LGBTQIA+ Authors

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

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

Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

Narrated by: Tommy Pico

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.



Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a nature... Read more

The Subtweet

By: Vivek Shraya

Narrated by: nisha ahuja

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Biting and beautiful.” — Jonny Sun, author of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki’s song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini’s star... Read more

Music from Another World

By: Robin Talley

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler & Emily Lawrence

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A master of award-winning queer historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley brings to life an emotionally captivating story about the lives of two teen girls living in an age when just being yourself was an incredible act of bravery.

It’s summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can’t be herself anywhere. Not at her... Read more

My Sister

By: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Narrated by: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization.

When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in... Read more

Save Yourself

By: Cameron Esposito

Narrated by: Cameron Esposito

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This "hilarious and honest" bestselling memoir from a rising comedy star tackles issues of gender, sexuality, feminism, and the Catholic childhood that prepared her for a career as an outspoken lesbian comedian (Abby Wambach).
Cameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended up a stand-up comic. Now she would like to tell the whole queer as hell... Read more

Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

Narrated by: A. Almeida

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy... Read more

Chorus of Mushrooms

By: Hiromi Goto

Narrated by: Brenda Kamino & Stephany Seki

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region) Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award Hiromi Goto’s acclaimed debut novel is a feminist examination of the Japanese Canadian immigrant experience. Focusing on the lives of three generations of women in modern day Alberta, Goto uses their... 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

Becoming a Man

By: P. Carl

Narrated by: P. Carl

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A “scrupulously honest” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut memoir that explores one man’s gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America.

Becoming a Man is a “moving narrative [that] illuminates the joy, courage, necessity, and risk-taking of gender transition” (Kirkus Reviews). For fifty years P. Carl lived as a girl and then as a queer... Read more

She of the Mountains

By: Vivek Shraya

Narrated by: Vivek Shraya

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail) Lambda Literary Award finalist In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We are the period to a sentence, the effect to a cause, always belonging to someone. We... Read more

What We Will Become

By: Mimi Lemay

Narrated by: Mimi Lemay

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother’s memoir of her transgender child’s odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her.

From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born “Em,” adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand and come to terms with the fact that her child may be transgender, she... Read more

Find Me

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: Michael Stuhlbarg

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Michael Stuhlbarg's] elegant performance and Aciman's sensitive writing keep things touching without ever being sentimental. Wonderful listening." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

This program is read by Michael Stuhlbarg, the actor who played Professor Samuel Perlman in Luca Guadagnino's critically-acclaimed film, Call... Read more

All City

By: Alex DiFrancesco

Narrated by: Eboni Flowers, Eileen Stevens, Jayme Mattler & ...

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

All City is more than a novel, it’s a foreshadowing of a world to come.In a near-future New York City ravaged by climate change and economic inequality, a superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Among those who remain are twenty-four-year-old Makayla, who works in the city’s most ubiquitous... Read more

Sorted

By: Jackson Bird

Narrated by: Jackson Bird

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man.

When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection.

Assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered... Read more

Pillow Thoughts II

By: Courtney Peppernell

Narrated by: Courtney Peppernell

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration. 

A collection of inspirational and comforting poems for anyone who is mending from a broken heart, read by the author herself. Read more

Love Lives Here

By: Rowan Jette Knox

Narrated by: Rowan Jette Knox

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family--a family who shows what's possible when you "lead with love."

All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes... Read more

Amelia Westlake Was Never Here

By: Erin Gough

Narrated by: Candice Moll & Jaye Rosenberg

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can't stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.

Harriet Price is the perfect student: smart, dutiful, over-achieving. Will Everhart is a troublemaker who's never met an injustice she didn't fight. When... Read more

In at the Deep End

By: Kate Davies

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh, funny, audacious debut novel about a Bridget Jones-like twenty-something who discovers that she may have simply been looking for love - and, ahem, pleasure - in all the wrong places (aka: from men) Julia hasn't had sex in three years. Her roommate has a boyfriend-and their sex noises are audible through the walls, maybe even throughout... Read more

We Have Always Been Here

By: Samra Habib

Narrated by: Parmida Vand

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME

How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?

Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to... Read more

Trans Mission

By: Alex Bertie

Narrated by: Alex Bertie

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A brave firsthand account of online personality Alex Bertie's life, struggles, and victories as a transgender teen, as well as a groundbreaking guide for transitioning teens.
Long before he became known for his YouTube videos, Alex Bertie was an isolated, often-afraid transgender teenager looking for answers. In this revolutionary memoir and... Read more

Real Queer America

By: Samantha Allen

Narrated by: Samantha Allen

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's... Read more

Edinburgh

By: Alexander Chee

Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac & Josh Hurley

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys’ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to... Read more