Indigenous Authors - Recommended reading for adults

Updated June 8, 2026
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Growing My Way Home: Stories of Resilience and Care
Ashton, Jenn
Paper Book
Sad, shocking, and truthful, Growing My Way Home chronicles one woman's struggle through events all too common among a people who have been separated from their culture and their language. From abuse to early involvement in the criminal justice system, from her experiences as a thirteen-year-old...

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A minor chorus
Belcourt, Billy-Ray
Paper Book
*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE* NATIONAL BESTSELLER An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada's most daring literary talents. ...

Also available in eBook and eAudiobook format.

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Small Ceremonies : A Novel
Edwards, Kyle.
Paper Book
Part coming-of-age novel, part searing examination of a community finding itself, Small Ceremonies is a tantalizing and heartbreaking debut. "I fear for our friendship, for the day it will end, wondering when that day will be . . ." Tomahawk Shields (a...

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Cold : a novel
Taylor, Drew Hayden
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER . Longlisted for the Leacock Medal of Humour . One of Kobo CA's Top Horror Ebooks and Top Horror Audiobook of 2024 A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award...

Also available in eBook format.

Canadian author.

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Qimmik
Jean, Michel
Paper Book

Entre la taiga et la toundra, un jeune couple inuit du Nunavik se decouvre et apprend a s'aimer. Accompagnes de leurs chiens, les qimmiit, Saullu et Ulaajuk parcourent un continent encore sauvage, tous libres et solidaires. Quelques decennies plus tard, une avocate est depechee sur la Cote-Nord pour defendre un meurtrier inuk dont les victimes sont d'anciens policiers de la Securite du Quebec. Sa quete de justice l'emmenera au-dela de ce qu'elle avait imagine.

Aussi disponible en format numerique.

Auteur canadien.

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Bad Cree: A Novel
Johns, Jessica
Other
2024 CBC CANADA READS SELECTION AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLIST A CBC BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ALEX AWARD WINNER AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL SHORTLIST RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR LITERARY FICTION SHORTLIST<...

Also available in eBook, eAudiobook and Large Print formats.

Canadian author.

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
Selected as One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year A Barack Obama Summer Read Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel Locus Award for Horror Libby Award for Best Horror Nebula, Bram Stoker, and...

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Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
Peters, Amanda
Paper Book
National Bestseller An intimate and personal debut collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers. The stories in Waiting for the Long Night Moon explore the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place--from contact with...

9

A Grandmother Begins the Story
Porter, Michelle
Paper Book
National Bestseller Winner of the 2024 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the...

Also available in eBook, eAudiobook and Large Print formats.

Canadian author.

10

Whistle at Night and They Will Come: Indigenous Horror Stories Volume 2
Soop, Alex
Paper Book
CA

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Chasseur au harpon : un long rčit de Markoosie : roman
Markoosie
Paper Book

Paru il y a cinquante ans, Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut (Chasseur au harpon) est considere comme le premier roman en inuktitut jamais publie. Cette aventure trepidante, marquee de bout en bout par la violence et la mort, nous plonge dans la realite d'une communaute encore preservee de l'intrusion de la modernite.

Aussi disponible en format numerique.

Auteur canadien.

12

Hold Your Tongue
Tétreault, Matthew
Paper Book
Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions...

Also available in eBook format.

Canadian author.

13

Real ones : a novel
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book
June and her sister, lyn, are NDNs - real ones. Lyn has her pottery artwork, her precocious kid, Willow, and the uncertain terrain of her midlife to keep her mind, heart and hands busy. June, a Metis Studies professor, yearns to uproot from Vancouver and move. With her loving partner, Sigh, June...

Also available in eBook and eAudiobook format.

Manitoban author.

14

Treat Them as Buffalo : A Novel
Yoxall, Blair Palmer.
Paper Book
A gripping historical debut novel about the mysterious kidnapping of Métis boys and a town set on edge, told against the backdrop of the North-West Resistance of 1885 During a game of buffalo hunters, young Nikosis Eriksen's cousin goes missing in broad daylight, leaving nothing but...

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Permanent astonishment : a memoir
Highway, Tomson
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER   Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic,...

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Canadian author.

