29 Best Gay Books
Gay is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Gay audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Gay audiobooks below.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
- By: TJ Klune
- Narrator: Daniel Henning
- Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 17, 2020
- Language: English
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4.44(303411 ratings)
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4.44(303411 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Daniel Henning is a great narrator for this quirky and theatrical audiobook…Henning revels in a cornucopia of characters, diving into nuanced voices and colorful moments with accents and growls, tone shifts and whispers…This is“Daniel Henning is a great narrator for this quirky and theatrical audiobook…Henning revels in a cornucopia of characters, diving into nuanced voices and colorful moments with accents and growls, tone shifts and whispers…This is definitely a title for those who enjoy fantasy stories replete with gnomes and witches and all in between” — AudioFile Magazine
Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune’s breakout contemporary fantasy
Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He’s tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.
Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light.
The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place–and realizing that family is yours.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
“Daniel Henning provides nimble, versatile narration, clearly having fun voicing a variety of magical creatures as well as cautious Linus, protective Arthur, and a wide range of secondary characters…This charming, funny tale about chosen family and finding your place in the world is sweet without being saccharine and heartwarming without being corny.” — School Library Journal“1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in.” — Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of Soulless
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Deadbeat Druid
- By: David R. Slayton
- Narrator: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.33(699 ratings)
4.33(699 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe living cannot be allowed to infect the dead. Adam Binder has lost what matters most to him. Having finally learned the true identity of the warlock preying on his family, what was supposed to be a final confrontation with the fiend insteadThe living cannot be allowed to infect the dead.
Adam Binder has lost what matters most to him. Having finally learned the true identity of the warlock preying on his family, what was supposed to be a final confrontation with the fiend instead became a trap that sent Adam’s beloved Vicente into the realm of the dead, where none living are meant to be.
Bound by debt, oath, and love, Adam blazes his own trail into the underworld to get Vicente back, and to end the threat of the warlock once and for all. But the road to hell is paved with far more than good intentions. Demons are hungry, and ghosts are relentless, and what awaits Adam in the underworld is nothing he is prepared to face.
If that weren’t enough, Adam has one more thing he must do if he and Vicente are to return to the world of the living: find the lost heart of Death herself.
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Christodora
- By: Tim Murphy
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 17 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.29(4385 ratings)
4.29(4385 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDIn this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young coupleIn this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly and Jared’s lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, Milly and Jared’s adopted son Mateo grows to see the opportunity for both self-realization and oblivion that New York offers.
As the junkies and protesters of the 1980s give way to the hipsters of the 2000s and they, in turn, to the wealthy residents of the crowded, glass-towered city of the 2020s, enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly and Jared and the constellation of people around them.
Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize a true response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, Christodora recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, illustrates the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life the ever-changing city itself.
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Trailer Park Trickster
- By: David R. Slayton
- Narrator: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.24(1978 ratings)
4.24(1978 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThey are my harvest, and I will reap them all. Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved aunt Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members ofThey are my harvest, and I will reap them all.
Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved aunt Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adam’s family. It all seems linked to the death of Adam’s father many years ago–a man who may have somehow survived as a warlock.
Watched by the police, separated from the man who may be the love of his life, compelled to seek the truth about his connection to the druid, Adam learns more about his family and its troubled history than he ever bargained for, and finally comes face-to-face with the warlock he has vowed to stop.
Meanwhile, beyond the Veil of the mortal world, Argent the Queen of Swords and Vic the Reaper undertake a dangerous journey to a secret meeting of the Council of Races . . . where the sea elves are calling for the destruction of humanity.
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Mr. Loverman
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.22(7220 ratings)
4.22(7220 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDBarrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father,Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather–and also secretly gay.
His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away?
With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves.
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Alec
- By: William di Canzio
- Narrator: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 06, 2021
- Language: English
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4.22(624 ratings)
4.22(624 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“Sackville imbues this character-driven historical drama with warmth, comfort, and a sense of optimism, especially during the story’s darkest moments.” —AudioFile Magazine William di Canzio’s Alec, inspired by Maurice,“Sackville imbues this character-driven historical drama with warmth, comfort, and a sense of optimism, especially during the story’s darkest moments.” —AudioFile Magazine
William di Canzio’s Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster’s secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in Forster’s classic, published only after the author’s death.
Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. Forster, who tried to write an epilogue about the future of his characters, was stymied by the radical change that the Great War brought to their world. With the hindsight of a century, di Canzio imagines a future for them and a past for Alec–a young villager possessed of remarkable passion and self-knowledge.
Alec continues Forster’s project of telling stories that are part of “a great unrecorded history.” Di Canzio’s debut novel is a love story of epic proportions, at once classic and boldly new.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Power of the Dog
- By: Thomas Savage
- Narrator: Chad Michael Collins
- Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 19, 2021
- Language: English
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4.2(6651 ratings)
4.2(6651 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDNow an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage’s acclaimed Western is “a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place” (Boston Globe) for fans of East of EdenNow an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage’s acclaimed Western is “a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place” (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain.... Read more
Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers — one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet — and of the mother and son whose arrival on the brothers’ ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the novel’s startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage’s voice — and the intense passion of his characters — holds readers in thrall.
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Under the Whispering Door
- By: TJ Klune
- Narrator: Kirt Graves
- Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 21, 2021
- Language: English
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4.19(101606 ratings)
4.19(101606 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USD“Narrator Kirt Groves provides an excellently distinct cast of voices.”– LocusA Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA“Narrator Kirt Groves provides an excellently distinct cast of voices.”– Locus
A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.Welcome to Charon’s Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.
When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.
And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.
But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.
“Graves matches his narrative pace to the measured unwinding of the story’s layers, focused but unhurried, in the same way that Hugo brews his therapeutic cups of tea.” —AudioFile
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
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A Taste of Gold and Iron
- By: Alexandra Rowland
- Length: 18 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 30, 2022
- Language: English
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4.13(2673 ratings)
4.13(2673 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDA place in your home. A place at your hearth. Kadou, the shy prince of Arast, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court–the body-father of the queen’s new child–in an altercation that results in hisA place in your home. A place at your hearth.
Kadou, the shy prince of Arast, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court–the body-father of the queen’s new child–in an altercation that results in his humiliation.
To prove his loyalty to the queen, his sister, Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds, with the help of his newly appointed bodyguard, the coldly handsome Evemer, who seems to tolerate him at
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best. In Arast, where princes can touch-taste precious metals with their fingers and myth runs side by side with history, counterfeiting is heresy, and the conspiracy they discover could cripple the kingdom’s financial standing and bring about its ruin. -
Red Clay Suzie
- By: Jeffrey Dale Lofton
- Narrator: Pete Cross
- Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.12(27 ratings)
4.12(27 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe coming-of-age story of Philbet, a gay, physically-misshapen boy in rural Georgia, who battles bullying, ignorance, and disdain as he makes his way in life as an outsider–before finding acceptance in unlikely places Fueled by tomatoThe coming-of-age story of Philbet, a gay, physically-misshapen boy in rural Georgia, who battles bullying, ignorance, and disdain as he makes his way in life as an outsider–before finding acceptance in unlikely places
Fueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes, and obsessed with cars, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay boy in rural Georgia. He’s happiest when helping Grandaddy dig potatoes from the vegetable garden that connects their houses. But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security; expose his misshapen chest skillfully hidden behind shirts Mama makes at home; and convince him that he’s not fit to be loved by Knox, the older boy he idolizes to distraction. Over time, Philbet finds refuge in unexpected places and inner strength in unexpected ways, leading to a resolution in the form of a letter from beyond the grave.
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Call Me by Your Name
- By: Andre Aciman
- Narrator: Armie Hammer
- Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 03, 2017
- Language: English
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4.12(298354 ratings)
4.12(298354 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“…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“…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 Timothee Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay*
Celebrate Andre Aciman’s sensational novel with a dynamic audiobook, read by Armie Hammer
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year
A New York Magazine “Future Canon” Selection
A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year
One of The Seattle Times‘ Michael Upchurch’s Favorite Books of the Year
Call Me by Your Name first swept across the world in 2007. It is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. Andre Aciman’s critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.
