters in darkened cities. The full cast narration captures the scope of this apocalyptic fantasy where magic replaces modernity.

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    Mercy: Tears of the Fallen (The First Volume)

    Mercy • Book 1

    by Chance Dillon

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    3.83 ABR Score (210 ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (210)
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    Simon Vance lends his distinguished voice to this post-apocalyptic fantasy debut. His narration promises to match the scope and mystery that early readers have praised in Dillon's Elden Ring-inspired world.

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    Apocalypse Unleashed - Book 1 - And, So, It Begins : An Omniverse Series

    Apocalypse Unleashed • Book 1

    by ItalianDragon

    Narrated by Luke Daniels, Trista Shaye, Jill Smith, Diana Guillermo

    3.74 ABR Score (5 ratings)
    ★ 5 Goodreads (3) ★ 5 Audible (2)
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    Post-Rapture Earth becomes a hellscape of undead, mutated animals, and portal-spawning goblins in this high-concept thriller. The narration captures both intimate human terror and epic monster encounters.

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