Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+

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Title: The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court

Author: Michelle Moran

Narrator: Tanya Franks, Adam Alexi-Malle, Emma Bering

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Release date: August 14, 2012

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Two women vie to change their destinies after Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte orders marriage to a princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir in this compelling novel from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Maria.   “A fascinating tale that won’t soon be forgotten.”—Times Record News After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. When eighteen-year-old Marie-Louise is told that the emperor has demanded her hand in marriage, her father presents her with a terrible choice: marry the cruel, capricious Napoleon, or refuse and plunge her country into war. To save her father’s throne, Marie-Louise is determined to be a good wife. But at the extravagant French court, she finds many rivals for her new husband’s affection, including Napoleon’s sister Pauline, who is fiercely jealous, utterly uncontrollable, and the only woman as ambitious as the emperor himself.   When war once again sweeps the Continent and bloodshed threatens Marie-Louise’s family, the second empress is forced to make choices that will determine her place in history—and change the course of her life.

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Title: An Artist of the Floating World

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Release date: August 14, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day   In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the 'floating world'—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

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Title: Pale Blue

Author: Thomas Meinecke

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Release date: August 14, 2012

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The United States has long congratulated itself on being the world’s melting pot, but during a long, hot summer in coastal North Carolina, three young people will put that theory to the test. Our protagonist is Tillmann, a German vacationing in the States and corresponding with both his ex-girlfriend about the genesis of techno and an African American colleague about their research into the evolution of blues music. Over the course of the season, the trio’s discussions range from Mariah Carey to Ronald Reagan, from the Black Power movement to the legacy of Nazi Germany. And as a hurricane churns across the Atlantic, their exploration of how ethnicity, race, and gender are defined—particularly for America’s African and Jewish diasporas—will culminate in revelations about their own ethnic identities. Through the eyes of our three narrators, readers will explore the ideas of ethnicity and multiculturalism in our world, illustrated by humorous and poignant anecdotes woven into a single compelling narrative. Thomas Meinecke’s groundbreaking writing style is on full display here, as the writer-DJ has crafted this insightful novel with the same uncanny skill with which jazz and blues musicians create their improvisational styles.

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Title: The Pigeon Pie Mystery: A Novel

Author: Julia Stuart

Narrator: Hannah Curtis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Release date: August 7, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Julia Stuart returns in her follow-up to the bestselling The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise with this clever murder mystery set in Victorian England, brimming with her signature charm and fabulous characters. When Indian Princess Alexandrina is left penniless by the sudden death of her father, the Maharaja of Brindor, Queen Victoria grants her a grace-and-favor home in Hampton Court Palace. Though rumored to be haunted, Alexandrina and her lady's maid, Pooki, have no choice but to take the Queen up on her offer.      Aside from the ghost sightings, Hampton Court doesn't seem so bad. The princess is soon befriended by three eccentric widows who invite her to a picnic with all the palace's inhabitants, for which Pooki bakes a pigeon pie. But when General-Major Bagshot dies after eating said pie, and the coroner finds traces of arsenic in his body, Pooki becomes the #1 suspect in a murder investigation.      Princess Alexandrina isn't about to let her faithful servant hang. She begins an investigation of her own, and discovers that Hampton Court isn't such a safe place to live after all.      With her trademark wit and charm, Julia Stuart introduces us to an outstanding cast of lovable oddballs, from the palace maze-keeper to the unconventional Lady Beatrice (who likes to dress up as a toucan—don't ask), as she guides us through the many delightful twists and turns in this fun and quirky murder mystery. Everyone is hiding a secret of the heart, and even Alexandrina may not realize when she's caught in a maze of love.

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Title: The Black Isle

Author: Sandi Tan

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 30 minutes

Release date: August 7, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

This “ambitious, supernatural coming-of-age story” (The LA Times) is a sweeping tale of ghosts in the modern world, and one woman's struggle to create her own destiny. There are ghosts on the Black Isle. Ghosts that no one can see. No one . . . except Cassandra. Uprooted from Shanghai with her father and twin brother, young Cassandra finds the Black Isle's bustling, immigrant-filled seaport, swampy jungle, and grand rubber plantations a sharp contrast to the city of her childhood. And she soon makes another discovery: the Black Isle is swarming with ghosts. Haunted and lonely, Cassandra at first tries to ignore her ability to see the restless apparitions that drift down the street and crouch in cold corners at school. Yet despite her struggles with these spirits, Cassandra comes to love her troubled new home. And soon, she attracts the notice of a dangerously charismatic man. Even as she becomes a fearless young woman, the Isle's dark forces won't let her go. War is looming, and Cassandra wonders if her unique gift might be her beloved island's only chance for salvation . . . Taking readers from the 1920s, through the Japanese occupation during WWII, to the Isle's radical transformation into a gleaming cosmopolitan city, The Black Isle is a sweeping epic—a deeply imagined, fiercely original tale from a vibrant new voice in fiction.

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Title: Bride of New France: A Novel

Author: Suzanne Desrochers

Narrator: Emma Bering

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Release date: August 7, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

“Bride of New France is the best piece of historical fiction I’ve read in a long time.”  –Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, New Brunswick)   Laure Beauséjour has grown up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. Despite numerous hardships, she dreams of using her needlework skills to become a seamstress and one day marry a nobleman. But in 1669, Laure’s dreams are cruelly dashed when she is sent across the Atlantic to New France as a fille du roi. Powerful and haunting, Bride of New France is a remarkable tale of a French girl and her struggle to survive in a brutal time and place.

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Title: The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

Author: M.L. Stedman

Narrator: Noah Taylor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Release date: July 31, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 207

Ratings of Narrator: 3.62 of Total 47

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine). After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.

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Title: The Custom of the Army: An Outlander Novella

Series: #2.75 of Lord John Grey

Author: Diana Gabaldon

Narrator: Jeff Woodman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Release date: July 27, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 16

Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

A #1 New York Times best-selling author, Diana Gabaldon pens historical fiction that's widely celebrated for masterful plotting, authenticity, and riveting suspense. In 1759 London, Lord John Grey finds himself in hot water after a high-society electric-eel party ends in a duel. Needing to lie low, Lord John answers a friend's request for help and sets sail for the New World- unaware of the hornet's nest he's about to step into.

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Title: Exodus: A Novel of Israel

Author: Leon Uris

Narrator: Paul Michael

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 28 hours 59 minutes

Release date: July 17, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.65 of Total 26

Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 9

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

“Passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel.”—The New York Times Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon—the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event.  Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies—the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power.  Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus—one of the great bestselling novels of all time.

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Title: White Doves at Morning

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Ed Sala

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Release date: July 17, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 19

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of 'America's best novelist' (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE 1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and irreverent Willie Burke, the son of Irish immigrants, face the trials of battle and find redemption in the love of a passionate and committed abolitionist, Abigail Downing, and in the courageous struggle of Flower Jamison, a beautiful slave. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, and penetrating a landscape of shattering Civil War bloodshed as few novels have, this epic from an American literary giant endows readers with the gift of experiencing the past through new eyes, while its timeless prose style—at once luminous and brutal—ensures the legacy of this bloodiest of conflicts will never be lost.