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.
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.
Try a search ⇢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.
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.
View the Catalog ⇢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.
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.
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.
Original short stories from T.H. Hammer and the writers we publish, posted whole, free, with nothing between you and the page.
Read the Fiction ⇢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.
Support the Press ⇢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.