2024 Holiday Gift Guide

Sheine Lende

A Prequel to Elatsoe

By: Darcie Little Badger
Narrated by: Kinsale Drake
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can’t afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood—and the loss of Shane’s father and her grandparents. They don’t think they’ll ever get their home back. Then Shane’s... Read more

Greta & Valdin

A Novel

By: Rebecca K Reilly
Narrated by: Natalie Beran, Jackson Bliss, Eilidh Beaton, Nico Evers-Swindell & Gary Furlong
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

“A hilarious, tender book about siblings navigating life’s complexities. Valdin, recovering from a breakup, confronts his feelings when sent to Buenos Aires for work, where his ex resides. Meanwhile, Greta juggles unrequited love, academic struggles, and family drama. Set within a quirky, vibrant multiracial family, the novel blends humor and... Read more

The Flicker

By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Kyla García & Suzy Jackson
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

ONE YEAR AGO, A SOLAR FLARE SCORCHED THE EARTH AND DESTROYED LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

With their parents gone and their supplies running low, grieving stepsiblings Millie and Rose leave home with their infant half-brother in search of Millie’s grandma, a Seminole elder—who Millie knows in her gut is still alive, even if Rose isn’t so sure. Along the... Read more

The Stars Too Fondly

A Novel

By: Emily Hamilton
Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton weaves a suspenseful, charming, and irresistibly joyous tale of fierce friendship, improbable love, and wonder as vast as the universe itself.So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship.They just wanted to know why,... Read more

The Prospects

A Novel

By: KT Hoffman
Narrated by: Shaan Dasani & KT Hoffman
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

“Coming off my first rec softball season, I was very excited to read this queer baseball romance and it did not disappoint! I loved the optimistic Gene and his passion for his minor league team and it's members. The friends to enemies to lovers arc is deliciously fraught and filled with sexual tension and misunderstandings. It's perfect for... Read more

Don't Let the Forest In

By: C.G. Drews
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

“If a hauntingly unhinged fever dream could physically exist, it would take form of this book. This is the type of story I will spend MONTHS thinking about. Read more

A Banh Mi for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen
Narrated by: Carolina Do & VyVy Nguyen
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vietnam and they spend the semester unraveling their families' histories—and eating all the street food in Sài Gòn.

In Sài Gòn, Lan is always trying to be the perfect daughter, dependable and willing to care for her widowed mother and their bánh mì... Read more

Martyr!

A novel

By: Kaveh Akbar
Narrated by: Arian Moayed
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“I honestly have a hard time verbalizing exactly what I love about this novel, except to say that I am writing this staff pick months after reading it because it's still on my mind. Cyrus Shams was a baby when his mother's plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf. Following her death, Cyrus and his father move to Indiana; his father dies as... Read more

Survival Is a Promise

The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Narrated by: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Length: 17 hours 41 minutes

“This was a book written with a smile - it's so rich with humour and humanity, mischief and reverence, respect and curiosity. It's made me reflect on Lorde's work in new ways, in the ways with which I pick up poetry or look at rocks, or in the ways I think about the physical places we build to nurture writers. I loved every page and have since... Read more

The Serviceberry

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“Don’t let the size of this book fool you! It’s brimming with nuggets of wisdom regarding our relationship to the natural world and pleas for reciprocity in all aspects of living. A wonderful reference for a more equitable, meaningful existence. Read more

All Friends Are Necessary

A Novel

By: Tomas Moniz
Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

In this “tender and open-hearted novel," (Nina LaCour, author of Yerba Buena) Tomas Moniz—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Lambda Literary awards—delivers a commanding new story about the power of friendship, community, and the families we create for ourselves.

Efren “Chino” Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping... Read more

Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle
Narrated by: André Santana, Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, Georgia Bird, Liz Kerin, Mara Wilson, Mark Oshiro, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher & TJ Klune
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

“This one is for all the disappointed fans who never got to see their queer ships become canon on TV. Misha Byrne, once that devastated fan, is now a TV writer who will fight the horrors of homophobia and capitalism to get that coveted on screen kiss. A true hero! Read more

The Pairing

By: Casey McQuiston
Narrated by: Emma Galvin & Max Meyers
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

“A perfect bi4bi second chances rivals to lovers rom com, and the gender exploration in it was so beautiful and life-giving. Read more

Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Reckoning of Roku

The Chronicles of the Avatar Series: Book #5

By: Randy Ribay
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

From National Book Award finalist Randy Ribay comes a gripping new chapter—starring Avatar Roku—in the New York Times bestselling Chronicles of the Avatar series, set in the world of Avatar: the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.A young Avatar Roku has only just commenced his training at the Southern Air Temple when his erstwhile friend,... Read more

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

By: Django Wexler
Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself.

Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and... Read more

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell
Narrated by: Carmen Rose
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

“By the end of this book, you'll want Shesheshen to be YOUR monster girlfriend. She's absolutely hilarious and the audiobook's narrator does a fantastic job of bringing her to life. Read more

The Viral Underclass

The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher
Narrated by: Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl & Steven W. Thrasher
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

This program is read by the author with a foreword written and read by Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl.

"An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class...readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world."
—Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This... Read more

Disability Intimacy

Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.

What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating... Read more