LGBTQIA+ Authors

The Daddy Diaries

By: Andy Cohen

Narrated by: Andy Cohen

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the third in Cohen’s series of published diaries, and I think they’re just the bee’s knees. In this one, he chronicles a year juggling Housewives, his precocious son, and a newborn daughter. There’s self-reflection, self-effacement, gossip, humor. I mean, there should be a National Book Award special citation for these books."- Vulture... Read more

If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

By: Jen St. Jude

Narrated by: Georgina Sadler

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude, read by Georgina Sadler.

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... Read more

Never Trust a Gemini

By: Freja Nicole Woolf

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s Libra Season, and Cat Phillips is ready to run headfirst into love. The only problem is that her crush is on her best friend, Alison Bridgewater, who is more interested in chatting with boys. Maybe Cat should take this as a sign to get over Alison, even if that means dating the musically challenged Jamie Owusu. After all, a new boyfriend is... Read more

Difference is Born on the Lips: Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society

By: Michael Handrick

Narrated by: George Naylor

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"A provocative, raw, and soulful book... An unflinching and visionary read." - AttitudeRaw and stunningly written, Handrick takes us on a journey through his experiences as a gay working-class man, confronting the toxic narratives and myths that society has built up around masculinity, class, and sexuality.Much more than just a personal story,... Read more

The Humble Lover

By: Edmund White

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Humble Lover by Edmund White, read by Timothy Andrés Pabon.

From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino.

Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to... Read more

The Thick and the Lean

By: Chana Porter

Narrated by: Kamali Minter, Suehyla El-Attar Young & Deepti ...

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter’s “decadent and richly imagined” (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine) novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them.

In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God.

But... Read more

The Fiancee Farce

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

Narrated by: Lauren Sweet

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience...Tansy Adams’ greatest love is her family’s bookstore, passed down from her late father. But when it comes to actual... Read more

Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

By: Richard Mirabella

Narrated by: Eve Passeltiner

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After years of severed communication, Justin appears on his sister’s doorstep needing a place to stay. The home he's made for himself has collapsed, as has everything else in his life. When they were children, Willa played the role of her brother’s protector, but now, afraid of the chaos he might bring, she’s reluctant to let him in. Willa lives... Read more

Trace Evidence

By: Charif Shanahan

Narrated by: Charif Shanahan

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Chicago Book of 2023



"A truly magical achievement." —Ocean Vuong



In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the... Read more

The Opium Queen

By: Gabrielle Paluch

Narrated by: Hayden Bishop

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Olive Yang was a widely mythologized genderqueer lesbian opium-pioneer in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle. After escaping an arranged marriage with a noble cousin, Olive felt that she had no choice but to lead a life of banditry with an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA. As her smuggling empire grew, she became so powerful... Read more

Die Zukunft ist nicht binär (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Lydia Meyer

Narrated by: Lydia Meyer

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Es gibt nur zwei Geschlechter? Von wegen! Menschen sind mehr als entweder oder. Dennoch sind unsere Sprache, unsere Medien, unser Alltag von der Annahme geprägt, es gebe nur zwei Geschlechter, die einander binär gegenüberstehen. Werbung, Spielzeug, Kleidung und Geschichten, Er- und Beziehungsmodelle, sogar Algorithmen und die Wissenschaften -... Read more

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

By: torrin a. greathouse

Narrated by: torrin a. greathouse

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in PoetryA CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a... Read more

Makeover from Within

By: Ty Hunter

Narrated by: Ty Hunter

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and uniquely inspiring book of self-reflection and motivational musings from Ty Hunter, stylist to the stars.



In this nuanced mix of memoir, motivational musings, and wisdom, legendary celebrity stylist Ty Hunter recounts both the trying times and brightest moments of his life. Faced with physical, mental, and emotional obstacles that... Read more

Dear Mothman

By: Robin Gow

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"A ­triumphant coming-of-age story about gender identity, strength, and friendship,as well as the different ways that people ­discover who they are."—School Library Journal, starred review
A moving middle-grade novel in verse, about a young trans boy dealing with the loss of his friend by writing to his favorite cryptid, Mothman
Halfway through... Read more

Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be-in-kind with a nonhuman animal? Or, in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject’s perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience... Read more

Reaching Ninety

By: Martin Duberman

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community’s maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he’s learned.In the early sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the Abolitionists against the then-standard view of them as “misguided fanatics.” In 1964, his... Read more

Tweakerworld

By: Jason Yamas

Narrated by: Jason Yamas

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francisco’s top drug dealers.After Jason’s world falls apart in LA, he moves to Berkeley for a fresh start with his kid brother. Just one problem: his long-closeted Adderall addiction has exploded into an out-of-control crystal meth binge. Within weeks,... Read more

Starlight in Our Dreams - Zodiac Love, Band 1 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Andreas Dutter

Narrated by: Julian Horeyseck & Louis Friedemann Thiele

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Liebe steht in den Sternen ... In dem queeren New-Adult-Roman Zodiac Love: Starlight in Our Dreams schließen der von Astrologie begeisterte Felix und Medizin-Student Owen, der den Sternen skeptisch gegenübersteht, eine Sternzeichen-Wette ab, die ihrer beider Leben für immer verändert. Der wunderschöne Auftakt der Zodiac-Love-Reihe von... Read more

The Prince of los Cocuyos

By: Richard Blanco

Narrated by: Adi Cabral

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and gay Presidential Inaugural Poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities.



Richard Blanco's childhood and adolescence were experienced... Read more

Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?

By: Craig Seligman

Narrated by: Mela Lee

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Doris Fish

In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared... Read more

If I Can Give You That

By: Michael Gray Bulla

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Kacen Callender and Mason Deaver comes a heart-tugging coming-of-age YA debut that takes a poignant look at gender identity, sexuality, friendship, and family—both the one we’re born into and the one we find for ourselves.Seventeen-year-old Gael is used to keeping to himself. Though his best friend convinces him to attend a meeting... Read more

The Umpire Is Out

By: Dale Scott & Rob Neyer

Narrated by: Dale Scott

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Dale Scott's career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting with dozens of other... Read more

This Is Supposed to Be Fun

By: Myisha Battle

Narrated by: Myisha Battle

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A certified clinical sexologist’s radically inclusive guide to sex and dating 

Swipe. Match. Get ghosted. Repeat. Modern dating can quickly start to feel like an overwhelming slog. It’s easy to forget the point of it all: this is supposed to be fun. Enter professional sex and dating coach Myisha Battle. Drawing on an engaging and diverse... Read more

Fieldwork

By: Iliana Regan

Narrated by: Iliana Regan

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north.Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn,... Read more