Staff Reads

The Serviceberry

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

“Can a book be cozy, loving, encouraging, compassionate AND a threat to the brutal and cutthroat consumer capitalism of our era? I present to you Robin Wall Kimmerer’s first book since her surprise mega bestselling sleeper hit Braiding Sweetgrass. The Serviceberry is a bushy, under appreciated fruit tree native to Eastern North America that... Read more

Rani Choudhury Must Die

By: Adiba Jaigirdar
Narrated by: Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan & Shubhangi Karmakar
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

In this sapphic dual POV romance by Adiba Jaigirdar, Meghna and Rani (ex-best-friends-turned-rivals) realize they're dating the same guy, so they team up to beat and expose him at a big science competition!

"Both narrators deliver exactly the kind of authentic, well-characterized performances needed for a story of hard-won... Read more

Sister Snake

A Novel

By: Amanda Lee Koe
Narrated by: Zoë Chao
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“A beautiful story about sisterhood. One of the best myth based novels I have read in a long time! Read more

Silent Are the Dead

Mud Sawpole Mystery: Book #2

By: D.M. Rowell
Narrated by: Katie Anvil Rich
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

A Kiowa woman faces new threats to her tribe and identity while struggling to keep her Silicon Valley business afloat. She must search deep within herself to find answers—and a murderer—in Mary Higgins Clark Award Finalist D. M. Rowell’s thrilling sequel, perfect for fans of Winter Counts. While back on tribal land, Mud Sawpole uncovers an... Read more

The Teller of Small Fortunes

By: Julie Leong
Narrated by: Phyllis Ho
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

“A must-read for fans of Legends & Lattes and The Spellshop, this cozy, inclusive fantasy follows a foreign-born fortune teller who flees home only to find it on the open road with an aspiring baker, a reformed thief, and the father of a missing girl. Read for a heart-warming and heart-opening story, pleasantly paced like a donkey-drawn cart... Read more

I'll Be Gone for Christmas

A Novel

By: Georgia K. Boone
Narrated by: Angel Pean & Karen Malina White
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

For fans of The Holiday comes a heartwarming Christmas house-swap rom-com debut in which finding yourself and finding love come hand in hand.Bee Tyler needs a break. In the bustling San Francisco tech community, no one ever seems to stand still—especially her perfect sister and business partner, Beth. So when her best friend suggests a getaway... Read more

We Will Rest!

The Art of Escape

Rest Is Resistance: Book #2

By: Tricia Hersey
Narrated by: Tricia Hersey
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

“Hersey turns the meditation up to 100. This book is a loud and proud declaration of intent. Hersey mixes mantra, poetry, and testimony with the beautiful artwork of George McClaman to call us all to remove ourselves from the systems that do not seek our wellbeing. We Will Rest! invites readers to examine our relationships to our bodies, our rest... Read more

Mutual Aid

Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

By: Dean Spade
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or... Read more

Flopping in a Winter Wonderland

By: Jason June
Narrated by: Jason June & Shawn K. Jain
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Sparks are flying in Winter Wonderland this Christmas in this LGBTQ+ young adult rom-com from Jason June, New York Times bestselling author of Out of the Blue, Jay’s Gay Agenda, and Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball! All Aaron wants for Christmas is for his brother, Casey, to get over his ex, Raquel. He’d prefer not to be at... Read more

The Merriest Misters

A Novel

By: Timothy Janovsky
Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin & Zach Barela
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

"Sanderlin takes care to amplify the emotions in each scene—whether silly and lighthearted or steamy and sensual. All is delivered through Sanderlin's charming narration" —AudioFile on The (Fake) Dating Game

The Santa Clause meets Husband Material in this delightful holiday novel!

Patrick Hargrave and Quinn Muller have been married for less than a... 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

Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

“Neverton is home to the only gay conversion camp in the country to boast a 100% success rate: Camp Damascus. God-fearing Rose Darling knows all about the camp from the commercials starring the charismatic Pastor Pete Bend. But when Rose starts coughing up flies and getting flashes of a life she doesn't remember living -- and a girl she doesn't... Read more

Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream

A Novel

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia
Narrated by: E A Castillo
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

A small-town bartender juggles motherhood and a sexual awakening in this heartwarming queer friends-to-lovers romance from the author of Sammy Espinoza’s Last Review.

Cash Delgado has a good life in the quaint town of Ridley Falls. She has Joyce’s Bar, where she manages a familiar group of regulars and emcees the ever-popular Karaoke Thursday.... Read more

Real Queer America

LGBT Stories from Red States

By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Samantha Allen
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's... Read more

Felix Ever After

By: Kacen Callender
Narrated by: Logan Rozos
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

A Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All TimeFrom Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He... Read more

Karaoke Queen

By: Dominic Lim
Narrated by: Manila Luzon
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Booklist: Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Romances of 2024

A legal assistant by day becomes a karaoke queen by night to grab a second chance at love in this joyfully queer rom-com, perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexis Hall.
 
For Rex Araneta, his college sweetheart Aaron Berry was always the one who got away. So when he finds out that Aaron is... Read more

How Far the Light Reaches

A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“This utterly absorbing collection of essays merges marine biology and memoir, diving into such subjects as disordered eating via a starving mother octopus, the power of queer spaces through the science and survival of deep sea wildlife, gendered violence and the Sandstriker (formerly named after Lorena Bobbit), being mixed-race and rainbow fish... 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