Native values suffuse this fantasy novel where a young Native woman must go to a colonizer school for dragon riders in order to keep the baby dragon that has chosen her. Gorgeously written and deeply enjoyable. Suggested by Amanda.
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Native American and Indigenous Voices in Fiction
Celebrate the rich and diverse cultures, traditions, histories, and life experiences of Native and Indigenous people in these adult fiction books.
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- A delightful workplace romance featuring two Indigenous main characters. Ember and Danuwoa have great banter and chemistry, and I loved watching their relationship bloom! Suggested by Brenna.
- Orange’s sophomore effort is both more expansive–situating characters introduced in "There There" within a family story that stretches back to the Sand Creek Massacre–and more focused. He repeatedly upends the reader’s expectations, showing lives…
- Talty writes from the perspective of an outsider named Charles who is looking in at his community and who questions if he has any right to call it his community because he does not share the one defining element of being a member: meeting the…
Never Whistle at Night
An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
People from a variety of Indigenous cultures may warn you that whistling at night can bring terrifying results, from hauntings to curses to disturbing creatures. This collection takes those legends to a new and spine-chilling level. This book…- One of my favorite authors creates an authentic, compelling family saga that’s at times heart wrenching. But coming full circle, it's not without hope and resilience for her characters. This made the longlist for the 2023 National Book Award for…
- National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson has crafted a lyrical and moving story of a Cherokee family’s grief and resilience after losing their son Ray-Ray. Hobson masterfully combines the past and present and appeals to nature, animals, and…
- An action-packed swashbuckling, gender-flipped Zorro story set in an alternative 16th century Mexico that features indigenous characters and beautifully interweaves history, magic, mythology, romance into a read that I found hard to put down.…
- An illuminating and heart-wrenching novel that skillfully blends historical fiction and magical realism to the tell the story of two sisters who live in El Salvador under the rule of a brutal dictator and flee the genocide of the country's…
- An intense slow-burn mystery/thriller that shines a necessary light on the Missing Murdered Indigenous Women Girls Two Spirit movement. I really like how this was a female centric story and the main cast of female characters came together and were…
- Set loose a herd of bison in downtown Edmonton: what could go wrong? Balancing wit and sorrow in a work of satire, social commentary, and whip-smart storytelling, Prairie Edge follows Ezzy and Grey’s inspired misadventures as their zealous ideas…
- Do you love horror novels or films? This novel mixes the hilarious with the horrifying while addressing real issues such as class, gentrification, and privilege. Publishers are marketing this book as Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th.
- A violation of the traditional rules regarding hunting--and, by extent, humanity's relationship with the natural world--leads to supernatural vengeance in this slow-burn horror novel that combines slasher-movie conventions and Blackfeet lore.
- Virgil Wounded Horse doles out rough justice on South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation, but when a tribal politician hires him to stop heroin being sold on the reservation, he finds himself, and the few people he cares about, in the crossfire of dueling…
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