Native American Literature Books by BIPOC Authors
- Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on...
- by Morgan Talty
- Family Life, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, comes a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one...
- by Tommy Orange
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three...
- Horror Fiction, Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror novels picks up four years after Don’t Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Dystopian, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
In this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by Evan Whitesky ventures into unknown...
- American Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fiction, Folklore Fiction, Horror Fiction, Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of...
- 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...
- Horror Fiction, Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge...
- Horror Fiction, Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2022
In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will...
- Horror Fiction, Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2021
From USA TODAY bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a “masterpiece” (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. Labeled “one of...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2020
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota...
- Coming of Age, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2018
Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the...
- by Tommy Orange
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2018
A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not...
- Dystopian, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2018
A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful literary voice, Waubgeshig Rice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds...
- Family Life, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2018
Stella, a young Métis mother, lives with her family by the Break, an isolated strip of land on the edge of their small Canadian town. Glancing out of her window...
- Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2015
“A novel about the role of stories in our lives, those we tell ourselves about ourselves and those we agree to live by.” —Globe and Mail When Franklin Starlight is...
- by Toni Jensen
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Native American Literature, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2010
For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen’s stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries...
- by Velma Wallis
- Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2004
Velma Wallis’s award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winter Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for...