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The Dawnhounds

By: Sascha Stronach
Narrated by: Anna Coddington
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

“Fans of Rebecca Roanhorse and Tamsyn Muir have their next read! The Dawnhounds is a queer, Māori-inspired fantasy tale that follows an ex-street-urchin-turned–police officer who gets killed on the job and is brought back to life on a mission to save the world. Sasha Stronach manages to intertwine technologically modified pirates, chaotic gods,... Read more

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson
Narrated by: Julie Lumsden
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

“Beautifully written and so important. Ferguson fits so many things into this book - discovering the asexual spectrum, inherited trauma, discrimination, and violence in relationships (and so much more). I also LOVED the beautiful descriptions of unique ice cream flavors and inclusion of water polo! Read more

A Snake Falls to Earth

By: Darcie Little Badger
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Kinsale Hueston
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

“This book truly transported me to another world. I was swept away by world building and so charmed by each of the characters. Nina and Oli both having their own talents and struggles with translation was such a wonderful way to tie these characters together until they met. A Snake Falls to Earth was a breath of fresh air, wholly original, and a... Read more

This Town Sleeps

A Novel

By: Dennis E. Staples
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

“This Town Sleeps, set on an Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota, is not an elegiac or idyllic work but rather a direct, unblinking, poetic novel that draws the reader inexorably into the gray areas of the hearts of those in this story. A queer coming-of-age story bound up in a town mystery, this tale of Marion Lafournier, a young gay Ojibwe... Read more

Màgòdiz

By: Gabe Calderón
Narrated by: Everett Rain
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

“For me listening to Màgòdiz was like sitting down to relax into a puzzle - the separate pieces of the story coming to light in small separate parts, teasing out nuggets connection, until a beautiful masterpiece of the intertwined whole is revealed. This book is fiercely queer, exploring gender in a different, and quite compelling, way than I... Read more

A Minor Chorus

A Novel

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Narrated by: Jesse Nobess
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.

An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him:... Read more

Jonny Appleseed

A Novel

By: Joshua Whitehead
Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A... Read more

Making Love with the Land

Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead
Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world



In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Deeply rooted within, he reaches across the anguish to create a new form of... Read more