LGBTQIA+ Authors
Listen to audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors.
The Pink Line
By: Mark Gevisser
Narrated by: Mark Gevisser & Vikas Adam
Length: 18 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020
This program includes a foreword and epilogue read by the author
A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today
More than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer... Read more
Smoke & Mirrors
By: E.A. Copen
Narrated by: Matt Cowlrick & Erin DeWard
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Working for Heaven is a living Hell for rogue wizard Josiah Quinn. There are too many rules and not enough easy cash. His first official assignment from the God Squad? Solve a string of brutal murders that he believes are part of an intricate and all-too-familiar summoning ritual involving broken mirrors. His investigation leads him to the... Read more
View audiobookBranded by the Pink Triangle
By: Ken Setterington
Narrated by: Bill Marchant
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution.... Read more
View audiobookLife as a Unicorn
By: Amrou Al-Kadhi
Narrated by: Amrou Al-Kadhi
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020 WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first... Read more
View audiobookShut Up You’re Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
Narrated by: Jemeni
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist, Rogers Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother... Read more
View audiobookConventionally Yours
By: Annabeth Albert
Narrated by: Kirt Graves & Joel Froomkin
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Charming, charismatic, and effortlessly popular, Conrad Stewart seems to have it all...but in reality, he's scrambling to keep his life from tumbling out of control. Brilliant, guarded, and endlessly driven, Alden Roth may as well be the poster boy for perfection...but even he can't help but feel a little broken inside. When these mortal... Read more
View audiobookThe Hideaway Inn
By: Philip William Stover
Narrated by: James Cavenaugh
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“[A] brilliantly written LGBTQ+ take on the classic small-town romance.” —Booklist
High school wasn’t the right time or place for their relationship to grow, but now, fifteen years later, a chance encounter changes both of their lives forever.
No one in the charming river town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, needs to know that Vince Amato plans on... Read more
Stay Gold
By: Tobly McSmith
Narrated by: Theo Germaine & Phoebe Strole
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Debut author Tobly McSmith delivers a coming-of-age teen love story about a transgender boy who’s going stealth at his new Texas high school and a cisgender girl who is drawn to him, even as she’s counting down the days until graduation. Perfect for fans of David Levithan, Becky Albertalli, and Jenny Han.Pony plans to fly under the radar this... Read more
View audiobookA Little Bit Like Desire
By: Brooke Blaine
Narrated by: Wesley Paul & Perry Bishop
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Shaw Jennings, the seductive, enigmatic owner of Body Electric Tattoo works hard and plays even harder. He’s built a life he’s proud of, and although that doesn’t include a significant other, he’s got plenty of sexy men to keep his bed warm at night. None of them have ever made Shaw sit up and take notice for long though. But that all changes... Read more
View audiobookThe Tiger Flu
By: Larissa Lai
Narrated by: Lisa Truong & Grace Lynn Kung
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award Nominated for The Otherwise Award and The Sunburst Award “Blending the surreal and the entirely possible, The Tiger Flu is majestically compelling. A must-read.” – Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai – her first in sixteen years – a community of... Read more
View audiobookHolding Still for as Long as Possible
By: Zoe Whittall
Narrated by: Stephen Ira
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation—the twenty-five-year olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions, unsure of what's public and what's private. Holding Still explores an unusual love... Read more
View audiobookA Little Bit Like Love
By: Brooke Blaine
Narrated by: Wesley Paul & Perry Bishop
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Jackson Davenport, the charismatic, strait-laced heir to the Davenport fortune, has a secret. One he’s been hiding since he graduated from South Haven all-boys academy—and that secret’s name is Lucas. When a work trip takes Jackson back to his old stomping grounds, memories of the year he shared with Lucas come crashing to the surface. With... Read more
View audiobookNature Poem
By: Tommy Pico
Narrated by: Tommy Pico
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.
Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a... Read more
Becoming Eve
By: Abby Stein
Narrated by: Abby Stein
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman
Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning... Read more
The Subtweet
By: Vivek Shraya
Narrated by: nisha ahuja
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“Biting and beautiful.” — Jonny Sun, author of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki’s song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini’s star... Read more
View audiobookMusic from Another World
By: Robin Talley
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler & Emily Lawrence
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A master of award-winning queer historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley brings to life an emotionally captivating story about the lives of two teen girls living in an age when just being yourself was an incredible act of bravery.
It’s summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can’t be herself anywhere. Not at her... Read more
Save Yourself
By: Cameron Esposito
Narrated by: Cameron Esposito
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This "hilarious and honest" bestselling memoir from a rising comedy star tackles issues of gender, sexuality, feminism, and the Catholic childhood that prepared her for a career as an outspoken lesbian comedian (Abby Wambach).
Cameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended up a stand-up comic. Now she would like to tell the whole queer as hell... Read more
My Sister
By: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva
Narrated by: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization.
When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in... Read more
Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
Narrated by: A. Almeida
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy... Read more
View audiobookChorus of Mushrooms
By: Hiromi Goto
Narrated by: Brenda Kamino & Stephany Seki
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region) Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award Hiromi Goto’s acclaimed debut novel is a feminist examination of the Japanese Canadian immigrant experience. Focusing on the lives of three generations of women in modern day Alberta, Goto uses their... Read more
View audiobookWork For It
By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Shane East & Chance Thoreau
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In this village, I’m an outcast: Griffin Everett, the scowling giant who prefers plants to people. Then I meet Keynes, a stranger from the city who’s everything I’m not: sharp-tongued, sophisticated, beautiful. Free. For a few precious moments in a dark alleyway, he’s also mine, hot and sweet under the stars...until he crushes me like dirt... Read more
View audiobookBecoming a Man
By: P. Carl
Narrated by: P. Carl
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A “scrupulously honest” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut memoir that explores one man’s gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America.
Becoming a Man is a “moving narrative [that] illuminates the joy, courage, necessity, and risk-taking of gender transition” (Kirkus Reviews). For fifty years P. Carl lived as a girl and then as a queer... Read more
She of the Mountains
By: Vivek Shraya
Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail) Lambda Literary Award finalist In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We are the period to a sentence, the effect to a cause, always belonging to someone. We... Read more
View audiobookWhat We Will Become
By: Mimi Lemay
Narrated by: Mimi Lemay
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A mother’s memoir of her transgender child’s odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her.
From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born “Em,” adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand and come to terms with the fact that her child may be transgender, she... Read more
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