Indigenous America Reader

Description
A list of books by or about indigenous people.
1
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
11,756 members
798 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
SqueakyChu, ahef1963, steller0707, nfwriter60
2
There There
by Tommy Orange
4,363 members
194 reviews
4
3 Members
kjgormley, steller0707, nfwriter60
3
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
by Kevin Noble Maillard
1,000 members
84 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
cej1027, aspirit, steller0707
4
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
6,262 members
315 reviews
4.1
2 Members
aspirit, steller0707
5
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
3,956 members
222 reviews
4
2 Members
steller0707, nfwriter60
6
Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
3,588 members
60 reviews
3.8
2 Members
cej1027, steller0707
7
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
1,298 members
13 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, nfwriter60
8
Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
3,943 members
78 reviews
3.9
Member
steller0707
9
House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
1,955 members
37 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
steller0707
10
Heart Berries: A Memoir
by Terese Marie Mailhot
892 members
58 reviews
3.9
Member
steller0707
11
Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence
by T. C. McLuhan
708 members
2 reviews
4
Member
aspirit
12
Winter in the Blood
by James Welch
664 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
steller0707
13
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
by Sierra Crane Murdoch
308 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
14
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
305 members
16 reviews
4.2
Member
aspirit
15
This Place: 150 Years Retold
by Alicia Elliott
267 members
16 reviews
4.2
Member
aspirit
16
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
by Anton Treuer
256 members
10 reviews
4.1
Member
aspirit
17
Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders
by Harvey Arden
242 members
1 review
3.9
Member
aspirit
18
Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology
by Will Roscoe
187 members
½ 3.7
Member
aspirit
19
Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 1
by Hope Nicholson
178 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
aspirit
20
The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men
by Jr. Vine Deloria
159 members
1 review
½ 4.6
Member
aspirit
21
A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women
by Beth Brant
153 members
3.8
Member
aspirit
22
The Good Luck Cat
by Joy Harjo
150 members
15 reviews
3.9
Member
cej1027
23
Spirit of the Harvest: North American Indian Cooking
by Beverly Cox
142 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
aspirit
24
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
by Will Roscoe
140 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
aspirit
25
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People
by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
135 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
aspirit
28
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
by Kim TallBear
99 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
aspirit
31
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems (National Poetry Series)
by Jake Skeets
79 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
aspirit
32
Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
by Ernestine Hayes
74 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
aspirit
33
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
by Qwo-Li Driskill
60 members
1 review
4
Member
aspirit
36
Blues Divine
by Storme Webber
5 members
5
Member
aspirit
39
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
1,773 members
53 reviews
4.1
40
Trail of Lightning
by Rebecca Roanhorse
1,658 members
101 reviews
3.9
41
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival
by Velma Wallis
1,476 members
59 reviews
3.9
42
The Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
1,153 members
42 reviews
4
43
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
by Jr. Vine Deloria
1,017 members
12 reviews
4
44
Almanac of the Dead
by Leslie Marmon Silko
947 members
14 reviews
3.9
45
Fools Crow
by James Welch
898 members
14 reviews
4
46
The Way to Rainy Mountain
by N. Scott Momaday
866 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
47
The Grass Dancer
by Susan Power
684 members
17 reviews
3.9
48
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
683 members
10 reviews
4.2
49
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
by Traci Sorell
659 members
38 reviews
½ 4.3
50
Storm of Locusts
by Rebecca Roanhorse
577 members
37 reviews
4.1
51
Mongrels: A Novel
by Stephen Graham Jones
571 members
28 reviews
4
52
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
563 members
3 reviews
4.2
53
Jingle Dancer
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
552 members
85 reviews
4.1
54
The Break
by katherena vermette
548 members
33 reviews
4.2
55
Son of a Trickster
by Eden Robinson
520 members
34 reviews
3.8
56
How I Became A Ghost
by Tim Tingle
514 members
52 reviews
½ 4.3
57
If I Ever Get Out of Here
by Eric Gansworth
487 members
25 reviews
3.9
58
Medicine Walk
by Richard Wagamese
475 members
42 reviews
½ 4.4
59
Jonny Appleseed
by Joshua Whitehead
456 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
60
Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
by James Welch
404 members
4 reviews
3.8
61
Gardens in the Dunes
by Leslie Marmon Silko
393 members
2 reviews
3.8
62
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
by Tanya Talaga
390 members
14 reviews
½ 4.3
63
Split Tooth
by Tanya Tagaq
381 members
15 reviews
3.8
64
Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
by David Treuer
374 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
65
WHEREAS: Poems
by Layli Long Soldier
371 members
8 reviews
4.1
66
Mean Spirit
by Linda Hogan
359 members
6 reviews
3.8
67
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
by Lisa Charleyboy
328 members
22 reviews
4.2
68
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
by Alicia Elliott
313 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
69
I Can Make This Promise
by Christine Day
291 members
9 reviews
3.9
70
I Am Not a Number
by Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis
277 members
15 reviews
½ 4.5
71
Birdie
by Tracey Lindberg
277 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
72
The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
by Sean Sherman
274 members
4 reviews
4.2
74
Hearts Unbroken
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
270 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
75
Rain Is Not My Indian Name
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
262 members
11 reviews
½ 3.5
76
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker
by Robbie Robertson
261 members
16 reviews
4
77
Where the Dead Sit Talking
by Brandon Hobson
252 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
78
Perma Red
by Debra Magpie Earling
229 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
79
Power
by Linda Hogan
226 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
80
Counting Coup
by Larry Colton
218 members
1 review
4
81
Indian No More
by Charlene Willing McManis
217 members
14 reviews
4.2
82
The Surrounded
by D'Arcy McNickle
207 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
83
Makoons
by Louise Erdrich
195 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
84
As We Have Always Done
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
193 members
3 reviews
4.8
85
Shadows Cast by Stars
by Catherine Knutsson
184 members
8 reviews
3.9
86
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
by Paula Gunn Allen
180 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
87
Last Standing Woman
by Winona LaDuke
173 members
4 reviews
3.8
88
Bowwow Powwow
by Brenda J. Child
169 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
89
The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel
by Drew Hayden Taylor
164 members
11 reviews
½ 3.5
90
Give Me Some Truth
by Eric Gansworth
162 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
91
Islands of Decolonial Love
by Leanne Simpson
159 members
8 reviews
4
92
Manitous: The Spiritual World Of The Ojibway (Native Voices)
by Basil Johnston
147 members
1 review
½ 3.7
93
When the Tree Flowered
by John G. Neihardt
139 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
94
The Water Walker
by Joanne Robertson
136 members
5 reviews
4.1
95
Second Sunrise
by Aimée Thurlo
122 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
97
Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light
by Tim Tingle
102 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
98
A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
by Ma-Nee Chacaby
95 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
99
Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel (Contemporary Studies of the North)
by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
94 members
5 reviews
3.9
100
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
by Janet Campbell Hale
94 members
½ 3.3