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There There (2018)
6.9/10on Open Library
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Twelve characters converge on the Big Oakland Powwow. Some of their connections only become clear when the point of view changes. Pick Tommy Orange’s novel for the momentum of those crossings, and for how much one city can hold. Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
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The Berry Pickers (2023)
10.0/10on Open Library
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A Mi’kmaq family goes to Maine to pick blueberries for the summer, and a child vanishes. Another girl, Norma, grows up wondering whether her dreams are memories. Amanda Peters, a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry, lets the two stories build their own kind of suspense. Choose it for the long shadow of a single summer.
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Eliza Sunshine
Swan walks the prairie with her granddaughter Eliza after Eliza returns from residential school. Years later, Eliza has stories of her own to tell a daughter whose idea of freedom differs from hers. Michelle Good, a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation, gives each of the three generations room to disagree about what it takes to protect the next.
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The Sentence (2021)
9.0/10on Open Library
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The customer who haunts a Minneapolis bookstore is the one the staff were least eager to see again. Go to Louise Erdrich’s novel for Tookie’s acerbic company and for the funny, awkward ways a ghost story can get at what people owe one another. Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.
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Jonny Appleseed (2018)
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Jonny has a week to prepare to return home for his stepfather’s funeral. Memories of his grandmother keep breaking into the noise of his present life. Read it for the funny, affectionate voice that holds those jumps in time together. Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation.
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Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018)
7.5/10on Open Library
Published
The power goes out in a northern Anishinaabe community with winter approaching. A dwindling food supply makes every decision about sharing more consequential. Try this short, tense novel if you like survival fiction about what a community already knows how to do. Waubgeshig Rice is from Wasauksing First Nation.
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Bad Cree (2023)
6.0/10on Open Library
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Mackenzie’s dreams about the time before her sister died become hard to separate from waking life, and she goes home to rural Alberta. Choose this for horror that keeps its attention on the family members grieving together. Jessica Johns identifies as nehiyaw and is a member of Sucker Creek First Nation.
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Grandmother Begins the Story (2023)
8.0/10on Open Library
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In A Grandmother Begins the Story, five generations of Métis women share the telling with voices from the land around them, including a young bison who wonders if he should run. Choose this novel for a family story that makes room for more than human ideas of belonging. Michelle Porter is descended from the Métis Goulet family of the Red River.
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (2025)
8.0/10on Open Library
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A Lutheran pastor’s diary from 1912 turns up inside a wall. It holds the confession of Good Stab, a Blackfeet man with a life story that takes this novel into vampire horror. Choose it if competing accounts of the past are part of what you want a horror novel to make unsettling. Stephen Graham Jones is Blackfeet.
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The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award
August returns home after her grandfather Albert dies. His dictionary of Wiradjuri words gives you a second path through the story, with family memories folded into the entries. Choose Tara June Winch’s novel if you want to see how the form of a book can change what it lets a character pass down. Winch is Wiradjuri.
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Too Much Lip (2018)
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Kerry Salter comes home on a stolen Harley and expects to be gone within a day. A plan to develop the river keeps the family’s attention close to home. Read it for Kerry’s sharp mouth and the way a fight over a place can reopen older arguments. Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie writer of Bundjalung and European heritage.
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Praiseworthy (2024)
8.0/10on Open Library
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A persistent haze hangs over a town in northern Australia. One man thinks donkeys are the answer to an ecological crisis. Choose Alexis Wright’s novel if you have time for a long, expansive satire in which an absurd plan is allowed to play out on an enormous scale. Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation.
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Auē (2022)
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Ārama goes to live with relatives in rural Kaikōura while his older brother Taukiri heads off on his own. Choose this novel for the distance between what the brothers can tell you and what you learn as the book moves among other voices in the family. Becky Manawatu is of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha, and Pākehā descent.
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Kurangaituku (2021)
4.0/10on Open Library
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The bird woman in the story of Hatupatu gets to tell her own life, beginning with the birds that sing her into being. Pick this for a myth retelling that changes what you notice by changing who is speaking. Whiti Hereaka’s whakapapa includes Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Te Arawa.
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The Home of the Drowned (2026)
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Three women arrive at their summer village and find it underwater after the construction of a dam. Stay with this family saga for the friction between Rávdná’s determination to build again and her daughter’s experience of what can be kept. Elin Anna Labba is a Sámi writer from northern Sweden. English translation by Elizabeth Clark Wessel.
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Stolen (2023)
10.0/10on Open Library
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After a man kills Elsa’s reindeer calf in northern Sweden, the police treat the deaths of these animals as theft. Stay with Elsa as a childhood encounter takes on a different shape when she’s old enough to challenge what the authorities call it. Ann-Helén Laestadius is Sámi and of Tornedalian descent. Translated from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
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