LGBTQIA+ Authors

Smoke & Mirrors

By: E.A. Copen

Narrated by: Matt Cowlrick & Erin DeWard

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Working for Heaven is a living Hell for rogue wizard Josiah Quinn. There are too many rules and not enough easy cash. His first official assignment from the God Squad? Solve a string of brutal murders that he believes are part of an intricate and all-too-familiar summoning ritual involving broken mirrors. His investigation leads him to the... Read more

Surrender Your Sons

By: Adam Sass

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he... Read more

Ruinsong

By: Julia Ember

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence has been forced to torture her country's disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen's bidding. But when she is reunited with her childhood friend, a noblewoman with ties to the underground rebellion, she must finally make a choice: Take a stand to free their country from oppression, or... Read more

She's Too Pretty to Burn

By: Wendy Heard

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Bailey Carr & Stephen Dexter

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The summer is winding down in San Diego. Veronica is bored, caustically charismatic, and uninspired in her photography. Nico is insatiable, subversive, and obsessed with chaotic performance art. They’re artists first, best friends second. But that was before Mick. Delicate, lonely, magnetic Mick: the perfect subject, and Veronica’s dream girl.... Read more

Conventionally Yours

By: Annabeth Albert

Narrated by: Kirt Graves & Joel Froomkin

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Charming, charismatic, and effortlessly popular, Conrad Stewart seems to have it all...but in reality, he's scrambling to keep his life from tumbling out of control. Brilliant, guarded, and endlessly driven, Alden Roth may as well be the poster boy for perfection...but even he can't help but feel a little broken inside. When these mortal... Read more

Exposed

By: Jean-Phillippe Blondel

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait, possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact... Read more

The Fiancee Farce

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

Narrated by: Lauren Sweet

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience...Tansy Adams’ greatest love is her family’s bookstore, passed down from her late father. But when it comes to actual... Read more

Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

Narrated by: Alex Schmidt

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 by Vogue
Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2023 by Buzzfeed, Electric Lit, and Them
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Our Culture, Yahoo!, The Millions, LitHub and SPY.com
Named a Most Anticipated Debut of 2023 by Debutiful and Goodreads

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel... Read more

I Felt the End Before It Came

By: Daniel Allen Cox

Narrated by: Daniel Allen Cox

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL*
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023

“I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah’s Witness—it’s one or the other.”

Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and... Read more

Fieldwork

By: Iliana Regan

Narrated by: Iliana Regan

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north.Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn,... Read more

Matteo

By: Michael Leali

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin, Ferdelle Capistrano, Gary Tiede...

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2024 LAMBDA AWARD FINALIST""This enchanting, modern homage to Pinocchio reminds us anything is possible if we're true to ourselves."" —Cynthia Leitich Smith, award-winning author of Ancestor Approved and Sisters of the NeverseaEleven-year-old Matteo has never felt like one of the other boys. He’s sure that will change when he joins the Blue... Read more

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

Narrated by: Bailey Carr

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance stateIn a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third,... Read more

The Adult

By: Bronwyn Fischer

Narrated by: Emma Love

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An addictively gripping queer coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.  Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal... Read more

Gender Magic

By: Rae McDaniel

Narrated by: Rae McDaniel

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure for transgender and non-binary individuals, gender explorers, and those who love them—perfect for readers of The Body is Not an Apology and Pleasure Activism.   

Taking everything they know from more than a decade of working with the queer and trans... Read more

All the Right Notes

By: Dominic Lim

Narrated by: Aaron J Albano

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Sparks fly when a piano genius and a Hollywood heartthrob are thrown together for a charity performance in this “swoony, joyful rom-com” (Entertainment Weekly).

Quito Cruz is a genius piano player and composer with Broadway dreams, but he’s not quite there yet. The problem is that, ever since that night in college, his inspiration—pretty-boy... Read more

Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be-in-kind with a nonhuman animal? Or, in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject’s perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience... Read more

The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

Narrated by: Chris McPherson

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRE THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022 When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of... Read more

Old Enough

By: Haley Jakobson

Narrated by: Jenna Kray & Haley Jakobson

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction

“Old Enough is full of growth, heartbreak, and winsome bisexual chaos.”—Vogue

A debut novel “as astute, funny, and loving as your best friend from college”* about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she’s outgrown

*Isle... Read more

Reaching Ninety

By: Martin Duberman

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community’s maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he’s learned.In the early sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the Abolitionists against the then-standard view of them as “misguided fanatics.” In 1964, his... Read more

Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis & Octavia Nyombi

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM BOOKRIOT AND BOOKPAGE

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is... Read more

The Daddy Diaries

By: Andy Cohen

Narrated by: Andy Cohen

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the third in Cohen’s series of published diaries, and I think they’re just the bee’s knees. In this one, he chronicles a year juggling Housewives, his precocious son, and a newborn daughter. There’s self-reflection, self-effacement, gossip, humor. I mean, there should be a National Book Award special citation for these books."- Vulture... Read more

I Will Greet the Sun Again

By: Khashayar J. Khabushani

Narrated by: Sean Rohani

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] masterful debut . . . a novel of survival and longing and love, and in many ways a modern portrait of an artist as a young man . . . a book written for us, we Iranian Americans whom you don’t often hear about.”—Porochista Khakpour, The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year)

“A triumph . . . a book of astonishing accomplishment and... Read more

The Umpire Is Out

By: Dale Scott & Rob Neyer

Narrated by: Dale Scott

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Dale Scott's career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting with dozens of other... Read more

The T Guide

By: Gigi Gorgeous, Gottmik (a.k.a Kade Gottlieb) & ...

Narrated by: Gigi Gorgeous & Gottmik (a.k.a Kade Gottlieb)

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Real talk about transgender experiences from Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik

In this fabulous, fashion-forward guide, transgender icons Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik discuss the ins and outs of being transgender with their honest, hilarious, and GORGEOUS tales of what it means to be true to oneself-and they've picked up a few friends along the way.

... Read more