LGBTQIA+ Authors
Listen to audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors.
Find Me
By: André Aciman
Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Michael Stuhlbarg's] elegant performance and Aciman's sensitive writing keep things touching without ever being sentimental. Wonderful listening." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
This program is read by Michael Stuhlbarg, the actor who played Professor Samuel Perlman in Luca Guadagnino's critically-acclaimed film, Call... Read more
All City
By: Alex DiFrancesco
Narrated by: Eboni Flowers, Eileen Stevens, Jayme Mattler & ...
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
All City is more than a novel, it’s a foreshadowing of a world to come.In a near-future New York City ravaged by climate change and economic inequality, a superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Among those who remain are twenty-four-year-old Makayla, who works in the city’s most ubiquitous... Read more
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By: Jackson Bird
Narrated by: Jackson Bird
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man.
When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection.
Assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered... Read more
Pillow Thoughts II
By: Courtney Peppernell
Narrated by: Courtney Peppernell
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration.
A collection of inspirational and comforting poems for anyone who is mending from a broken heart, read by the author herself. Read more
Love Lives Here
By: Rowan Jette Knox
Narrated by: Rowan Jette Knox
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family--a family who shows what's possible when you "lead with love."
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes... Read more
Amelia Westlake Was Never Here
By: Erin Gough
Narrated by: Candice Moll & Jaye Rosenberg
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can't stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.
Harriet Price is the perfect student: smart, dutiful, over-achieving. Will Everhart is a troublemaker who's never met an injustice she didn't fight. When... Read more
We Have Always Been Here
By: Samra Habib
Narrated by: Parmida Vand
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME
How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?
Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to... Read more
In at the Deep End
By: Kate Davies
Narrated by: Nicola Barber
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A fresh, funny, audacious debut novel about a Bridget Jones-like twenty-something who discovers that she may have simply been looking for love - and, ahem, pleasure - in all the wrong places (aka: from men) Julia hasn't had sex in three years. Her roommate has a boyfriend-and their sex noises are audible through the walls, maybe even throughout... Read more
View audiobookTrans Mission
By: Alex Bertie
Narrated by: Alex Bertie
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A brave firsthand account of online personality Alex Bertie's life, struggles, and victories as a transgender teen, as well as a groundbreaking guide for transitioning teens.
Long before he became known for his YouTube videos, Alex Bertie was an isolated, often-afraid transgender teenager looking for answers. In this revolutionary memoir and... Read more
Real Queer America
By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Samantha Allen
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's... Read more
Edinburgh
By: Alexander Chee
Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac & Josh Hurley
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys’ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to... Read more
View audiobookBroken Ground
By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet. Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville's inheritance,... Read more
View audiobookIke’s Mystery Man
By: Peter Shinkle
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 16 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This exhilarating Cold War narrative takes listeners from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man’s intimate diary. Ike’s Mystery Man brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House. It also shines a bright light on the indispensable... Read more
View audiobookThe Home For Wayward Parrots
By: Darusha Wehm
Narrated by: Darusha Wehm
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Accustomed to being an only child, adoptee Brian “Gumbo” Guillemot’s teenage hobby was searching for his birth parents. After years without a lead, when he finally finds his birth mother, Kim, he’s unprepared for the boisterous instant family that comes with her.
No one, besides Kim, knows anything about Gumbo's birth father. With Kim refusing to... Read more
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
By: Ben Barres
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in December 2017, Barres (born Barbara Barres in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments—from his childhood as a precocious math... Read more
View audiobookAmateur
By: Thomas Page McBee
Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee
Length: 3 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
*Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award
*Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize
One of The Times UK’s Best Memoirs of 2018, BuzzFeed’s Best Nonfiction of 2018, Autostraddle’s Best LGBT Books of 2018, and 52 Insight’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018
A “no-holds-barred examination... Read more
Gender Outlaw
By: Kate Bornstein
Narrated by: Kate Bornstein
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"I know I'm not a man . . . and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either . . . The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers listeners on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level,... Read more
View audiobookConfessions of the Fox
By: Jordy Rosenberg
Narrated by: Aden Hakimi
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's true story—his confessions have never been found. That is, until Dr. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled Confessions of the Fox.
Dated 1724,... Read more
We Were Witches
By: Ariel Gore
Narrated by: Ariel Gore
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she’s there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag’s pyramid to analyze life.So Ariel turns to a rich... Read more
View audiobookThe Trauma Cleaner
By: Sarah Krasnostein
Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less.A woman who sleeps among... Read more
View audiobookThe Old Deep and Dark
By: Ellen Hart
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In award-winning author Ellen Hart's next riveting Jane Lawless mystery, Jane and Cordelia discover a body buried in the wall of a historic theater Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the... Read more
View audiobookInvisible
By: Michele Lent Hirsch
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Featured in The Advocate, New York Times, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and New York magazine's The Cut
This is a vital exploration of the ways society overlooks—and fails—young women with disabilities and chronic illnesses
Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer. She did.
Sophie navigates being the only black scientist in her lab... Read more
Starving in Search of Me
By: Marissa LaRocca
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The true confessions of an eating disorders survivorThis confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca’s revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets, including sexuality, and... Read more
View audiobookQueers Destroy Science Fiction!
By: Seanan McGuire
Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Ca...
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
Lightspeed was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction and that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people, and queer people, no matter how they identify, are a big part of that. They always have been. They’re just sometimes harder to see. So, in the interests of visibility, Queers... Read more
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