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Brave New World is a landmark dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1932. The narrative unfolds in a technologically advanced, meticulously engineered society where citizens are categorized into a hierarchical system from birth. It reveals the profound implications of relinquishing human freedoms for artificial harmony and progress.
Featured Article: The 10 Best Dystopian Audiobooks with Unsettling Alternate Realities
Though the dystopian genre focuses on the world’s degeneration, these fantastical, exploratory, and poignant titles often have the power to reveal something significant about the world listeners live in now. No matter the dystopia conjured in a selection, their creators enable us to explore human nature and safely reflect on our own reality. Here are the 10 best dystopian audiobooks to transport, unsettle, and perhaps even inspire.
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Brave New World
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Michael York
- Length: 8 hrs
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On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....
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Michael York should stick to the stage and leave narration to the pros.
- By SD on 08-21-19
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Brave New World
- Narrated by: Michael York
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 01-16-08
- Language: English
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The Doors of Perception
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley, describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience....
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loved it
- By Evie Cash on 10-13-16
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The Doors of Perception
- Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-01-09
- Language: English
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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
- A Novel
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity—these are the elements of Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely.
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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 12-16-25
- Language: English
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The Genius and the Goddess
- A Novel
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of "half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form." He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens - a pathbreaking physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize....
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Reverse Lolita
- By Eve Howard on 01-04-23
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The Genius and the Goddess
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 11-12-19
- Language: English
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Ape and Essence
- A Novel
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin.
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Ape and Essence
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-07-25
- Language: English
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The Divine Within
- Selected Writings on Enlightenment
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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In this anthology of 26 essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. Huxley consistently examined the spiritual basis of both the individual and human society....
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🙏🏼🪷🙏🏼
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-25
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The Divine Within
- Selected Writings on Enlightenment
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-29-19
- Language: English
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Island
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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In his final novel - which he considered his most important - Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years....
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A great narration for a great book.
- By AndrewL on 09-21-16
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Island
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-13-16
- Language: English
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Un mundo feliz [Brave New World]
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Christian Grosso
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Un mundo feliz es la novela más famosa del escritor británico Aldous Huxley, publicada por primera vez en 1932. La novela es una distopía que anticipa el desarrollo en tecnología reproductiva....
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A prediction rather than a fiction book
- By Cliente de Amazon on 08-19-21
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Un mundo feliz [Brave New World]
- Narrated by: Christian Grosso
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 06-15-21
- Language: Spanish
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Brave New World (Dramatized)
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Aldous Huxley
- Length: 1 hr
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Brave New World, narrated by Huxley himself, with a complicated sound-effects score....
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Read (listen) to the book.
- By disarmyouwitha on 10-04-15
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Brave New World (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Aldous Huxley
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 07-13-12
- Language: English
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Las puertas de la percepción
- Sonido 3D
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Ezequiel Romero
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Audiolibro producido con sonido 3D. El mismo esta diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Las puertas de la percepción es un ensayo escrito por...
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Las puertas de la percepción
- Sonido 3D
- Narrated by: Ezequiel Romero
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-26-24
- Language: Spanish
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The Devils of Loudun
- A True Story of Demonic Possession
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil....
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Strange book strange tale
- By Grant on 09-08-20
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The Devils of Loudun
- A True Story of Demonic Possession
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 08-15-17
- Language: English
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Eyeless in Gaza
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
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Though somewhat overshadowed by Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, Huxley's modernist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) is often regarded as his finest work. The writer and historian Simon Heffer dubbed it, unequivocally, ‘his only great novel.'
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Wonderful book
- By Damon LaBarbera on 07-23-24
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Eyeless in Gaza
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-11-24
- Language: English
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Brave New World Revisited
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Robert Scott Harris
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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In 1958, 27 years after Aldous Huxley wrote "Brave New World", he took another look at his remarkable fable and résumé the development since. His...
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Brave New World Revisited
- By John S on 06-21-25
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Brave New World Revisited
- Narrated by: Robert Scott Harris
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 11-21-24
- Language: English
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Crome Yellow
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Set in post-WWI England, this perennial favorite satirizes the fads and fashions of the time with the tale of a hapless couple who join a colorful mix of British aristocrats attending a party at a rural country estate....
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Variety of characters
- By NVB on 09-28-25
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Crome Yellow
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-09-15
- Language: English
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The Perennial Philosophy
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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With great wit and stunning intellect, Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning....
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Segments in French
- By franck battelli on 03-29-19
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The Perennial Philosophy
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Great Classic Stories II
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Mark Twain, and others
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Kate Fenton, Stephen R. Thorne, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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This wonderful collection of 18 short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names....
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Another great selection of stories
- By Adeliese Baumann on 02-04-13
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Great Classic Stories II
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Kate Fenton, Stephen R. Thorne, Robert Fass, Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-14-10
- Language: English
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The Art of Seeing
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Unlike the dystopian vision described in Brave New World, or the psychedelic vision described in his The Doors of Perception, in The Art of Seeing, Aldous Huxley focuses on the actual vision of the human eye.
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Wicked knowledge love this dude
- By sugar bear on 08-05-25
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The Art of Seeing
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-24-24
- Language: English
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Un mundo feliz
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Hernan Tracchia
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Audiolibro producido con música original y sonido 3D. El mismo está diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Un mundo feliz es la novela más famosa...
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En general bien, pero es molesto cuando gritan
- By Arturo on 10-05-25
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Un mundo feliz
- Narrated by: Hernan Tracchia
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-11-24
- Language: Spanish
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Brave New World
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Jonathan Coy, Justin Salinger, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Aldous Huxley's classic dystopian novel....
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Lackluster Abridgement of a fantastic book.
- By Kindle Customer on 01-13-18
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Brave New World
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Jonathan Coy, Justin Salinger, Pippa Bennett-Warner, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-11-16
- Language: English
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Point Counter Point
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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In Point Counter Point, the polarity between passion and reason in the intellectual life of the 1920s is demonstrated both in form and in theme in Aldous Huxley’s ambitious satire....
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finally - another classic from Huxley
- By Andorboth on 02-20-24
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Point Counter Point
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-13-24
- Language: English
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