Underground Books

Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

Narrated by: Delanie Nicole Gill

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Simply put—and I do not say this lightly—Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.”—Neil McRobert, Esquire (Best Horror Books of 2024, So Far)

A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,”... Read more

The Rom-Commers

By: Katherine Center

Narrated by: Katherine Center & Patti Murin

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a bonus scene and an author's note—both audio-exclusives—and acknowledgments read by the author.

“[Patti] Murin's portrayal of Emma is captivating--a blend of sass, humor, and empathy with impeccable timing and nuances.”—AudioFile

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?

Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be... Read more

The Waters

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

Narrated by: Lili Taylor

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town.

On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan—herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations.... Read more

The Fifth Season

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)

This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.

It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent,... Read more

A Gentleman in Moscow

By: Amor Towles

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 17 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who... Read more

Banyan Moon

By: Thao Thai

Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Catherine Ho & Elyse Dinh

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick""A riveting mother-daughter tale."" — Elle""Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington PostA sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American... Read more

The Maid

By: Nita Prose

Narrated by: Lauren Ambrose

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • “A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center” (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine who will steal your heart.
 
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • “The reader comes to understand Molly’s worldview, and to sympathize with her longing... Read more

Where the Crawdads Sing

By: Delia Owens

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
More than 18 million copies sold worldwide
A Reese’s Book Club Pick
A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade 

“I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon

“Painfully beautiful.”—The New York Times Book Review

For years,... Read more

The Lincoln Highway

By: Amor Towles

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland & Dion Graham

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

More than ONE MILLION copies sold

A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

A New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Readers’ Choice Best Book of the Century, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year

“Wise and wildly entertaining . . .... Read more

Men Have Called Her Crazy

By: Anna Marie Tendler

Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

“This book is so many things I didn’t know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny’s insipid, predictable, infuriating reign.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other Parties and the Lambda Literary Award winner In... Read more

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

Narrated by: Ginnifer Goodwin & Kevin Wilson

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives foreverSixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a... Read more

Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star... Read more

Entangled Life

By: Merlin Sheldrake

Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.

“Grand and dizzying in... Read more

Fairy Tale

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Seth Numrich & Stephen King

Length: 24 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator

Master storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 New York Times bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or... Read more

Sapiens

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st CenturyNew York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history... Read more

Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & J. Smith-Cameron

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

“A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner.” —The New York Times

“Superb ... This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all,... Read more

Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Nicky Endres, Linda Jones, Elizabeth Knowelden,...

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love in this epic and seductive gothic fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.

“Fiercely empowering and gloriously vengeful.”—Heather Walter, award-winning author of Malice

Her name was written in the pages of someone else’s... Read more

Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING AMY ADAMS • In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. • "A must-read for anyone who can’t get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies." —Vulture

One... Read more

A Walk in the Park

By: Kevin Fedarko

Narrated by: Kevin Fedarko

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.

A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of... Read more

The Overstory

By: Richard Powers

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 22 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by one of our most "prodigiously talented" novelists (New York Times Book Review). The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force... Read more

Immortal Dark

By: Tigest Girma

Narrated by: Jordan Cobb

Length: 17 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Entirely irresistible. Immortal Dark takes the best parts of vampire lore and brings the undying, violent enmity to full throttle. Tigest Girma pushes morally gray fantasy exactly where it needs to go, and you won’t be able to look away." ―Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights

Preorder now and receive the... Read more

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NEBULA AND LODESTAR AWARDS • FINALIST FOR THE ASTOUNDING, LOCUS, AND BRITISH FANTASY NEWCOMER AWARDS • “My favorite book of the year . . . a coming-of-age story that is cozy and hair-raising in equal measure.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

“I tore through it, caught up in an enthusiasm for dragons... Read more

Godkiller

By: Hannah Kaner

Narrated by: Kit Griffiths

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!“An epic fantasy odyssey begins.” — Entertainment Weekly""A richly rendered world . . . Kaner writes action that's both fun and intelligible . . . If ""The Last of Us"" didn't slake your thirst for stories of a grizzled fighter taking a tough kid on the road, then Godkiller should be... Read more

Daydream

By: Hannah Grace

Narrated by: CJ Bloom & Emmanuel Ingram

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestseller!

The third in the New York Times bestselling Maple Hills series follows fan-favorite Henry and a bookish fellow student who come up with a plan to help them both overcome their respective challenges in a difficult year.

When his procrastination lands him in a difficult class with his least favorite professor, Henry... Read more