LGBTQIA+ Authors

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

Exposed

By: Jean-Phillippe Blondel

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait, possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact... Read more

The Secret Ingredient

By: KD Fisher

Narrated by: Hayden Bishop & Lauren Sweet

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“A perfectly rendered cast of characters, plenty of mouthwatering moments in the kitchen, and a completely charming small town setting.” —Booklist

Two amazing chefs. Two very different restaurants. One recipe for love.

For single mom Adah Campbell, the executive chef job at a posh restaurant in quaint South Bay, Maine is a dream come true—and the... Read more

Always a Soldier

By: Rob Smith

Narrated by: Rob Smith

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An Iraq War memoir and searing political commentary from Fox News regular and “America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican” Rob SmithMoonlight meets American Sniper in this groundbreaking memoir and political commentary from a bold new voice in American politics. Before he became a war veteran and political analyst, he was a young black man who... Read more

God Loves Hair

By: Vivek Shraya

Narrated by: Vivek Shraya

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity. In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; since then, Vivek has published six more titles, including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children's picture book, while... Read more

Outside In

By: Libby Davies

Narrated by: Marilla Wex

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Libby Davies has worked steadfastly for social justice both inside parliament and out on the streets for more than four decades. At nineteen, Davies became a community organizer in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She went on to serve in municipal and then federal politics, advancing to the role of Deputy Leader of the New Democratic... Read more

Still Life

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as the UK’s “Queen of Crime,” Val McDermid is the award-winning, internationally bestselling author ofmore than thirty novels and one of the best crime writers working today. With Still Life, McDermid returns to herpropulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of... Read more

The Love Study

By: Kris Ripper

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Declan has commitment issues. He’s been an office temp for literally years now, and his friends delight in telling people that he left his last boyfriend at the altar. And that’s all true. But he’s starting to think that maybe it’s time to start working on his issues. When Declan meets Sidney—a popular nonbinary YouTuber with an advice show—an... Read more

Call the Bluff

By: O. E. Tearmann

Narrated by: Kirt Graves

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It costs a lot to win. And even more to lose.Seven Corporations rule the former United States with seven codes of conduct based on their ideas of morality. Comply with the code of the Corporation that holds your Citizen Contract, or suffer the economic consequences. Or fight back. For sixty years the Democratic State Force has been fighting to... Read more

Polar Vortex

By: Shani Mootoo

Narrated by: Iris Quinn & Sharon Lewis

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller PrizeSome secrets never die…Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque countryside town. What Alex doesn't know is that in moving, Priya is running from her past—from a fraught relationship with an old friend, Prakash, who pursued her for many years, both online and off. Time has passed,... Read more

Surrender Your Sons

By: Adam Sass

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he... Read more

Continental Divide

By: Alex Myers

Narrated by: Scott Turner Schofield

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Go west, young man. Isn’t that the advice every east coast boy has considered at least once in his life?At nineteen, almost twenty, Ron Bancroft thinks those words sound pretty good. Newly out as transgender, Ron finds himself adrift: kicked out by his family, jilted by his girlfriend, and unable to afford to return to college in the fall. So he... Read more

Cinderella Is Dead

By: Kalynn Bayron

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron, read by Bahni Turpin.

"Wholly original and captivating." – Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Girls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this unique and powerful retelling of Cinderella from a stunning new voice that’s perfect for fans of... Read more

In a Midnight Wood

By: Ellen Hart

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless is headed out on a little getaway. She and her best friend, CordeliaThorn, plan to visit their old friend Emma in her hometown of Castle Lake, while also participating in the small town’slocal art festival. Between the festival and an upcoming high school reunion for the class of 1999, no one in... Read more

The Heart Begins Here

By: Jacqueline Dumas

Narrated by: Michelle C. Smith

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Heart Begins Here is the story of the ever-optimistic, earnest Sara Requier and her disintegrating seven-year relationship with the cynical Wanda Wysoka. Along with her relationship struggles, Sara must contend with the drastic changes in the book industry that threaten her feminist bookstore and a mother who refuses to accept her... Read more

The Secret of You and Me

By: Melissa Lenhardt

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson & Natalie Duke

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A DVF Book Club Pick!  

True love never fades—and old secrets never die…

Nora hasn’t looked back. Not since she fled Texas to start a new life. Away from her father’s volatile temper and the ever-watchful gaze of her claustrophobically conservative small town, Nora has freed herself. She can live—and love—however she wants. The only problem is... Read more

A Saint from Texas

By: Edmund White

Narrated by: Barbara Barnes

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents A Saint from Texas by Edmund White, read by Barbara Barnes.

From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood.

Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but... Read more

The Pink Line

By: Mark Gevisser

Narrated by: Mark Gevisser & Vikas Adam

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020

This program includes a foreword and epilogue read by the author

A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today

More than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer... Read more

The Motion of Light in Water

By: Samuel R. Delany

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 19 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961.Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new... Read more

Smoke & Mirrors

By: E.A. Copen

Narrated by: Matt Cowlrick & Erin DeWard

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Working for Heaven is a living Hell for rogue wizard Josiah Quinn. There are too many rules and not enough easy cash. His first official assignment from the God Squad? Solve a string of brutal murders that he believes are part of an intricate and all-too-familiar summoning ritual involving broken mirrors. His investigation leads him to the... Read more

Branded by the Pink Triangle

By: Ken Setterington

Narrated by: Bill Marchant

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution.... Read more

Life as a Unicorn

By: Amrou Al-Kadhi

Narrated by: Amrou Al-Kadhi

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020 WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first... Read more

Shut Up You’re Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

Narrated by: Jemeni

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist, Rogers Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother... Read more

Conventionally Yours

By: Annabeth Albert

Narrated by: Kirt Graves & Joel Froomkin

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Charming, charismatic, and effortlessly popular, Conrad Stewart seems to have it all...but in reality, he's scrambling to keep his life from tumbling out of control. Brilliant, guarded, and endlessly driven, Alden Roth may as well be the poster boy for perfection...but even he can't help but feel a little broken inside. When these mortal... Read more