Audiobooks for UK Pride

Unbounded

Manifesting a life without limits

By: Maria Thattil
Narrated by: Maria Thattil
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

What would you change in your life if you could silence the voice that tells you: you're not enough, keep quiet, you can't do it, or there is no space for you?

As we grow and move through the world, it shrinks us and puts us in boxes - tells us who we should be, what we're capable of, and who to love.

As a queer child of immigrants, Maria Thattil... Read more

Jonny Appleseed

A Novel

By: Joshua Whitehead
Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A... Read more

Màgòdiz

By: Gabe Calderón
Narrated by: Everett Rain
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

“For me listening to Màgòdiz was like sitting down to relax into a puzzle - the separate pieces of the story coming to light in small separate parts, teasing out nuggets connection, until a beautiful masterpiece of the intertwined whole is revealed. This book is fiercely queer, exploring gender in a different, and quite compelling, way than I... 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

A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett
Narrated by: Casey Plett
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett. From the author of Little Fish (Amazon First Novel Award Winner, 2019) and A Dream of a Woman comes eleven unique short stories featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love in settings ranging from a... Read more

Gay Britannia

Celebrating Pride in the UK

By: Various
Narrated by: Graham Norton, Susan Calman, Alan Carr, Full Cast, Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry, Shahidha Bari, Simon Callow & Ben Hunte
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

A collection of insightful interviews, documentaries and comedy that celebrates LGBTQ+ in Britain, publishing to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewallriots.

The Ben Hunte Interviews: Presenter and journalist Ben Hunte interviews his LGBTQ heroes about their unforgettable gay moments. Guests include Paul O’Grady, Stephen K Amos,... Read more

Always a Soldier

Service, Sacrifice, and Coming Out as America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican

By: Rob Smith
Narrated by: Rob Smith
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

An Iraq War memoir and searing political commentary from Fox News regular and “America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican” Rob SmithMoonlight meets American Sniper in this groundbreaking memoir and political commentary from a bold new voice in American politics. Before he became a war veteran and political analyst, he was a young black man who... Read more

TMI

My Life in Scandal

By: Perez Hilton & Leif Eriksson
Narrated by: Perez Hilton
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

TMI is the story of how Mario Lavandeira became Perez Hilton, a celebrity blogger with millions of readers around the globe who was sometimes called the Most Hated Man in Hollywood. Growing up in Miami’s Little Havana in the 1980s, Perez was bullied at school because of his weight and his sexual orientation, so he devoted all his free time to... Read more

De Profundis

By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde’s moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet’s imprisonment. Here Wilde repudiates Lord Alfred and reflects on his ordeal, acknowledging how the depths of his sorrow have helped liberate him towards a fuller, freer wisdom. Brimming with... Read more

Ike’s Mystery Man

The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler

By: Peter Shinkle
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

This exhilarating Cold War narrative takes listeners from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man’s intimate diary. Ike’s Mystery Man brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House. It also shines a bright light on the indispensable... Read more

Orlando - Abridged

By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Laura Paton
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth-century literature. He emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversion of the 1920s. For Virginia Woolf, a leading figure of the Bloomsbury Group,... Read more

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories

By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

A palmist’s prediction leads to murder; an enigmatic woman’s lifestyle is a mystery to be solved; a ghost tries to frighten the new tenants of his home; a man has discovered the dedicatee of Shakespeare’s Sonnets; a millionaire wants to be painted as a pauper. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories is a collection of fascinating short... Read more

The Passenger

How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship

By: Chaney Kwak
Narrated by: Keong Sim
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by fifty-foot swells and forty-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated... Read more

I Ran into Some Trouble

By: Peggy Caserta & Maggie Falcon
Narrated by: Carol Monda
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Peggy Caserta, founder of the famous Haight-Ashbury hippie boutique Mnasidika and lover and girlfriend of Janis Joplin, was a Louisiana homecoming queen turned airsick stewardess who eventually landed in 1960s San Francisco and set up shop.Her store was a hang-out for the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company; it was where Wes... Read more

Red Clay Suzie

A Novel Inspired by True Events

By: Jeffrey Dale Lofton
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

The coming-of-age story of Philbet, a gay, physically-misshapen boy in rural Georgia, battles bullying, ignorance, and disdain as he makes his way in life as an outsider—before finding acceptance in unlikely places.Fueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes and obsessed with cars, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay boy in rural... Read more

An Angel in Sodom

Henry Gerber and the Birth of the Gay Rights Movement

By: Jim Elledge
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation.Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the army for employment. After his release, he explored Chicago’s gay subculture: cruising... Read more

Fieldwork

A Forager's Memoir

By: Iliana Regan
Narrated by: Iliana Regan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north.Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn,... Read more

The Straight State

Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

Politics and Society in Modern America

By: Margot Canaday
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

A classic book now available on audio With narration by Laurel Lefkow, who reveals how the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenship The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National... Read more

James Baldwin Reading from Giovanni’s Room

From Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 1

The Great American Authors Read from Their Works Series: Book #0

By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: James Baldwin
Length: 15 minutes

Giovanni's Room, Baldwin's second novel, deals frankly with homosexuality in a manner daring for its time. It depicts a white American struggling to accept his homoerotic desires. David, the protagonist, like Baldwin himself, feels alienated from his native country and moves to Paris in search of a freer life. In the passage Baldwin reads on... Read more