LGBTQIA+ Fiction audiobooks

Light Before Day

By: Christopher Rice

Narrated by: Cole Ferguson

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam Murphy wants to be a serious journalist. Unfortunately, he spends his days writing copy about underwear and abs for a gay lifestyle magazine. When a troubled young porn star brings him a tip about a recently deceased marine’s secret visit to an infamous pimp for underage boys, Adam is determined to break the story…until someone starts... Read more

The Inside of Out

By: Jenn Marie Thorne

Narrated by: Kate Reinders

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Stephanie Perkins, Meg Cabot, and Glee comes a hilarious, romantic, whip smart young adult novel about your best friend finding love before you do, and the lines you’ll cross to stay part of her life.When her best friend Hannah comes out the day before junior year, Daisy is all set to let her ally flag fly. Before you can spell... Read more

Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity

By: Kristin Elizabeth Clark

Narrated by: Michelle Hendley

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The last time Jess saw her father, she was a boy. Now she’s a high school graduate, soon to be on her way to art school. But first she has some unfinished business with her dad. So she’s driving halfway across the country to his wedding. He happens to be marrying her mom’s ex-best friend. It’s not like Jess wasn’t invited; she was. She just... Read more

After Disasters

By: Viet Dinh

Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.Beautifully and hauntingly written, After Disasters is told through the eyes of four people in the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India. An intricate story of love and loss weaves together the emotional and intimate narratives of Ted, a pharmaceutical salesman turned member of the... Read more

It Looks Like This

By: Rafi Mittlefehldt

Narrated by: Will Ropp

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In spare, understated prose heightened by a keen lyricism, a debut author will take your breath away.A new state, a new city, a new high school. Mike’s father has already found a new evangelical church for the family to attend, even if Mike and his plainspoken little sister, Toby, don’t want to go. Dad wants Mike to ditch art for sports, to... Read more

How to Survive a Summer

By: Nick White

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

**Named One of Book Riot’s BEST QUEER BOOKS OF 2017**

“Packed with story and drama … If Tennessee Williams’s ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ could be transposed to the 21st-century South, where queer liberation co-exists alongside the stubborn remains of fire and brimstone, it might read something like this juicy, moving hot mess of a novel.” –Tim... Read more

Off Base

By: Annabeth Albert

Narrated by: Tyler Stevens

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Off Base combines a sexy romance with an emotionally dramatic story and is a great start to the Out of Uniform series.”—All About Romance

After trading the barracks for a fixer-upper rental, navy SEAL Zack Nelson wants peace, not a roommate—especially not Pike, who sees things about Zack he most wants to hide. Pike’s flirting puts virgin Zack on... Read more

Little & Lion

By: Brandy Colbert

Narrated by: Alisha Wainwright

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning novel on love, identity, loss, and redemption.

When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she's isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her friends and family are (as well as her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, needs her... Read more

Real World

By: Amy Jo Cousins

Narrated by: Cooper North

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When talking fails, it’s time to break out the big guns. Bend or Break, Book 5. Five years ago, Tom Worthington busted his ass to overcome the fear and paranoia that led him to withdraw from the world and nearly lose his boyfriend. He never thought he’d find himself right back there, shutting Reese out, keeping secrets again. Reese Anders... Read more

That Inevitable Victorian Thing

By: E.K. Johnston

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Speculative fiction from the acclaimed bestselling author of Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Star Wars: Ahsoka.
 
Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history. The imperial tradition of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide Margaret into a politically... Read more

The You I've Never Known

By: Ellen Hopkins

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Rebekkah Ross & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you live your life if your past is based on a lie? Find out in this “satisfied and moving story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) in both verse and prose from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.

