Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+

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Title: The One I Was

Author: Eliza Graham

Narrator: Sue Pitkin, Michael Page

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Release date: April 21, 2015

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Restless, troubled Rosamond Hunter has spent most of her life running away from the past, filled with guilt about her involuntary role in her mother’s death. When her nursing job brings her back to Fairfleet, her childhood home, to care for an elderly refugee, she is forced to confront the ghosts that have haunted her for so long. Her patient, Benny Gault, first came to Fairfleet, England, in 1939, having fled Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport train. As his health fails, he and Rosamond begin to confide in each other. At first their tentative friendship revolves around the love they both shared for Rosamond’s glamorous grandmother, Harriet, but as their trust in each other grows, guilty secrets are exposed and history is turned on its head. From the acclaimed author of Playing with the Moon and Restitution comes a beautiful and haunting tale of friendship, redemption and forgiveness across generations. Revised edition: This edition of The One I Was includes editorial revisions.

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Title: The Language of the Dead: A World War II Mystery

Author: Stephen Kelly

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Release date: April 15, 2015

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

German bombers are arriving daily, seeking to crush England. But in a rural Hampshire village, things have remained fairly quiet—until an elderly loner, Will Blackwell, is brutally murdered. The method of his killing bears the hallmarks of the traditional vanquishing of a witch, and indeed, local legend claims that as a boy, Blackwell encountered a ghostly black dog sent from the devil, who struck a bargain for Blackwell's soul. Not long after the murder, a young woman who is carrying the illegitimate child of a fighter pilot also is violently killed; then a local drunkard ends up in the race of an abandoned mill with the back of his head bashed in. As the Germans continue their relentless attack, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb rushes to solve the crimes. Do the killer's motivations lie in the murky regions of the occult?

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Title: Lincoln’s Billy

Author: Tom LeClair

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Release date: April 15, 2015

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Abraham Lincoln trusted and confided in his law partner William “Billy” Herndon, but his still-influential 1889 biography was censored by his collaborator and publisher. In Lincoln’s Billy, Tom LeClair imagines Herndon’s deathbed autobiography and the “real life” of his partner, revealing secrets about a randy and “rasslin’” Lincoln on his youthful trips to New Orleans, the hidden sources of his depression, and the untold cause of his hatred of slavery. Based on the latest biographical research, Lincoln’s Billy presents a vulgar, tale-telling Lincoln unknown to most Americans and a radical, truth-telling Herndon who was more advanced—and more contemporary—than the president on public education, women’s rights, and most importantly, slavery. The abolitionist and free-thinking Billy contends with his beloved partner for sixteen years, and after the assassination, he conflicts with Lincoln’s family, other biographers, Christian fundamentalists, corrupt Republican politicians, robber barons, and Victorian propriety as he struggles to write his unconventionally frank biography. Just as strong-willed are the novel’s women: the ambitious, emotionally volatile, and mentally ill Mary Todd Lincoln as well as Herndon’s two wives—Mary Maxcy, an active intellectual helpmeet despite being the mother of six, and Anna Miles, a Democrat, Presbyterian, and slavery sympathizer with whom Billy argues issues of the day. Like the story of Lincoln’s life and autobiographies by Franklin, Douglass, and Henry Adams, Lincoln’s Billy is a classic American tale of failure, resistance, persistence, and hard-won success. The author of five novels with contemporary settings, Tom LeClair pairs two vivid historical voices in Lincoln’s Billy—Abe’s “Kaintuck” vernacular and Billy’s lawyerly rhetoric—as the two attorneys duel over biographical truth and historical fiction.

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Title: The Fishermen: A Novel

Author: Chigozie Obioma

Narrator: Chukwudi Iwuji

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: April 14, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact-both tragic and redemptive-will transcend the lives and imaginations of the book's characters and readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Fisherman is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny.

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Title: The Color of Secrets

Author: Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Narrator: Heather Wilds

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Release date: April 14, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Everyone has secrets, but some can change your life forever… In the midst of the Second World War, Eva receives the devastating news that her husband is missing and presumed dead. Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of limbo until, in the heat of an English summer, she meets Bill, a black American GI. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, neither can deny the love that overcomes them in the frantic weeks that follow, when every day could be their last. After Eva discovers she’s pregnant, Bill is shipped off to join the D-day fight, leaving her alone in a bigoted world. As her mixed-race daughter, Louisa, grows up, how far will Eva go to keep her safe and bury the past? And how far will Louisa go to uncover the truth? Revised edition: Previously published as With Love and Crocodiles: The Untold Story of a War Bride, this edition of The Color of Secrets includes editorial revisions.

