LGBTQIA+ Authors

Find Me

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Michael Stuhlbarg's] elegant performance and Aciman's sensitive writing keep things touching without ever being sentimental. Wonderful listening." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

This program is read by Michael Stuhlbarg, the actor who played Professor Samuel Perlman in Luca Guadagnino's critically-acclaimed film, Call... Read more

In at the Deep End

By: Kate Davies

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh, funny, audacious debut novel about a Bridget Jones-like twenty-something who discovers that she may have simply been looking for love - and, ahem, pleasure - in all the wrong places (aka: from men) Julia hasn't had sex in three years. Her roommate has a boyfriend-and their sex noises are audible through the walls, maybe even throughout... Read more

Amelia Westlake Was Never Here

By: Erin Gough

Narrated by: Candice Moll & Jaye Rosenberg

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can't stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.

Harriet Price is the perfect student: smart, dutiful, over-achieving. Will Everhart is a troublemaker who's never met an injustice she didn't fight. When... Read more

This One Looks Like a Boy

By: Lorimer Shenher

Narrated by: Lorimer Shenher

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiring and honest, this unique memoir of gender transition and coming-of-age proves it’s never too late to find your true identity.Since he was a small child, Lorimer Shenher knew something for certain: he was a boy. The problem was, he was growing up in a girl’s body.In this candid and thoughtful memoir, Shenher shares the story of his... Read more

Sorted

By: Jackson Bird

Narrated by: Jackson Bird

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man.

When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection.

Assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered... Read more

Pillow Thoughts II

By: Courtney Peppernell

Narrated by: Courtney Peppernell

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration. 

A collection of inspirational and comforting poems for anyone who is mending from a broken heart, read by the author herself. Read more

Becoming a Man

By: P. Carl

Narrated by: P. Carl

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A “scrupulously honest” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut memoir that explores one man’s gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America.

Becoming a Man is a “moving narrative [that] illuminates the joy, courage, necessity, and risk-taking of gender transition” (Kirkus Reviews). For fifty years P. Carl lived as a girl and then as a queer... Read more

The Secret of You and Me

By: Melissa Lenhardt

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson & Natalie Duke

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A DVF Book Club Pick!  

True love never fades—and old secrets never die…

Nora hasn’t looked back. Not since she fled Texas to start a new life. Away from her father’s volatile temper and the ever-watchful gaze of her claustrophobically conservative small town, Nora has freed herself. She can live—and love—however she wants. The only problem is... Read more

The Pink Line

By: Mark Gevisser

Narrated by: Mark Gevisser & Vikas Adam

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020

This program includes a foreword and epilogue read by the author

A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today

More than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer... Read more

What We Will Become

By: Mimi Lemay

Narrated by: Mimi Lemay

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother’s memoir of her transgender child’s odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her.

From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born “Em,” adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand and come to terms with the fact that her child may be transgender, she... Read more

She of the Mountains

By: Vivek Shraya

Narrated by: Vivek Shraya

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail) Lambda Literary Award finalist In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We are the period to a sentence, the effect to a cause, always belonging to someone. We... Read more

The Hideaway Inn

By: Philip William Stover

Narrated by: James Cavenaugh

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] brilliantly written LGBTQ+ take on the classic small-town romance.” —Booklist

High school wasn’t the right time or place for their relationship to grow, but now, fifteen years later, a chance encounter changes both of their lives forever.

No one in the charming river town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, needs to know that Vince Amato plans on... Read more

The Girl Next Door

By: Chelsea M. Cameron

Narrated by: Carly Robins & Avery Reid

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Cameron's cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed contemporary romance is elevated by her superb character development and flair for delivering exquisite sexual tension.” —Booklist

New York Times bestselling author Chelsea M. Cameron delivers the opposites-attract, sweet-and-sexy small-town romance you’ve been waiting for.

Iris Turner... Read more

Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

Narrated by: Tommy Pico

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.



Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a nature... Read more

In a Midnight Wood

By: Ellen Hart

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless is headed out on a little getaway. She and her best friend, Cordelia
Thorn, plan to visit their old friend Emma in her hometown of Castle Lake, while also participating in the small town’s
local art festival. Between the festival and an upcoming high school reunion for the class of 1999, no one in... Read more

My Sister

By: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Narrated by: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization.

When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in... Read more

Becoming Eve

By: Abby Stein

Narrated by: Abby Stein

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman
Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning... Read more

The Tiger Flu

By: Larissa Lai

Narrated by: Lisa Truong & Grace Lynn Kung

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award Nominated for The Otherwise Award and The Sunburst Award “Blending the surreal and the entirely possible, The Tiger Flu is majestically compelling. A must-read.” – Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai – her first in sixteen years – a community of... Read more

Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter

By: Alison Wearing

Narrated by: Alison Wearing

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail) Finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction (2014) Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize (2014) A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love. Alison Wearing led a largely carefree... Read more

Shut Up You’re Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

Narrated by: Jemeni

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist, Rogers Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother... Read more

Just Like This

By: Cole McCade

Narrated by: Tim Todd

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“An un-put-downable gay romance.” —Publishers Weekly

Rian Falwell has a problem.

And his name is Damon Louis.

Rian’s life as the art teacher to a gaggle of displaced boys at Albin Academy should be smooth sailing—until the stubborn, grouchy football coach comes into his world like a lightning strike and ignites a heated conflict that would leave... Read more

The Secret Ingredient

By: KD Fisher

Narrated by: Hayden Bishop & Lauren Sweet

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“A perfectly rendered cast of characters, plenty of mouthwatering moments in the kitchen, and a completely charming small town setting.” —Booklist

Two amazing chefs. Two very different restaurants. One recipe for love.

For single mom Adah Campbell, the executive chef job at a posh restaurant in quaint South Bay, Maine is a dream come true—and the... Read more

Branded by the Pink Triangle

By: Ken Setterington

Narrated by: Bill Marchant

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution.... Read more

The Heart Begins Here

By: Jacqueline Dumas

Narrated by: Michelle C. Smith

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Heart Begins Here is the story of the ever-optimistic, earnest Sara Requier and her disintegrating seven-year relationship with the cynical Wanda Wysoka. Along with her relationship struggles, Sara must contend with the drastic changes in the book industry that threaten her feminist bookstore and a mother who refuses to accept her... Read more