LGBTQIA+ Authors

Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

Narrated by: Elliot Page

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn’t simply a book on what it means to be trans, it’s about what it means to be human." —Alok Vaid-Menon

"Actor Elliot Page, who starred in the movie JUNO, gives an emotional, intimate performance of his gorgeous memoir... He... Read more

So This Is Ever After

By: F.T. Lukens

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Time bestseller!

Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this subversive, “delightfully original and whimsical” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive.

Arek hadn’t thought much about what would happen after he completed the... Read more

We Could Be So Good

By: Cat Sebastian

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick • Apple Books’ Best Books of the Month • Amazon Best Books of the Month Editor’s Pick, Romance • An NPR “Books We Love” • Library Journal Romance Pick of the Month • LibraryReads Hall of Fame: June 2023 • Publishers Weekly Best Romances of 2023Casey... Read more

How Far the Light Reaches

By: Sabrina Imbler

Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation... Read more

Husband Material

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Joe Jameson

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In Boyfriend Material, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends...and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to propose. But it'll take more than four... Read more

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

By: Becky Chambers

Narrated by: Rachel Dulude

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored—in this absorbing entry in the Wayfarers series, which blends heart-warming characters and imaginative adventure.

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable.... Read more

Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H

Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR).

“A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust... Read more

The Charm Offensive

By: Alison Cochrun

Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Graham Halstead & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2022 Audie Award Finalist

A MOST ANTICIPATED ROM-COM SELECTED BY * BUZZFEED * LGBTQ READS * BUSTLE * THE NERD DAILY * ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT * FROLIC MEDIA * AND MORE!

A BEST BOOK PICK BY * HARPER’​S BAZAAR * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“The Charm Offensive will sweep you off your feet.” —PopSugar

​​​​In this witty and heartwarming romantic... Read more

Celestial Monsters

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners will be captivated...André Santana keeps the tension in his narration taut as Teo wrestles with both physical challenges and his own feelings of inferiority." —AudioFile on The Sunbearer Trials

New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas returns to the beloved world of The Sunbearer Trials in Celestial Monsters, a heart-stopping... Read more

A Lady for a Duke

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Kay Eluvian

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Husband Material comes a lush, sweeping queer historical romance where sparks fly between childhood friends after a life-changing separation—perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Evie Dunmore, and Lisa Kleypas!​
  When Viola Carroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But... Read more

Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel

Narrated by: Clara Harte

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Phoebe Forde has a new home and new name and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but she's finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen. Almost three years into her gender transition, Phoebe has learned to move through the world carefully, savoring small moments of joy. After all, a woman... Read more

A Marvellous Light

By: Freya Marske

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator David Thorpe’s delicious depictions of steamy encounters between Robin and
Edwin are intricately woven throughout this magical realm." -- Booklist, starred review

An International Bestseller!
Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!
Locus Award Finalist!

An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick—with four starred reviews!
A Best... Read more

The Witch King

By: H.E. Edgmon

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2021

To save a fae kingdom, a trans witch must face his traumatic past and the royal fiancé he left behind.

In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don’t. Wyatt’s betrothal to fae prince Emyr North was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic one devastating night, he... Read more

The Sunbearer Trials

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners will be captivated by the detailed descriptions of the cities within Reino del Sol and the fantastical beings who inhabit them. Santana keeps the tension in his narration taut as Teo wrestles with both physical challenges and his own feelings of inferiority." - AudioFile Magazine

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses... 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

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen

By: KJ Charles

Narrated by: Martyn Swain

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels?until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the... Read more

Why Are People Into That?

By: Tina Horn

Narrated by: Tina Horn

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From a #1 Apple podcast host, Lambda Literary fellow, and dominatrix comes a sex-positive, judgment-free cultural deep-dive into the world of kink.
 

When celebrated BDSM educator Tina Horn first launched Why Are People Into That?!, publications from Vice to Buzzfeed heralded it as one of the best sex podcasts around. Each episode centered... Read more

He Who Drowned the World

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 18 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Natalie Naudus is an admirable guide through a complicated plot with multiple points of view...She illuminates the few tender moments amid the overall violence and sets a quick, smooth pace that never lags." —AudioFile

The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping... Read more

The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change rather than a War on Terror. Green infrastructure projects have transformed U.S. cities into lush paradises (for wealthy, white neighborhoods, at least), and the Bureau of Carbon Regulation levies carbon taxes on every financial transaction.

Maddie... Read more

The Phoenix Keeper

By: S. A. MacLean

Narrated by: Stephanie Bentley

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens, The Phoenix Keeper is a fierce joy of a cozy fantasy novel with a soul-restoring queer romance at its heart, for fans ofThe House in the Cerulean Sea and Legends and Lattes.

As head phoenix keeper at a world-renowned zoo for magical creatures,... Read more

Let the Record Show

By: Sarah Schulman

Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams & Sarah Schulman

Length: 27 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

One of O, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of Vogue's 9 LGBTQ+ Books We're Looking Forward to This Spring, one of and Cosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one of The Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want... Read more

You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother’s... Read more

Here We Go Again

By: Alison Cochrun

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus & Jeremy Carlisle Parker

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A Publishers Weekly and Book Riot Best Romance of 2024

The author of the “sexy, insightful, and utterly charming” (BuzzFeed) Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country.

A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be... Read more

If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

By: Jen St. Jude

Narrated by: Georgina Sadler

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude, read by Georgina Sadler.

We Are Okay meets They Both Die at the End in this YA debut about queer first love and mental health at the end of the world—and the importance of saving yourself, no matter what tomorrow may hold.

Avery Byrne has secrets. She’s queer; she’s in love with her... Read more