LGBTQIA+ Authors

This Is Supposed to Be Fun

By: Myisha Battle

Narrated by: Myisha Battle

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A certified clinical sexologist’s radically inclusive guide to sex and dating 

Swipe. Match. Get ghosted. Repeat. Modern dating can quickly start to feel like an overwhelming slog. It’s easy to forget the point of it all: this is supposed to be fun. Enter professional sex and dating coach Myisha Battle. Drawing on an engaging and diverse... Read more

The Story of the Hundred Promises

By: Neil Cochrane

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast that centers queer and trans charactersTrans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people who love and accept him. Ten years after his exile from home, though, his sister asks him to reconcile with their ailing father. Determined to resolve his feelings rather than just... Read more

Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?

By: Craig Seligman

Narrated by: Mela Lee

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Doris Fish

In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared... Read more

The Natural Mother of the Child

By: Krys Malcolm Belc

Narrated by: Krys Malcolm Belc

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner Anna adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as the natural mother of the child. By considering how the experiences contained... Read more

Be Dazzled

By: Ryan La Sala

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern making-for creation. He's always chosen his art over everything-and everyone-else and is determined to make his mark at this year's biggest cosplay competition. If he can wow there, it could lead to sponsorship, then art school, and finally earning... Read more

Crossfire

By: Staceyann Chin

Narrated by: Staceyann Chin

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is “sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking.” The Advocate says that her poems “combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform” and note “Chin is out to... Read more

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires

By: Richard Bradford

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Carly Holbrook and Brian Westbury are weeks away from their high-school graduation. The young couple plans to marry before they head to college, and their future seems bright with promise. But everything changes one spring night when their six closest friends, including Brian's younger brother, are killed in a fiery car accident that Carly and... Read more

A Little Bit Like Desire

By: Brooke Blaine

Narrated by: Wesley Paul & Perry Bishop

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Shaw Jennings, the seductive, enigmatic owner of Body Electric Tattoo works hard and plays even harder. He’s built a life he’s proud of, and although that doesn’t include a significant other, he’s got plenty of sexy men to keep his bed warm at night. None of them have ever made Shaw sit up and take notice for long though. But that all changes... Read more

Work For It

By: Talia Hibbert

Narrated by: Shane East & Chance Thoreau

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this village, I’m an outcast: Griffin Everett, the scowling giant who prefers plants to people. Then I meet Keynes, a stranger from the city who’s everything I’m not: sharp-tongued, sophisticated, beautiful. Free. For a few precious moments in a dark alleyway, he’s also mine, hot and sweet under the stars...until he crushes me like dirt... Read more

The Fixed Stars

By: Molly Wizenberg

Narrated by: Erin Mallon

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our... Read more

The Thick and the Lean

By: Chana Porter

Narrated by: Kamali Minter, Suehyla El-Attar Young & Deepti ...

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter’s “decadent and richly imagined” (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine) novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them.

In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God.

But... Read more

I Kissed a Girl

By: Jennet Alexander

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Lilah Silver's a young actress who dreams of climbing out of B-list stardom. She's been cast as the final girl in what could be her breakout performance... but if she wants to prove herself to everyone who’s ever doubted her, she's going to need major help along the way. Noa Birnbaum may be a brilliant makeup artist and special-effects whiz-kid,... Read more

The Hate Project

By: Kris Ripper

Narrated by: Gomez Pugh

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar is a grouch. That’s a well-established fact among his tight-knit friend group, and they love him anyway. Jack is an ass. Jack, who’s always ready with a sly insult, who can’t have a conversation without arguing, and who Oscar may or may not have hooked up with on a strict no-commitment, one-time-only basis. Even if it was extremely hot.... Read more

A Taste of Blue

By: Camden Moore

Narrated by: Tor Thom & Liam Dicosimo

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Calhoun Rivers is the clean-cut, prep-school educated, only son of one of the South’s oldest and wealthiest families. Sean Keenan is a young, working-class guy from Boston who has just landed in Charleston, South Carolina after his attempt to join the Marines went horribly wrong. Cal and Sean have nothing in common besides off-the-charts... Read more

Holding Still for as Long as Possible

By: Zoe Whittall

Narrated by: Stephen Ira

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation—the twenty-five-year olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions, unsure of what's public and what's private. Holding Still explores an unusual love... Read more

When You Lie about Your Age, the Terrorists Win

By: Carol Liefer

Narrated by: Carol Liefer

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It occurred to standup comic and comedy writer Carol Liefer that she had to stop telling one of her favorite stories—seeing The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium—because it dated her. But then she thought: What's that about? “I see now that when you deny your age, you deny yourself, and when you lie about your age, you become your inauthentic... Read more

I Ran into Some Trouble

By: Peggy Caserta & Maggie Falcon

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Peggy Caserta, founder of the famous Haight-Ashbury hippie boutique Mnasidika and lover and girlfriend of Janis Joplin, was a Louisiana homecoming queen turned airsick stewardess who eventually landed in 1960s San Francisco and set up shop.Her store was a hang-out for the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company; it was where Wes... Read more

Raising LGBTQ Allies

By: Chris Tompkins

Narrated by: Greg Tremblay

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

No matter who we are or where we come from, we all play on the same playground. There are certain collective societal messages we hear growing up that we either consciously or subconsciously believe. As a result, we develop certain belief systems from which we operate our lives. Chris Tompkins’s Raising LGBTQ Allies sheds light on the deeper,... Read more

The Love Study

By: Kris Ripper

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Declan has commitment issues. He’s been an office temp for literally years now, and his friends delight in telling people that he left his last boyfriend at the altar. And that’s all true. But he’s starting to think that maybe it’s time to start working on his issues. When Declan meets Sidney—a popular nonbinary YouTuber with an advice show—an... Read more

Dark Currents

By: Doug Burgess

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When David left home three years ago, he never looked back. Now the only connection to his tiny New England hometown is his grandmother, Maggie, whose mind is unraveling as she slowly succumbs to dementia. But when her best friend turns up dead and she witnesses the crime, David has no choice but to return to a place that never accepted his... Read more

Yesterday Is History

By: Kosoko Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Weeks ago, Andre Cobb received a much-needed liver transplant. He's ready for his life to finally begin, until one night, when he passes out and wakes up somewhere totally unexpected—in 1969, where he connects with a magnetic boy named Michael. And then, just as suddenly as he arrived, he slips back to present-day Boston, where the family of his... Read more

The Language of Bodies

By: Suzanne DeWitt Hall

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Maddie Wells’s life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back. Befriending the murderer’s wife is the first stage in Maddie’s plan to make him pay. The... Read more

A Little Bit Like Love

By: Brooke Blaine

Narrated by: Wesley Paul & Perry Bishop

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Jackson Davenport, the charismatic, strait-laced heir to the Davenport fortune, has a secret. One he’s been hiding since he graduated from South Haven all-boys academy—and that secret’s name is Lucas. When a work trip takes Jackson back to his old stomping grounds, memories of the year he shared with Lucas come crashing to the surface. With... Read more

The Ballad of Ami Miles

By: Kristy Dallas Alley & Brittni Pope

Narrated by: Brittni Pope

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in isolation at Heavenly Shepherd, her family’s trailer-dealership-turned-survival compound, Ami Miles knows that she was lucky to be born into a place of safety after the old world ended and the chaos began. But when her grandfather brings home a cold-eyed stranger, she realizes that her “destiny” as one of the few females capable of... Read more