LGBTQIA+ Authors

The Opium Queen

By: Gabrielle Paluch

Narrated by: Hayden Bishop

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Olive Yang was a widely mythologized genderqueer lesbian opium-pioneer in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle. After escaping an arranged marriage with a noble cousin, Olive felt that she had no choice but to lead a life of banditry with an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA. As her smuggling empire grew, she became so powerful... Read more

Un lugar para Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

Narrated by: Bernat Quintana

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

REGRESA EL GANADOR DEL PREMIO BOOKER POR HISTORIA DE SHUGGIE BAIN «Un lugar para Mungo lo confirma: Douglas Stuart es un genio».
Ron Charles, The Washington Post «Un puñetazo directo al corazón».
Publishers Weekly A sus quince años, Mungo, un adolescente con una sensibilidad diferente al resto de los chicos del vecindario, vive en un barrio obrero... Read more

Trace Evidence

By: Charif Shanahan

Narrated by: Charif Shanahan

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Chicago Book of 2023



"A truly magical achievement." —Ocean Vuong



In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the... Read more

Juno Loves Legs

By: Karl Geary

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and Legs grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality, and they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and... Read more

Something Like Possible

By: Miel Moreland

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On the worst day of her life, Madison is dumped by her girlfriend, then fired as said (ex-)girlfriend’s campaign manager … plus she accidentally rear-ends the student government advisor—the one person whose good word might help her win a spot at a prestigious youth politics summer camp.

But Madison is nothing if not a girl with a plan, and she... Read more

The Secret Summer Promise

By: Keah Brown

Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

By: Richard Mirabella

Narrated by: Eve Passeltiner

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After years of severed communication, Justin appears on his sister’s doorstep needing a place to stay. The home he's made for himself has collapsed, as has everything else in his life. When they were children, Willa played the role of her brother’s protector, but now, afraid of the chaos he might bring, she’s reluctant to let him in. Willa lives... Read more

In the Form of a Question

By: Amy Schneider

Narrated by: Amy Schneider

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Warm and funny.” —The New York Times * “Refreshingly no-holds-barred.” —USA TODAY * “Delightful.” —San Francisco Chronicle

An inspirational, witty, and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!—an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself as well as a passionate “ode to learning”... Read more

Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

Narrated by: André Santana, Bryan Washington & Jake Choi

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington Post

The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's... Read more

Pig

By: Sam Sax

Narrated by: Sam Sax

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.

This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig—farm animal, men/masculinity, police and... Read more

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

By: torrin a. greathouse

Narrated by: torrin a. greathouse

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in PoetryA CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a... Read more

A River of Golden Bones

By: A.K. Mulford

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author and TikTok sensation A.K. Mulford comes the first riveting, enchanting book in the all-new Golden Court romantasy trilogy—A River of Golden Bones begins a journey of self-discovery, romance, and adventure for a young heir as she/they comes out of hiding to save her sister from a malicious, powerful sorceress and her... Read more

Homeland of My Body

By: Richard Blanco

Narrated by: Richard Blanco

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with 2 full sections of new poems bookending Blanco’s selections from his 5 previous volumes

“An engineer, poet, Cuban American . . . his poetry bridges cultures and languages—a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future—reflecting a nation that is hectic, colorful, and still... Read more

Dear Mothman

By: Robin Gow

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"A ­triumphant coming-of-age story about gender identity, strength, and friendship,as well as the different ways that people ­discover who they are."—School Library Journal, starred review
A moving middle-grade novel in verse, about a young trans boy dealing with the loss of his friend by writing to his favorite cryptid, Mothman
Halfway through... Read more

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

By: Matt Baume

Narrated by: Matt Baume

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ+ liberation unfolded in plain sight in front of millions of viewers, most of whom were laughing too hard to mind. From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from... Read more

I Am Not Raymond Wallace

By: Sam Kenyon

Narrated by: Alex Wingfield

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Two worlds, two timelines and one person's impact. Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that... Read more

2.5 Minute Ride

By: Lisa Kron

Narrated by: Lisa Kron

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2.5 Minute Ride--winner of the Obie Award, The New York Press Award, and the L.A. Dramalogue Award— Lisa Kron invites her audience on a roller coaster ride through the Kron family album. Kron's performance switches back and forth between a journey to Auschwitz with her septuagenarian father, a Holocaust survivor; her Michigan... Read more

First to Leave the Party

By: Salah Bachir

Narrated by: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A marvelous and compulsively readable collection of stories from the life of Salah Bachir — philanthropist, art collector, movie industry insider — who, through his sheer joy of life, art, giving back, and human interaction, has endeared him to some of the most famous and creative people in recent times.

Salah Bachir’s... Read more

Pureza

By: Garth Greenwell

Narrated by: Mario de Candia

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Candidato a los premios Sade 2021, Joyce Carol Oates y Gordon Burn. Seleccionado como uno de los mejores libros del 2020 por elNew York Times e incluido en la lista de los diez mejores libros del año por los críticos del New York Times. Mejor libro del año según más de treinta publicaciones, incluidas The New Yorker, TIME, The Was hington Post,... Read more

Just Happy to Be Here

By: Naomi Kanakia

Narrated by: Bilal Baig

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this YA standalone perfect for fans of Tobly McSmith and Meredith Russo, the first out trans girl at an all-girls school must choose between keeping her head down or blazing a trail.Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy.That is, judged on her merits—not on her transness. But there’s no road map for being the... Read more

Surrogacy: A Family Frontier

By: Dustin Lance Black

Narrated by: Dustin Lance Black

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and activist, explores attitudes towards surrogacy. He shares his own journey to have a child, with husband Tom Daley, through surrogacy.


Dustin beautifully and thoroughly explores how the question of surrogacy links to wider societal questions; how much control do women legally have over their... Read more

Straight Jacket

By: Matthew Todd

Narrated by: Matthew Todd

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audio edition of Straight Jacket, written and read by Matthew Todd.

WINNER BOYZ BEST LGBT BOOK 2017

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2017

Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks beneath the... Read more

Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

Narrated by: Amy Landon, Avi Roque, Grace Rolek, Kirt Graves...

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

From Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed author of Manhunt, comes a vicious new novel about a group of teens who must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell.

"A soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing."—Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers... Read more

The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

By: Sophie Gonzales

Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this enemies-to-lovers romcom for fans of Ashley Poston and Rainbow Rowell, a fangirl brings her fictional heartthrob to life and finds that the real world might just be better than fiction…

Ivy Winslow has the house to herself for a week and her only plans are to binge-watch her favorite fantasy TV show, H-MAD, hang out with her best friend,... Read more