LGBTQIA+ Authors
Listen to audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors.
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
By: KJ Charles
Narrated by: Martyn Swain
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels?until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the... Read more
View audiobookDon't Want You Like a Best Friend
By: Emma R. Alban
Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells & Morag Sims
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed!Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea.It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth... Read more
View audiobook10 Things That Never Happened
By: Alexis Hall
Narrated by: Will Watt
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Sam Becker loves—or, okay, likes—his job. Sure, managing a bed-and-bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work, and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have... Read more
View audiobookThe Free People's Village
By: Sim Kern
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change rather than a War on Terror. Green infrastructure projects have transformed U.S. cities into lush paradises (for wealthy, white neighborhoods, at least), and the Bureau of Carbon Regulation levies carbon taxes on every financial transaction.
Maddie... Read more
In the Dream House
By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened... Read more
View audiobookButter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
Narrated by: Amaka Umeh
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
2021 CANADA READS FINALIST Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and... Read more
View audiobookWe Could Be So Good
By: Cat Sebastian
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick • Apple Books’ Best Books of the Month • Amazon Best Books of the Month Editor’s Pick, Romance • An NPR “Books We Love” • Library Journal Romance Pick of the Month • LibraryReads Hall of Fame: June 2023 • Publishers Weekly Best Romances of 2023Casey... Read more
View audiobookA Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
Narrated by: Ellie Gossage
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize—distracting herself by hooking up with lesbian couples, doting on her grandmother, and flirting with a young administrative assistant—Helen finally meets her... Read more
View audiobookIn the Lives of Puppets
By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Daniel Henning demonstrates perfect comedic timing and impressive vocal versatility in this queer/sci-fi retelling of 'Pinocchio.' This laugh-out-loud, emotional audiobook asks listeners to question what it means to be human." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)
"Narrator Daniel Henning does a phenomenal job capturing Gio’s... Read more
A Letter to the Luminous Deep
By: Sylvie Cathrall
Narrated by: Claire Morgan, Kit Griffiths, Justin Avoth & Jo...
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light, Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries and The House in the Cerulean Sea.
“An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance,... Read more
Count Your Lucky Stars
By: Alexandria Bellefleur
Narrated by: Lauren Sweet
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
""Bellefleur has a droll, distinct voice, and her one-liners zing off the page, striking both the heart and funny bone... There's a sparkling quality here, one that mirrors the starry title. Bellefleur writes as if she's captured fairy lights in a mason jar, twinkly and lovely within something solid yet fragile."" – Entertainment... Read more
View audiobookQueer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli
Narrated by: Danielle Verayo
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the... Read more
View audiobookUnder the Whispering Door
By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Kirt Graves
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Kirt Groves provides an excellently distinct cast of voices."- Locus
A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and... Read more
How Far the Light Reaches
By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation... Read more
View audiobookD'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
By: Chencia C. Higgins
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant I Do could be Kris Zavala’s big break. She’s right on the cusp of really making it as an influencer, so a stint on reality TV is the perfect chance to elevate her brand. And $100,000 wouldn’t hurt either. D’Vaughn Miller is just trying to break out of her shell. She’s sort of neglected to come out to her mom for years, so a big splashy... Read more
View audiobookHijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H
Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR).
“A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust... Read more
Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A... Read more
View audiobookI Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance stateIn a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third,... Read more
View audiobookRed, White & Royal Blue
By: Casey McQuiston
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
* GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 *
One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019; an Instant New York Times bestseller; a *Must-Read Book* for Us Weekly, Vogue, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Oprahmag.com, and more!
"Narrator Ramón de Ocampo brings out all the emotion in this tender, serious,... Read more
Boyfriend Material
By: Alexis Hall
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Luc O'Donnell is tangentially―and reluctantly―famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has... Read more
View audiobookPageboy
By: Elliot Page
Narrated by: Elliot Page
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn’t simply a book on what it means to be trans, it’s about what it means to be human." —Alok Vaid-Menon
"Actor Elliot Page, who starred in the movie JUNO, gives an emotional, intimate performance of his gorgeous memoir... He... Read more
This Is Why They Hate Us
By: Aaron H. Aceves
Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Nevermind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Nevermind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to... Read more
View audiobookThe Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
Narrated by: Chris McPherson
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRE THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022 When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of... Read more
View audiobookWho's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
Narrated by: Judith Butler
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Time, Elle, Kirkus, Literary Hub, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them.
"A profoundly urgent intervention.” —Naomi Klein
"A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in re-imagining collective futurity.” —Claudia Rankine
From a global icon, a bold, essential... Read more
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