LGBTQIA+ Authors
Listen to audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors.
Nature Poem
By: Tommy Pico
Narrated by: Tommy Pico
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.
Nature Poem follows Teebsโa young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poetโwho can't bring himself to write a nature... Read more
A Little Bit Like Love
By: Brooke Blaine
Narrated by: Wesley Paul & Perry Bishop
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Jackson Davenport, the charismatic, strait-laced heir to the Davenport fortune, has a secret. One heโs been hiding since he graduated from South Haven all-boys academyโand that secretโs name is Lucas. When a work trip takes Jackson back to his old stomping grounds, memories of the year he shared with Lucas come crashing to the surface. With... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Eve
By: Abby Stein
Narrated by: Abby Stein
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman
Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning... Read more
The Subtweet
By: Vivek Shraya
Narrated by: nisha ahuja
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
โBiting and beautiful.โ โ Jonny Sun, author of everyoneโs a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devakiโs song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukminiโs star... Read more
View audiobookMusic from Another World
By: Robin Talley
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler & Emily Lawrence
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A master of award-winning queer historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley brings to life an emotionally captivating story about the lives of two teen girls living in an age when just being yourself was an incredible act of bravery.
Itโs summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson canโt be herself anywhere. Not at her... Read more
My Sister
By: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva
Narrated by: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization.
When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in... Read more
Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
Narrated by: A. Almeida
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy... Read more
View audiobookChorus of Mushrooms
By: Hiromi Goto
Narrated by: Brenda Kamino & Stephany Seki
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Commonwealth Writersโ Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region) Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award Hiromi Gotoโs acclaimed debut novel is a feminist examination of the Japanese Canadian immigrant experience. Focusing on the lives of three generations of women in modern day Alberta, Goto uses their... Read more
View audiobookWork For It
By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Shane East & Chance Thoreau
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In this village, Iโm an outcast: Griffin Everett, the scowling giant who prefers plants to people. Then I meet Keynes, a stranger from the city whoโs everything Iโm not: sharp-tongued, sophisticated, beautiful. Free. For a few precious moments in a dark alleyway, heโs also mine, hot and sweet under the stars...until he crushes me like dirt... Read more
View audiobookBecoming a Man
By: P. Carl
Narrated by: P. Carl
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A โscrupulously honestโ (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut memoir that explores one manโs gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America.
Becoming a Man is a โmoving narrative [that] illuminates the joy, courage, necessity, and risk-taking of gender transitionโ (Kirkus Reviews). For fifty years P. Carl lived as a girl and then as a queer... Read more
She of the Mountains
By: Vivek Shraya
Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail) Lambda Literary Award finalist In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We are the period to a sentence, the effect to a cause, always belonging to someone. We... Read more
View audiobookWhat We Will Become
By: Mimi Lemay
Narrated by: Mimi Lemay
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A motherโs memoir of her transgender childโs odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her.
From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born โEm,โ adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand and come to terms with the fact that her child may be transgender, she... Read more
Find Me
By: Andrรฉ Aciman
Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Michael Stuhlbarg's] elegant performance and Aciman's sensitive writing keep things touching without ever being sentimental. Wonderful listening." โ AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
This program is read by Michael Stuhlbarg, the actor who played Professor Samuel Perlman in Luca Guadagnino's critically-acclaimed film, Call... Read more
All City
By: Alex DiFrancesco
Narrated by: Eboni Flowers, Eileen Stevens, Jayme Mattler & ...
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
All City is more than a novel, itโs a foreshadowing of a world to come.In a near-future New York City ravaged by climate change and economic inequality, a superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Among those who remain are twenty-four-year-old Makayla, who works in the cityโs most ubiquitous... Read more
View audiobookSorted
By: Jackson Bird
Narrated by: Jackson Bird
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man.
When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection.
Assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered... Read more
Pillow Thoughts II
By: Courtney Peppernell
Narrated by: Courtney Peppernell
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts IIย eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration.ย
A collection of inspirational and comforting poems for anyone who is mending from a broken heart, read by the author herself. Read more
Love Lives Here
By: Rowan Jette Knox
Narrated by: Rowan Jette Knox
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family--a family who shows what's possible when you "lead with love."
All Amanda Jettรฉ Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes... Read more
Amelia Westlake Was Never Here
By: Erin Gough
Narrated by: Candice Moll & Jaye Rosenberg
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can't stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.
Harriet Price is the perfect student: smart, dutiful, over-achieving. Will Everhart is a troublemaker who's never met an injustice she didn't fight. When... Read more
In at the Deep End
By: Kate Davies
Narrated by: Nicola Barber
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A fresh, funny, audacious debut novel about a Bridget Jones-like twenty-something who discovers that she may have simply been looking for love - and, ahem, pleasure - in all the wrong places (aka: from men) Julia hasn't had sex in three years. Her roommate has a boyfriend-and their sex noises are audible through the walls, maybe even throughout... Read more
View audiobookWe Have Always Been Here
By: Samra Habib
Narrated by: Parmida Vand
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME
How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?
Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to... Read more
Trans Mission
By: Alex Bertie
Narrated by: Alex Bertie
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A brave firsthand account of online personality Alex Bertie's life, struggles, and victories as a transgender teen, as well as a groundbreaking guide for transitioning teens.
Long before he became known for his YouTube videos, Alex Bertie was an isolated, often-afraid transgender teenager looking for answers. In this revolutionary memoir and... Read more
Real Queer America
By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Samantha Allen
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's... Read more
Edinburgh
By: Alexander Chee
Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac & Josh Hurley
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boysโ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to... Read more
View audiobookBroken Ground
By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet. Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville's inheritance,... Read more
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