More praise for Call Me By Your Name:
“…Armie Hammer (who plays Oliver in the movie) steps effortlessly into Elio’s interior world. The result is staggering.” — BookRiot
“a must-listen for anyone familiar with the book or film.” — Buzzfeed
“Hammer’s soft, velvety voice lends itself perfectly to the story and its Italian setting. While you might think this one isn’t worth a listen if you’ve already seen the movie or read the book, many reviewers say it is still worth taking in even if you know the story – some even say it’s worth listening to more than once.” — AskMen
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Breeder
- By: Honni van Rijswijk
- Narrator: Emmett Grosland
- Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.07(190 ratings)
4.07(190 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USD2022 Lammy Award Finalist for LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Will Meadows is a seemingly average fifteen-year-old Westie, who lives and works in Zone F, the run-down outermost ring of the Corporation. In the future state of the Corp, a person’s2022 Lammy Award Finalist for LGBTQ Speculative Fiction
Will Meadows is a seemingly average fifteen-year-old Westie, who lives and works in Zone F, the run-down outermost ring of the Corporation. In the future state of the Corp, a person’s value comes down to productivity: the right actions win units, the wrong ones lose them. If Will is unlucky and goes into unit debt, there’s only one place to go: the Rator. But for Zone F Breeders, things are much worse–they’re born into debt and can only accrue units through reproduction.
Every day in Zone F is a struggle, especially for Will who is fighting against time for access to an illegal medical drug, Crystal 8. Under the cover of night, Will travels to the Gray Zone, where life is less regulated and drugs–and people–are exchanged for gold. There, Will meets Rob, a corrupt member of the Corporation running a Breeder smuggling operation. Will also meets Alex, another teen whom he quickly recognizes as a Breeder in disguise.
Suddenly, Will has an illicit job and money, access to Crystal, and a real friend. As the pair grows closer, Alex shares her secret: she is part of the Response, an uprising to overthrow the Corporation. Caught up in the new friendship, Will and Alex become careless as the two covertly travel into Zone B for a day of adventure. Nothing goes as planned and Will’s greatest fear is realized. Will his true identity be revealed?
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In My Father’s House
- By: E. Lynn Harris
- Narrator: Phil John
- Length: 9 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.06(805 ratings)
4.06(805 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFor his final new series, New York Times mega-bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley L. Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami’s sexy South Beach.Only the world’s most beautiful models make the roster ofFor his final new series, New York Times mega-bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley L. Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami’s sexy South Beach.Only the world’s most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for the most elite photographers and magazines. They are fashionista royalty–and the owners, Bentley L. Dean and his beautiful partner Alexandra, know it. But even Picture Perfect isn’t immune from hard times, so when Sterling Sneed, a rich, celebrity party planner promises to pay a ludicrously high fee for some models, Bentley finds he can’t refuse. Even though the job is not exactly a photo shoot, Bentley agrees to supply fifteen gorgeous models as eye candy for an “A” list party–to look good, be charming and, well, entertain the guests. They don’t have to do anything they don’t want to, but…
His models are pros and he figures they can handle the pressure, until one drops out and Bentley asks his protege Jah, a beautiful kid who Bentley treats as if he were his own son, to substitute. Suddenly, the stakes are much higher, particularly when Jah falls in love with the hottest African American movie star in America. Seth Sinclair is very handsome, very famous, and very married–and his closeted gay life makes him very dangerous as well. Can Bentley’s fatherly guidance save Jah from making a fatal mistake?
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These Violent Delights
- By: Micah Nemerever
- Narrator: Michael Crouch
- Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 15, 2020
- Language: English
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4.03(8861 ratings)
4.03(8861 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA Literary Hub Best Book of Year * A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year * A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books * A Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Big Books for the Fall * An O Magazine.com LGBTQ Books That Are Changing the Literary Landscape * An Electric LitA Literary Hub Best Book of Year * A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year * A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books * A Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Big Books for the Fall * An O Magazine.com LGBTQ Books That Are Changing the Literary Landscape * An Electric Lit Most Anticipated Debut * A Paperback Paris Best New LGBTQ+ Books To Read This Year Selection * A Passport Best Book of the Month
The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever’s compulsively readable debut novel–a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.
When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm.
Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal–an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship, because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel, and Paul becomes increasingly afraid that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.
As their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimately hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence.
