June is Pride Month! We’ve rounded up 12 audiobooks that highlight LGBTQIA+ characters and themes for this month and all year round!

How it Works Out

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?

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Running Close to the Wind

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.

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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.

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The Poisons We Drink

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.

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Sheine Lende

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.

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Womb City

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.

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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.

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On the Same Page

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?

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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.

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Bachelorette Number 12

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.

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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.

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Rough Trade

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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