(Although you don’t get the tidy resolution you do in traditional mystery, so be warned!) The crux of the story is that as Jessica sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral, she makes a shocking discovery: two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s freezer. This is an un-put-downable book, part family drama and part mystery. She also does great different voices and accents (including Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) for different characters. MacDonald, who is also an accomplished actress to addition to an author, narrates the audiobook and she is absolutely fabulous. And in a way that makes you chuckle at the dark humor. It’s painfully real a lot of the time, but often in a way that makes you feel less alone. It’s psychologically rich and complicated, dealing with the stresses of motherhood and remembered trauma of physical illness and familial homophobia. MacDonald’s most recent novel is a fascinating, riveting book that takes place over one week in the life of a (lesbian) stay-at-home mom in Toronto.

Some are new books, some are old, but all are great reads. Happily, I’ve been noticing lately that this situation is changing for the better! So I present for you 10 amazing Canadian audiobooks (fiction and nonfiction) now available. This lack only gets more pronounced when you’re talking about Canadian books by authors of color and/or LGBTQ authors. But more significantly, there are a lot of great Canadian books that simply don’t exist in audiobook format. Obviously, what is available through those channels is limited. One reason for this is I can’t really afford to buy audiobooks, so I pretty much rely on digital audiobooks through my local library. But trying to combine my new love of audiobooks and my long-standing love of Canadian authors has been difficult. I like to read a fair amount of Canadian authors, especially authors who fit the bill for my queer Canadian book blog, Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian. One of the ways I’ve been able to really up my reading game these past few years is getting heavily into audiobooks.

The marrow thieves audible