LGBTQIA+ Authors
Listen to audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors.
The Holiday Trap
By: Roan Parrish
Narrated by: Natalie Duke, Pete Cross & Hillary Huber
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, but they can't seem to understand what it's like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. When an act of familial meddling goes way too far, she realizes just how desperately she needs space to figure out who she is. Truman Belvedere's heart is crushed when he learns that... Read more
View audiobookThe Mars House
By: Natasha Pulley
Narrated by: Daniel de Bourg
Length: 18 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.
As Recommended By: Amazon * LitHub * Gizmodo * New Scientist * LGBTQ Reads * Reactor Magazine * KOBO Canada * BookRiot
In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become... Read more
Mutual Aid
By: Dean Spade
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or... Read more
View audiobookMissing from the Village
By: Justin Ling
Narrated by: Justin Ling
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards
In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay... Read more
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea
By: Rebecca Thorne
Narrated by: Jessica Threet
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen’s private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after…if only the world would let them.
All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table,... Read more
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick
“A love story like no other, and this one…will have you gripped from page one.” —Vogue
“An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality.” —The New York Times Book Review
A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland)... Read more
Old Enough
By: Haley Jakobson
Narrated by: Jenna Kray & Haley Jakobson
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction
“Old Enough is full of growth, heartbreak, and winsome bisexual chaos.”—Vogue
A debut novel “as astute, funny, and loving as your best friend from college”* about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she’s outgrown
*Isle... Read more
On the Same Page
By: Haley Cass
Narrated by: Lori Prince
Length: 16 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Riley Beckett met Gianna Mäkinen—drop-dead gorgeous influencer, trilingual, daughter of world-famous models, yes, that Gianna Mäkinen—their first year at Boston University, and it changed everything for the both of them. After all, when you find the person who just gets you, nothing feels quite "the same" right?
And in the ten years since,... Read more
A Lady for a Duke
By: Alexis Hall
Narrated by: Kay Eluvian
Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Husband Material comes a lush, sweeping queer historical romance where sparks fly between childhood friends after a life-changing separation—perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Evie Dunmore, and Lisa Kleypas!
When Viola Carroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But... Read more
The Honey Witch
By: Sydney J. Shields
Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet debut novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.
Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow... 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 audiobookThe Archive Undying
By: Emma Mieko Candon
Narrated by: Yung-I Chang
Length: 16 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction.
WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT
WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND
WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK
When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed... Read more
Cafe Con Lychee
By: Emery Lee
Narrated by: Avi Roque & Kurt Kanazawa
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Meet Cute Diary comes a delectable rom-com that’s brimming with zest and a sprinkle of sweetness. A must-read for fans of Casey McQuiston and Julian Winters.Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses—an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery—and Gabi’s lack of coordination... Read more
View audiobookHow We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
Narrated by: Saeed Jones
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The... Read more
Iris Kelly Doesn't Date
By: Ashley Herring Blake
Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A fake relationship after a horrible one-night stand is anything but an act in this witty and heartfelt new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake.
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she’s happy for... Read more
The Witch King
By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Dani Martineck
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2021
To save a fae kingdom, a trans witch must face his traumatic past and the royal fiancé he left behind.
In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don’t. Wyatt’s betrothal to fae prince Emyr North was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic one devastating night, he... Read more
Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
Narrated by: Amy Landon, Avi Roque, Grace Rolek, Kirt Graves...
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This program features multicast narration.
From Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed author of Manhunt, comes a vicious new novel about a group of teens who must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell.
"A soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing."—Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers... Read more
Endpapers
By: Jennifer Savran Kelly
Narrated by: Dani Martineck
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block—until she discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author.
It’s 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder... Read more
Spear
By: Nicola Griffith
Narrated by: Nicola Griffith
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author and includes a bonus PDF of detailed notes.
A spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring... Read more
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come
By: Jen St. Jude
Narrated by: Georgina Sadler
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
We Are Okay meets They Both Die at the End in this YA debut about queer first love and mental health at the end of the world—and the importance of saving yourself, no matter what tomorrow may hold.
Avery Byrne has secrets. She’s queer; she’s in love with her best friend, Cass; and she’s suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression. But on the... Read more
Dead Girls Walking
By: Sami Ellis
Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Temple Baker knows that evil runs in her blood. Her father is the North Point Killer, an infamous serial killer known for branding his victims. He was the talk of countless true crime blogs for years. Some say he was possessed by a demon. Some say they never found all his victims. Some say that even though he’s now behind bars, people are still... Read more
View audiobookBut Everyone Feels This Way
By: Paige Layle
Narrated by: Paige Layle
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically.
“For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. But knew it couldn’t be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me. This wasn’t okay. This wasn’t normal. This wasn’t functioning. And it... Read more
High-Risk Homosexual
By: Edgar Gomez
Narrated by: Edgar Gomez
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
"I've always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. In particular, effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity . . . In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold... Read more
View audiobookRubyfruit Jungle
By: Rita Mae Brown
Narrated by: Anna Paquin
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Academy Award winner Anna Paquin narrates Rita Mae Brown’s pathbreaking novel Rubyfruit Jungle, available for the first time ever in audio.A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country’s most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work since its original publication almost fifty years... Read more
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