Underground Books

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

If We're Being Honest

By: Cat Shook

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Kathleen McInerney's range is perfect in this touching comedic drama."- AudioFile

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s debut novel If We’re Being Honest is the snappy, smart, heartwarming story of the Williams family, and the sweltering summer that rewrote their history.

When... Read more

Stag Dance

By: Torrey Peters

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this collection of one novel and three novellas, the bestselling author of Detransition, Baby pushes trans-genre to its limits to explore who gets included—and excluded—from the possibilities of gender.

In Stag Dance, this collection’s titular novel, a Paul Bunyan-type lumberjack working an illegal winter logging outfit recounts how the lonely... Read more

What the Chicken Knows

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, “one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world” (The New York Times).

For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery—whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist—has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. Each... Read more

The Teller of Small Fortunes

By: Julie Leong

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for readers of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna.

Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will... Read more

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

By: Ross Gay

Narrated by: Ross Gay

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category
Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that... Read more

Millie Fleur's Poison Garden

By: Christy Mandin

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knoweldon

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story about finding joy in being wonderfully weird.Garden Glen is a very bland place. Every house and every garden looks exactly like the other. That is... until Millie Fleur La Fae comes to town.Up on a scruffy hill, beside a ramschackle house, Millie Fleur plants her... Read more

Don't Eat the Pie

By: Monique Asher

Narrated by: Cady Zuckerman & Stephanie Willing

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In DON'T EAT THE PIE, readers are transported to the hauntingly picturesque Camillia Island, where gothic horror meets family drama, unraveling the sinister secrets behind a mother and daughter's summer that promises to be as unsettling as it is compelling for fans of Shirley Jackson and Daphne du Maurier. Newlywed Sam has always wanted to be a... Read more

Tiny Threads

By: Lilliam Rivera

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sinister, slow-burn novel of supernatural suspense, a young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer—and discovers the dark side of high-stakes fashion.
 
“A shimmering supernatural thriller that interrogates the world of fashion through a sharp, critical eye . . . I couldn’t put it down.”—Sarah Rose Etter, author of RIPE and... Read more

Giovanni's Room

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Matt Bomer & Kevin Young

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction.

Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed... Read more

Sacrificial Animals

By: Kailee Pedersen

Narrated by: Yung-I Chang

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology.

The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska... Read more

The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

Narrated by: Claire Kinson

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter’s... Read more

Medusa

By: Nataly Gruender

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look into the life of a legendary mythical villain who has so often been stripped of her voice and humanity in this debut novel, perfect for fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe and the works of Jennifer Saint.

You know how Medusa’s story ends, but you’ve never heard her tell her own story… until now.
 
The only mortal daughter of two sea... Read more

The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and unravels a dark secret that the women have been keeping for generations.Marshall is still trying to put the pieces together after the death of her husband. After she is involved in a terrible accident, her editor sends her to the small, backwards... Read more

Elizabeth of East Hampton

By: Audrey Bellezza & Emily Harding

Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton & Brittany Pressley

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This fresh and whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice—from the authors of the “great beach read” (Bookreporter) Emma of 83rd Street—transports you to summer in the Hamptons, where classes clash, rumors run wild, and love has a frustrating habit of popping up where you least expect it.

It’s a truth universally... Read more

The Astrology House

By: Carinn Jade

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Gilli Messe...

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A group of wealthy Manhattanites escape to an astrology-themed retreat, where simmering resentments and long-held secrets lead to a shocking death in this fresh, twisty, and suspenseful debut in the vein of Liane Moriarty and Katy Hays.

Margot needs a minute. She’s been working eighty-hour weeks as a newly minted partner at her law firm. She’s... Read more

Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when what was once considered dystopia is now reality?

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women shape themselves beneath the gaze of love, friendship, and the algorithm—“a fever dream for the AI age” (People).

“This book reads like a thriller, but it's also a tender and searching exploration of what it means to inhabit a... 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

Named a Best Romance of the Year by The New York Times and Parade

A delightfully queer Victorian love story, featuring a boldly brash trans hero, the beguiling botanist who captures his heart, and a buoyant bicycle race by the British seaside — from the author of The Duke... Read more

The Witches of Bellinas

By: J. Nicole Jones

Narrated by: Piper Goodeve

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her marriage, only to be swept up in a hedonistic cult that isn’t what it seems

Tansy and her husband, Guy, are the newest arrivals in Bellinas, a lush oasis tucked into the coast of northern California where a reclusive, creative community is beginning... Read more

That Night in the Library

By: Eva Jurczyk

Narrated by: Hannah Cabell

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE NIGHT LOCKED IN THE LIBRARY.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

On the night before graduation, seven students gather in the basement of their university’s rare books library. They’re not allowed in the library after closing time, but it’s the perfect place for the ritual they want to perform—one borrowed from the Greeks, said to free
those who take part in... Read more

Lady of Steel and Straw

By: Erica Ivy Rodgers

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Star-crossed lovers grapple with forbidden attraction and a growing army of ghostly dead in this swashbuckling YA fantasy debut.

After ten years of exile, following regicide in the House of Tristain, an alarming royal edict is delivered to the immortal scarecrow Guardians who once defended the crown: surrender themselves to the church of the... Read more

Bad Men

By: Julie Mae Cohen

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the most irresistible serial killer of the year in this twisty feminist thriller that’s as wickedly fun as it is lethal.

Saffy Huntley-Oliver is an intelligent and glamorous socialite; she also happens to be a proficient serial killer. For the past fifteen years, she’s hunted down and dispatched rapists, murderers, domestic abusers—bad men... Read more

The Skunks

By: Fiona Warnick

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Skunks, I wrote. Then I got stuck. What was there to say about the skunks? Of course there was the smell—the spraying. Everyone’s mind jumped to the spraying. I often forgot about the spraying entirely, which was nice because it made me feel that I wasn’t like other people. From the outside, Isabel doesn’t seem to have much going on. It’s... 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