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Title: Captive of the Border Lord

Series: #2 of Brunson Clan

Author: Blythe Gifford

Narrator: Cathleen McCarron

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Release date: April 10, 2015

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

To marry him will be to betray her family Bessie, the selfless sister of the powerful but stubborn Brunson clan, has sacrificed herself for her family's honour and is at the mercy of the court of King James. Ill-suited to court life, she must confront their mortal enemy, Lord Thomas Carwell, dressed in nothing but borrowed finery and pride. Underneath the relentless gaze of her captor she's enticed not only by him but also by the opulence of a world far removed from her own. When the furious King demands her brother's head, Carwell is the only one to whom she can turn. But she must pay the ultimate price for his protection The Brunson Clan The family who will kneel to no one...

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Title: The Duke's Holiday

Series: #1 of The Regency Romp Trilogy

Author: Maggie Fenton

Narrator: Sue Pitkin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Release date: April 7, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The cold, precise Duke of Montford demands things his way: neatly ordered, in place, and adhering closely to the rules. So he is furious when he learns that the tenant of his ducal estate has been dead for a year, and a stranger has been running the Honeywell business—which, by contract, is now Montford’s. When he arrives in Yorkshire to investigate, he discovers that the estate is being run by an unruly, tomboyish woman—and a bluestocking at that! Fiery redhead Astrid Honeywell is independent and educated. She’s been handling the Honeywell family business for years. And she’s not about to relinquish it to anyone—not even Montford—because of some archaic contract. Montford and Astrid have an instant hatred for one another…and an undeniable, unspeakable attraction. They must resist this improper desire—after all, Montford has a fiancée in London. But when Astrid’s life is placed in terrible danger, Montford finds he may be willing to risk everything to save her. Revised edition: This edition of The Duke's Holiday includes editorial revisions.

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Title: The Midwife's Revolt

Series: #1 of The Midwife Trilogy

Author: Jodi Daynard

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Release date: April 7, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

On a dark night in 1775, Lizzie Boylston is awakened by the sound of cannons. From a hill south of Boston, she watches as fires burn in Charlestown, in a battle that she soon discovers has claimed her husband’s life. Alone in a new town, Lizzie grieves privately but takes comfort in her deepening friendship with Abigail Adams. Soon, word spreads of Lizzie’s extraordinary midwifery and healing skills, and she begins to channel her grief into caring for those who need her. But when two traveling patriots are poisoned, Lizzie finds herself with far more complicated matters on her hands—she suspects a political plot intended to harm Abigail and her family. Determined to uncover the truth, Lizzie becomes entangled in a conspiracy that could not only destroy her livelihood—and her chance at finding love again—but also lead to the downfall of a new nation. Revised edition: This edition of The Midwife's Revolt includes editorial revisions.

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Title: The Shepherdess of Siena: A Novel of Renaissance Tuscany

Author: Linda Lafferty

Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Release date: March 31, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Raised by her aunt and uncle amidst the rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside, young orphan Virginia Tacci has always harbored a deep love for horses—though she knows she may never have the chance to ride. As a shepherdess in sixteenth-century Italy, Virginia’s possibilities are doubly limited by her peasant class and her gender. Yet while she tends her flock, Virginia is captivated by the daring equestrian feats of the high-spirited Isabella De’ Medici, who rides with the strength and courage of any man, much to the horror of her brother, the tyrannical Gran Duca Francesco De’ Medici. Inspired, the young shepherdess keeps one dream close to her heart: to race in Siena’s Palio. Twenty-six years after Florence captured Siena, Virginia’s defiance will rally the broken spirit of the Senese people and threaten the pernicious reign of the Gran Duca. Bringing alive the rich history of one of Tuscany’s most famed cities, this lush, captivating saga draws an illuminating portrait of one girl with an unbreakable spirit.

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Title: Tai-Pan: The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong

Series: #2 of The Asian Saga

Author: James Clavell

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 32 hours 11 minutes

Release date: March 24, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.93 of Total 15

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell “There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth—the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Ambition, political intrigue, and love and lust weave their way throughout the novel the New York Times called, “grand entertainment…packed with action…with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder.” East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. A tour-de-force of historical fiction, rich in detail yet eminently readable, Tai-Pan will stay with you long after the final page.