LGBTQIA+ Authors

How You Get Famous

By: Nicole Pasulka

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A “funny, poignant, dishy, and even enlightening” adventure through a tight-knit world of drag performers making art, mayhem, and dreaming of making it big, this book is “the story of America now” (Alexander Chee, The New York Times).

In How You Get Famous, journalist Nicole Pasulka raucously documents the rebirth of the New York drag scene,... Read more

Vanishing Monuments

By: John Elizabeth Stintzi

Narrated by: Jo Vannicola

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Amazon Canada First Novel Award finalistA brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn’t seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen — almost thirty years ago. But when Alani... Read more

Koshersoul

By: Michael W. Twitty

Narrated by: Michael W. Twitty

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food.In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the... Read more

High-Risk Homosexual

By: Edgar Gomez

Narrated by: Edgar Gomez

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"I've always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. In particular, effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity . . . In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold... Read more

Island Time

By: Georgia Clark

Narrated by: Mae Martin, Mirai, Corinne Davies, Cat Gould, D...

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delicious escape.” —People

Love is in the salty sea air in this smart and steamy ensemble romantic comedy set in a tropical paradise, from the author of the “sparkly and entertaining” (Oprah Daily) It Had to Be You. This is one island you won’t want to be rescued from.

The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated,... Read more

Miss Memory Lane

By: Colton Haynes

Narrated by: Colton Haynes

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A brutally honest memoir that socks you in the gut with its candor” (Elton John and David Furnish) about lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow and Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes.

In 2018, Colton Haynes woke up in a hospital. He’d had two seizures, lost vision in one eye, almost ruptured a kidney, and been put on an... Read more

The Family Outing

By: Jessi Hempel

Narrated by: Jessi Hempel

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fascinating, funny, and wise, The Family Outing is an affirmation to all of us who know the pain and shame of hiding our truest self, and a stirring invitation into the courage, freedom, and joy of living our whole truth.”—Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, founder of Together RisingA striking and remarkable literary... Read more

What’s the Matter with Mary Jane?

By: Candas Jane Dorsey

Narrated by: Neta Rose

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise-cracking, grammar-obsessed, pansexual amateur sleuth is thrust into the world of the uber-rich when her enigmatic, now-famous childhood friend breezes back into her life begging for help with a dangerous stalker Our nameless postmodern amateur sleuth is still recovering from her first dangerous foray into detective work when her old... Read more

The Breaks

By: Julietta Singh

Narrated by: Julietta Singh

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the worldIn a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh... Read more

Blood Feast

By: Malika Moustadraf

Narrated by: Amin El Gamal & Lameece Issaq

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Malika Moustadraf (1969–2006) is a feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her stark interrogation of gender and sexuality in North Africa. Blood Feast is the complete collection of Moustadraf’s published short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. A teenage girl suffers through a dystopian rite... Read more

Skye Papers

By: Jamika Ajalon

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Twentysomething and restless, Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British traveler, and Pieces, an enigmatic artist living in New York. The three recognize each other as kindred spirits—Black, punk, whimsical, revolutionary—and fall in together, leading Skye on an unlikely... Read more

Nikhil Out Loud

By: Maulik Pancholy

Narrated by: Maulik Pancholy

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Middle GradeFrom the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor–winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. For fans of Merci Suárez Changes Gears and Better Nate Than Ever.Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah... Read more

break your glass slippers

By: Amanda Lovelace & ladybookmad

Narrated by: Amanda Lovelace

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"more forgetting time.
more midnight dances with yourself."

amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents a new companion series, “you are your own fairy tale”. the first installment, break your glass slippers, is about overcoming those who don’t see your worth, even if... Read more

A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

Narrated by: Casey Plett

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women. Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is... Read more

Dancer From the Dance

By: Andrew Holleran

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in audio for the first time! Award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award nominee David Pittu narrates one of the most influential books in gay literature.

Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance defined gay life in late 1970s New York. Published in 1978, the novel captures the time post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS where sexual freedom was... Read more

'Twas the Night Before Pride

By: Joanna McClintick

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night before Pride, families everywhere are preparing to partake. As one family packs snacks and makes signs, an older sibling shares the importance of the march with the newest member of the family. Reflecting on the day, the siblings agree that the best thing about Pride is getting to be yourself. This joyful homage to a day of... Read more

Heretic

By: Jeanna Kadlec

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.  Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive,... Read more

Burn Down, Rise Up

By: Vincent Tirado

Narrated by: Julienne Irons

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. Stranger Things meets Jordan Peele in this utterly original debut from an incredible new voice.



For over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden disappearances that no one can explain. Sixteen-year-old... Read more

Life as a Unicorn

By: Amrou Al-Kadhi

Narrated by: Amrou Al-Kadhi

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020 WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first... Read more

Never Been Kissed

By: Timothy Janovsky

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush, It's been a few years since we were together, but I can't stop thinking about the time we almost... Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out.... Read more

And There He Kept Her

By: Joshua Moehling

Narrated by: Linda Jones

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he's been keeping in his basement for more than two decades, and he'll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his... Read more

A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

Narrated by: Jesse Nobess

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.

An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him:... Read more

Blaine for the Win

By: Robbie Couch

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

After being dumped so his boyfriend can pursue more “serious” guys, a teen boy decides to prove he can be serious, too, by running for senior class president in this “clever, fun, original” (BCCB) romp from the author of The Sky Blues.

High school junior Blaine Bowers has it all—the perfect boyfriend, a pretty sweet gig as a muralist for local... Read more

Three

By: Valérie Perrin

Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée

Length: 21 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

1986: Adrien, Etienne, and Nina are ten years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part. 2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past, reports on... Read more