LGBTQIA+ Fiction audiobooks

Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

Narrated by: Annabel Baldwin & Robyn Holdaway

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri... Read more

The Sunbearer Trials

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners will be captivated by the detailed descriptions of the cities within Reino del Sol and the fantastical beings who inhabit them. Santana keeps the tension in his narration taut as Teo wrestles with both physical challenges and his own feelings of inferiority." - AudioFile Magazine

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses... Read more

Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

Narrated by: Hope Newhouse

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame—murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor AND satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!”—Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time TomorrowFor readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant,... Read more

Metal from Heaven

By: August Clarke

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“WHEN MY VIOLENCE SUBSIDES, WE WILL HAVE NOTHING, AND BE CHAMPIONS.”Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers are on strike. They demand Chauncey research the hallucinatory... Read more

Late Bloomer

By: Mazey Eddings

Narrated by: Ellie Gossage

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A sexy, sapphic, opposites-attract romance with Mazey Eddings' signature sparkling voice!

Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin's life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect, she’s bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was... Read more

The Celebrants: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Steven Rowley

Narrated by: Steven Rowley

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller
A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle.

It’s been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their... Read more

Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

Narrated by: Chris Reilly

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart’s first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has... Read more

Light From Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cindy Kay masterfully narrates this unique audiobook, which combines a variety of genres to tell a moving story of self-acceptance and finding safety even in the bleakest of times." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award review

Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful... Read more

Women's Hotel

By: Daniel M. Lavery

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED READS—New York Times, Vulture, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, and moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.The Biedermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but... Read more

Sorrowland

By: Rivers Solomon

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Narrator Karen Chilton gives a riveting performance in this genre-defying masterpiece...The echoes of Chilton's haunting and beautiful narration will reverberate long after this powerful audiobook is over." -- AudioFile Magazine

A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction

Vern—seven... Read more

Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

Narrated by: Jasmin Savoy Brown

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Savoy Brown enters the characters fully and makes their emotional changes audible and stunning—doubting to dreamy, bored to curious, saccharine to unhinged."—AudioFile

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly... Read more

So Let Them Burn

By: Kamilah Cole

Narrated by: Keylor Leigh & Kamali Minter

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland—perfect for fans of Iron Widow and The Priory of the Orange Tree. 
 
Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island... Read more

The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

Narrated by: Tara Flynn

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three • “O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications." —People

"If you’ve ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if... Read more

The Guncle Abroad

By: Steven Rowley

Narrated by: Steven Rowley

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

An Indie Next Pick

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy.

Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant’s caretaker after their mother’s passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and... Read more

Her Majesty's Royal Coven

By: Juno Dawson

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Superb and almost unbearably charming, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven… expertly launches an exciting new trilogy." —The New York Times Book Review
 
"Talk about a gut punch of a novel. …A provocative exploration of intersectional feminism, loyalty, gender and transphobia [that] invites readers into an intricately woven web of magic, friendship and... Read more

Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel

Narrated by: Clara Harte

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Phoebe Forde has a new home and new name and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but she's finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen. Almost three years into her gender transition, Phoebe has learned to move through the world carefully, savoring small moments of joy. After all, a woman... Read more

Written in the Stars

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

Narrated by: Lauren Sweet

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

""I was hooked from the very first page!” – Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of In a Holidaze""This book is a delight."" – New York Times Book ReviewA National Bestseller and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Romance! Featured on Shondaland, Oprah Mag, Bustle, The New York Times Book Review, Buzzfeed,... Read more

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

By: Malinda Lo

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s.

"That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other." And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its... Read more

I'll Give You the Sun

By: Jandy Nelson

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein & Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller • One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time • Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Stonewall Honor Book

The radiant, award-winning story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, Becky Albertalli, and Adam Silvera

"Dazzling." —The New York Times Book Review
"A blazing prismatic... Read more

Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

Narrated by: Sena Bryer

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sena Bryer delivers a cinematic performance of Tesh's exhilarating space opera. Bryer's full-bodied characterizations--gruff Mags, Kyr's quietly rage-filled squadmates, and a sweetly naïve but powerful alien named Yiso--are so skilled that listeners may wonder if this is a full-cast production. Complete with time slips, a reality-warping... Read more

Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Mx. Nicky Endres, Linda Jones, Elizabeth Knowel...

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love in this epic and seductive gothic fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.

“Fiercely empowering and gloriously vengeful.”—Heather Walter, award-winning author of Malice

Her name was written in the pages of someone else’s... Read more

Call Me by Your Name

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: Armie Hammer

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com

*Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay*

Celebrate André Aciman's sensational novel with a... Read more

Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

Narrated by: Dana Varden & Zim Avaltrades

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup.

Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new... Read more

Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror” (Publishers Weekly) — comes Brainwyrms, a searing body horror novel of obsession, violence, and pleasure.

When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie’s workplace, she blows up Frankie’s life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries... Read more