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An indie press & a search engine

What is Double Dutch Publishing?

Double Dutch Publishing is an indie press and book discovery platform. Our Underread search engine helps you find your next favorite book, based on the authors and genres you already love.

No pay-for-placement. Ever.
Every book here earned its spot.

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The search engine

Ask The Underread what to read next.

Name a book you loved, or describe the book you wish existed. The Underread pulls titles that match, and shows you why each one surfaced. Hundreds of books. Zero bestsellers. Every one hand-picked, not algorithm-scraped.

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01 The Employees Olga Ravn · 2018
02 Nettle & Bone T. Kingfisher · 2022
03 A Living Remedy Nicole Chung · 2023
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Want more? Go deeper with Underread+.

Free search finds your next book. Underread+ remembers all of them. Save your search history, get monthly picks curated just for you, and unlock unlimited searches for $13.99/month.

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We publish books too

Our own list, plus the books we'd hand you.

Double Dutch is a working press: we acquire, edit and print our own titles. The catalog holds those books alongside every title we recommend, organized by theme, not genre.

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Published by us
The Double Dutch imprint
Novels and collections we edited ourselves, printed short-run and sold direct.
Recommended
Other presses' best
Titles from independent houses we'd put in your hands without hesitating.
How it's sorted
By theme, not genre
Shelved by what a book is about and how it reads, so nothing hides.
The manual

An instruction manual for this website.

There is a lot buried in this site, and none of it announces itself. The Site Guide explains every page we run and every tool on it: what each one does, how to work it, and which ones are free.

Print it, keep it beside the laptop, or read it once and never think about it again. No email required.

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For writers
Writers Tools
Word-count trackers, submission logs, query templates and manuscript checklists.
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For readers
Readers Tools
Reading logs, TBR sheets, book-club questions and shelf trackers you can print.
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For serious manuscripts
From first draft to finished book.

Most of what we build is free. This isn't. Ideation-to-publication is our full-service track: editing, coaching, and every step between a rough idea and a finished, published book, with us alongside you the whole way.

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Reviews, essays and articles on the books nobody's talking about.

Every month: reviews of overlooked novels and memoirs, essays on independent publishing, and twelve books the algorithms forgot.

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Also free to read
Our fiction, in full, no paywall.

Original short stories from T.H. Hammer and the writers we publish, posted whole, free, with nothing between you and the page.

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Reader-funded

No ads, no placements, no investors.

The search engine, the tools, the fiction and the Readers Room stay free because readers pay for them. If any of it has been useful, keep it going.

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Why we exist

The same forty books circulate endlessly while thousands of extraordinary ones sit one shelf over, unread. Double Dutch is a compass pointed at that other shelf, a room for the books worth finding.

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