Our Favorite Queer Audiobooks for Audiobook Appreciation Month

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June is Audiobook Appreciation Month! While we talk a lot on our blogs about all the books we read, we haven’t talked much about how often we don’t “read” those books so much as listen to them! A lot of our rec list reccers love audiobooks and rely on them for various reasons. Thus, we wanted to celebrate by highlighting some of the great books that have audiobook versions we loved. Note that for books that have multiple audiobook versions, we do specifically mean the versions listed below, with the named narrator. The contributors to the list are: Rhosyn Goodfellow, JD Rivers, CarCrash, Shea Sullivan, Aubrey Winter, Annabeth Lynch, Ivy L. James, jumblejen, Puck, Rascal Hartley, Tris Lawrence, Linnea Peterson, Evangeline Giaconia, and an anonymous contributor.

• The Escape Game by Marissa Meyer & Tamara Moss; read by Keylor Leigh & Ryan Vincent Anderson
• All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles; read by Sonny Archer
• Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian; read by Aven Shore
• The Edge of a World by J.D. Rivers; read by Anthony Proctor
• Nicked by M.T. Anderson; read by Euan Morton
• Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón; read by Everett Rain (note: the cover for this edition says it’s narrated by the author, but the listings on Goodreads and elsewhere indicate the narrator is Everett Rain. We’re not sure if this is a case of Calderón having multiple pen names or what, but we decided to proceed with the listing as given on the audiobook listings.)
• Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner; read by Simon Jones, Ellen Kushner, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, Katherine Kellgren & Dion Graham
• The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater; read by Will Patton
• Breaking Character by Lee Winter; read by Angela Dawe
• The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir; read by Moira Quirk
• The Charioteer by Mary Renault; read by Joe Jameson
• Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra; read by Catherine Bilson
• The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton; read by Emily Lawrence
• Nevada by Imogen Binnie; read by Imogen Binnie
• Unstoppable series by Charlie Jane Anders; read by Hynden Walch, Sena Bryer, Imami Jade Powers & Marcella Lentz-Pope
• The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass; read by Michael Crouch & Kevin R. Free
• The Honeys by Ryan La Sala; read by Pete Cross
• The Extraordinaries series by TJ Klune; read by Michael Lesley
• The Radiant Emperor series by Shelley Parker-Chan; read by Natalie Naudus
• Once & Future series by Cory McCarthy & A.R. Capetta; read by Lauren Fortgang
• A Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee; read by C.B. Lee & Emily Woo Zeller
• The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells; read by Kevin R. Free
• The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian; read by Joel Leslie
• Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman; read by Avi Roque
• Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers; read by Dan Calley
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; read by George Guidall

Find these and other books on our Goodreads book shelf. We’ve also made a list on the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate page, but note that not all of these titles are actually available in audiobook format through Bookshop.org!

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