Unfolding with a propulsive ferocity, These Violent Delights is an exquisitely plotted excavation of the depths of human desire and the darkness it can bring forth in us.
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A Marvellous Light
- By: Freya Marske
- Narrator: David Thorpe
- Length: 14 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.03(17432 ratings)
4.03(17432 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Narrator David Thorpe’s delicious depictions of steamy encounters between Robin andEdwin are intricately woven throughout this magical realm.” — Booklist, starred reviewAn International Bestseller!Winner of the 2022 Romantic“Narrator David Thorpe’s delicious depictions of steamy encounters between Robin and
Edwin are intricately woven throughout this magical realm.” — Booklist, starred review
An International Bestseller!
Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!
Locus Award Finalist!
An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick–with four starred reviews!
A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR | Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble
Red, White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in debut author Freya Marske’s A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies.Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He’s struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents’ excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he’s always known.
Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it–not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else.
Robin’s predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they’ve been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles–and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tordotcom
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The Soldier’s Scoundrel
- By: Cat Sebastian
- Narrator: Gary Furlong
- Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 04, 2016
- Language: English
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4.01(4832 ratings)
4.01(4832 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.003.99 USDA scoundrel who lives in the shadows. Jack Turner grew up in the darkness of London’s slums, born into a life of crime and willing to do anything to keep his belly full and his siblings safe. Now he uses the tricks and schemes of theA scoundrel who lives in the shadows.
Jack Turner grew up in the darkness of London’s slums, born into a life of crime and willing to do anything to keep his belly full and his siblings safe. Now he uses the tricks and schemes of the underworld to help those who need the kind of assistance only a scoundrel can provide. His distrust of the nobility runs deep and his services do not extend to the gorgeous high-born soldier who personifies everything Jack will never be.A soldier untarnished by vice.
After the chaos of war, Oliver Rivington craves the safe predictability of a gentleman’s life-one that doesn’t include sparring with a ne’er-do-well who flouts the law at every turn. But Jack tempts Oliver like no other man has before. Soon his yearning for the unapologetic criminal is only matched by Jack’s pleasure in watching his genteel polish crumble every time they’re together.Two men only meant for each other.
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Brideshead Revisited
- By: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrator: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Language: English
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4.01(89685 ratings)
4.01(89685 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDBrideshead Revisited: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece-an audiobook... Read moreBrideshead Revisited: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece-an audiobook that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire.Through the story of Charles Ryder’s entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh’s early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout. -
White Trash Warlock
- By: David R. Slayton
- Narrator: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4(4185 ratings)
4(4185 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDNot all magicians go to schools of magic. Adam Binder has the Sight. It’s a power that runs in his bloodline: the ability to see beyond this world and into another, a realm of magic populated by elves, gnomes, and spirits of every kind. ButNot all magicians go to schools of magic.
Adam Binder has the Sight. It’s a power that runs in his bloodline: the ability to see beyond this world and into another, a realm of magic populated by elves, gnomes, and spirits of every kind. But for much of Adam’s life, that power has been a curse, hindering friendships, worrying his backwoods family, and fueling his abusive father’s rage.
Years after his brother, Bobby, had him committed to a psych ward, Adam is ready to come to grips with who he is, to live his life on his terms, to find love, and maybe even use his magic to do some good. Hoping to track down his missing father, Adam follows a trail of cursed artifacts to Denver, only to discover that an ancient and horrifying spirit has taken possession of Bobby’s wife.
It isn’t long before Adam becomes the spirit’s next target. To survive the confrontation, save his sister-in-law, and learn the truth about his father, Adam will have to risk bargaining with very dangerous beings … including his first love.
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Michael Tolliver Lives
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrator: Armistead Maupin
- Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 12, 2007
- Language: English
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3.96(5569 ratings)
3.96(5569 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the CityInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver–the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers–for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary… and filled with the everyday miracles of living.
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Conventionally Yours
- By: Annabeth Albert
- Narrator: Kirt Graves
- Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 02, 2020
- Language: English
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3.87(10225 ratings)
3.87(10225 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDCharming, charismatic, and effortlessly popular, Conrad Stewart seems to have it all…but in reality, he’s scrambling to keep his life from tumbling out of control. Brilliant, guarded, and endlessly driven, Alden Roth may as well be theCharming, charismatic, and effortlessly popular, Conrad Stewart seems to have it all…but in reality, he’s scrambling to keep his life from tumbling out of control.
