Rad Riot Reads Book Club

Bad Girls

By: Camila Sosa Villada & Kit Maude - Translator
Narrated by: Sena Bryer
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale about finding a community among fellow outcasts.

Camila Sosa Villada’s extraordinary first novel is a rich, nuanced portrait of a marginalized community: their romantic relationships, friendships and squabbles, difficulties at work, aspirations and... Read more

Dayspring

By: Anthony Oliveira
Narrated by: Davin Babulal, Landon Doak, Kai Cheng Thom, David Demchuk, Anthony Oliveira, Rowan Jette Knox, Alicia Elliott, Nadia Shammas, Iain Stewart, Amanda Cordner & Carole Pope
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS • One of Indigo's Top 10 Literary Fiction Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024 • One of CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable... Read more

Jawbone

By: Mónica Ojeda
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?"



Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?



When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta... Read more

When We Were Sisters

A Novel

By: Fatimah Asghar
Narrated by: Farah Kidwai, Kamran Khan & Deepti Gupta
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

“Brimming with poetic lyricism, When We Were Sisters encourages you to rethink the definitions of 'family' and 'home'! Would highly recommend! Read more

The Reformatory

A Novel

By: Tananarive Due
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

“What could be filled with more horror than The Jim Crow Era? Based on true accounts of The Dozier School for Boys, this is a story about survival against all odds for both the living and the dead. The ghosts of The Reformatory will permanently settle in your body long after you've finished reading. Read more

God's Children Are Little Broken Things

Stories

By: Arinze Ifeakandu
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

In this stunning debut from one of Nigeria's most exciting young writers, the stakes of love meet a society in flux. These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness, and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria. A man revisits the university campus where he lost his... Read more

Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield
Narrated by: Annabel Baldwin & Robyn Holdaway
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

“A deep-sea mission leads to an unexpected transformation when Miri’s wife, Leah, returns…different, somehow. This tragically eerie novel poses questions of estrangement, self-discovery, and what exactly lies in the deepest parts of the sea. Read more

Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal & Johnny Rey Diaz
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

“An endearing literary horror overflowing with touching metaphors for grief and taxing depictions of gory, hungry horror. The juxtaposition of shocking animalistic violence and poignantly authentic intimate moments etched Monstrilio and his family forevermore in my heart. Monstrilio represents the revolution of the facets of one's identity,... Read more

Yellowface

A Novel

By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“Equal parts modern satire, indictment of the publishing industry, and twisted ghost story, R. F. Kuang’s first foray into literary fiction pulls no punches and will have you reading late into the night. Read more

Our Share of Night

A Novel

By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 27 hours 16 minutes

“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post
“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

ONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • GOOD MORNING... Read more

Tomb of Sand

A Novel

By: Geetanjali Shree
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 18 hours 20 minutes

WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE“A triumph of literature.”—Financial Times“Echoes of James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende and Leo Tolstoy. . . . An enchanting ride.”—BookPage“A breath of fresh air.”—GuardianA playful, feminist, and utterly original epic set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable... Read more

The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr
Narrated by: Chris McPherson
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRE THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022 When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of... 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

Babel

Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution

By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi & Billie Fulford-Brown
Length: 21 hours 45 minutes

“A new favorite. Great for sophisticated teens who want a book with more substance. Read more