2022 Pride Picks

The Lights on Knockbridge Lane

Garnet Run: Book #3

By: Roan Parrish
Narrated by: Michael Dean
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Can one man’s crowded, messy life fill another man’s empty heart?

Raising a family was always Adam Mills’ dream, although solo parenting and moving back to tiny Garnet Run certainly were not. After a messy breakup, Adam is doing his best to give his young daughter the life she deserves—including accepting help from their new, reclusive neighbor... Read more

His Fresh Start Cowboy

Woods Ranch: Book #1

By: A.M. Arthur
Narrated by: Michael Dean
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

From acclaimed author A.M. Arthur comes a tender, sexy cowboy romance, the first in her Woods Ranch series.

Two cowboys will have to risk their hearts—again—to find a home on the ranch.

Hugo Turner's boots haven't touched Texas soil in almost a decade, and he's not sure they should now. Being in the state is complicated, but Hugo can't resist... Read more

Sink or Swim

Shore Leave: Book #2

By: Annabeth Albert
Narrated by: Greg Boudreaux & Joel Leslie
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

"Albert makes a deeper and more sensitive investigation into what love is than most romances." —New York Times Book Review on Conventionally Yours

A meet-cute leads to more than they expected in this military-hero romance from award-winning author Annabeth Albert  

Navy chief Calder Euler loves to win big. His latest score? A remote mountain... Read more

Every Good Boy Does Fine

Poetry and Prose

By: Calvin Arsenia
Narrated by: Calvin Arsenia
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

“Glowing with warmth, vulnerability, and a heavy heart, Arsenia’s intimate reflections depict the past and present wrestling within the individual as he endeavors to chart his own course in the world.”—Atwood Magazine

Both a journey of individual healing and a call for action, these poems show that, with a little love and acceptance, anyone can... Read more

break your glass slippers

you are your own fairy tale

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad
Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace
Length: 42 minutes

"more forgetting time.
more midnight dances with yourself."

amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents a new companion series, “you are your own fairy tale”. the first installment, break your glass slippers, is about overcoming those who don’t see your worth, even if... Read more

Sarahland

By: Sam Cohen
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

"Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom are named Sarah.

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONS * OPRAH MAGAZINE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * REFINERY29

In Sarahland, Sam Cohen... Read more

The Power of the Dog

A Novel

By: Thomas Savage & Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Chad Michael Collins & Annie Proulx
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain.

Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of... Read more

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful

How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

By: Jack Lowery
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief.

In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out... Read more

Wild and Wicked Things

By: Francesca May
Narrated by: Marisa Calin, Gemma Dawson & Ralph Lister
Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

A lush and decadent gothic novel following a young woman’s journey into a glittering world filled with illicit magic, romance, blood debts, and witchcraft in the aftermath of World War I. On Crow Island, people whisper that real magic lurks just below the surface.

Magic doesn’t interest Annie Mason. Not after it stole her future. She’s on the... Read more

Ellen Outside the Lines

By: A. J. Sass
Narrated by: Emma Galvin
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Rain Reign meets Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World in this heartfelt novel about a neurodivergent thirteen-year-old navigating changing friendships, a school trip, and expanding horizons.

Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out and people fit neatly into her predefined categories. She attends temple... Read more

The Other Mothers

Two Women's Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs

By: Jennifer Berney
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

A story of fertility, feminism, and family.



Jenn Berney was one of those people who knew she was destined for motherhood—it wasn't a question of if, but when. So when she and her wife Kelly decided to start building their family, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. But they soon found themselves entrenched in a... Read more

At Your Most Beautiful

By: Harper Bliss
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Some nights are unforgettable . . .



Ten years ago, Quinn Hathaway and Maya Mercer shared a night of forbidden passion they vowed to keep secret forever.



When Quinn and Maya meet again, old sparks fly, but none of the reasons to hide their passion have changed. Quinn is still much younger and Maya has never told her son that she's attracted to... Read more

Devil's Chew Toy

By: Rob Osler
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Seattle teacher and part-time blogger Hayden McCall wakes up sporting one hell of a shiner, with the police knocking at his door. It seems that his new crush, dancer Camilo Rodriguez, has gone missing, and they suspect foul play. What happened the night before? And where is Camilo? Determined to find answers, pint-sized, good-hearted Hayden... Read more

Book Boyfriend

By: Kris Ripper
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

“A sweet romance that tackles the prejudice against the genre. Read more

Never Been Kissed

Boy Meets Boy: Book #1

By: Timothy Janovsky
Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush, It's been a few years since we were together, but I can't stop thinking about the time we almost... Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out.... Read more

Three

By: Valérie Perrin
Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée
Length: 21 hours 23 minutes

1986: Adrien, Etienne, and Nina are ten years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part. 2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past, reports on... Read more

Dead End Girls

By: Wendy Heard
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus & Taylor Meskimen
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Determined to escape suffocating expectations and menacing families, two desperate teens fake their own deaths in this queer contemporary thriller perfect for fans of The Twin and Five Survive.​

In one week, Maude will be dead. At least, that’s what she wants everyone to think. After years of research, Maude has decided to fake her own death.... Read more

The Women's House of Detention

A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

By: Hugh Ryan
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.

The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City’s Greenwich... Read more

Patsy

A Novel

By: Nicole Dennis-Benn
Narrated by: Sharon Gordon
Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

“I feel that Dennis-Benn is unparalleled in writing the insidious unforgivables. The mother who can't find love for her daughter, the more-than-friend who takes everything you give them and never gives back, the daughter told to be a "good girl" who finds difficulty doing either of those things for the woman who ends up raising her. Like her... Read more

After Francesco

By: Brian Malloy
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

From acclaimed author Brian Malloy comes a stunning novel of love, friendship, and surviving the deepest loss, set in New York City and Minneapolis in 1988, at the peak of the AIDS crisis.

Two years after his partner, Francesco, died, twenty-eight-year-old Kevin Doyle is dusting off his one good suit jacket for yet another funeral, yet another... Read more