Brilliant, guarded, and endlessly driven, Alden Roth may as well be the poster boy for perfection…but even he can’t help but feel a little broken inside.
When these mortal enemies are stuck together on a cross-country road trip to the biggest fan convention of their lives, their infamous rivalry takes a backseat as an unexpected connection is forged. Yet each has a reason why they have to win the upcoming Odyssey gaming tournament, and neither is willing to let emotion get in the way–even if it means giving up their one chance at something truly magical.
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The Gentleman’s Book of Vices
- By: Jess Everlee
- Narrator: Jess Everlee
- Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Harlequin Audio
- Publish date: November 29, 2022
- Language: English
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3.85(464 ratings)
3.85(464 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIs their real-life love story doomed to be a tragedy, or can they rewrite the ending? London, 1883 Finely dressed and finely drunk, Charlie Price is a man dedicated to his vices. Chief among them is his explicit novel collection, though hisIs their real-life love story doomed to be a tragedy, or can they rewrite the ending?
London, 1883
Finely dressed and finely drunk, Charlie Price is a man dedicated to his vices. Chief among them is his explicit novel collection, though his impending marriage to a woman he can’t love will force his carefully curated collection into hiding.
Before it does, Charlie is determined to have one last hurrah: meeting his favorite author in person.
Miles Montague is more gifted as a smut writer than a shopkeep and uses his royalties to keep his flagging bookstore afloat. So when a cheerful dandy appears out of the mist with Miles’s highly secret pen name on his pretty lips, Miles assumes the worst. But Charlie Price is no blackmailer; he’s Miles’s biggest fan.
A scribbled signature on a worn book page sets off an affair as scorching as anything Miles has ever written. But Miles is clinging to a troubled past, while Charlie’s future has spun entirely out of his control…
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The Martian Child
- By: David Gerrold
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.82(1124 ratings)
3.82(1124 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDGerrold, a science fiction writer from California, adopts a son who has been classified as “unadoptable” due to his violent emotional outbursts resulting from abuse. Another side-effect of his turbulent early years is that he believesGerrold, a science fiction writer from California, adopts a son who has been classified as “unadoptable” due to his violent emotional outbursts resulting from abuse. Another side-effect of his turbulent early years is that he believes himself to be a Martian. Gerrold begins the long, involving work of trying to earn the acceptance of Dennis, a hyperactive eight-year-old who desperately wants a father’s love, but is so insecure he feels he must be an alien. Gerrold’s recounting of the first two years with Dennis ends with the climax of Dennis running away and waiting in a city park at night for the flying saucers to come and reclaim him. Funny, endearing, and at times, heartbreaking, this is a beautifully written testament to fatherhood.
This book is semiautobiographical. Gerrold did adopt a son, but he heard about a boy who thought he was a Martian from another adoptive father.
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Summer Sons
- By: Lee Mandelo
- Narrator: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 28, 2021
- Language: English
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3.82(6209 ratings)
3.82(6209 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDLee Mandelo’s debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply thanLee Mandelo’s debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost.
Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew a horrible inheritance: a roommate he doesn’t know, friends he never asked for, and a gruesome phantom that hungers for him.
As Andrew searches for the truth of Eddie’s death, he uncovers the lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a family history soaked in blood and death. Whirling between the backstabbing academic world where Eddie spent his days and the circle of hot boys, fast cars, and hard drugs that ruled Eddie’s nights, the walls Andrew has built against the world begin to crumble.
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Cleanness
- By: Garth Greenwell
- Narrator: Garth Greenwell
- Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 14, 2020
- Language: English
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3.81(6064 ratings)
3.81(6064 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“Garth Greenwell’s superb narration makes a powerful case for authors reading their own work. This bleak, honest novel is about the impossibility of knowing all the complicated truths of a person. Though the novel includes dialogue,“Garth Greenwell’s superb narration makes a powerful case for authors reading their own work. This bleak, honest novel is about the impossibility of knowing all the complicated truths of a person. Though the novel includes dialogue, Greenwell doesn’t alter his voice as he shifts between characters, a choice that adds to the intensity and power of the first-person point of view.” — BookTrib
This program is read by the author.
