LGBTQIA+ Authors

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

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

D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding

By: Chencia C. Higgins

Narrated by: Rebecca Lee

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant I Do could be Kris Zavala’s big break. She’s right on the cusp of really making it as an influencer, so a stint on reality TV is the perfect chance to elevate her brand. And $100,000 wouldn’t hurt either. D’Vaughn Miller is just trying to break out of her shell. She’s sort of neglected to come out to her mom for years, so a big splashy... 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

Rebent Sinner

By: Ivan Coyote

Narrated by: Ivan Coyote

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In Rebent Sinner, Ivan Coyote takes on the patriarchy and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling and revealing stories of what it means to be trans and non-binary today, at a time in their life when they must carry the burden of heartbreaking history with them, while combatting those who would misgender... Read more

The Holiday Trap

By: Roan Parrish

Narrated by: Natalie Duke, Pete Cross & Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, but they can't seem to understand what it's like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. When an act of familial meddling goes way too far, she realizes just how desperately she needs space to figure out who she is. Truman Belvedere's heart is crushed when he learns that... Read more

Nuclear Family

By: Joseph Han

Narrated by: Keong Sim

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Things are looking up for Mr. and Mrs. Cho. Their dream of franchising their Korean plate lunch restaurants across Hawai'i seems within reach after a visit from Guy Fieri boosts the profile of Cho's Delicatessen. Their daughter, Grace, is busy finishing her senior year of college, while her older brother, Jacob, just moved to Seoul to teach... Read more