Download Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+

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Title: Queen of the North

Author: Anne O'Brien

Narrator: Beth Eyre

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Release date: May 31, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

From Sunday Times bestseller Anne O’Brien . . . To those around her she was a loyal subject. In her heart she was a traitor. 1399: England’s crown is under threat. King Richard II holds onto his power by an ever-weakening thread, with exiled Henry of Lancaster back to reclaim his place on the throne. For Elizabeth Mortimer, there is only one rightful King – her eight-year-old nephew, Edmund. Only he can guarantee her fortunes, and protect her family’s rule over the precious Northern lands bordering Scotland. But many, including Elizabeth’s husband, do not want another child-King. Elizabeth must hide her true ambitions in Court, and go against her husband’s wishes to help build a rebel army. To question her loyalty to the King places Elizabeth in the shadow of the axe. To concede would curdle her Plantagenet blood. This is one woman’s quest to turn history on its head. ‘O’Brien is now approaching Philippa Gregory status’ Reader’s Digest ‘O’Brien is a terrific storyteller’ Daily Telegraph ‘O’Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and political’ The Times Praise for Queen of the North: ‘Once more Anne O’Brien takes her readers on an emotional rollercoaster ride…Elizabeth Mortimer’s story joins the growing list of female lives Anne has gloriously rescued from history’s recycling skip’ Joanna Hickson ‘Enthralling … with masterful skill Anne O'Brien takes the reader on an action packed journey back to the tumultuous and uncertain days of the fifteenth century. A medieval masterpiece’ Nicola Tallis ‘With Anne O’Brien’s trademark attention to period detail, it’s a fascinating read’ Woman’s Weekly ‘Imaginative, rich in detail and immaculately researched’ Lancashire Post

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Title: An Unsuitable Woman

Author: Kat Gordon

Narrator: Richard Jack

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Release date: May 31, 2018

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies and Gill Paul’s The Secret Wife ‘Gloriously dark’ Liza Klaussman ‘Evocative’ i newsaper ‘Seductive’ Anna Hope ‘Rich’ Sunday Times ‘Thrilling’ Emma Chapman Theo Miller is young, bright and ambitious when he and his earnest younger sister Maud step off the train into the simmering heat of Nairobi. Both eagerly await their new life, yet neither are prepared for the pain it will bring. When Theo meets American heiress Sylvie de Croÿ, he is welcomed into her inner circle – the Happy Valley set – rich, dazzling expatriates, infamous for their scandalous lifestyles. Yet behind Sylvie’s intoxicating allure lies a powerful cocktail of secrets, lust and betrayal. As dark clouds gather over Kenya’s future and his own, Theo must escape this most unsuitable woman – before it is too late. First published as The Hunters.

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Title: The Tudor Crown

Author: Joanna Hickson

Narrator: Oliver J. Hembrough, Karen Cass

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Release date: May 31, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

‘An intriguing tale, told with confidence’ The Times ‘A great tale… the golden thread that led to the crown of England’ Conn Iggulden She’ll betray her king to crown her son When Edward of York takes back the English crown, the Wars of the Roses scatter the Lancastrian nobility and young Henry Tudor, with a strong claim to the throne, is forced into exile. Recently widowed and vulnerable, his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, forges an uncomfortable alliance with Edward’s queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Swearing an oath of allegiance to York, Margaret agrees to marry the king’s shrewdest courtier, Lord Stanley. But can she tread the precarious line between duty to her husband, loyalty to her son, and her obligation to God and the king? When tragedy befalls Edward’s reign, Richard of York’s ruthless actions fire the ambition of mother and son. As their destinies converge each of them will be exposed to betrayal and treachery and in their gruelling bid for the Tudor crown, both must be prepared to pay the ultimate price…

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Title: The Dante Chamber

Author: Matthew Pearl

Narrator: Steve West

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Release date: May 29, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Memories, fears, the fog of nightmares... Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings stunned Boston, a politician is found in a London park with his neck crushed by an enormous stone device etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When other shocking deaths erupt across the city, all in the style of the penances Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her missing brother, the artist and writer Dante Gabriel Rossetti, will be the next victim. The unwavering Christina enlists poets Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to decipher the literary clues, and together these unlikely investigators unravel the secrets of Dante’s verses to find Gabriel and stop the killings. Racing between the shimmering mansions of the elite and the seedy corners of London’s underworld, they descend further into the mystery. But when the true inspiration behind the gruesome murders is finally revealed, Christina must confront a more profound terror than anyone had imagined. A dazzling tale of intrigue from the writer Library Journal calls “the reigning king of popular literary historical thrillers,” The Dante Chamber is a riveting journey across London and into both the beauty and darkness of Dante. Expertly blending fact and fiction, Pearl gives us a historical mystery like no other that captivates and surprises until the last page.

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Title: No-No Boy

Author: John Okada

Narrator: David Shih

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Release date: May 29, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life 'no-no boys.' Yamada answered 'no' twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro's 'obsessive, tormented' voice subverts Japanese postwar 'model-minority' stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man's 'threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world.'

