LGBTQIA+ Authors

We Have Always Been Here

By: Samra Habib

Narrated by: Parmida Vand

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME

How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?

Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to... 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

Trans Mission

By: Alex Bertie

Narrated by: Alex Bertie

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A brave firsthand account of online personality Alex Bertie's life, struggles, and victories as a transgender teen, as well as a groundbreaking guide for transitioning teens.
Long before he became known for his YouTube videos, Alex Bertie was an isolated, often-afraid transgender teenager looking for answers. In this revolutionary memoir and... Read more

Edinburgh

By: Alexander Chee

Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac & Josh Hurley

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys’ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to... Read more

Broken Ground

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet. Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville's inheritance,... Read more

Ike’s Mystery Man

By: Peter Shinkle

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Home For Wayward Parrots

By: Darusha Wehm

Narrated by: Darusha Wehm

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Accustomed to being an only child, adoptee Brian “Gumbo” Guillemot’s teenage hobby was searching for his birth parents. After years without a lead, when he finally finds his birth mother, Kim, he’s unprepared for the boisterous instant family that comes with her.
No one, besides Kim, knows anything about Gumbo's birth father. With Kim refusing to... Read more

The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist

By: Ben Barres

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in December 2017, Barres (born Barbara Barres in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments—from his childhood as a precocious math... Read more

Amateur

By: Thomas Page McBee

Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
*Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award
*Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize

One of The Times UK’s Best Memoirs of 2018, BuzzFeed’s Best Nonfiction of 2018, Autostraddle’s Best LGBT Books of 2018, and 52 Insight’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018

A “no-holds-barred examination... Read more

Gender Outlaw

By: Kate Bornstein

Narrated by: Kate Bornstein

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"I know I'm not a man . . . and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either . . . The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers listeners on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level,... Read more

Confessions of the Fox

By: Jordy Rosenberg

Narrated by: Aden Hakimi

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's true story—his confessions have never been found. That is, until Dr. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled Confessions of the Fox.



Dated 1724,... Read more

We Were Witches

By: Ariel Gore

Narrated by: Ariel Gore

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she’s there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag’s pyramid to analyze life.So Ariel turns to a rich... Read more

The Trauma Cleaner

By: Sarah Krasnostein

Narrated by: Rachael Tidd

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less.A woman who sleeps among... Read more

The Old Deep and Dark

By: Ellen Hart

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In award-winning author Ellen Hart's next riveting Jane Lawless mystery, Jane and Cordelia discover a body buried in the wall of a historic theater Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the... Read more

Invisible

By: Michele Lent Hirsch

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured in The Advocate, New York Times, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and New York magazine's The Cut

This is a vital exploration of the ways society overlooks—and fails—young women with disabilities and chronic illnesses

Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer. She did.

Sophie navigates being the only black scientist in her lab... Read more

Starving in Search of Me

By: Marissa LaRocca

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The true confessions of an eating disorders survivorThis confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca’s revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets, including sexuality, and... Read more

Queers Destroy Science Fiction!

By: Seanan McGuire, Sigrid Ellis, Steve Berman & Ga...

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Ca...

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Lightspeed was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction and that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people, and queer people, no matter how they identify, are a big part of that. They always have been. They’re just sometimes harder to see. So, in the interests of visibility, Queers... Read more

A Sinner in Mecca

By: Parvez Sharma

Narrated by: Parvez Sharma

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hajj pilgrimage is a journey every Muslim is commanded by God to go on at least once in a lifetime if they are able and, like millions, Parvez Sharma believes his spiritual salvation lies at Islam's ground zero, Mecca. But unlike the journeys of his fellow Muslims, the consequences of his own could be deadly.



In A Sinner in Mecca, author and... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Greg Wise

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde’s enduring masterpiece, this fable of innocence and corruption, purity and decay has become a true classic. The beautiful, narcissistic Dorian Gray, torn between the influence of cynical hedonist Lord Henry Wotton and tortured artist Basil Hallward, sells the beauty of his soul in exchange for external perfection. Ultimately, he... Read more

Strays

By: Britt Collins

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other. Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon. One rainy night,... Read more

Hello Forever

By: Sarina Bowen

Narrated by: Dake Bliss & Teddy Hamilton

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When they were only teenagers, Axel and Caxton were caught making out in the woods at church camp. And afterward, Cax had disappeared from all the youth group activities.Six years later, Axel is astonished to spot his first love’s face in the crowd of a college basketball game he’s watching on television—at a school that has just offered him a... Read more

Surpassing Certainty

By: Janet Mock

Narrated by: Janet Mock

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“A defining chronicle of strength and spirit” (Kirkus Reviews), Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world—without a road map to guide her. This memoir “should be required reading for your 20s” (Cosmopolitan).

A few months before her twentieth birthday, Janet Mock is adjusting to her days... Read more

Leading Lady

By: Stephen Galloway

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of movie executive and philanthropist Sherry Lansing traces her groundbreaking journey to become the first female head of a major motion picture studio, sharing behind-the-scenes tales from movie sets and Hollywood boardrooms.

When Sherry Lansing became the first woman ever to be named president of a major studio, the... Read more

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

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