2022 Pride Picks

Gay Bar

Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Narrated by: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

“Atherton Lin's part memoir, part gay history uses beautiful prose interspersed with biting nuggets of snark to commemorate the long tradition of queer gatherings - sexual, communal, important, and slowly fading. Infusing a dejected sense of feeling into his stories of sexualization, internalized homophobia, and otherness, Gay Bar: Why We Went... Read more

Just by Looking at Him

A Novel

By: Ryan O'Connell
Narrated by: Ryan O'Connell
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and beautiful” (Gary Janetti, New York Times bestselling author) novel following a gay TV writer with cerebral palsy as he fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world.

Elliott appears to be living the dream as a... Read more

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

A Novel

By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

“This book is lush, beautiful, human, and HOT! I loved Feyi's journey of letting herself feel love after loss, and the explorations of what it means to make art and feel alive. Read more

Heresy

By: Melissa Lenhardt
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Bailey Carr, Ella Turenne, Nikki Massoud, Natalie Naudus, Imani Jade Powers & James Fouhey
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

"An all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West . . . and that's exactly what Melissa Lenhardt delivers in her unapologetically badass western, Heresy." - New York Times

"Lenhardt has created a bold new story where women have taken their rightful place in the narrative of the Outlaw Western genre; where wit,... Read more

Asylum

A Memoir & Manifesto

By: Edafe Okporo
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

A “moving…dramatic” (David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl), and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo.

On the eve of Edafe Okporo’s twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken by a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria.... Read more

Hear's the Thing

Lessons on Listening, Life, and Love

By: Cody Alan
Narrated by: Cody Alan & Keith Urban
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Includes an audiobook exclusive interview of Cody Alan with Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles!Read by the author.We live in a world of noise where everyone is so quick to speak. When we slow down and give someone our full attention, we offer them a safe place to be fully heard and accepted.Hear’s the Thing is a story about what is possible when... Read more

Last Call

A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By: Elon Green
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

"This true-crime gem—Green's first full-length work, sensitively and incisively narrated by Pittu—is an illuminating and deeply humanizing testament to victims overlooked by the media and forgotten in cultural memory...An insightful and essential conversation among author, narrator, and producer concludes this highly recommended recording." --... Read more

All the Water I've Seen Is Running

By: Elias Rodriques
Narrated by: Landon Woodson
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

“The voice of the main character in this stunning new slim novel by Elias Rodriques is so honest, flawed and vulnerable, I had myself convinced I was reading a memoir. The details picked out to accentuate memories are so spot-on, so accurate, the reader is encased in this reality created by the author. Brilliant, profound and heartbreaking. Read more

Let the Record Show

A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

By: Sarah Schulman
Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams & Sarah Schulman
Length: 27 hours 26 minutes

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

One of O, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of Vogue's 9 LGBTQ+ Books We're Looking Forward to This Spring, one of and Cosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one of The Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want... Read more

Butter Honey Pig Bread

By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
Narrated by: Amaka Umeh
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

“Moving, intimate, hopeful, beautifully shaped and molded from many perspectives across intersecting timelines. This tale of sisterhood, forgiveness (for others and for oneself) feels like sitting quietly on a warm porch with your loved ones on a perfect summer day. Read more

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake

Winner Bakes All: Book #1

By: Alexis Hall
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

“Ever wonder about the secret love lives of the contestants on British baking shows? If yes, then this hilarious rom-com filled with a cast of quirky characters is for you! Alexis Hall is one of my favorite authors and writes the best banter between characters. This listen had me laughing out loud! Read more

The Breaks

By: Julietta Singh
Narrated by: Julietta Singh
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the worldIn a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh... Read more

Playing with Myself

By: Randy Rainbow
Narrated by: Randy Rainbow
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

This program is read by the author with a special appearance from his mom.

An intimate and light-hearted memoir by viral sensation and three-time Emmy-nominated musical comedian Randy Rainbow that takes readers through his life—the highs, the lows, the lipstick, the pink glasses, and the show tunes.

Randy Rainbow, the man who conquered the... Read more

Spear

By: Nicola Griffith
Narrated by: Nicola Griffith
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

This program is read by the author and includes a bonus PDF of detailed notes.

A spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring... Read more

Blue-Skinned Gods

By: SJ Sindu
Narrated by: Varun Sathi
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality.

In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child’s blessings and miracles, believing... Read more

The Kingdom of Sand

A Novel

By: Andrew Holleran
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

This program is read by award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award–nominee David Pittu.

Andrew Holleran’s unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire—the first novel in thirteen years from one of the most acclaimed gay authors of our time.

The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has... Read more

Dancer From the Dance

A Novel

By: Andrew Holleran
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Now in audio for the first time! Award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award nominee David Pittu narrates one of the most influential books in gay literature.

Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance defined gay life in late 1970s New York. Published in 1978, the novel captures the time post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS where sexual freedom was... Read more

The Beautiful Things Shoppe

Seasons of New Hope: Book #2

By: Philip William Stover
Narrated by: Michael Dean & Kale Williams
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

"This sweet gay contemporary hits the spot." —Publishers Weekly

Their collections may clash but their hearts are a perfect match.

Moving to eclectic New Hope, Pennsylvania, and running The Beautiful Things Shoppe is a dream come true for elegant and reserved fine arts dealer Prescott J. Henderson. He never agreed to share the space with Danny... Read more

Sisters of the Great War

By: Suzanne Feldman
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Inspired by real women, this powerful novel tells the story of two unconventional American sisters who volunteer at the front during World War I

August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a different struggle. Ruth and Elise Duncan long to escape the... Read more

Role Model

Game Changers: Book #5

By: Rachel Reid
Narrated by: Cooper North
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid's next Game Changers hockey romance sees a grumpy professional hockey player meet his match in an out-and-proud social media manager…

The hits just keep coming for Troy Barrett. Traded to the worst team in the league would be bad enough, but coming on the heels of a messy breakup and a recent scandal… Troy... Read more