LGBTQIA+ Authors

After Francesco

By: Brian Malloy

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author Brian Malloy comes a stunning novel of love, friendship, and surviving the deepest loss, set in New York City and Minneapolis in 1988, at the peak of the AIDS crisis.Two years after his partner, Francesco, died, twenty-eight-year-old Kevin Doyle is dusting off his one good suit jacket for yet another funeral, yet another... Read more

All the Rage

By: Brad Fraser

Narrated by: Brad Fraser

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A Canadian playwright's rise to fame amid the terrors of the AIDS era.

Brad Fraser suffered an impoverished and abusive childhood, living with his teenage parents in motel rooms and shacks on the side of the highway in Alberta and Northern British Columbia. He grew to be one of the most celebrated, and controversial, Canadian playwrights, his... Read more

Yesterday Is History

By: Kosoko Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Weeks ago, Andre Cobb received a much-needed liver transplant. He's ready for his life to finally begin, until one night, when he passes out and wakes up somewhere totally unexpected—in 1969, where he connects with a magnetic boy named Michael. And then, just as suddenly as he arrived, he slips back to present-day Boston, where the family of his... Read more

Meet Cute Diary

By: Emery Lee

Narrated by: Logan Rozos

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen’s first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships. Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem—all... Read more

The Hate Project

By: Kris Ripper

Narrated by: Gomez Pugh

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar is a grouch. That’s a well-established fact among his tight-knit friend group, and they love him anyway. Jack is an ass. Jack, who’s always ready with a sly insult, who can’t have a conversation without arguing, and who Oscar may or may not have hooked up with on a strict no-commitment, one-time-only basis. Even if it was extremely hot.... Read more

By Way of Sorrow

By: Robyn Gigl

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Attorney and activist Robyn Gigl tackles the complexities of gender, race, power and public perception in By Way of Sorrow, a gripping debut legal thriller with a ripped-from-the-headlines plot and a unique protagonist who, like the author herself, is a transgender attorney.Erin McCabe is a criminal defense lawyer doing her best to live a quiet... Read more

She's Too Pretty to Burn

By: Wendy Heard

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Bailey Carr & Stephen Dexter

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The summer is winding down in San Diego. Veronica is bored, caustically charismatic, and uninspired in her photography. Nico is insatiable, subversive, and obsessed with chaotic performance art. They’re artists first, best friends second. But that was before Mick. Delicate, lonely, magnetic Mick: the perfect subject, and Veronica’s dream girl.... Read more

Crossfire

By: Staceyann Chin

Narrated by: Staceyann Chin

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is “sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking.” The Advocate says that her poems “combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform” and note “Chin is out to... Read more

Dark Currents

By: Doug Burgess

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When David left home three years ago, he never looked back. Now the only connection to his tiny New England hometown is his grandmother, Maggie, whose mind is unraveling as she slowly succumbs to dementia. But when her best friend turns up dead and she witnesses the crime, David has no choice but to return to a place that never accepted his... Read more

Be Dazzled

By: Ryan La Sala

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern making-for creation. He's always chosen his art over everything-and everyone-else and is determined to make his mark at this year's biggest cosplay competition. If he can wow there, it could lead to sponsorship, then art school, and finally earning... Read more

Can't Take That Away

By: Steven Salvatore

Narrated by: Logan Rozos

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Can't Take That Away by Steven Salvatore, read by Logan Rozos.

"A charming, inspired story about being true to who you are." – Phil Stamper, bestselling author of The Gravity of Us

An empowering and emotional debut about a genderqueer teen who finds the courage to stand up and speak out for equality when they are discriminated... Read more

Sarahland

By: Sam Cohen

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom are named Sarah.

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONS * OPRAH MAGAZINE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * REFINERY29

In Sarahland, Sam Cohen... Read more

Tales from the Bottom of My Sole

By: David K. Yeh

Narrated by: Neil Paterson

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When a long-lost sister shows up as a trans man named Luke, a series of precipitous events throws the lives of boyfriends Daniel and David into turmoil. While David attends an extravagant family reunion in Sicily, Daniel’s ex Marcus plans the world-premiere of his one-man show. The couple’s vertiginous exploration of sex, intimacy and love... Read more

The Other Mothers

By: Jennifer Berney

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of fertility, feminism, and family.



