LGBTQIA+ Authors

No Time Like Now

By: Naz Kutub

Narrated by: Chirag Naik

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub, read by Chirag Naik.

A teen finds himself in a race against time when he learns he's given away more years than he has left to live in this thought-provoking speculative romp.

It's been one year since Hazeem's father passed away unexpectedly, and one year since Hazeem got his special ability: He... Read more

Just Shy of Ordinary

By: A. J. Sass

Narrated by: P.J. Morgan

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heartfelt novel about family, friendship, and identity perfect for fans of The List of Things That Will Not Change and Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, a thirteen-year-old nonbinary kid discovers that life doesn't always go according to plan—especially when they start public school for the first time. ​
 
Thirteen-year-old Shai is an... Read more

Emma and the Love Spell

By: Meredith Ireland

Narrated by: MJ Lee

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Emma and the Love Spell by Meredith Ireland, read by MJ Lee.

Witchlings meets The Parent Trap in this contemporary fantasy about a girl who tries to use her fickle witchy powers to keep her best friend (and secret crush!) from moving away.

Twelve-year-old, Korean American adoptee Emma Davidson has a problem. Two problems. Okay,... Read more

City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger—bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming... Read more

Bachelorette Number 12

By: Jae

Narrated by: Lori Prince

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

At a singles auction where no one was bidding on love, a warmhearted ER nurse finds herself dating a prickly doctor in this enemies-to-lovers lesbian romance.



Ellie Fisher loves most things about being a nurse in the emergency department . . . just not working with Regina Novak, an icy attending physician who acts as if she's God's gift to... Read more

Get The F*ck Out Your Own Way

By: MJ Harris

Narrated by: MJ Harris

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

It ain’t easy getting your shit together, but this book is the solution. And Tabitha Brown says, “you can trust him.”

MJ Harris has got a lot of “best friends”—over five million to be exact. His hilarious, straightforward, raw advice has made him the go-to person across social media for everything you need to know about getting your shit... Read more

Besaydoo

By: Yalie Saweda Kamara

Narrated by: Yalie Saweda Kamara

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home—as place, as people, as body, and as language.A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with “a story pulsing in every blood cell.” In Besaydoo, Kamara serves as griot for the... Read more

Okay, Cupid

By: Mason Deaver

Narrated by: Max Meyers

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, the story of a cupid who thinks they know everything about love... until they fall in love themselves.As a cupid, Jude thinks they understand love a little bit more than the average human. It makes sense -- Jude's been studying love their whole teen life. And, yes, there have been some... Read more

Just Happy to Be Here

By: Naomi Kanakia

Narrated by: Bilal Baig

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this YA standalone perfect for fans of Tobly McSmith and Meredith Russo, the first out trans girl at an all-girls school must choose between keeping her head down or blazing a trail.Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy.That is, judged on her merits—not on her transness. But there’s no road map for being the... Read more

The Apple Diary

By: Gerri Hill

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

After the death of her grandmother, reluctant heiress Madilyn Marak agrees to stay with her grandfather at the estate for the summer. There, she finds an old diary hidden in an antique desk in the attic—The Apple Diary—written by her great-grandmother Isabel.



In there, she finds the love story of Isabel and Lorah, along with a photograph of the... Read more

Toy Runners Boxset

By: Adriana Herrera

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz, Brooke Hayden, Lola James, Gomez Pu...

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook set includes all three installments in the Toy Runners holiday novella series: Her Night With Santa, The Toy King, and Run Darling. Her Night With Santa In this festive novelette, the first woman to command Santa’s sleigh finds a fiery brunette in her bed when she returns to her Caribbean beach villa after Christmas Day. When... Read more

All the Hidden Paths

By: Foz Meadows

Narrated by: James Fouhey & Vikas Adam

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

With the plot against them foiled and the city of Qi-Katai in safe hands, newlywed and tentative lovers Velasin and Caethari have just begun to test the waters of their relationship. But the wider political ramifications of their marriage are still playing out across two nations, and all too soon, they're summoned north to Tithena's capital... Read more

A River of Golden Bones

By: A.K. Mulford

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author and TikTok sensation A.K. Mulford comes the first riveting, enchanting book in the all-new Golden Court romantasy trilogy—A River of Golden Bones begins a journey of self-discovery, romance, and adventure for a young heir as she/they comes out of hiding to save her sister from a malicious, powerful sorceress and her... Read more

Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

Narrated by: Laura Kate Dale

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition center on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for... Read more

The Manor House Governess

By: C. A. Castle

Narrated by: Cloud Quinn

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned young and raised with chilly indifference at an all-boys boarding school, Brontë Ellis has grown up stifled by rigid rules and social “norms,” forbidden from expressing his gender identity. His beloved novels and period films lend an escape—until a position as a live-in tutor provides him with a chance to leave St. Mary’s behind.... Read more

Mother, Nature

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

Narrated by: Jedidiah Jenkins

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self . . .

“Exquisitely written and completely compelling . . . As Jedidiah Jenkins traces a 5,000-mile route with his wildly entertaining mother, Barb, he begins to untangle the live wires of a parent-child bond and to wrestle with a love that hurts.”—Suleika Jaouad, author of... Read more

Homeland of My Body

By: Richard Blanco

Narrated by: Richard Blanco

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with 2 full sections of new poems bookending Blanco’s selections from his 5 previous volumes

“An engineer, poet, Cuban American . . . his poetry bridges cultures and languages—a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future—reflecting a nation that is hectic, colorful, and still... Read more

Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky.



In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own... Read more

First to Leave the Party

By: Salah Bachir

Narrated by: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A marvelous and compulsively readable collection of stories from the life of Salah Bachir — philanthropist, art collector, movie industry insider — who, through his sheer joy of life, art, giving back, and human interaction, has endeared him to some of the most famous and creative people in recent times.

Salah Bachir’s... Read more

The Christmas Swap

By: Talia Samuels

Narrated by: Kim Bretton & Emma Fenney

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Margot Murray is a newly single, successful businesswoman with no interest in a cutesy seasonal romance after her breakup with her long-term girlfriend. Ben Gibson is an unlucky-in-love sweetheart in need of a woman to bring home for the holidays. Together, they make a pact: Margot gets two blissful weeks away from London in a picture-perfect... Read more

Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

Narrated by: André Santana, Bryan Washington & Jake Choi

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington Post

The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's... Read more

In the Form of a Question

By: Amy Schneider

Narrated by: Amy Schneider

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Warm and funny.” —The New York Times * “Refreshingly no-holds-barred.” —USA TODAY * “Delightful.” —San Francisco Chronicle

An inspirational, witty, and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!—an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself as well as a passionate “ode to learning”... Read more

Pig

By: Sam Sax

Narrated by: Sam Sax

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.

This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig—farm animal, men/masculinity, police and... Read more

Creep

By: Myriam Gurba

Narrated by: Myriam Gurba

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST * A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER

“Quite simply one of the best books of the decade.” —Los Angeles Review of Books * “The mother of intersectional Latinx identity.” —Cosmopolitan * “Brilliant…a hopeful book…rooted in the steadfast belief other worlds are possible.” —The New York Observer * “Witty,... Read more