For as long as she can remember, it’s been just Ariel and Dad. Ariel’s mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is... Read more

Timekeeper

By: Tara Sim

Narrated by: Gary Furlong

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Two o’clock was missing.In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time—and a destroyed one can stop it completely.It’s a truth that seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny Hart knows all too well; his father has been trapped in a Stopped town east of London for three years. Though Danny is a prodigy... Read more

At the Edge of the Universe

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of We Are the Ants comes “another winner” (Booklist, starred review) about a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as the things he remembers are being erased from others’ memories.

Tommy and Ozzie have been best friends since the second grade, and boyfriends since eighth. They spent countless days dreaming of escaping... Read more

The Pants Project

By: Cat Clarke

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Transformer is a robot in disguise. Liv is a boy in disguise. It’s that simple. Liv knows he was always meant tobe a boy, but with his new school’s terrible dress code, he can’t even wear pants. Only Skirts. Operation: PantsProject begins! The only way for Liv to get what he wants is to go after it himself. But to Liv, this isn’t just amission... Read more

Black Wave

By: Michelle Tea

Narrated by: Michelle Tea

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, and nineties San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it’s officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird.While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, and keeping an eye on the... Read more

Fair Chance

By: Josh Lanyon

Narrated by: J. F. Harding

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

One final game of cat and mouse…  

Ex–FBI agent Elliot Mills thought he was done with the most brutal case of his career. The Sculptor, the serial killer he spent years hunting, is finally in jail. But Elliot's hope dies when he learns the murderer wasn't acting alone. Now everyone is at risk once again—thanks to a madman determined to finish his... Read more

Love Me Like a Rock

By: Amy Jo Cousins

Narrated by: Cooper North

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In art and in love, it’s the rough edges that make things interesting. Bend or Break, Book 6. Having grown up with artistic implements always in hand, there’s almost nothing Austin can’t make real. Except for one thing—an official relationship with his best friend, rowing teammate and occasional hookup, Vinnie. The combination of emotional and... Read more

Hard Candy

By: Amy Jo Cousins

Narrated by: Cooper North

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

How to get over someone? Get under someone else—as soon as possible. Bend or Break, Book 7 Vincent Lim always assumed his best friend (and occasional hookup) Austin would be waiting for him—that eventually they’d end up together. But now that Austin’s in love with another man, Vinnie is at a loss. After the world’s most awkward one-night stand... Read more

A Line in the Dark

By: Malinda Lo

Narrated by: Jennifer Lim

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“A twisty, dark psychological thriller that will leave you guessing til the very end."—Teen Vogue

“[A] riveting read…"—NPR

The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark.
 
Jess Wong is Angie Redmond’s best friend. And that’s the most important thing, even if Angie can’t see how Jess truly feels. Being the girl... Read more

The Big Lie

By: Julie Mayhew

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In a gripping novel set in present-day England under a Nazi regime, a sheltered teen questions what it means to be “good”—and how far she’s willing to go to break the rules.Nazi England, 2014. Jessika Keller is a good girl—a champion ice skater, model student of the Bund Deutscher Mädel, and dutiful daughter of the Greater German Reich. Her best... Read more

Echo After Echo

By: Amy Rose Capetta

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared—for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants perfection; and for death in the theater.Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her... Read more

An Excess Male

By: Maggie Shen King

Narrated by: James Chen, Tim Chiou & Elaine Kao

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China, that further explores the themes of the classics The Handmaid's Tale and When She Woke.Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of them can't find... Read more

Autoboyography

By: Christina Lauren

Narrated by: Deacon Lee & Kyle Mason

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book is epic.” —Cosmopolitan

Fangirl meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this “sensitive and complex” (BCCB) coming-of-age novel from New York Times bestselling authors Christina Lauren about two boys who fall in love in a writing class—one from a progressive family and the other from a conservative religious community.

Three years... Read more

Release

By: Patrick Ness

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by Judy Blume’s Forever and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls “beautiful, enchanting, [and] exquisitely written” is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance—and what happens when the walls we build start coming down. A Kirkus Best Book of 2017!Adam Thorn doesn’t know it yet, but today... Read more