LGBTQIA+ Authors

The Christmas Swap

By: Talia Samuels

Narrated by: Kim Bretton & Emma Fenney

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Margot Murray is a newly single, successful businesswoman with no interest in a cutesy seasonal romance after her breakup with her long-term girlfriend. Ben Gibson is an unlucky-in-love sweetheart in need of a woman to bring home for the holidays. Together, they make a pact: Margot gets two blissful weeks away from London in a picture-perfect... Read more

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

Narrated by: Curtis Chin

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This “vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black... Read more

A Little Bit Country

By: Brian D. Kennedy

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin & Andrew Gibson

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Dumplin' meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this heartfelt and funny contemporary romance inspired by Dollywood, about two boys who fall in love against the backdrop of a country music-themed amusement park, from debut author Brian D. Kennedy. Perfect for fans of Erin Hahn, Phil Stamper, and David Levithan.Emmett Maguire wants to be... Read more

Meeting Millie

By: Clare Ashton

Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Oxford—celebrated city of dreaming spires and class warfare—is an ambition come true for lesbian, geeky, upper-middle-class Charlotte and straight, charismatic, working-class Millie.



Against the odds, theirs is an instant, best friendship. Forever.



Exuberant Millie is a breath of fresh air for polite Charlotte and a force of nature within the... Read more

Why Are People Into That?

By: Tina Horn

Narrated by: Tina Horn

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From a #1 Apple podcast host, Lambda Literary fellow, and dominatrix comes a sex-positive, judgment-free cultural deep-dive into the world of kink.
 

When celebrated BDSM educator Tina Horn first launched Why Are People Into That?!, publications from Vice to Buzzfeed heralded it as one of the best sex podcasts around. Each episode centered... Read more

The Holiday Trap

By: Roan Parrish

Narrated by: Natalie Duke, Pete Cross & Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, but they can't seem to understand what it's like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. When an act of familial meddling goes way too far, she realizes just how desperately she needs space to figure out who she is. Truman Belvedere's heart is crushed when he learns that... Read more

Call Me by Your Name

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: Armie Hammer

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com

*Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay*

Celebrate André Aciman's sensational novel with a... Read more

Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett

Narrated by: Ariel Blake

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

A "propulsive page-turner" (Alyssa Cole) and "thriller not to be missed" (Michael Connelly) from the award-winning author of Like a Sister, in which a woman thinks she’s waking up to a romantic vacation—only to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone.

The truth is never skin deep.
 
It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend... Read more

Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

Narrated by: Carolyn Kang

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.

Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory... 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

Let the Record Show

By: Sarah Schulman

Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams & Sarah Schulman

Length: 27 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

One of O, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of Vogue's 9 LGBTQ+ Books We're Looking Forward to This Spring, one of and Cosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one of The Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want... Read more

Stars in Your Eyes

By: Kacen Callender

Narrated by: André Santana, AJ Beckles, Dani Martineck, Hann...

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The National Book Award-winning author of Felix Ever After delivers a beautifully tender story of two grumpy/sunshine, fake-dating actors navigating their love story both on and offscreen—perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexis Hall.

Logan Gray is Hollywood's bad boy—a talented but troubled actor who the public loves to hate. Mattie Cole... Read more

Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A... Read more

The City in the Middle of the Night

By: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrated by: Jennifer O'Donnell & Laura Knight Keating

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet--divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. But... Read more

Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

Narrated by: Harrison Knights

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of longing... Read more

Queer Little Nightmares

By: David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli

Narrated by: Danielle Verayo

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the... Read more

The Thirty Names of Night

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

Narrated by: Samy Figaredo & Lameece Issaq

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction
Winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award
Named Best Book of the Year by Bustle
Named Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions, Electric Literature, and HuffPost

​​From the award-winning author of The Map of Salt and Stars, a new novel about three... Read more

So This Is Ever After

By: F.T. Lukens

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Time bestseller!

Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this subversive, “delightfully original and whimsical” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive.

Arek hadn’t thought much about what would happen after he completed the... Read more

Chef's Choice

By: TJ Alexander

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2024 Lambda Literary Award Finalist

“Urgent and intimate.” —The New York Times Book Review

A fake dating arrangement turns to real love in this deliciously delightful queer rom-com from the author of the sweetly satisfying Chef’s Kiss.

When Luna O’Shea is unceremoniously fired from her frustrating office job, she tries to count her blessings:... Read more

She Gets the Girl

By: Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus & Valentina Ortiz

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s All That meets What If It’s Us in this New York Times bestselling hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from the coauthor of Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick.

Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand…not... Read more

Trouble

By: Lex Croucher

Narrated by: Ell Potter

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist and queer twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love.

There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble.

Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life.... Read more

Sasha Masha

By: Agnes Borinsky

Narrated by: Agnes Borinsky

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-wrenching debut novel.



Alex feels like he is in the wrong body. His skin feels strange against his bones. And then comes Tracy, who thinks he's adorably awkward, who wants to kiss him, who makes him feel like a Real Boy. But it is not quite enough.... Read more

Thirsty: A Novel

By: Jas Hammonds

Narrated by: Alaska Jackson

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jas Hammonds, award-winning author of We Deserve Monuments, comes a gripping read about a girl willing to risk it all for the chance to join an underground sorority with her wealthy best friends—perfect for fans of Euphoria and Girl in Pieces.

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have... Read more

Big Gay Wedding

By: Byron Lane

Narrated by: Noah Galvin

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Noah Galvin, who starred in The Good Doctor, Dear Evan Hansen, The Real O'Neals, and Booksmart.

An unashamedly proud, loud, and hilarious novel about a small town that’s forever changed by a big gay wedding, perfect for fans of Red, White & Royal Blue and The Guncle

Two grooms. One mother of a problem.

Barnett Durang... Read more