Underground Books

Wait Till Helen Comes

By: Mary Downing Hahn

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their younger stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard.If that's not bad... Read more

All the Birds in the Sky

By: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning Nebula Award–winning and Hugo–shortlisted novel about the end of the world—and the beginning of our future

An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go to war in order to prevent the world from tearing itself apart. To further complicate things, each of the groups’... Read more

Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Joy Osmanski

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by Oprah Daily

* “Mesmerizing.” —Town & Country * “Twisty and unsettling.” —People * “Ancient Greece meets Succession by way of Emma Cline…deliciously dark.” —Ruth Gilligan *

A “superb…refreshing” (The New York Times Book Review) reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set on a lush private island,... Read more

The Geography of Nowhere

By: James Howard Kunstler

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the... Read more

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

By: Catherine Mack

Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for.

"Quick, captivating, and oh-so-much-fun! This delicious mystery is as spellbinding as Knives Out."—Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author of the Finlay Donovan series

"Evans demonstrates her talent for accents and finds voices that capture the... Read more

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

By: Saidiya Hartman

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday... Read more

You, Again

By: Kate Goldbeck

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This gender-swapped When Harry Met Sally retelling is for anyone who craves romance novels with realistic and flawed characters. Ari and Josh circle each other for years in the kind of delicious, slow-burn tension that only comes from a well-executed enemies-to-friends-to-lovers arc.”—NPR

“Fresh, witty, and utterly... 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

Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer & Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindles—the family he’s lived with for years. The Brindles are busy humans, apart from twelve-year-old Ernest, who would rather be left alone with his collection of Oxford English... Read more

Hummingbird Salamander

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all thingsSecurity consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the... Read more

Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

Narrated by: Stephanie Willing

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I’ve had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams’s The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!” —Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books “Holly Wilson’s Kittentits is sacred and profane, filled with big emotions, all amplified by grief. Molly is a wholly... Read more

Lark Ascending

By: Silas House

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting story of survival and hope, set in the not-too-distant future, about a young man forced to flee the United States and seek refuge across the Atlantic. 

As fires devastate most of the United States, Lark and his family secure a place on a refugee boat headed to Ireland, the last country not yet overrun by extremists and rumored to be... Read more

This Is Chance!

By: Jon Mooallem

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together

“A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year)

In the... Read more

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real... Read more

American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 19 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a STARZ® Original Series produced by FremantleMedia North America starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, and Pablo Schreiber.Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to... Read more

Love Is a Mix Tape

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Rob Sheffield

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman
 
Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven... Read more

Upgrade

By: Blake Crouch

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “If Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like Upgrade.”—The New York Times Book Review

“You don’t so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin.”—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series
 
“Mysterious, fascinating, and deeply... Read more

The Fifth Child

By: Doris Lessing

Narrated by: Sue Pitkin

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and... Read more

Hot Stew

By: Fiona Mozley

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ELMET

“Stunningly clever . . . A deliciously spicy stew indeed.” —Entertainment Weekly

“A story about money and power, love and art, sex work and gentrification . . . Enjoyable and impressive on every page.” —USA Today

In the middle of the bustle of London’s Soho, among the theaters and sex shops and... Read more

Brave the Wild River

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran... Read more

Good Omens

By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Full Cast, Mark Heap & Peter Serafinowicz

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel.

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….

Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies... Read more

Through the Groves

By: Anne Hull

Narrated by: Anne Hull

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author,

“Anne Hull has written some of the most important stories of our time, beautifully, unflinchingly.”
—Rick Bragg

"Hull delivers her book with a gentle twang and the unpretentious tone of someone who has lived the experiences she describes. Through her character work and emotionally intelligent delivery, Hull helps... Read more

Jasmine Is Haunted

By: Mark Oshiro

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Jasmine Garza has a problem: a ghost has been following her for years, ever since her Papi died. Not that Mami will admit anything supernatural is going on. But even the ghost she won’t acknowledge makes real trouble, so Jasmine and her mami are moving (again) to a new apartment in East Hollywood. This time Jasmine is committed to living a... Read more

It's Kind of a Funny Story

By: Ned Vizzini

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he... Read more