Speak out.

So many times, so little time? Audiotapes make great gifts for you or for the bookworms in your life. But where to begin? First choices in fiction include Armistead Maupin's San Francisco-set multivolume Tales of the City series, produced by HarperCollins ($16-$18 each volume); Clive Barker's epic Galilee, also from HarperCollins ($25); B&B Audio's hot new take on Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls ($29.95); and Brilliance Corporation's Bookcassette unabridged recording of Dorothy Allison's Cavedweller ($28.95). Interesting Random House titles include Jane Hamilton's The Short History of a Prince ($24) and Anne Rice's the Vampire Chronicles ($39.95). * If nonfiction is your preference, check out Victoria Starr's audiovideo k.d. land: All You Get Is Me (B&B, $16.95). In the memoirs department, National Public Radio commentator Marion Winik weighs in with how she helped her gay AIDS-stricken--husband and father of her children--Tony Heubach, die in First Comes Love (Random House, $18); Quentin Crisp offers The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin, $16.95); and Judy Garland's daughter Lorna Luft shares deep, dark secrets in Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (Simon and Schuster, $25). * Comedy recordings make great holiday gifts, and Uproar Entertainment amuses with three offerings: Comedy You Can Dance To by Kate Clinton; Human Beings: What a Concept by Karen Williams; and The Gay Comedy Jam "Freedom Tour" Live! with Scott Kennedy, Kevin Maye, and Bob Smith. All are available on CD ($15.98). * Last but not least, romantics will get a special kick out of Dove Audio's The Poetry of Wait Whitman ($13).