Summer Challenge 2025: Indigenous Reads

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some of our favourite books by Indigenous authors!

Each of our library branches features an Indigenous Reads display, so you can always browse in person!

Updated June 20, 2025
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And then she fell : a novel
Elliott, Alicia
Paper Book
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *Indigenous Voices Award winner* *Amazon First Novel Award winner* *First Nations Communities READ Award winner* *Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction* *Named a Globe and Mail and CBC Best Book of the Year* From the...
Orange Shirt Day, September 30th
Webstad, Phyllis.
Paper Book
Orange Shirt Day: September 30th aims to create champions who will walk a path of reconciliation through promoting the message that 'Every Child Matters'. Orange Shirt Day, observed annually on September 30th, is a day to honour Residential School Survivors and their families,...
Rez ball
Graves, Byron
Paper Book
This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be. These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation...
Funeral songs for dying girls
Dimaline, Cherie
Paper Book
After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series. Winifred has lived in the apartment above the...
Indiginerds : tales from modern indigenous life
Pete, Alina
Paper Book
YALSA's 2025 Great Graphic Novels for Teens "This colorful, inviting graphic memoir anthology shatters narrow ideas about what a nerd (or a Native person) looks like." -- KIRKUS First Nations culture is...
Braiding sweetgrass
Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member...
The theory of crows : a novel
Robertson, David
Paper Book
A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When a troubled father and his estranged teenage daughter head out onto the land in search of the family trapline, they find their way back to themselves, and to each other Deep in the night,...
Son of a trickster
Robinson, Eden
Paper Book
CANADA READS 2020 FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER More than ten years after her Giller-shortlisted title Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson returns with a striking and precise coming-of-age novel, in which everyday teen existence meets Indigenous beliefs, crazy family...

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