diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index fe90888..b877f1a 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/andybalholm/brotli v1.1.1
 	github.com/bodgit/plumbing v1.3.0
 	github.com/bodgit/windows v1.0.1
-	github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.1
 	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2 v2.0.7
 	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.17.11
 	github.com/pierrec/lz4/v4 v4.1.21
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@ require (
 
 require (
 	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 // indirect
-	github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.0.0 // indirect
 	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 029681e..31c07e8 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -60,10 +60,6 @@ github.com/google/pprof v0.0.0-20200212024743-f11f1df84d12/go.mod h1:ZgVRPoUq/hf
 github.com/google/renameio v0.1.0/go.mod h1:KWCgfxg9yswjAJkECMjeO8J8rahYeXnNhOm40UhjYkI=
 github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.0.4/go.mod h1:0Wqv26UfaUD9n4G6kQubkQ+KchISgw+vpHVxEJEs9eg=
 github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.0.5/go.mod h1:DWXyrwAJ9X0FpwwEdw+IPEYBICEFu5mhpdKc/us6bOk=
-github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.0.0 h1:hLrqtEDnRye3+sgx6z4qVLNuviH3MR5aQ0ykNJa/UYA=
-github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.0.0/go.mod h1:YH+1FKiLXxHSkmPseP+kNlulaMuP3n2brvKWEqk/Jc4=
-github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.1 h1:H5DkEtf6CXdFp0N0Em5UCwQpXMWke8IA0+lD48awMYo=
-github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.1/go.mod h1:iw975J/qwKPdAO1clOe2L8331t/9/fmwbPZ6JB6eMoM=
 github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.0/go.mod h1:/m3WP610KZHVQ1SGc6re/UDhFvYD7pJ4Ao+sR/qLZy8=
 github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.1/go.mod h1:/m3WP610KZHVQ1SGc6re/UDhFvYD7pJ4Ao+sR/qLZy8=
 github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2 v2.0.7 h1:a+bsQ5rvGLjzHuww6tVxozPZFVghXaHOwFs4luLUK2k=
diff --git a/internal/bcj2/reader.go b/internal/bcj2/reader.go
index 957ea23..24c8aec 100644
--- a/internal/bcj2/reader.go
+++ b/internal/bcj2/reader.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"io"
 
 	"github.com/bodgit/sevenzip/internal/util"
-	"github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror"
 )
 
 type readCloser struct {
@@ -102,8 +101,7 @@ func (rc *readCloser) Close() error {
 		return errAlreadyClosed
 	}
 
-	//nolint:lll
-	if err := multierror.Append(rc.main.Close(), rc.call.Close(), rc.jump.Close(), rc.rd.Close()).ErrorOrNil(); err != nil {
+	if err := errors.Join(rc.main.Close(), rc.call.Close(), rc.jump.Close(), rc.rd.Close()); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("bcj2: error closing: %w", err)
 	}
 
diff --git a/internal/deflate/reader.go b/internal/deflate/reader.go
index c0b4e4d..e02a2cd 100644
--- a/internal/deflate/reader.go
+++ b/internal/deflate/reader.go
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/bodgit/sevenzip/internal/util"
-	"github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror"
 	"github.com/klauspost/compress/flate"
 )
 
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@ func (rc *readCloser) Close() error {
 		return errAlreadyClosed
 	}
 
-	if err := multierror.Append(rc.fr.Close(), rc.c.Close()).ErrorOrNil(); err != nil {
+	if err := errors.Join(rc.fr.Close(), rc.c.Close()); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("deflate: error closing: %w", err)
 	}
 
diff --git a/reader.go b/reader.go
index 635f5c2..7b5358a 100644
--- a/reader.go
+++ b/reader.go
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/bodgit/plumbing"
 	"github.com/bodgit/sevenzip/internal/pool"
 	"github.com/bodgit/sevenzip/internal/util"
-	"github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror"
 	"go4.org/readerutil"
 )
 
