LGBTQIA+ Fiction audiobooks

For a Rainy Afternoon

By: RJ Scott

Narrated by: Ian Gordon

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Maybe it’s not just Robbie and Jason that can have the greatest love story ever told.Robbie runs a small Post Office made from a converted Station House in a village northwest of London, England. He is stunned when a close friend dies and leaves him half of her estate. The only proviso is that it is to be shared equally with an American... Read more

Under the Udala Trees

By: Chinelo Okparanta

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and... Read more

After the Parade

By: Lori Ostlund

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Flannery O'Connor and Rona Jaffe Award winner Lori Ostlund, a deeply moving and beautiful debut novel about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a new life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and deep into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood.



Sensitive, big-hearted and achingly... Read more

Husky

By: Justin Sayre

Narrated by: Justin Sayre

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"[G]enuinely funny, heart-wrenching . . ." - Kirkus Reviews
"[A] moving journey of self-discovery and a gratifying coming-of-age story." - Publishers Weekly
"Husky . . . is a superb addition to the middle grade literary canon." - VOYA Reviews
"There is not a false note in the writing . . ." - Lambda Literary

A beautifully voiced debut captures an... Read more

The Scorpion Rules

By: Erin Bow

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The children of world leaders are held hostage in an attempt to keep the peace in this “slyly humorous, starkly thought-provoking” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel.

Greta is a Duchess and a Crown Princess. She is also a Child of Peace, a hostage held by the de facto ruler of the world, the great Artificial Intelligence, Talis. This is how... Read more

Everything I Know

By: Josh Lanyon

Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Connor loves teaching. He loves working with kids, he loves feeling like heís making a difference. And the kids--and parents--seem to love him. Until the afternoon he makes a small error in judgment, and an angry father's thoughtless comments start the kind of rumor that destroys careers. And lives.
Now everything Connor thought he knew about... Read more

Fans of the Impossible Life

By: Kate Scelsa

Narrated by: Michael Curran-Dorsano, Imani Parks & MacLeod A...

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating and profound debut novel about complicated love and the friendships that have the power to transform you forever, perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Mira is starting over at Saint Francis Prep. She promised her parents she would at least try to pretend that she could act like a functioning human... Read more

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

By: Kai Ashante Wilson

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author Kai Ashante Wilson makes his commercial debut with this striking, wondrous tale of gods and mortals, magic and steel, and life and death that will reshape how you look at sword and sorcery.


Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors' artifacts in hand, the... Read more

Hard to Be Good

By: Laura Kaye

Narrated by: Jack Dupont

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Two damaged men.One dangerous mission.One healing love.These are the men of Hard Ink.Hard Ink Tattoo owner Jeremy Rixey has taken on his brother's stateside fight against the enemies that nearly killed Nick and his Special Forces team a year ago. Now Jeremy's whole world has been turned upside down by the chaos—and by a brilliant, quiet blond... Read more

Another Day

By: David Levithan

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Celebrate all the ways love makes us who we are with this enthralling and poignant follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Every Day--now a major motion picture.

David Levithan turns his New York Times bestseller Every Day on its head by flipping perspectives in this exploration of love and how it can... Read more

The Seed of Immortality

By: Wayne Goodman

Narrated by: Wayne Goodman

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Take thousands of years of Chinese culture, add the three great philosophies (Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism), toss in a blue dragon with an agenda, arrange it all with Mahjong tiles, and you have "The Seed of Immortality." A peasant on his deathbed is given immortality by a less-than-trustworthy Mahjong sharp. Together, they travel around... Read more

Lonely Hearts

By: Heidi Cullinan

Narrated by: Iggy Toma

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Even hot messes need a happily ever after. Love Lessons, Book 3. With the quiet help of his wealthy family, Sebastian “Baz” Acker has successfully kept his painful past at bay. But as the end of college draws near, his friends—his buffer zone—are preparing to move on, while his own life is at a crippling standstill. With loneliness bearing down... Read more

