Trans Read-A-Thon

Tomorrow Will Be Different

Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

By: Sarah McBride
Narrated by: Sarah McBride
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

“McBride’s story of self-discovery, determination, and love made me check my privilege, cheer, and cry. She earnestly and intelligently reflects on her life, from coming out as a trans woman, to walking to corridors of power, to falling in love and losing her husband. This compelling read highlights how far we still have to go towards actual... Read more

My Rainbow

By: DeShanna Neal & Trinity Neal
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 7 minutes

A dedicated mom puts love into action as she creates the perfect rainbow-colored wig for her transgender daughter, based on the real-life experience of mother-daughter advocate duo Trinity and DeShanna Neal.

Warm morning sunlight and love fill the Neal home. And on one quiet day, playtime leads to an important realization:Trinity wants long hair... Read more

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World

A Decolonial Memoir

By: Shayla Lawson
Narrated by: Shayla Lawson
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major... Read more

Being Jazz

My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

By: Jazz Jennings
Narrated by: Jazz Jennings
Length: 4 hours

Teen advocate and trailblazer Jazz Jennings—named one of “The 25 Most Influential Teens” of the year by Time—shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.
 
“[Jazz’s] touching book serves as a rallying cry for understanding and acceptance.”—Bustle
 
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All City

By: Alex DiFrancesco
Narrated by: Eboni Flowers, Eileen Stevens, Jayme Mattler & Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

“Very nice novel in which a small utopia is created in a dystopia in which people occupy an abandoned building with luxury apartments during a natural disaster and manage it themselves. One of the protagonists is a trans* woman and another is a “kinda in-between, masc-femme, genderless, genderfuck, person” according to her self-description. Read more

Cemetery Boys

Cemetery Boys: Book #1

By: Aiden Thomas
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

“"Listening to Cemetery Boys made me smile. A lot. Aiden Thomas presents a story of persistence, mystery, and finding one’s place in the world. Yadriel, a trans, teenage, latinx boy, lives in a family of brujos and brujas. After coming out as trans his family does not know where he fits within their traditions. With the help of his opinionated... Read more

My Sister

How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both

By: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva
Narrated by: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization.

When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in... Read more

The Subtweet

A Novel

By: Vivek Shraya
Narrated by: nisha ahuja
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

“Biting and beautiful.” — Jonny Sun, author of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki’s song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini’s star... Read more

Lost in the Never Woods

By: Aiden Thomas
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

"There are moments of true tenderness, hope, and grief in this haunting, magical tale, and the narrator makes it all convincing. Teenage listeners will be drawn into this enchanting story." -- Booklist, starred review

When children start to go missing in the local woods, a teen girl must face her fears and a past she can't remember to rescue them... Read more

Detransition, Baby

A Novel

By: Torrey Peters
Narrated by: Renata Friedman
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“Detransition, Baby grabbed me from the start until the very end. Torrey Peters’ voice is sharp, honest, and often funny in the most unexpected ways as she explores the complications of identity and relationships with a ton of honesty and heart. Read more

The Passing Playbook

By: Isaac Fitzsimons
Narrated by: Jamie K. Brown
Length: 7 hours

Love, Simon meets Bend It Like Beckham in this feel-good contemporary romance about a trans athlete who must decide between fighting for his right to play and staying stealth.

“A sharply observant and vividly drawn debut. I loved every minute I spent in this story, and I’ve never rooted harder for a jock in my life.” – New York Times bestselling... Read more

Nevada

A Novel

By: Imogen Binnie
Narrated by: Imogen Binnie
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

This program is read by the author.

"Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda... Read more

Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

Remixed Classics: Book #5

By: Anna-Marie McLemore
Narrated by: Avi Roque & Kyla Garcia
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

"Avi Roque's careful pacing and emotional connection enhance the audiobook's lyrical prose, enchanting listeners throughout this slow-burn romance."-AudioFile Magazine on Self-Made Boys

Stonewall Honor recipient and two-time National Book Award Longlist selectee Anna-Marie McLemore weaves an intoxicating tale of glamor and heartache in Self-Made... Read more

Once & Future

By: Cory McCarthy & A. R. Capetta
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

“Once & Future is an Own-Voices Young Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel series, which re-tells the King Arthur story in a very refreshing and queer way. The story takes place in the future and starts in a rusty spaceship. The protagonist Ari, a young queer woman from a planet that has been destroyed is the 42nd reincarnation of King Arthur. She is... Read more

How We Do Family

From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood

By: Trystan Reese
Narrated by: Trystan Reese
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

One LGBTQ family's inspiring, heartfelt story of the many alternative paths that lead to a loving family, with lessons for every parent



Trystan and Biff had been dating for just a year when the couple learned that Biff's niece and nephew were about to be removed from their home by Child Protective Services. Immediately, Trystan and Biff took in... Read more

Black on Both Sides

A Racial History of Trans Identity

By: C. Riley Snorton
Narrated by: C. Riley Snorton
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on... Read more

Meet Cute Diary

By: Emery Lee
Narrated by: Logan Rozos
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen’s first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships. Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem—all... Read more

Melissa (previously published as GEORGE)

By: Alex Gino
Narrated by: Jamie Clayton
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

“Melissa is a great own voices story about a trans teen. Especially gender-confirming is that Melissa is referred to as she from the beginning of the text, even before her friends and family know of her trans identity. Read more

Pageboy

A Memoir

By: Elliot Page
Narrated by: Elliot Page
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

“Pageboy is a quietly powerful, captivating memoir with a small amount of salacious-ness. Elliot Page is so earnest, vulnerable and generous with his heartbreak, dysphoria, pain and healing. I was particularly struck by the many poignant and relatable moments Page describes, yet we, as a society, have only recently come up with the language to... Read more

This Book Is Gay

By: Juno Dawson
Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for you.



There's a long-running joke that, after "coming out," a lesbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership card and... Read more