20 Best audiobook books like In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas

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In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery …

If you liked the audiobook plot in In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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2. A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Porter's A Grandmother Begins the Story book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

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3. Rage the Night

By: Donna Morrissey

3.97

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more

Similar categories in Donna Morrissey's Rage the Night book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

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4. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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6. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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7. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hay's Snow Road Station book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Hungry Ghosts

By: Kevin Jared Hosein

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Jared Hosein's Hungry Ghosts book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Sorrow felt selfish."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"You aint need to ask scorpions to sting, Lata."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

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9. The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McFarlane's The Sun Walks Down book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Elliott's And Then She Fell book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • fiction
  • canada
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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11. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

Cover of All the Colour in the World by C.S. Richardson

12. All the Colour in the World

By: C.S. Richardson

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Richardson's All the Colour in the World book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

15. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas

16. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

Similar categories in Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • canada
  • historical
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton

17. Night Wherever We Go

By: Tracey Rose Peyton

3.85

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library … read more

Similar categories in Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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18. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Chong's The Double Life of Benson Yu book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Troubled Waters

By: Mary Annaïse Heglar

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with … read more

Similar categories in Mary Annaïse Heglar's Troubled Waters book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather     Marshall

20. The Secret History of Audrey James

By: Heather Marshall

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more

Similar categories in Heather Marshall's The Secret History of Audrey James book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Far Cry

By: Alissa York

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most dist… read more

Similar categories in Alissa York's Far Cry book and Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

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3.97

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