LGBTQIA+ Authors
Listen to audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Greg Wise
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Oscar Wilde’s enduring masterpiece, this fable of innocence and corruption, purity and decay has become a true classic. The beautiful, narcissistic Dorian Gray, torn between the influence of cynical hedonist Lord Henry Wotton and tortured artist Basil Hallward, sells the beauty of his soul in exchange for external perfection. Ultimately, he... Read more
View audiobookStrays
By: Britt Collins
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other. Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon. One rainy night,... Read more
View audiobookHello Forever
By: Sarina Bowen
Narrated by: Dake Bliss & Teddy Hamilton
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
When they were only teenagers, Axel and Caxton were caught making out in the woods at church camp. And afterward, Cax had disappeared from all the youth group activities.Six years later, Axel is astonished to spot his first love’s face in the crowd of a college basketball game he’s watching on television—at a school that has just offered him a... Read more
View audiobookThis Book Is Gay
By: Juno Dawson
Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for you.
There's a long-running joke that, after "coming out," a lesbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership card and... Read more
Surpassing Certainty
By: Janet Mock
Narrated by: Janet Mock
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“A defining chronicle of strength and spirit” (Kirkus Reviews), Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world—without a road map to guide her. This memoir “should be required reading for your 20s” (Cosmopolitan).
A few months before her twentieth birthday, Janet Mock is adjusting to her days... Read more
Leading Lady
By: Stephen Galloway
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of movie executive and philanthropist Sherry Lansing traces her groundbreaking journey to become the first female head of a major motion picture studio, sharing behind-the-scenes tales from movie sets and Hollywood boardrooms.
When Sherry Lansing became the first woman ever to be named president of a major studio, the... Read more
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A palmist’s prediction leads to murder; an enigmatic woman’s lifestyle is a mystery to be solved; a ghost tries to frighten the new tenants of his home; a man has discovered the dedicatee of Shakespeare’s Sonnets; a millionaire wants to be painted as a pauper. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories is a collection of fascinating short... Read more
View audiobookBorn Both
By: Hida Viloria
Narrated by: Hida Viloria
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love.
My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt... Read more
When We Rise
By: Cleve Jones
Narrated by: Cleve Jones
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering... Read more
View audiobookTranny
By: Laura Jane Grace
Narrated by: Laura Jane Grace
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME": The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.
It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic... Read more
Darling Days
By: iO Tillett Wright
Narrated by: iO Tillett Wright
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than... Read more
View audiobookIn the Darkroom
By: Susan Faludi
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age.“In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance... Read more
View audiobookIf I Was Your Girl
By: Meredith Russo
Narrated by: Samia Mounts
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
Meredith Russo's award-winning, big-hearted novel If I Was Your Girl is about being seen for who you really are, with a love story you can't help but root for!
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she’s determined not to get too close to... Read more
All the Birds in the Sky
By: Charlie Jane Anders
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our future Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a... Read more
View audiobookRedefining Realness
By: Janet Mock
Narrated by: Janet Mock
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population. Though undoubtedly an account of one woman’s... Read more
View audiobookTipping the Velvet
By: Sarah Waters
Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
Length: 19 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester... Read more
View audiobookFruit
By: Brian Francis
Narrated by: Brian Francis
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
What do you get when you cross the Virgin Mary with Brooke Shields, add a trash-talking beauty queen wannabe and throw in a couple of talking nipples? One of the most laugh-out-loud books you’ll read all year.Peter Paddington is 13, overweight, the subject of his classmates’ ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week... Read more
View audiobookThe Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Ernest and Edith Evans gives her indomitable performance as Lady Bracknell in this classic radio recording from 1951. Performance styles may have changed, but this is an unmatched production bearing all the hallmarks of outstanding audio drama featuring some of the finest... Read more
View audiobookLady Windermere’s Fan
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Oscar Wilde’s first play confronts the hypocrisy of public ‘morality’ compared with genuine, private kindness. When it opened in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan was an instant success and now, a century later, it continues to be revived frequently. The reasons for its popularity are not difficult to identify the play’s witty dialogue contains many... Read more
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