The Sixth Man

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It's basketball season. And for once, triple threat Alex Myers is not the one in the spotlight. There's anew new guy in town, and Max Bellotti promises to turn the Lions' losing streak around and lead the team to a conference title. Alex is psyched, but some of the older guys on the team resent being benched in favor of an upstart freshman. Team... Read more

The Manservant

By: Michael Harwood

Narrated by: Richard Higgins

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In this bitingly witty, saucy, acutely observed debut novel, Michael Harwood pulls back the damask drapes to reveal life among the modern aristocracy-upstairs, downstairs, and occasionally, behind stairs . Anthony Gowers assists guests at a high-end London hotel with the kind of requests that can't be filled from a room-service menu. His reward:... Read more

Orphan #8

By: Kim van Alkemade

Narrated by: Andi Arndt & Ginny Auer

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times and USA Today BestsellerIn this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage years before.In 1919, Rachel... Read more

Carol

By: Patricia Highsmith

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. But their newly discovered bliss is... Read more

Bobby and the Beast: A Gay Twink Romance Fairy Tale

By: Mark Pace

Narrated by: Eugenia Woods

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Beauty. Beast. Not your grandma's fairy tale...Prince Christopher is as conceited as he is handsome. After his overwhelming ego offends an evil sorcerer, Christopher is robbed of the source of all his arrogance: his looks. Transformed into a hideous beast, Prince Christopher has only a limited time to fulfill a near-impossible condition or the... Read more

Hotel Living

By: Ioannas Pappos

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Stathis Rakis abandoned his small Greek village for a more worldly life, first in San Francisco, where the Dot Com Bubble had already burst, and then in Paris, France, where he is pursuing an MBA at an elite business school. After falling helplessly in love with a liberal New England journalist, Stathis moves to the United States to begin as a... Read more

The Only Easy Day

By: RJ Scott

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Dale MacIntyre, former Navy SEAL, works for Sanctuary. He’s the acting handler for a member of the Bullen family’s inner circle. He’s close to obtaining the evidence he needs to prove Elisabeth Costain's death was ordered by them… until someone gets in his way.Joseph Kinnon, active Navy SEAL, is back on U.S. soil for the first time in months,... Read more

The Gods of Tango

By: Carolina De Robertis

Narrated by: Carolina De Robertis

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the leading lights of contemporary Latin American literature—a lush, lyrical, deeply moving story of a young woman whose passion for the early sounds of tango becomes a force of profound and unexpected change.February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father’s cherished violin, leaves her Italian... Read more

Paperweight

By: Meg Haston

Narrated by: Mandy Siegfried

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This emotionally haunting and beautifully written young adult debut delves into the devastating impact of trauma and loss, in the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls.Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert.Life in the... Read more

The Visitor Comes to Stay

By: K.D. West

Narrated by: Milo Churchcutt

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the the world’s oldest story: A girl, her fireman, and her other fireman.When Lea heads off to Atlanta for a job interview, all she’s thinking about is the work. Well, and Sean, her best friend’s brother. Sean, the tall, muscular firefighter. With the gentle Southern drawl and the wicked smile. Whose couch she’s going to be sleeping... Read more

Barracuda's Heart

By: Jayne Rylon

Narrated by: Gregory Salinas

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Some hearts can be repaired. Others should just be totaled.Carver always thought he could sense when Roman was on the verge of falling into his inner darkness. But this time, Carver misses those cues—and leads the police on a high-speed race to the ER, praying his Barracuda won’t die on the way.When Roman awakens from the haze of painkillers and... Read more

More Happy Than Not

By: Adam Silvera

Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In his twisty, gritty, profoundly moving debut—called “mandatory reading” by the New York Times—Adam Silvera brings to life a charged, dangerous near-future summer in the Bronx.In the months after his father’s suicide, it’s been tough for 16-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness again—but he’s still gunning for it. With the support of his... Read more