Books Written by Native Hawaiian Authors
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A portrait of three women connected through one man in the aftermath of his murder—a stunning literary achievement and the explosive and highly anticipated debut novel from beloved award-winning memoirist...
- Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2026
An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician…only to find herself up against...
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A powerful, romantic debut novel-in-verse about a Native Hawaiian girl’s fight to find belonging in a fracturing family, sharing a message of love with resounding emotional truth. Aouli Elizabeth Smith...
- by Shay Kauwe
- Fantasy, Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2026
In this spellbinding fantasy debut set in a future where language magic reigns, a young Hawaiian woman must solve a murder to clear her name. Kea Petrova is dealing with...
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
On the misty slopes of Hawai‘i’s sacred mountain Mauna Loa, high in the upland forest where the trees reach their branches to the open sky, a koa seed awakens. Slowly,...
- Family Life
- Publication Year: 2025
Returning to Kaua‘i, park ranger Makalani finds her family divided and their way of life at risk in this rich and emotional adventure. After ten years as a national park...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2023
‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet Brandy Nālani McDougall. ‘Āina hānau—or the land of one’s birth—signifies identity through...
- Fiction, LGBTQ+ Romance, Murder Thrillers, Romance, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
Ocean’s 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai’i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build...
- Biographies, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs. Born and raised in Hawai‘i by a father...
- American Literature, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2006
Told in spellbinding and mythic prose, House of Many Gods by Kiana Davenport is a deeply complex and provocative love story set against the background of Hawaii and Russia. Interwoven...
- 8-12 Years, Children's Chapter Book, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2023
Curses aren’t real. At least, that’s what twelve-year-old, part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kamaʻehu thinks when she listens to her grandmother’s folktales about sacred flowers and family guardians. Anna’s friends back home...
- 8-12 Years, Children's Chapter Book, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2024
An exciting follow-up to Lei and the Fire Goddess features a mysterious, invisible island, dangerous spirits, and a newcomer who does not need Lei’s help…or does she? It turns out...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2013
Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai’i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible...
- by Noʻu Revilla
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2022
Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life—the body, a people,...
- Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2023
From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood. Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a...
- Essays, Nonfiction, Personal Growth and Self Development
- Publication Year: 2022
ALOHA (love) – ‘ĀINA (land) – MO’OLELO (stories) – ‘OHANA (family)DISCOVER FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF HAWAIIAN LIVINGFOR A PEACEFUL AND BALANCED LIFE. More than just a beautiful paradise, Hawai’i has a...
- Ethnic Studies, History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai’i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of...
The Mahele of Our Bodies
Generated from the life histories of ten Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) elders (kūpuna) who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or māhū (LGBTQM), this book reveals the way they experienced...