Indigenous Authors - Recommended reading for adults

Updated June 8, 2026
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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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Bad Cree: A Novel
Johns, Jessica
Paper Book
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...

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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...

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Canadian author.

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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.

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Permanent astonishment : a memoir
Highway, Tomson
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * NOMINATED FOR THE EVERGREEN AWARD * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, AND CBC   Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most...

Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.

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...

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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.

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The reason you walk
Kinew, Wab
Paper Book
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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...

Also available in Book Club Kit format.

Manitoban author.

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Ballades D'amour du North End
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.

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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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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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