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52 Ways to Reconcile : How to Walk with Indigenous People on the Path to Healing
Robertson, David Alexander.
Paper Book
From bestselling author of the Misewa Saga series David A. Robertson, this is the essential guide for all Canadians to understand how small and attainable acts towards reconciliation can make an enormous difference in our collective efforts to build a reconciled country. 52...

Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.

Manitoban author.

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Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Sinclair, Niigaan
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of 2024 by Audible, Spotify, and Winnipeg Free Press * One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 From ground zero of this country's most...

18

From the ashes : my story of being Métis, homeless, and finding my way
Thistle, Jesse
Paper Book
*#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER *Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction *Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards *Winner, High Plains Book Awards *Finalist, CBC Canada Reads *A Globe and Mail Book of the Year *An Indigo Book of the...

Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.

Canadian author.

19

The reason you walk
Kinew, Wab
Paper Book
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who d raised him. The Reason You Walk spans the year 2012, chronicling painful moments in the past and...

Also available in eBook and eAudiobook format.

20

North End love songs
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book
Katherena Vermette's award-winning poetry collection North End Love Songs is an ode to the place she grew up, where the beauty of the natural world is overlaid with the rough reality of crime and racism. When a young girl's brother goes missing, she learns what prejudice and discrimination...

Also available in Book Club Kit format.

Manitoban author.

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North End love songs
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book
Katherena Vermette's award-winning poetry collection North End Love Songs is an ode to the place she grew up, where the beauty of the natural world is overlaid with the rough reality of crime and racism. When a young girl's brother goes missing, she learns what prejudice and discrimination...

Katherena Vermette, poete metisse du Manitoba, nous offre un chant rythme qui nous envoute peu a peu et nous entraine au coeur de l'univers complexe qui le nourrit : l'extremite nord de Winnipeg, le « Northend » comme l'appellent ses habitants pour la plupart Amerindiens ou Metis. Chaque poeme est un tableau que brossent par petites touches sa langue depouillee, vraie, ses images fortes puisant a meme ce paysage urbain, rude et pourtant inspirant.

Aussi disponible en format numerique.

Auteure manitobaine.

22

Talk Treaty to Me : Understanding the Basics of Treaties and Land in Canada
Fraser, Crystal Gail.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN EASY-TO-READ AND ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO TREATIES, INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY, AND LAND FOR ALL CANADIANS Treaties cover much of Canada. Some were established thousands of years ago, with Land and animals, and others date back to the time...

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21 things you need to know about Indigenous self-government : a conversation about dismantling the Indian Act
Joseph, Robert P. C.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of 21 Things(tm) You May Not Know About the Indian Act comes a powerful new book on dismantling the Indian Act and advancing Indigenous self-governance. Bob Joseph's 21 Things(tm) You May Not Know About the Indian Act captured the attention...

Also available in eAudiobook format.

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Kihiani : a memoir of healing
Aglukark, Susan
Paper Book
Profoundly honest and moving, Kihiani is the uplifting story of an Inuk artist's journey to healing and self-discovery  Born in Fort Churchill, Manitoba, but raised in Arviat, a predominantly Inuit community on the western edges of Hudson Bay, Susan and her six siblings grew up in a...

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25

Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home
Penner, Brittany
Paper Book
*AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found. By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have come into her...

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Rise, Red River
Beagan, Tara
Paper Book
"The map of the land is in our blood." A woman trawls the bottom of a riverbed with a makeshift plough, hoping to dislodge something--anything. The world has drastically changed: rivers run dry, rampant bushfires leave little left to burn. Still she persists searching for the stories of...

Also available in eBook format.

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Bloodied bodies, bloody landscapes : settler colonialism in horror
Hall, Laura (Lecturer in sociology)
Paper Book
ONE OF THE HILL TIMES TOP BOOKS OF 2025 Turning a lens on the dark legacy of colonialism in horror film, from Scream to Halloween and beyond Horror films, more than any other genre, offer a chilling glimpse--like peering through a creaky attic door--into the...

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Around the kitchen table : Métis aunties' scholarship
Forsythe, Laura
Paper Book
Honouring the scholarship of Métis matriarchs While surveying the field of Indigenous studies, Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides recognized a critical need for not only a Métis-focused volume, but one dedicated to the contributions of Métis women. To address this need, they brought...

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