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Indigenous Literature Books
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Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,345 ratings — published 2018
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.51 — 174,438 ratings — published 2013
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,338 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.05 — 285,297 ratings — published 2007
Five Little Indians (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.46 — 46,590 ratings — published 2020
Jonny Appleseed (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,796 ratings — published 2018
The Marrow Thieves (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 44,260 ratings — published 2017
Indian Horse (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.41 — 34,661 ratings — published 2012
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.68 — 115,629 ratings — published 2020
Split Tooth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,700 ratings — published 2018
Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 14,187 ratings — published 2017
Bad Cree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.90 — 20,152 ratings — published 2023
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 202,931 ratings — published 2021
The Break (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.27 — 22,387 ratings — published 2016
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,560 ratings — published 2019
Monkey Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,638 ratings — published 2000
Birdie: A Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.67 — 5,616 ratings — published 2015
The Round House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 124,862 ratings — published 2012
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.24 — 17,752 ratings — published 2012
Ceremony (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.84 — 26,625 ratings — published 1977
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.85 — 30,844 ratings — published 2023
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 84,406 ratings — published 2021
Heart Berries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 30,217 ratings — published 2018
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 313,484 ratings — published 2023
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.52 — 14,542 ratings — published 2017
A History of My Brief Body (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,610 ratings — published 2020
Empire of Wild (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,733 ratings — published 2019
Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,097 ratings — published 2023
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.49 — 34,700 ratings — published 2019
This Place: 150 Years Retold (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,217 ratings — published 2019
Green Grass, Running Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,446 ratings — published 1993
Medicine Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,322 ratings — published 2014
A Minor Chorus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,566 ratings — published 2022
The Strangers (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,152 ratings — published 2021
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 54,665 ratings — published 2020
Winter Counts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,518 ratings — published 2020
Half-Breed (Goodread Biographies)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,173 ratings — published 1973
House Made of Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,521 ratings — published 1968
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,582 ratings — published 1984
Wandering Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,900 ratings — published 2024
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.50 — 53,473 ratings — published 2021
Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,319 ratings — published 2020
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,336 ratings — published 2003
Future Home of the Living God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.61 — 29,486 ratings — published 2017
Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,150 ratings — published 2013
Big Chief: A Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,096 ratings — published 2025
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 59,306 ratings — published 2024
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 43,271 ratings — published 2025
The Circle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,736 ratings — published 2023
Postcolonial Love Poem (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as indigenous-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,265 ratings — published 2020
“Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation.”
― Making Love with the Land: Essays
― Making Love with the Land: Essays
“In the place Calliope had bled, a trail of corn sprouted behind her. She picked the two tallest corn shoots then sat beside two large, smooth stone metates for grinding. From within her husk rebozo, she pulled a mano, shucked the corn, laid it on the altar, and with the mano in both hands, she began moving with the weight of her whole body, the strength of her shoulders and back pressing down through her arms, back and forth, shearing, until the corn became a fine yellow powder.
The Ancients sang her on as she worked. When the Earth has had enough, she will shake her troubles off. She will shake her troublemakers off. She scooped this and mashed it into the butter of her hands. Rolled it into a ball, flattened it again. Shaped and shaped until the corn grew into a child, who sprang from the stone of her hands, laughing.
For she was finished, and sank into the earth, solid, hardened, at peace. And as her corn-made child ran from the mound to the grass below, the spirits intoned. The Earth has all the power she needs.
When she decides to use her power, you will know.”
― Trinity Sight
The Ancients sang her on as she worked. When the Earth has had enough, she will shake her troubles off. She will shake her troublemakers off. She scooped this and mashed it into the butter of her hands. Rolled it into a ball, flattened it again. Shaped and shaped until the corn grew into a child, who sprang from the stone of her hands, laughing.
For she was finished, and sank into the earth, solid, hardened, at peace. And as her corn-made child ran from the mound to the grass below, the spirits intoned. The Earth has all the power she needs.
When she decides to use her power, you will know.”
― Trinity Sight
