Underground Books

Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White, a queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.

On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his... Read more

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: a full cast, Neil Hellegers, Marni Penning, P. ...

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Vulture’s “master of horror” Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless and emotionally charged social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media, for fans of The Last of Us and Where Evil LurksNoah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for... Read more

The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

Narrated by: Anushka Chakravarti, Brendan Dempsey, Jonathan ...

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this unputdownable mystery follows a group of students in an art master’s program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling “new queen of crime” (Electric Literature) Janice Hallett.

Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University’s new Multimedia Art course, must find six... Read more

The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by author and narrator Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards.

Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night.

Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not... Read more

The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

Narrated by: Jaine Ye

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a
female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.
Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her
mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her... Read more

Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer returns with “a romantic gem” (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) about a young woman who decides to finally live for herself rather than rely on the universe for answers. Now featuring bonus content!

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her.... Read more

City of Girls

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.

"A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own... Read more

The Sparrow

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but... Read more

Nicked

By: M. T. Anderson

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

AN NPR NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous, slyly funny, and delightfully queer work of historical fantasy, based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint

"[An] uproarious saga . . . drawing on contemporary accounts, fantastical folk tales, and... Read more

Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Nat Cassidy

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the urban horror of Salem's Lot, set in an exclusive New York City residential building.

“This is the horror book of the year.”—Erika T. Wurth, author... Read more

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.

New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time!

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.

London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has... Read more

youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, it’s clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty, has plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knockoffs and doesn’t care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she... Read more

Ink Blood Sister Scribe

By: Emma Törzs

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR & ONE OF THE BEST FANTASY NOVELS OF THE YEAR “Astonishing and pristine, the kind of debut I love to be devastated by, already so assured and sophisticated that it’s difficult to imagine where the author can go from here. . . . It’s simply a delight from start to finish.” – AMAL EL-MOHTAR, New... Read more

The Comfort of Crows

By: Margaret Renkl

Narrated by: Margaret Renkl

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICKTHE PERFECT AUDIOBOOK FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK * INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “howling love letter to the world” (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces... Read more

You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother’s... Read more

The Palace of Eros

By: Caro De Robertis

Narrated by: Caro De Robertis

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s a literary gift to see gender expansiveness depicted in an ancient myth with such grace and ease.” —Electric Literature

Fans of Circe and Black Sun, “prepare to be astonished” (R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries) with this bold and subversive feminist and queer retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros.

Young, headstrong Psyche has... Read more

The Haunting of Hill House

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy HuttonPast the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits.Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called... Read more

Twisted Games

By: Ana Huang

Narrated by: Aiden Snow & Cindy Kay

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Stoic, broody, and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: 1) Protect his clients at all costs 2) Do not become emotionally involved. Ever. He has never once been tempted to break those rules . . . until her.



Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak and a hidden fire that reduces his rules to ash. She's nothing he... Read more

The Bear and the Nightingale

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Arden’s bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.
 
“A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up.”—Naomi Novik, bestselling author of Uprooted

Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian... Read more

Wild and Precious

By: Mary Oliver

Narrated by: Sophia Bush

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

***WINNER OF THE 2024 AUDIE AWARD FOR SHORT STORIES/COLLECTION*** Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver is a first of its kind audio commemoration of one of the greatest poets in modern history. Actress and activist Sophia Bush guides listeners on a journey of contemplation and discovery into the artistry of Mary Oliver as... Read more

A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon

By: Sarah Hawley

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Mariel Spark knows not to trust a demon, especially one that wants her soul, but what’s a witch to do when he won’t leave her side—and she kind of doesn’t want him to?

Mariel Spark is prophesied to be the most powerful witch seen in centuries of the famed Spark family, but to the displeasure of her mother, she prefers baking to brewing potions... Read more

A Shore Thing

By: Joanna Lowell

Narrated by: Ros Watt

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Glorious.... Every scene in this book is a treasure."—The New York Times

“A Victorian queer love story that will have you giggling and blushing… This book is full of charm and low-stakes adventure, just the warm and soft romance many of us are looking for.”—NPR

An NPR Best Book of 2024 • Named a Best Romance of the Year by The New York Times and... Read more

A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.But her... Read more

Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people.



Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of... Read more