Books Written by Cherokee Authors
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Crime & Mystery, Suspense Thriller, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2025
When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town—a place with dark ties to an elite historical society—archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate…from bestselling author Vanessa Lillie. In the...
- Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Crime & Mystery
- Publication Year: 2012
This terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising is the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years. Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our...
- Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense Thriller, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2025
A Native American first contact story and gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee...
- Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny....
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2024
A Cherokee girl introduces her younger brother to their family’s traditions — begrudgingly! — in this picture book written by Walter Award-winner Andrea L. Rogers and featuring gorgeous collage illustrations...
- Fiction, Horror Fiction, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2025
Olivia Becente was never supposed to have the gift. The ability to commune with the dead was the specialty of her sister, Naiche. But when Naiche dies unexpectedly and under...
- by Thomas King
- Graphic Novels, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2021
From celebrated Indigenous author Thomas King and award-winning Métis artist Natasha Donovan comes a powerful graphic novel about a family caught between nations. Borders is a masterfully told story of...
- Murder Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2019
The voice in her head says he’s guilty. She knows he’s innocent. Devon Burges is in the throes of a high-risk birth when she learns of her dear friend’s murder....
- Murder Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2020
Suspected of a murder she can’t remember, a troubled woman takes an unusual approach to proving her innocence in this gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Little Voices Vanessa...
- Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them...
- by Thomas King
- Essays, History, Native American History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2013
In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across...
- Culture and Heritage, Ethnic Studies, History, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller,...