Underground Books

The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes original sound design.

From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future.

Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents... Read more

Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Nat Cassidy’s highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark.

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself.

But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot... Read more

Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPR

The Martian meets 127 Hours in this “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to... Read more

A Most Agreeable Murder

By: Julia Seales

Narrated by: Fiona Hampton

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A delightful cocktail that mixes elements of the Bridgerton series, Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mysteries . . . The payoff is a wealth of wit, hilarity and suspense.”—People (Book of the Week)

When a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball, a young lady takes on the decidedly improper... Read more

Fire Weather

By: John Vaillant

Narrated by: Alan Carlson

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce

“Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters.” —David... 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

Imaginary Friend

By: Stephen Chbosky

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 24 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author, a young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this "epic horror" novel, perfect for fans of Stephen King (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will).

Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle... Read more

The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

Narrated by: Scott Brick & Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 19 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.”—STEPHEN KING
 
From the author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia—where the truth isn’t what it seems.

A POLYGON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

The islands of Prospera lie in a... Read more

In the Garden of Beasts

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review
  
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
 
The time is... Read more

Lapvona

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by: Ottessa Moshfegh

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!

“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a... Read more

The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

Narrated by: Sarah Skaer

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sarah Skaer uses her considerable vocal skill to make each crewmember instantly recognizable. Asuka is strongly characterized by her insecurity and self-doubt, though listeners will likely have more faith in her.”- Library Journal

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with... Read more

Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

Narrated by: Gregory D. Barnett, Sam Slade, Kimberly Bonny, ...

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the macabre mind of a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, this heart-pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined.

Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly... Read more

Watership Down

By: Richard Adams

Narrated by: Peter Capaldi

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most beloved novels of our time, Watership Down is an epic journey, a stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival.Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits.As the... Read more

Savor It

By: Tarah DeWitt

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker & Zachary Webber

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"An absolutely delightful treat to savor! Relatable, sexy, and beautiful." —Elena Armas, New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception

Summer won't last forever.

Sage Byrd has lived in the coastal town of Spunes, Oregon (not to be confused with Forks, Washington) her entire life. She's learned to love her small world, with... Read more

That's Not My Name

By: Megan Lally

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & Robb Moreira

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

It was a mistake to trust him.

Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there—or who she is. The police don’t know where she came from until a frantic man arrives at the station. He’s been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos.

He is... Read more

Born to Run

By: Christopher McDougall

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?

“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside... Read more

Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

Narrated by: Abigail Thorn

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.

“A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!”—Tamsyn Muir

MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the... Read more

The White Guy Dies First

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, ...

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, André Santana, Angel Pe...

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration as well as an author's note and acknowledgements read by the author.

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL.

The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories by all-star contributors and this time, the white guy dies first.

Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze,... Read more

Every Heart a Doorway

By: Seanan McGuire

Narrated by: Cynthia Hopkins

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Series, Alex Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award
Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and Tiptree Honor List

"A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy — a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics" —NPR

New York Times bestselling... Read more

A Short Walk Through a Wide World

By: Douglas Westerbeke

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Imagine The Life of Pi, The Alchemist, and The Midnight Library rolled into one fantastical fable.” —The New York Times Book Review * “An epic adventure…rich with all the possibilities the world can hold.” —People

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe... 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

The Deluge

By: Stephen Markley

Narrated by: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Gibson Frazier, St...

Length: 40 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book
“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen King

From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.

In the first decades of the 21st... Read more

The Universe in Verse

By: Maria Popova

Narrated by: Maria Popova & Lili Taylor

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry.

Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging... Read more

The Modern Fairies

By: Clare Pollard

Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren Groff’s Matrix meets Ophelia Field’s The Favourite in this wry, sexy, and sharp historical novel—inspired by true events—featuring an elite group of Paris intellectuals who perform fairy tales that will change the course of literature—and put both the storytellers and their closely kept secrets in grave danger.

Why don’t they tell you it... Read more