LGBTQIA+ Authors

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

Narrated by: Bailey Carr

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance stateIn a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third,... Read more

Brighter Than the Moon

By: David Valdes

Narrated by: Anthony Cloyd

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Brighter Than the Moon by David Valdes, read by Anthony Cloyd.

Shy foster kid Jonas and self-assured vlogger Shani met online, and so far, that's where their relationship has stayed, sharing memes and baring their souls from behind their screens. Shani is eager to finally meet up, but Jonas isn't so sure—he's not confident... Read more

Heretic

By: Jeanna Kadlec

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.  Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive,... Read more

Prayers for Bobby

By: Leroy Aarons

Narrated by: Wentworth Miller

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONBobby Griffith was an all-American boy … and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict—for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was “wrong”—Bobby chose to take his own life.Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to... Read more

The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

Narrated by: Chris McPherson

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRE THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022 When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of... Read more

Nikhil Out Loud

By: Maulik Pancholy

Narrated by: Maulik Pancholy

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Middle GradeFrom the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor–winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. For fans of Merci Suárez Changes Gears and Better Nate Than Ever.Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah... Read more

The Language of Bodies

By: Suzanne DeWitt Hall

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Maddie Wells’s life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back. Befriending the murderer’s wife is the first stage in Maddie’s plan to make him pay. The... Read more

The Family Outing

By: Jessi Hempel

Narrated by: Jessi Hempel

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fascinating, funny, and wise, The Family Outing is an affirmation to all of us who know the pain and shame of hiding our truest self, and a stirring invitation into the courage, freedom, and joy of living our whole truth.”—Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, founder of Together RisingA striking and remarkable literary... Read more

The Story of the Hundred Promises

By: Neil Cochrane

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast that centers queer and trans charactersTrans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people who love and accept him. Ten years after his exile from home, though, his sister asks him to reconcile with their ailing father. Determined to resolve his feelings rather than just... Read more

A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

Narrated by: Jesse Nobess

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.

An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him:... Read more

I Am Not Raymond Wallace

By: Sam Kenyon

Narrated by: Alex Wingfield

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Two worlds, two timelines and one person's impact. Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that... Read more

I Ran into Some Trouble

By: Peggy Caserta & Maggie Falcon

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Peggy Caserta, founder of the famous Haight-Ashbury hippie boutique Mnasidika and lover and girlfriend of Janis Joplin, was a Louisiana homecoming queen turned airsick stewardess who eventually landed in 1960s San Francisco and set up shop.Her store was a hang-out for the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company; it was where Wes... Read more

Koshersoul

By: Michael W. Twitty

Narrated by: Michael W. Twitty

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food.In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the... Read more

Knocking Myself Up

By: Michelle Tea

Narrated by: Michelle Tea

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured womanWritten in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, Knocking Myself Up is the irreverent account of Tea’s route... Read more

Beating Heart Baby

By: Lio Min

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz & Jensen Silvio

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby is a “dizzying, sexy, and utterly heartfelt” (Mary H. K. Choi) love letter to internet friendships, anime, and indie rock

When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone except for the prickly, proud musical prodigy... Read more

This Wicked Fate

By: Kalynn Bayron

Narrated by: Jordan Cobb

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron, read by Jordan Cobb.

An instant New York Times bestseller!

Would you tempt even the most dangerous fate to save the ones you love?

Briseis has one chance to save her mother, but she’ll need to do the impossible: find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtus Heart. To locate the missing piece,... Read more

The Loophole

By: Naz Kutub

Narrated by: Shawn K Jain

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Loophole by Naz Kutub, read by Shawn K Jain.

A gay Muslim boy travels the world for a second chance at love after a possibly magical heiress grants him three wishes in this YA debut that’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda with a twist of magic.

Sy placed all his bets for happiness on his boyfriend, Farouk . . . who then... Read more

Cinderella ist tot (Ungekürzt)

By: Kalynn Bayron

Narrated by: Josefine Hoffmann

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophia lebt in Cinderellas Königreich, zweihundert Jahre nach jener Ballnacht, in der Cinderella ihren Traumprinzen fand. Doch Cinderellas Geschichte dient inzwischen nur noch dazu, die Frauen zu unterdrücken und sie möglichst schnell bei einem großen Festakt im Schloss unter die Haube zu bringen. Wer sich diesem Ritual verweigert, wird getötet,... Read more

And There He Kept Her

By: Joshua Moehling

Narrated by: Linda Jones

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he's been keeping in his basement for more than two decades, and he'll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his... Read more

The Dawnhounds

By: Sascha Stronach

Narrated by: Anna Coddington

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it.

The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, after a... Read more

Island Time

By: Georgia Clark

Narrated by: Mae Martin, Mirai, Corinne Davies, Cat Gould, D...

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delicious escape.” —People

Love is in the salty sea air in this smart and steamy ensemble romantic comedy set in a tropical paradise, from the author of the “sparkly and entertaining” (Oprah Daily) It Had to Be You. This is one island you won’t want to be rescued from.

The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated,... Read more

We All Fall Down

By: Rose Szabo

Narrated by: Jade Wheeler

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The first audiobook in a dark fantasy YA duology by Rose Szabo, the author of What Big Teeth, about the power and danger of stories and the untold costs of keeping magic alive, perfect for fans of Aiden Thomas and Marie Rutkoski.

In River City, where magic used to thrive and is now fading, the witches who once ruled the city along with their... Read more

Dancer From the Dance

By: Andrew Holleran

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in audio for the first time! Award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award nominee David Pittu narrates one of the most influential books in gay literature.

Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance defined gay life in late 1970s New York. Published in 1978, the novel captures the time post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS where sexual freedom was... Read more

Three

By: Valérie Perrin

Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée

Length: 21 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

1986: Adrien, Etienne, and Nina are ten years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part. 2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past, reports on... Read more