Own Voices...literally
There SOMETHING about listening to an audiobook read by the author, the way the words fall from their lips naturally, and it feels so intimate. Here's a list of QTBIPOC fiction and memoirs that have captured my heart lately!
Over the Top
A Raw Journey to Self-Love
By: Jonathan Van Ness
Narrated by: Jonathan Van Ness
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGOOGLE'S BEST AUDIOBOOKS OF 2019NPR'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARINDIE BESTSELLERGOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER: BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A laugh-and-cry-out-loud memoir from the beloved star of Netflix’s Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness, sharing never before told, deeply personal stories of growing up gay, transforming... Read more
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The Black Flamingo
By: Dean Atta
Narrated by: Dean Atta
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This beautiful novel in verse has a tender, loving lens on the toxic directions we're sometimes forced to grow in before we are able to come into our own. In that way, it reminds me of Moonlight. The epilogue is beautiful and stands on its own—I want to print it out and pin it up in every middle and high school. Read more
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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
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Intimations
Six Essays
By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Zadie Smith
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Listened to the audiobook of Intimations a full year after COVID-19 began, on the eve of George Floyd's murderer being found responsible, and it is just as powerful now as it would have been at the beginning of the pandemic. Stunning and worth listening to several times. Read more
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Naturally Tan
A Memoir
By: Tan France
Narrated by: Tan France
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Maybe the most fun audiobook ever. Plus I know now how to find the perfect pair of jeans. Read more
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Come Tumbling Down
Wayward Children: Book #5
By: Seanan McGuire
Narrated by: Seanan McGuire
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Seanan McGuire strikes again with another breathtakingly beautiful fantasy! The Wayward Children series is an amazing collection of novellas for those who love the unique and bizarre, who long to see themselves in fiction, who want to lose themselves in words. This particular installment returns to some of her very best characters and can be... Read more
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Save Yourself
By: Cameron Esposito
Narrated by: Cameron Esposito
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
This "hilarious and honest" bestselling memoir from a rising comedy star tackles issues of gender, sexuality, feminism, and the Catholic childhood that prepared her for a career as an outspoken lesbian comedian (Abby Wambach).
Cameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended up a stand-up comic. Now she would like to tell the whole queer as hell... Read more
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Exit West
A Novel
By: Mohsin Hamid
Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Exit West will take your breath away as it magically weaves together a story of falling in love while the world falls apart. Spirited Nadia captures the heart of the thoughtful Saeed, but as their different paths in life converge, ordinary life gives way to the insults of war. Mohsin Hamid conveys the story of these young refugees with... Read more
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Sissy
A Coming-of-Gender Story
By: Jacob Tobia
Narrated by: Jacob Tobia
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d)... Read more
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