Books set underground - not too sci-fi!

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Hi,
Can you recommend any books with an underground setting? Preferably not high fantasy / dense sci-fi.
I'm reading about coal mines and wondered if anyone has ever written a book where the underground mine is the setting for the story.

I read a YA book called Bearmouth set in mines- a little dystopian, rather than historical from what I remember

It's not fiction but I can recommend Victoria's children of the dark if you're looking for history about coal mines. Doesn't sound like there would be much to write a story about to be honest. Very isolating, hard, harsh work.

City of ember? It’s YA but we’ll written

Under World by Reginald Hill. It's book number 10 in the Dalziel and Pascoe detective series summarised as:

Years ago, young Tracey Pedley disappeared in the woods around Burrthorpe. The close-knit mining village had its own ideas about what happened, but the police pinned it on a known child-killer who subsequently committed suicide.
Now Burrthorpe comes to police attention again. A man’s body is discovered down a mine shaft and it’s clear he has been murdered. Dalziel and Pascoe’s investigation takes them to the heart of a frightened and hostile community. But could the key to the present-day investigation lie in the past when little Tracey vanished into thin air…?

There is a fair amount of action in the actual mines but is very focused on the mining community. (Also written quite some time ago so no mobile phones, internet etc.)

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

These are great suggestions, thank you.
Keep 'em coming!

The Wool trilogy is dystopian but very low level sci fi (I don't like sci fi and loved it). Set in underground silo.

Seconding Bearmouth and City of Ember.

Yes, I have the Wool trilogy but just found used copies of the others to order. Have read Never where but is slightly too weird.
I liked the Netflix German series DARK - was that a book?

Birdsong by Sebastian Falkes has an absolutely stunning section set in the battlefield tunnels of WWI where sappers laid mines.

It’s not fiction, but I really recommend Underland by Robert McFarlane

Thanks, I really enjoyed the MacFarlane Underland book - it's what sparked my interest.

Mercia's Take by Daniel Wiles is about a miner in the 1870s and some of the story takes place underground.

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Thud by Terry Pratchett

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner

None are set exclusively underground but all have extensive/pivotal portions of the book taking place underground, in mines or tunnels or caves.

I quite liked The Host. Author also wrote the Twilight books

Was going to say The Wombles when I saw your title, but doesn’t fit the rest of your op!

But let's NEVER say a bad word against the Wombles @Riverlee .

Germinal by Emile Zola

Metro 2033, 34 and 35 set in Russia.