Lakelore
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
Narrated by: Vico Ortiz & Avi Roque
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half water, half air. But BastiĆ”n Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones whoāve been there. BastiĆ”n grew up both above
the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. Loreās seen the world under the lake only once, but that... Read more
Cereus Blooms at Night
By: Shani Mootoo
Narrated by: Shaquille James-Hosten
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
Bold and lyrical, sensual and highly charged, Cereus Blooms at Night is the beautifully written, sensational first novel by Shani Mootoo, one of Canadaās most exciting literary voices.
Ā Ā Ā At the core of this haunting multi-generational novel are the shifting faces of... Read more
The Chosen and the Beautiful
By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for Oprah Magazine | USA Today | Buzzfeed | Greatist | BookPage | PopSugar | The Nerd Daily | Goodreads | Literary Hub | Ms. Magazine | Library Journal
"Gatsby the way it should have been writtenādark, dazzling, fantastical."āR. F. Kuang
"Luxurious, thrilling, and sexy."āAdrienne Celt
Immigrant. Socialite.... Read more
How to Become a Planet
By: Nicole Melleby
Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
AĀ Publishers WeeklyĀ Best Middle Grade Book of 2021
One of The Nerd Daily's āAnticipated Queer Book Releases You Canāt Miss in 2021ā
One of Lambda Literary's āMayās Most Anticipated LGBTQ Literatureā
āGorgeous.āĀ āBuzzFeed
The two most important things to know about Pluto Timoney:Ā Ā (1) sheās alwaysĀ loved outer space (obviously); and (2) herĀ favorite... Read more
The Liar's Dictionary
By: Eley Williams
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Jon Glover
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLERā¢ āYou wouldnāt expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.āĀ āThe New York Times Book Review
Anaward-winningnovel that chronicles thecharmingmisadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young... Read more
The Appointment
By: Katharina Volckmer
Narrated by: Katharina Volckmer
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
āA darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.ā āThe Guardian * āTransgressive...Incendiary.ā āThe New Yorker * āA furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.ā āThe New York Times Book Review * āSexy, hilarious, and subversive.ā āThe Paris Review
For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han... Read more
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows
By: Olivia Waite
Narrated by: Morag Sims
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
When Agatha Griffin finds a colony of bees in her warehouse, itās the not-so-perfect ending to a not-so-perfect week. Busy trying to keep her printing business afloat amidst rising taxes and the suppression of radical printers like her son, the last thing the widow wants is to be the victim of a thousand bees. But when a beautiful beekeeper... Read more
View audiobookI'll Be the One
By: Lyla Lee
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Diverse book recommended by The Today Show * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * Bank Street Best Book of the Year * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALAās Rainbow Book List Top 10 for Teen ReadersThe world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating... Read more
View audiobookThe Black Flamingo
By: Dean Atta
Narrated by: Dean Atta
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Stonewall Book Award Winner * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All TimeA fierce coming-of-age verse novel about identity and the power of drag, from acclaimed poet and performer Dean Atta. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, and Kacen Callender.Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, heās navigated... Read more
View audiobookSomething to Talk About
By: Meryl Wilsner
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie & Xe Sands
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance.
Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn't come at a worse... Read more
The Prettiest Star
By: Carter Sickels
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston & Tiffany Morgan
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die.
At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short... Read more
This Town Sleeps
By: Dennis E. Staples
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.
On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the... Read more
Birthday
By: Meredith Russo
Narrated by: Dana Aliya Levinson
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
"An emotional, winning touchdown." ā Kirkus
This program includes a bonus interview with the author.
Two best friends. A shared birthday. Six years...
ERIC: There was the day we were born. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. The years where we stuck by each otherās sideāas Morganās mom died, as he moved across... Read more
Courting Mr. Lincoln
By: Louis Bayard
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert & Robert Fass
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at... Read more
View audiobookSugar Run
By: Mesha Maren
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she's sentenced to life in prison. When she's released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains, she heads... Read more
View audiobookThis Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
By: Kacen Callender
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
~Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018~A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy about Nathan Bird, who has sworn off happy endings but is sorely tested when his former best friend, Ollie, moves back to town.Nathan Bird doesnāt believe in happy endings. Although... Read more
View audiobookMona of the Manor
By: Armistead Maupin
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated by Mara WilsonāMaupin is one of Americaās finest storytellers.āāNeil GaimanĀ Set in the early 1990s, the long-awaited tenth novel in Armistead Maupinās beloved and enduring Tales of the City series follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey, now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in Britainās golden Cotswolds, and her fabulous adopted... Read more
View audiobookYour Shadow Half Remains
By: Sunny Moraine
Narrated by: Sunny Moraine
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage.
ONE LOOK CAN KILL.
Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive.
But when... Read more
You Only Call When You're in Trouble
By: Stephen McCauley
Narrated by: AndrƩ Santana
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"AndrĆ© Santana's impressive narration deals with one family's contemporary problems...As one crisis bleeds into another, Santana's cool performance and objective distance make this entertaining listening."āAudioFile
āI donāt think I will find a book I love more this year.ā
āJane Green, New York Times bestselling author
āFunny, poignant, joyous,... Read more
Second Chances in New Port Stephen
By: TJ Alexander
Narrated by: Aden Hakimi & Feodor Chin
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A trans man returns to his Florida hometown for Christmas after his career goes up in flames, only to cross paths with his high school ex in this charming rom-com about family and second chances from the author of the ādelectableā (Time) Chefās Kiss.
Eli Ward hasnāt been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages.... Read more
Pritty
By: Keith F. Miller, Jr.
Narrated by: Landon Woodson & Eric B. Anthony
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
2024 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Concrete RoseĀ meetsĀ Things We Couldnāt SayĀ inĀ Pritty, a debut novel by Keith F. Miller Jr.āthe inspiration behind the forthcomingĀ animatedĀ short film of Kickstarter fameāthat follows two boys who get caught in the crossfire of a sinister plot that not only threatens everything they love but may cost them... Read more
View audiobookThe Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
Narrated by: Ayoola Smart & Bert Seymour
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERāDaring . . . a brilliant contemporary novel.āāColm TĆ³ibĆnĀ An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apartMeet Celine and Luke. For all intents and purposes, the happy couple.Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more interĀested in piano than... Read more
View audiobookBrainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me Iām Worthless ā āa triumph of transgressive queer horrorā (Publishers Weekly) ā comes Brainwyrms, a searing body horror novel of obsession, violence, and pleasure.
When a transphobic woman bombs Frankieās workplace, she blows up Frankieās life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries... Read more
A Shot in the Dark
By: Victoria Lee
Narrated by: Scott Turner Schofield & Gilli Messer
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ A passionate and powerful romanceĀ featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox womanĀ who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee
āA sensual love story about art and passion . . . emotional and heart-aching.āāAshley Poston, New York Times... Read more