27 must-read audiobook books like Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis

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Girlfriend on Mars

By: Deborah Willis

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She…

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Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

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

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  • canada
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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4. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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5. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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6. Chrysalis

By: Anuja Varghese

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more

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  • canada
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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8. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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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9. Adrift

By: Lisa Brideau

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Last Thing He Told Me comes a page-turning thriller about hidden identities and the… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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11. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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12. 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

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  • canada
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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

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13. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. We Meant Well

By: Erum Shazia Hasan

4.05

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

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  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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19. The Islands: Stories

By: Dionne Irving

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin  Chong

20. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of My Murder by Katie Williams

21. My Murder

By: Katie Williams

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What if the murder you had to solve was your own? Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable… read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah  Willis

22. Girlfriend on Mars

By: Deborah Willis

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms

23. The Rooftop Garden

By: Menaka Raman-Wilms

3.66

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A thought-provoking debut novel that examines the intersection of climate change, human connection … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Away from the Dead by David Bergen

24. Away from the Dead

By: David Bergen

3.96

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seem… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

25. Wait Softly Brother

By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

3.64

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her c… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Daughter by Claudia Dey

26. Daughter

By: Claudia Dey

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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27. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Clarion by Nina Dunic

28. The Clarion

By: Nina Dunic

3.64

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series) by Kasia Van Schaik

29. We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series)

By: Kasia Van Schaik

3.78

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divo… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Burden of Exile: A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship by Aaron Berhane

30. The Burden of Exile: A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship

By: Aaron Berhane

4.31

Format: 328 pages, ebook

In the strict dictatorship of Eritrea, a young reporter co-founds the first independent newspaper, … read more

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  • adult
Cover of Dancing in Small Spaces: One Couple’s Journey with Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia by Leslie A. Davidson

31. Dancing in Small Spaces: One Couple’s Journey with Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia

By: Leslie A. Davidson

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An unstintingly honest and surprisingly humorous memoir that charts a couple’s parallel diagnoses o… read more

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29 Top fiction books like Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Naomi Alderman

3.86

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21 must-read fiction books like Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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