Audiobooks for Pride Month 2024
June 14, 2024
June is Pride Month! We’ve rounded up 12 audiobooks that highlight LGBTQIA+ characters and themes for this month and all year round!
Written by Myriam Lecroix
Performed by Anika Venkatesh and Lucy Ellis
Published by Recorded Books
What if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hopes that it would work out?
Written by Alexandra Rowland
Performed by Casey Jones
Published by Recorded Books
For fans of Our Flag Means Death, discover low fantasy on the high seas in Alexandra Rowland’s Running Close to the Wind.
The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism
Written by R. Derek Black
Performed by R. Derek Black
Published by Recorded Books
From the former heir apparent to White nationalism, an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear, and of breaking from a community of hate.
Written by Bethany Baptiste
Performed by Lynnette R. Freeman
Published by Recorded Books
In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions are a dangerous business.
Written by Darcie Little Badger
Performed by Kinsale Drake
Published by Recorded Books
Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can’t afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood—and the loss of Shane’s father and her grandparents. They don’t think they’ll ever get their home back. Then Shane’s mother and a local boy go missing after a strange interaction with a fairy ring.
Written by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Performed by Christel Mutombo
Published by Recorded Books
This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid’s Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman’s right to her own body.
A Great Gay Book: Stories of Growth, Belonging, and Other Queer Possibilities
Edited by Ryan Fitzgibbon
Performed by Lee Osorio
Published by Tantor
A Great Gay Book: Stories of Growth, Belonging and Other Queer Possibilities is a gorgeously designed collection of essays, short fiction, poetry, interviews, profiles, as well as new material from many of today’s biggest LGBTQ+ creatives.
Written by Haley Cass
Performed by Lori Prince
Published by Tantor
Riley Beckett met Gianna Mäkinen—drop-dead gorgeous influencer, trilingual, daughter of world-famous models, yes, that Gianna Mäkinen—their first year at Boston University, and it changed everything for the both of them. After all, when you find the person who just gets you, nothing feels quite “the same” right?
Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality
Written by Cassidy Hall
Performed by Cassidy Hall
Published by Tantor
What would it mean to queer contemplation? To disentangle contemplative spirituality from heteronormativity, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity, and instead engage with openness, curiosity, and a little weirdness? Cassidy Hall, an LGBTQIA+ Christian contemplative scholar and podcast host, takes us on a journey to queer the contemplative tradition.
Written by Jae
Performed by Lori Prince
Published by Tantor
At a singles auction where no one was bidding on love, a warmhearted ER nurse finds herself dating a prickly doctor in this enemies-to-lovers lesbian romance.
Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
Written by Brontez Purnell
Performed by Brontez Purnell
Published by Highbridge Audio
From the beloved author of 100 Boyfriends, a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse.
Written by Katrina Carrasco
Performed by Stacy Gonzalez
Published by Highbridge Audio
Rough Trade follows Carrasco’s critically acclaimed debut The Best Bad Things and reimagines queer communities, the turbulent early days of modern media and medicine, and the pleasures—and price—of satisfying desire.
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