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020
Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song.
In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student’s confession recalls his own first love, a stranger’s seduction devolves into paternal sadism, and a romance with another foreigner opens, and heals, old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit, and with our own fugitive selves.
Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell’s beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared “an instant classic” by The New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose, he transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers.
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Tomato Red
- By: Daniel Woodrell
- Narrator: Brian Troxell
- Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 24, 2012
- Language: English
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3.79(2644 ratings)
3.79(2644 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.98 USDA sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell’s collection of “country noir” novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition. In the Ozarks, what you are is where you areA sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell’s collection of “country noir” novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.... Read moreIn the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you’re born in Venus Holler, you’re not much. For Jamalee Merridew, Venus Holler just won’t cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be.
Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need.
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A Killing in Costumes
- By: Zac Bissonnette
- Narrator: Melanie Carey
- Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 09, 2022
- Language: English
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3.79(330 ratings)
3.79(330 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDJay Allan and Cindy Cooper were soap-opera stars in the late 90s, a wholesome young husband-and-wife duo who combined musical talent with humor and charisma. When the truth about their sexual orientations came to light, their marriage and TV careersJay Allan and Cindy Cooper were soap-opera stars in the late 90s, a wholesome young husband-and-wife duo who combined musical talent with humor and charisma. When the truth about their sexual orientations came to light, their marriage and TV careers ended, but decades later they have remained friends. Together, they open Palm Springs’ chicest movie memorabilia store, Hooray for Hollywood, but no customers and dwindling finances spell trouble. A Hail Mary arrives in the form of Yana Tosh, a ninety-year-old diva of the silver screen who has amassed a valuable collection of costumes and props and is looking to sell. But first, Jay and Cindy have to beat their competition, a vice president from a mega-auction house with ten times their resources. And when he winds up dead, they become prime suspects in the murder. With their freedom and livelihoods on the line, Jay and Cindy desperately need to clear their names. There are plenty of other potential suspects, but they’ll have to solve it soon before they’re forced to trade in their vintage costume collection for two orange jumpsuits.
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What Belongs to You
- By: Garth Greenwell
- Narrator: Garth Greenwell
- Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 19, 2016
- Language: English
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3.77(9206 ratings)
3.77(9206 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDOn an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over theOn an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he’s forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko’s own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want. What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, Garth Greenwell has created an indelible story about the ways in which our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love.
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A Place at the Table
- By: Susan Rebecca White
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.72(4296 ratings)
3.72(4296 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDFrom Susan Rebecca White, award-winning author of A Soft Place to Land and Bound South, comes a breathtaking story of three richly nuanced outcasts whose paths converge in a chic Manhattan cafe as they realize they must give up everything theyFrom Susan Rebecca White, award-winning author of A Soft Place to Land and Bound South, comes a breathtaking story of three richly nuanced outcasts whose paths converge in a chic Manhattan cafe as they realize they must give up everything they thought they knew to find a home at last.
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Alice Stone is famous for the homemade southern cuisine she serves at Cafe Andres and her groundbreaking cookbook, but her past is a mystery to all who know her. Upon Alice’s retirement, Bobby Banks, a young gay man ostracized by his family in Georgia, sets out to revive the aging cafe with his new brand of southern cooking while he struggles with heartbreak like he’s never known. Seeking respite from the break up of her marriage, wealthy divorcee Amelia Brighton finds solace in the company and food at Cafe Andres, until a family secret comes to light in the pages of Alice’s cookbook and threatens to upend her life.
In her most accomplished novel yet, Susan Rebecca White braids together the stories of these three unforgettable characters who must learn that when you embrace the thing that makes you different, you become whole. -
In One Person
- By: John Irving
- Narrator: John Benjamin Hickey
- Length: 16 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.69(21576 ratings)
3.69(21576 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDFrom the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes “his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade” (Vanity Fair).A New York Times bestselling novel of desire,From the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes “his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade” (Vanity Fair).
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A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love–tormented, funny, and affecting–and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a “sexual suspect,” a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of “terminal cases,” The World According to Garp.
In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers–a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself “worthwhile.”
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