Loyalty Book Clubs

Black in Blues

How a Color Tells the Story of My People

By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and VultureA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani PerryThroughout history, the concept of Blackness has been... Read more

Flirting Lessons

By: Jasmine Guillory
Narrated by: Heidi Franklin
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

A captivating and sizzling new queer romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory.

Avery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a breakup, and she’s tired of always being so uptight and well-behaved. She wants to get a hobby, date around (especially women), flirt with everyone she sees, wear something not from the business casual... Read more

Minor Feelings

An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness

“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen

In... Read more

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed: Book #1

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

“Prescient, brilliant, challenging; a book everyone should read, probably multiple times in their lives as N.K. Jemisin suggests. Read more

The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

“A good book is always right on time! The Message is a moment in our culture that we can return to time and time again. Expect nothing but fire from Ta-Nehisi Coates. Read more

An American Marriage

A Novel

By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Sean Crisden & Eisa Davis
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

“Tayari Jones comes in fierce with An American Marriage. Delving into the lives of the newly married Roy and Celestial, this is a novel that pulls no punches from beginning to end. I won't ruin the surprise, but they're hit with a harrowing event that will define not only their relationship, but each of their lives, forever. Writing with an... Read more

Enchantment

Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

“In Wintering, Katherine May encouraged us to see life as cyclical, not linear, in order to better handle our inevitable low periods. In Enchantment, she presses forward in her journey to see the world in a new, gentler way. Separated into sections loosely based around earth, water, fire, and air, Enchantment explores different means by which we... Read more

Beyond the Gender Binary

Pocket Change Collective

By: Alok Vaid-Menon
Narrated by: Alok Vaid-Menon
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Winner of the 2021 In The Margins Award
 
"When reading this book, all I feel is kindness."-- Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and songwriter
 
"Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer

"Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers... Read more

Gaysians

By: Michael Curato
Narrated by: Mike Curato, Nicky Endres, Earl T Kim, Dustin Vuong Nguyen, Shawn K. Jain, Telly Leung, Greg D. Barnett, Katrina Reese Curato, Dara Brown & Susan Moon
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

From the acclaimed author of the young adult graphic novel Flamer comes a heartwarming story following four gay Asians navigating love, identity, and friendship—a celebration of queer chosen family.​ When AJ moves to Seattle in the early aughts, he’s ready to reinvent himself as a gay Asian man—but his dreams hit reality fast with no friends, no... Read more

Exhibit

A Novel

By: R. O. Kwon
Narrated by: Ami Park & Sue Jean Kim
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

“There is so much in this layered 200-page gem of a novel about a pair of new artist friends — a photographer struggling through a creative block, and a successful ballerina recovering from a serious injury — and their desires. Completely absorbing. Read more

The Emperor of Gladness

A Novel

By: Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: James Aaron Oh
Length: TBA

“My heart breaks open with each work by Ocean Vuong, but this time as I stitch it back up, my heart will be twice as big, even more whole. Because of his gorgeous new novel about small tender lives and the big messy love of found families, my heart now has space for so many more people. Giving us Hai, and Grazina who he cares for, and the ragtag... Read more

Hijab Butch Blues

A Memoir

By: Lamya H
Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

“This memoir absolutely blew me away. Structured around stories from the Qur'an, Lamya H beautifully explores the intersections between faith, identity, culture, and belonging. I learned so much while reading this book, and really valued Lamya's unique perspective on queerness and religion. Incredibly raw and honest, this is a memoir I will be... Read more

The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang
Narrated by: Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao & Telly Leung
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

“Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves? Spellbinding and lyrical, Huang’s debut novel combines elements of historical fiction, fantasy, and erotica to explore the nature of love and identity. Three seemingly disparate stories told across different times tell the story of two men falling in love, and the perils that surround them.... Read more

The Dawnhounds

By: Sascha Stronach
Narrated by: Anna Coddington
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

“Fans of Rebecca Roanhorse and Tamsyn Muir have their next read! The Dawnhounds is a queer, Māori-inspired fantasy tale that follows an ex-street-urchin-turned–police officer who gets killed on the job and is brought back to life on a mission to save the world. Sasha Stronach manages to intertwine technologically modified pirates, chaotic gods,... Read more

How Far the Light Reaches

A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler is badass. I never thought I'd walk away from a collection of essays about weird sea creatures with a more crystal-clear understanding of my own gender identity than I have had in years—but curious readers live to be surprised! In winding personal essay with science writing, Imbler gifts the reader... Read more

Horse Barbie

A Memoir

By: Geena Rocero
Narrated by: Geena Rocero
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ+ Storytellers

“Groundbreaking . . . [Rocero] quite literally models what triumph can look like.”—Glamour (Women of the Year)

WINNER OF THEM’S AWARD FOR LITERATURE • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Book Riot, Elle, Esquire

As a young femme in... Read more

At Bertram's Hotel

A Miss Marple Mystery

Miss Marple Mysteries: Book #10

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

At Bertram’s Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events.An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.…When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel:... Read more

Poirot Investigates & Murder in the Mews

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet, Nigel Hawthorne & Hugh Fraser
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great AudiobookPoirot InvestigatesPoirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie.First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was... Read more

Passenger to Frankfurt

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Christie's superb stand-alone mystery, Passenger to Frankfurt, is a true masterwork of surprise and suspense, as a diplomat comes to the aid of a terrified woman in an airport, only to find that his identity has been stolen and his life is suddenly in serious jeopardy.Sir Stafford Nye's flight home from Malaya takes an unprecedented twist when a... Read more

A Caribbean Mystery

A Miss Marple Mystery

Miss Marple Mysteries: Book #9

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murdererAs Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever... Read more