Historical Fiction by Black or Indigenous Authors

Participating in Books & Bites Bingo? Here are some suggestions for the prompt, historical fiction by a Black or Indigenous author.

Updated August 19, 2024
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The night watchman : a novel
Erdrich, Louise
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION 2021 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council...
James : a novel
Everett, Percival
Paper Book
'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle A 'Book of the Year' in The Observer, The Times & Sunday Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Spectator, New Statesman, Independent,...
The house of Eve : a novel
Johnson, Sadeqa
Paper Book
''Amazing'' Reese Witherspoon ''Heart-rending'' Taylor Jenkins Reid ''Luminous and moving!'' Kate Quinn ''Unforgettable'' Kristen Harmel The heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese...
The unsettled
Mathis, Ayana
Paper Book
' A powerful book' Marilynne Robinson 'A book to be read and re-read' Jesmyn Ward 'Poetic and fierce' Yiyun Li From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia in 1985, Ava is already plotting a...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
McBride, James
Paper Book
WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024 THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK AMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I loved this book' BONNIE GARMUS 'A generous, compassionate book about the...
Wandering stars
Orange, Tommy
Paper Book
Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also...
Pemmican wars
Vermette, Katherena
Ebook
Let us descend : a novel
Ward, Jesmyn
Paper Book
* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * 'A spectacular achievement' ANTHONY DOERR 'Extravagantly beautiful' DAILY MAIL 'One of the greatest writers of all time' JACQUELINE WOODSON 'Extraordinary' GUARDIAN'The...
Ours
Williams, Phillip B.
Paper Book
An epic, spellbinding novel of rebellion, redemption, power and humanity, and of a Black community finding freedom to live an ordinary life of love and pain in America's darkest days.

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