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Title: The Gift of Rain: A Novel

Author: Tan Twan Eng

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 0 minutes

Release date: May 29, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In the tradition of celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell. For the first time, available as an audiobook -- The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits. In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton -- the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang's great trading families -- feels alienated from both the Chinese and British communities. He at last discovers a sense of belonging in his unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip proudly shows his new friend around his adored island, and in return Endo teaches him about Japanese language and culture and trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. When the Japanese savagely invade Malaya, Philip realizes that his mentor and sensei -- to whom he owes absolute loyalty -- is a Japanese spy. Young Philip has been an unwitting traitor, and must now work in secret to save as many lives as possible, even as his own family is brought to its knees.

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Title: They Come in All Colors: A Novel

Author: Malcolm Hansen

Narrator: Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Release date: May 29, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

It's 1969 when fifteen-year-old Huey Fairchild begins high school at Claremont Prep, one of New York City's most prestigious boys' schools. His mother had uprooted her family from their small hometown of Akersburg, Georgia, a few years earlier, leaving behind Huey's white father and the racial unrest that ran deeper than the Chattahoochee River. But for our sharp-tongued protagonist, forgetting the past is easier said than done. At Claremont, where the only other nonwhite person is the janitor, Huey quickly realizes that racism can lurk beneath even the nicest school uniform. After a momentary slip of his temper, Huey finds himself on academic probation and facing legal charges. With his promising school career in limbo, he begins examining his current predicament at Claremont through the lens of his memories growing up in Akersburg during the Civil Rights Movement—and the chilling moments leading up to his and his mother's flight north. With Huey's head-shaking antics fueling this coming-of-age narrative, the story triumphs as a tender and honest exploration of race, identity, family, and homeland.

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Title: [Spanish] - Nos prometieron la gloria

Author: Mario Escobar

Narrator: Miguel Borda

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Release date: May 29, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Una historia sobre el valor de la amistad, la recompensa por las buenas acciones y el monstruo del populismo que barre las singularidades y criminaliza a los pueblos. Basada en hechos reales vividos por la conocida familia Collignon de Jalisco, México. En 1932, los hermanos Collignon, pertenecientes a una de las familias más influyentes de Jalisco, México, viajan a Alemania para completar su educación. A su llegada a Berlín, notan que el país está inquieto por el inminente ascenso de Adolf Hitler al poder. Los hermanos junto a un grupo de compañeros con quienes conforman un equipo de futbol ingresan en las juventudes hitlerianas, seducidos por los mensajes patrióticos de los nazis, entre ellos se encuentran Ernest y Ritter, dos de sus mejores amigos. Tras el regreso de los hermanos Collignon a su país natal, Alemania por su lado, comienza una creciente presión sobre Europa, que terminará en el comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La vida de Ernest y Ritter se separan por la guerra, hasta que en el verano de 1943, un inesperado encuentro los une, pero esta vez bajo diferentes condiciones, cada uno forma parte de la oposición... desencadenando una serie de acontecimientos que ponen a prueba la amistad verdadera, la lealtad y la vida misma. Una historia sobre el valor de la amistad, la recompensa por las buenas acciones y el monstruo del populismo que barre las singularidades y criminaliza a los pueblos.

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Title: Gods of Howl Mountain

Author: Taylor Brown

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Release date: May 29, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina. Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood—a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted ’40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he lives with his formidable grandmother, evades federal agents, and stokes the wrath of a rival runner. In the mill town at the foot of the mountains—a hotbed of violence, moonshine, and the burgeoning sport of stock-car racing—Rory is bewitched by the mysterious daughter of a snake-handling preacher. His grandmother, Maybelline “Granny May” Docherty, opposes this match for her own reasons, believing that “some things are best left buried.” A folk healer whose powers are rumored to rival those of a wood witch, she concocts potions and cures for the people of the mountains while harboring an explosive secret about Rory’s mother—the truth behind her long confinement in a mental hospital, during which time she has not spoken one word. When Rory’s life is threatened, Granny must decide whether to reveal what she knows … or protect her only grandson from the past. With gritty and atmospheric prose, Taylor Brown brings to life a perilous mountain and the family who rules it.

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Title: The Summer I Met Jack: A Novel

Author: Michelle Gable

Narrator: Ilyana Kadushin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Release date: May 29, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In this scintillating audiobook from New York Times bestselling author Michelle Gable, listeners are asked to imagine the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark - and the child they may have had. In 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of the wealthiest families in America. Alicia is at once dazzled by the large and charismatic family, in particular the oldest son, a rising politician named Jack. Alicia and Jack are soon engaged, but his domineering father forbids the marriage. And so, Alicia trades Hyannisport for Hollywood, and eventually Rome. She dates famous actors and athletes and royalty, including Gary Cooper, Kirk Douglas, and Katharine Hepburn, all the while staying close with Jack. A decade after they meet, on the eve of Jack’s inauguration as the thirty-fifth President of the United States, the two must confront what they mean to each other. The Summer I Met Jack is based on the fascinating real life of Alicia Corning Clark, a woman who J. Edgar Hoover insisted was paid by the Kennedys to keep quiet, not only about her romance with Jack Kennedy, but also a baby they may have had together.