Native and Indigenous Authors

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Saints of the Household

by Ari Tison

Hardcover: Mar 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer - that will take your breath away.

Old School Indian

A Novel

by Aaron John Curtis

Hardcover: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal.

A Council of Dolls

A Novel

by Mona Susan Power

Hardcover: Aug 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.

Those Pink Mountain Nights

by Jen Ferguson

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a ...

The Mighty Red

A Novel

by Louise Erdrich

Hardcover: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

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 ordinary people's lives.

Stealing

A Novel

by Margaret Verble

Hardcover: Feb 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret ...

Bad Cree

A Novel

by Jessica Johns

Hardcover: Jan 2023 | Paperback: Dec 2023

Critics' Consensus:

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 violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.

Firekeeper's Daughter

by Angeline Boulley

Hardcover: Mar 2021 | Paperback: Apr 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel

In Firekeeper's Daughter, debut author Angeline Boulley crafts a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, for readers of Angie ...

Red Paint

The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

Hardcover: Mar 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2023

Critics' Consensus:

An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent ...

Probably Ruby

A Novel

by Lisa Bird-Wilson

Hardcover: Apr 2022 | Paperback: Jan 2023

Critics' Consensus:

An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable debut novel about family, race, and history.

The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich

Hardcover: Nov 2021 | Paperback: Sep 2022

Critics' Consensus:

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.

Night of the Living Rez

by Morgan Talty

Paperback: Jul 2022

Critics' Consensus:

Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.

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