The best trans and nonbinary listens
Explore this list of essential audiobooks from trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer authors.
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The It Girl’s summer listening list: Queer edition
Being authentic means living in your truth. These buzzy LGBTQIA+ books are some of the best guides to carving out life on your own terms.
Dive deep on our blue planet with these essential aquatic listens
These insightful works of nonfiction and memoir wade through the waters of ocean life, climate change, and our human connection to the vast and varied ecosystems that call the sea home.
Melissa Febos’s year of living celibately
When the acclaimed memoirist traded sex for solitude, she found the surprising joys and feminist roots of “The Dry Season.”
Jonathan Capehart shares five books that moved him
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist appreciates beautiful writing and compelling storytelling.
“So Many Stars” is a love letter to queer history and resistance
Caro De Robertis’s groundbreaking oral history celebrates the activism, cultural impact, and lived experiences of a generation of queer, trans, and two-spirit elders of color.
Comedian Zarna Garg says it’s never too late in life to follow your dreams
In her hilarious and heartfelt memoir, “This American Woman,” Garg recalls her journey from being a homeless teenager in Mumbai, to motherhood, to making it as a stand-up comic.
Go behind the scenes of Star Wars with memoirs and nonfiction from a galaxy far, far away
Hear stories from the Star Wars universe with this collection featuring cast bios and memoirs, cultural criticism, and more.
In "My Next Breath," Jeremy Renner recounts his remarkable recovery from a near-fatal accident
“The love is what took over. If I had nothing to come back for, I wouldn't have come back. I came back for that love.”
Years after the worst experience of her life, Amanda Knox is finally “Free”
The famous exoneree, activist, and accidental true crime icon shares universal lessons on meaning and resilience in her heart-wrenching new memoir.
On repeat: 45 of our favorite music memoirs
Turn up the volume and press play on this selection of pitch-perfect memoirs from music legends in a variety of genres and styles.
Unreliable yet undeniable: why we love unreliable narrators
There’s something so compelling about a perspective that alternately tells and hides the truth—and audio only adds an extra shiver of delight.