Jenn Berney was one of those people who knew she was destined for motherhood—it wasn't a question of if, but when. So when she and her wife Kelly decided to start building their family, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. But they soon found themselves entrenched in a... Read more

The Beautiful Things Shoppe

By: Philip William Stover

Narrated by: Michael Dean & Kale Williams

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"This sweet gay contemporary hits the spot." —Publishers Weekly

Their collections may clash but their hearts are a perfect match.

Moving to eclectic New Hope, Pennsylvania, and running The Beautiful Things Shoppe is a dream come true for elegant and reserved fine arts dealer Prescott J. Henderson. He never agreed to share the space with Danny... Read more

The Power of the Dog

By: Thomas Savage & Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Chad Michael Collins & Annie Proulx

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain.

Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of... Read more

Carousel

By: April Ford

Narrated by: Sarah Strange

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Margot Wright has led a deliberate life. At 18, she left her unusual and abusive family situation and never looked back, and then two years later she devoted herself wholly to Estelle Coté, her first and only love. But now, at 45, freshly retired from a career in antique firearms dealing, and settling into a new home with her wife, Margot... Read more

TMI

By: Perez Hilton & Leif Eriksson

Narrated by: Perez Hilton

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

TMI is the story of how Mario Lavandeira became Perez Hilton, a celebrity blogger with millions of readers around the globe who was sometimes called the Most Hated Man in Hollywood. Growing up in Miami’s Little Havana in the 1980s, Perez was bullied at school because of his weight and his sexual orientation, so he devoted all his free time to... Read more

A Generous Spirit

By: author

Narrated by: Michelle Thrush

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist, and activist. During her life, Brant’s work gave voice to an often unacknowledged Two-Spirit identity, and today, her words represent continued strength, growth, and connection in the face of deep suffering. A Generous Spirit is... Read more

A Taste of Blue

By: Camden Moore

Narrated by: Tor Thom & Liam Dicosimo

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Calhoun Rivers is the clean-cut, prep-school educated, only son of one of the South’s oldest and wealthiest families. Sean Keenan is a young, working-class guy from Boston who has just landed in Charleston, South Carolina after his attempt to join the Marines went horribly wrong. Cal and Sean have nothing in common besides off-the-charts... Read more

The Ballad of Ami Miles

By: Kristy Dallas Alley & Brittni Pope

Narrated by: Brittni Pope

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in isolation at Heavenly Shepherd, her family’s trailer-dealership-turned-survival compound, Ami Miles knows that she was lucky to be born into a place of safety after the old world ended and the chaos began. But when her grandfather brings home a cold-eyed stranger, she realizes that her “destiny” as one of the few females capable of... Read more

Ruinsong

By: Julia Ember

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence has been forced to torture her country's disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen's bidding. But when she is reunited with her childhood friend, a noblewoman with ties to the underground rebellion, she must finally make a choice: Take a stand to free their country from oppression, or... Read more

Just Like This

By: Cole McCade

Narrated by: Tim Todd

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“An un-put-downable gay romance.” —Publishers Weekly

Rian Falwell has a problem.

And his name is Damon Louis.

Rian’s life as the art teacher to a gaggle of displaced boys at Albin Academy should be smooth sailing—until the stubborn, grouchy football coach comes into his world like a lightning strike and ignites a heated conflict that would leave... Read more

Filthy Sugar

By: Heather Babcock

Narrated by: Jacqueline Pillon

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the mid-1930s, Filthy Sugar tells the story of Wanda Whittle, a nineteen-year-old dreamer who models fur coats in an uptown department store, but who lives in a crowded rooming house with her hard-working widowed mother and shrewd older sister, Evelyn, in the “slums” behind the city’s marketplace; a world where “death is always close... Read more