New Indigenous Peoples Fiction & Nonfiction for Adults

Updated October 20, 2025
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Blood Sisters
Lillie, Vanessa
Paper Book
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 her sister. There are secrets in the land. As an archeologist for the...
The Bone Thief
Lillie, Vanessa
Paper Book
"The Bone Thief is a riveting mystery with a plot that seamlessly blends history with fiction. And Syd Walker is an unforgettable protagonist." --Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods When a Native teenager vanishes from her small...
Broken Fields
Rendon, Marcie R.
Paper Book
1970s Minnesota. It's spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing summer field work for Bud Borgerud, a local farmer-until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property's rented farmhouse. The only possible witness to the murder is the young daughter of a Native field...
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
The New York Times bestseller and "horror masterpiece" (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones--the master of modern horror--is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. The best horror novel of the year...
By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on native land
Nagle, Rebecca
Ebook
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First...
Carved in Blood (Detective Hana Westerman, 3)
Bennett, Michael.
Paper Book
Tenacious Māori investigator Hana Westerman returns in this stunning new thriller from the award-winning author of Better the Blood. In the depths of the bleak New Zealand winter comes the rising of Matariki - a sacred constellation in Māori...
Girl Warrior: A Coming of Age Handbook
Harjo, Joy
Paper Book
An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate. "To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we are all made of the same questions, we have individual routes to the answers, or to reframing the questions. Why is...
The Indian card : who gets to be Native in America
Schuettpelz, Carrie Lowry
Paper Book
A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States "A genre-bending work of reportage, memoir, and history" --The New Yorker "Candid, unflinching . . . Her thorough...
Killer on the road ; The babysitter lives
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
Two novels in one book, The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, from the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the Indian Lake...
Love is a War Song
Nava, Danica.
Paper Book
Their love is the song of the summer. 'A sharp, funny, and deliciously slow-burning romance . . . Love is a War Song is the book of the summer!' LYLA SAGE 'A swoony love story . . . It's a must read for all romance book lovers' HANNAH GRACE
Malinalli
Chapa, Veronica
Paper Book
Book Riot's Best New Book Releases "A vivid and unprecedented journey into the Spanish invasion of Aztec Mexico." --Luis Alberto Urrea, acclaimed author of The House of Broken Angels A "wild, unforgettable adventure" (Reyna Grande,...
Mask of the Deer Woman
Dove, Laurie L.
Paper Book
At rock bottom following her daughter's murder, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr's father never talked much about the reservation where he was raised, but the tribe needs a new marshal as much as Starr needs a place to call home. In the past decade,...
The mighty red : a novel
Erdrich, Louise
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Kirkus, Harper's Bazaar "A novel set in a small prairie community. . . that somehow also captures the...
Moon of the Turning Leaves
Rice, Waubgeshig
Paper Book
"Waubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a restorative balm for my spirit." -- Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter In this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of...
Native nations : a millennium in North America
DuVal, Kathleen
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * "A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history" (The New York Review of Books), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE...
Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity
Lee, Joseph
Paper Book
From award-winning journalist Joseph Lee, a sweeping, personal exploration of Indigenous identity and the challenges facing Indigenous people around the world. Before Martha's Vineyard became one of the most iconic vacation destinations in the country, it was home to the...
Out of the Sierra: A Story of Raramuri Resistance
Blanco, Victoria
Paper Book
A displaced family charts a path forward in this testament to the power of perseverance and the many forms resistance can take. The Rarámuri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, make up one of the largest Indigenous tribes of North America. Renowned for maintaining their language and...
Passing through a prairie country : a novel
Staples, Dennis E.
Paper Book
For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Only spoken of in whispers as 'the sandman,' he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation's main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its patrons' dreams and ambitions and also preventing the...
Punished
Laestadius, Ann-Helen
Paper Book
From the internationally bestselling author of the "extraordinary" (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen comes a harrowing story--inspired by true events--of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden, revealing the emotional scars they carry thirty...
Right story, wrong story
Yunkaporta, Tyson
Paper Book
SAND TALK, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming'. RIGHT STORY, WRONG STORY extends Yunkaporta's explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking....
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests...
Silent are the dead
Rowell, D. M.
Paper Book
While back on tribal land, Mud Sawpole uncovers an illegal fracking operation underway that threatens the Kiowas' ancestral homeland. But there's an even greater threat: a local businessman involved in artifact thefts is murdered, and a respected tribe elder faces accusation of the crime. After...
To the Moon and Back
Ramage, Eliana
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK: "A breathtaking debut about family, identity, and love across generations." --REESE WITHERSPOON "Eliana Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence to effortless jumps through time...
The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
Hutton, Paul Andrew
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller From the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation The epic of the American West became a tale of progress,...
Waiting for the Long Night Moon : Stories
Peters, Amanda
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place--from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of...
The Wayfinder
Johnson, Adam.
Paper Book
A Most Anticipated Book of the Fall: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune "An epic of extraordinary abundance . . . modern and mythological. . . wondrous enough to endure." --The Wall Street Journal ...
We Will Not Be Saved
Nenquimo, Nemonte.
Paper Book
** Publishing in the US as WE WILL BE JAGUARS**'Nemonte's writing is as provocative as it is inspiring' EMMA THOMPSON'One of the most effective leaders for indigenous rights and environmental justice' LAURENE POWELL JOBS'I'm here to tell you my story, which is also the story of...
Where they last saw her : a novel
Rendon, Marcie R
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series comes a compelling mystery of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough. "Rendon shows how harm done to a marginalized community can...

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