@@ -202,7 +201,7 @@ func OpenReaderWithPassword(name, password string) (*ReadCloser, error) {
 
 	info, err := f.Stat()
 	if err != nil {
-		err = multierror.Append(err, f.Close())
+		err = errors.Join(err, f.Close())
 
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("sevenzip: error retrieving file info: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -222,22 +221,28 @@ func OpenReaderWithPassword(name, password string) (*ReadCloser, error) {
 					break
 				}
 
+				errs := make([]error, 0, len(files)+1)
+				errs = append(errs, err)
+
 				for _, file := range files {
-					err = multierror.Append(err, file.Close())
+					errs = append(errs, file.Close())
 				}
 
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("sevenzip: error opening: %w", err)
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("sevenzip: error opening: %w", errors.Join(errs...))
 			}
 
 			files = append(files, f)
 
 			info, err = f.Stat()
 			if err != nil {
+				errs := make([]error, 0, len(files)+1)
+				errs = append(errs, err)
+
 				for _, file := range files {
-					err = multierror.Append(err, file.Close())
+					errs = append(errs, file.Close())
 				}
 
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("sevenzip: error retrieving file info: %w", err)
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("sevenzip: error retrieving file info: %w", errors.Join(errs...))
 			}
 
 			sr = append(sr, io.NewSectionReader(f, 0, info.Size()))
@@ -251,11 +256,14 @@ func OpenReaderWithPassword(name, password string) (*ReadCloser, error) {
 	r.p = password
 
 	if err := r.init(reader, size); err != nil {
+		errs := make([]error, 0, len(files)+1)
+		errs = append(errs, err)
+
 		for _, file := range files {
-			err = multierror.Append(err, file.Close())
+			errs = append(errs, file.Close())
 		}
 
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("sevenzip: error initialising: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("sevenzip: error initialising: %w", errors.Join(errs...))
 	}
 
 	r.f = files
@@ -465,7 +473,7 @@ func (z *Reader) init(r io.ReaderAt, size int64) (err error) {
 		}
 
 		defer func() {
-			err = multierror.Append(err, fr.Close()).ErrorOrNil()
+			err = errors.Join(err, fr.Close())
 		}()
 
 		if header, err = readEncodedHeader(util.ByteReadCloser(fr)); err != nil {
@@ -551,11 +559,14 @@ func (rc *ReadCloser) Volumes() []string {
 }
 
 // Close closes the 7-zip file or volumes, rendering them unusable for I/O.
-func (rc *ReadCloser) Close() (err error) {
+func (rc *ReadCloser) Close() error {
+	errs := make([]error, 0, len(rc.f))
+
 	for _, f := range rc.f {
-		err = multierror.Append(err, f.Close()).ErrorOrNil()
+		errs = append(errs, f.Close())
 	}
 
+	err := errors.Join(errs...)
 	if err != nil {
 		err = fmt.Errorf("sevenzip: error closing: %w", err)
 	}
diff --git a/reader_test.go b/reader_test.go
index d9760ab..8286755 100644
--- a/reader_test.go
+++ b/reader_test.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/bodgit/sevenzip"
 	"github.com/bodgit/sevenzip/internal/util"
-	"github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"golang.org/x/sync/errgroup"
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ func extractArchive(tb testing.TB, r *sevenzip.ReadCloser, stream int, h hash.Ha
 		}
 
 		defer func() {
-			err = multierror.Append(err, rc.Close()).ErrorOrNil()
+			err = errors.Join(err, rc.Close())
 		}()
 
 		if err = extractFile(tb, fn(rc), h, f); err != nil {
@@ -467,7 +466,7 @@ func benchmarkArchiveNaiveParallel(b *testing.B, file string, workers int) {
 				}
 
 				defer func() {
-					err = multierror.Append(err, rc.Close()).ErrorOrNil()
+					err = errors.Join(err, rc.Close())
 				}()
 
 				return extractFile(b, rc, crc32.NewIEEE(), f)