LGBTQIA+ Fiction audiobooks

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

By: Akwaeke Emezi

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

“A love story like no other, and this one…will have you gripped from page one.” —Vogue

“An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality.” —The New York Times Book Review

A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland)... Read more

The Palace of Eros

By: Caro De Robertis

Narrated by: Caro De Robertis

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s a literary gift to see gender expansiveness depicted in an ancient myth with such grace and ease.” —Electric Literature

Fans of Circe and Black Sun, “prepare to be astonished” (R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries) with this bold and subversive feminist and queer retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros.

Young, headstrong Psyche has... Read more

Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

Narrated by: Priya Guns

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Autostraddle, Shondaland, Booklist • In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire—inspired by the iconic 1970s film Taxi Driver—a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides she's done waiting.

“What you are about to read is a call to... Read more

Here We Go Again

By: Alison Cochrun

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus & Jeremy Carlisle Parker

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A Publishers Weekly Best Romance of 2024

The author of the “sexy, insightful, and utterly charming” (BuzzFeed) Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country.

A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent... Read more

We Could Be So Good

By: Cat Sebastian

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick • Apple Books’ Best Books of the Month • Amazon Best Books of the Month Editor’s Pick, Romance • An NPR “Books We Love” • Library Journal Romance Pick of the Month • LibraryReads Hall of Fame: June 2023 • Publishers Weekly Best Romances of 2023Casey... Read more

Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White, a queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.

On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his... Read more

Honey Girl

By: Morgan Rogers

Narrated by: York Whitaker

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Oprah Magazine * Marie Claire * Ms. Magazine * E! * Parade Magazine * Buzzfeed * Cosmo * The Rumpus * GoodReads * Autostraddle * Brit & Co * Refinery29 * Betches * BookRiot and others!

A LibraryReads Pick
 
“HONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it.”
— Jasmine... Read more

The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes—just in case—from the author of The Wishing Game.

“This is the book you’ve been waiting for.”—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy

As boys, best... Read more

Most Wonderful

By: Georgia Clark

Narrated by: Patti Murin, Kristen Sieh & Shawn K. Jain

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the most romantic time of the year. Three adult siblings, each at a personal and romantic crossroads, reunite with their larger-than-life mother at her Catskills manor for an unforgettable Christmas in “the funny queer holiday rom-com [we’ve] always wanted to read” (Self).

“Perfectly captures the glimmering magic of love at the... Read more

The Wildes

By: Louis Bayard

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan & ...

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I. 

In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his... Read more

10 Things That Never Happened

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Will Watt

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Becker loves—or, okay, likes—his job. Sure, managing a bed-and-bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work, and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have... Read more

The Mimicking of Known Successes

By: Malka Older

Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s... Read more

It Takes Two to Tumble

By: Cat Sebastian

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

""Sebastian proves she is a new force to be reckoned with in historical romances.”--BooklistSome of Ben Sedgwick’s favorite things: Helping his poor parishioners Baby animals Shamelessly flirting with the handsome Captain Phillip Dacre After an unconventional upbringing, Ben is perfectly content with the quiet, predictable life of a country... Read more

Cemetery Boys

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as "groundbreaking."

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.

When... Read more

Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous

By: Mae Marvel

Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Reads of 2024

Hollywood glamor meets “‘Tis the Damn Season” in this irresistibly buzzy sapphic romance, perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Casey McQuiston.

Katie Price is known in every living room in America. A small-town Wisconsin girl who became an A-list star, she rarely makes it home, but this year is... Read more

Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A... Read more

Glassworks

By: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Narrated by: Katherine Littrell

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1910, Agnes Carter makes the wrong choice in marriage. After years as an independent woman of fortune, influential with the board of a prominent university because of her financial donations, she is now subject to the whims of an abusive, spendthrift husband. But when Bohemian naturalist and glassblower Ignace Novak reignites Agnes’s passion... Read more

All the Painted Stars

By: Emma Denny

Narrated by: Farrah Cave & Kristin Atherton

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

'Tender and gallant…Beautiful and romantic.' Ashley Herring Blake To win her heart, she'll have to fight… Oxfordshire 1362 When Lily Barden discovers her best friend Johanna’s hand in marriage is being awarded as the main prize at a tournament, she is determined to stop it.... 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

The Oleander Sword

By: Tasha Suri

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 19 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Jasmine Throne has been hailed as a series opener that will "undoubtedly reshape the landscape of epic fantasy for years to come" (Booklist, starred). Now, award-winning author Tasha Suri's provocative and powerful Burning Kingdoms trilogy continues with The Oleander Sword. The prophecy of the nameless god—the words that declared Malini the... Read more

The Brightness Between Us

By: Eliot Schrefer

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to The Darkness Outside Us, a Stonewall Honor Book, New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer delivers another ambitious, genre-bending novel and epic love story that spans thousands of years and the far reaches of the galaxy.Seventeen years have gone by since the Coordinated Endeavor crashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose... 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 “delectable” (Time) Chef’s Kiss.

Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages.... Read more

A Gentleman Never Keeps Score

By: Cat Sebastian

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

If you haven’t read Cat Sebastian, what are you waiting for?”—Lorraine Heath, New York Times bestselling authorOnce beloved by London's fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgwick has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most-private secrets. Rarely venturing from the house whose inheritance is a daily reminder of his downfall,... Read more

Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history. Read more