2023 Pride Picks

Gender Magic

Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

By: Rae McDaniel
Narrated by: Rae McDaniel
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

A first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure for transgender and non-binary individuals, gender explorers, and those who love them—perfect for readers of The Body is Not an Apology and Pleasure Activism.   

Taking everything they know from more than a decade of working with the queer and trans... Read more

Queer Little Nightmares

By: David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli
Narrated by: Danielle Verayo
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the... Read more

Pageboy

A Memoir

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

“While this book can be all over the place as far as timeline goes, it is also moving and fun as well as being educational and at times very brutal. Elliot Page does not hold back when discussing his feelings and the events that he went through in his career and personal life. Read more

The Secret Summer Promise

By: Keah Brown
Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Last summer, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She’s waited too long for adventure and thrills to enter her life. Together with her crew of ride-or-die friends, and the best parents anyone could ask for (just don’t tell them that), she’s... Read more

A Minor Chorus

A Novel

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Narrated by: Jesse Nobess
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.

An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him:... Read more

I Felt the End Before It Came

Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness

By: Daniel Allen Cox
Narrated by: Daniel Allen Cox
Length: 5 hours

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL*
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023

“I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah’s Witness—it’s one or the other.”

Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and... Read more

Quietly Hostile

Essays

By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“Quietly Hostile only reinforced the love I already have for Samantha Irby’s writing. I love listening to frank and humorous way she tackles everything from relationships to Red Lobster to bodily functions. Her books, especially the audio recordings, are always ones I look forward to! Read more

Love at First Set

A Novel

By: Jennifer Dugan
Narrated by: Lori Prince
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Sometimes true love takes a little heavy lifting""The most hilarious disaster bisexuals you’ll ever meet.” —Dahlia Adler, Buzzfeed BooksThis irresistible adult debut from beloved YA author Jennifer Dugan is a queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care and Written in the Stars, in which a gym employee accidentally ruins her bosses’... Read more

The Wicked Bargain

By: Gabe Cole Novoa
Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

“LOVED the queer Pirates of the Caribbean feel!!! Great for fans of Our Flag Means Death and adventure stories. Read more

In the Lives of Puppets

By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

“In this robotic twist on the classic Pinocchio, a band of lovable robots and one human explore life, love, and loss, and figure out how to accept what they can't change and change what they will not accept. Read more

Dykette

A Novel

By: Jenny Fran Davis
Narrated by: Alex Schmidt
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 by Vogue
Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2023 by Buzzfeed, Electric Lit, and Them
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Our Culture, Yahoo!, The Millions, LitHub and SPY.com
Named a Most Anticipated Debut of 2023 by Debutiful and Goodreads

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel... Read more

The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr
Narrated by: Chris McPherson
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRE THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022 When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of... Read more

Big Gay Wedding

A Novel

By: Byron Lane
Narrated by: Noah Galvin
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

“Big Gay Wedding is hilarious! The relationships between Chrissy and all of her people (and animals) were well developed and I could easily imagine being on the farm with all of them. It's clear that Chrissy only wants the best for her son, Barnett, even if she doesn't always know what that is. The dynamic between Chrissy and her son's fiance is... Read more

The Daddy Diaries

The Year I Grew Up

By: Andy Cohen
Narrated by: Andy Cohen
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

"This is the third in Cohen’s series of published diaries, and I think they’re just the bee’s knees. In this one, he chronicles a year juggling Housewives, his precocious son, and a newborn daughter. There’s self-reflection, self-effacement, gossip, humor. I mean, there should be a National Book Award special citation for these books."- Vulture... Read more

This Is Why They Hate Us

By: Aaron H. Aceves
Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

“With a funny & natural character voice, Aceves' debut had me laughing out loud, gasping, and pausing the audiobook to actually yell about some choices Quique makes. For #disasterbi teens everywhere - these characters are messy in a real and relatable way! Read more

Difference is Born on the Lips: Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society

By: Michael Handrick
Narrated by: George Naylor
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

"A provocative, raw, and soulful book... An unflinching and visionary read." - AttitudeRaw and stunningly written, Handrick takes us on a journey through his experiences as a gay working-class man, confronting the toxic narratives and myths that society has built up around masculinity, class, and sexuality.Much more than just a personal story,... Read more

Husband Material

London Calling: Book #2

By: Alexis Hall
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

“The same uproariously funny writing and more of the moments that make for a real romance, Husband Material is this month's fav. Jameson is brilliant with voices and it's true I probably wouldn't have loved these as much as if I hadn't heard them first, but truly, Hall hits the mark for a great love story. Read more

The Holiday Trap

By: Roan Parrish
Narrated by: Natalie Duke, Pete Cross & Hillary Huber
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, but they can't seem to understand what it's like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. When an act of familial meddling goes way too far, she realizes just how desperately she needs space to figure out who she is. Truman Belvedere's heart is crushed when he learns that... Read more

You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince

Boy Meets Boy: Book #2

By: Timothy Janovsky
Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Matthew Prince is young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled. So what if his parents barely remember he exists and the press is totally obsessed with him? He's on top of the world. But one major PR misstep later, he's cut off and shipped away to spend the holidays in his grandparents' charming small-town hellscape. Population: who cares? It's bad... Read more

The Language of Bodies

By: Suzanne DeWitt Hall
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Maddie Wells’s life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back. Befriending the murderer’s wife is the first stage in Maddie’s plan to make him pay. The... Read more