LGBTQIA+ Authors

Emmett

By: L. C. Rosen

Narrated by: Drew Caiden

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A modern-day gay Emma, with the spikey social critique of Austen plus the lush over-the-top romance of Bridgerton.

Emmett Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly eighteen years in the world with very little to distress or vex... Read more

Tegan and Sara: Junior High

By: Tegan Quin & Sara Quin

Narrated by: André Santana, Ferdelle Capistrano, Helen Laser...

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara comes a contemporary middle-grade graphic audiobook narrated by the authors and a full cast. The program features original Tegan and Sara music and sound design throughout the program, and a bonus conversation with Tillie Walden, the illustrator of the graphic novel, discussing the process of... Read more

Fly with Me

By: Andie Burke

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A sparkling and steamy Sapphic romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp banter and that sweet, swooping feeling of finding “the one” when and where you least expect it.

A one-way ticket to love or a bumpy ride ahead?

Flying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever take-off when the pilot... Read more

This Is Why They Hate Us

By: Aaron H. Aceves

Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Nevermind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Nevermind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to... Read more

Seek

By: Scott Shigeoka

Narrated by: Scott Shigeoka

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Maximize your potential for connection, healing, and personal growth with this “timely bridge for our divided world.” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential)

If you've felt alienated and alone in recent years, you're in good company. Whether it's a rift in your family, polarization at your workplace or just a sense... Read more

Mother, Nature

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

Narrated by: Jedidiah Jenkins

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self . . .

“Exquisitely written and completely compelling . . . As Jedidiah Jenkins traces a 5,000-mile route with his wildly entertaining mother, Barb, he begins to untangle the live wires of a parent-child bond and to wrestle with a love that hurts.”—Suleika Jaouad, author of... Read more

Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

Narrated by: Laura Kate Dale

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition center on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for... Read more

Stay Gold

By: Tobly McSmith

Narrated by: Theo Germaine & Phoebe Strole

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Debut author Tobly McSmith delivers a coming-of-age teen love story about a transgender boy who’s going stealth at his new Texas high school and a cisgender girl who is drawn to him, even as she’s counting down the days until graduation. Perfect for fans of David Levithan, Becky Albertalli, and Jenny Han.Pony plans to fly under the radar this... Read more

Here Comes the Sun

By: Nicole Dennis-Benn

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is... Read more

The House of Impossible Beauties

By: Joseph Cassara

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and ’90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is BurningIt’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning... Read more

Wrath Goddess Sing

By: Maya Deane

Narrated by: Katherine Pucciariello

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman’s story hidden underneath the well-known myths of The Iliad, Maya Deane’s Wrath Goddess Sing weaves a compelling, pitilessly beautiful vision of Achilles’ vanished world, perfect for fans of Song of Achilles and the Inheritance trilogy.
The gods wanted blood. She fought for... Read more

Obie Is Man Enough

By: Schuyler Bailar

Narrated by: Schuyler Bailar

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A coming-of-age story about transgender tween Obie, who didn't think being himself would cause such a splash. For fans of Alex Gino's George and Lisa Bunker's Felix Yz.

Obie knew his transition would have ripple effects. He has to leave his swim coach, his pool, and his best friends. But it’s time for Obie to find where he truly belongs.
 
As Obie... Read more

The Archive Undying

By: Emma Mieko Candon

Narrated by: Yung-I Chang

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction.

WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT
WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND
WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK

When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed... Read more

Pageboy - Meine Geschichte (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Elliot Page

Narrated by: Jonathan Perleth

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Ergreifend und ungeschönt erzählt Elliot Page in seinem Memoir von seinem langen Weg zu sich selbst Elliot Page wurde mit Hauptrollen in Juno oder Inception weltberühmt. Mit 33, im Dezember 2020, outete er sich über Instagram als trans. In seinem ersten Buch erzählt Elliot Page die Geschichte seines einzigartigen Lebens, das ihm seine... Read more

Darling Days

By: iO Tillett Wright

Narrated by: iO Tillett Wright

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than... Read more

Lockjaw

By: Matteo L. Cerilli

Narrated by: Breton Lalama, Mich Anger & Arlen Aguayo Stewart

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Death is neither the beginning nor the end for the children of Bridlington in this debut trans YA horror book for fans of Rory Power and Danielle Vega.

Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's determined to kill it before anyone else gets hurt.... Read more

Flip the Script

By: Lyla Lee

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this simmering, joyous novel, I’ll Be the One author Lyla Lee delivers a tender romance set between two brave teens who decide that when the script isn’t working, it’s time to rewrite it themselves. The first rule of watching K-dramas: Never fall in love with the second lead. As an avid watcher of K-dramas, Hana knows all the tropes to avoid... Read more

Missing from the Village

By: Justin Ling

Narrated by: Justin Ling

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.
 
Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards



In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay... Read more

Endpapers

By: Jennifer Savran Kelly

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block—until she discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author. 

It’s 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder... Read more

Becoming a Queen

By: Dan Clay

Narrated by: Dan Clay

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A vibrant and emotional novel from debut author Dan Clay about a boy who turns toward love, self-expression, and drag when the unthinkable happens, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Julie Murphy.

If only Mark Davis hadn’t put on a dress for the talent show. It was a joke—other guys did it too—but when his... Read more

Biography of X : A Novel

By: Catherine Lacey

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life
story. Not even CM... Read more

All the Water I've Seen Is Running

By: Elias Rodriques

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel.

Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people defined by otherness: Aubrey, a self-identified "Southern cracker" and Daniel, the mixed-race son of... Read more

Care Of

By: Ivan Coyote

Narrated by: Ivan Coyote

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet.
 

Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special communications received from readers and audience members—letters, Facebook messages, emails, soggy handwritten... Read more

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Casey McQuiston, Christina Lauren, and Abby Jimenez will love this scrumptious and sweet romantic comedy from the "dizzyingly talented writer" of Boyfriend Material (Entertainment Weekly)

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