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30 books by Indigenous authors published in the past 5 years

Since 2020, we’ve been sharing lists of books by authors of colour for every new genre we read - and with our non-genre episodes, sharing lists for the genres we covered in our early episodes. The early episode we’re creating a booklist for this month is Episode 009: Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations. Our booklist for this episode features works by Indigenous authors that have been published since that episode came out in 2016. All of the lists can be found here.

Fiction

Bawaajigan: Stories of Power edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Indians on Vacation by Thomas King

There There by Tommy Orange

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Non-Fiction

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel

From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for A Stronger Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Young Adult

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

Strangers by David Alexander Robertson

Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Picture Books

Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim by Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder, and Gordon Jourdain

You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel

Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt and Amanda Strong

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal

Poetry

NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway

From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx

it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Comics

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls

Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan

Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette and Scott B. Henderson

Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

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Sorry I had to go looking through old emails to find the lists sent to me, the fiction section is my personal rec list of books I'm reading and authors I love. I always always insist anyone who wants to write Indigenous characters in their stories need to read Indigenous authors. Not just to show support, but you’ll not find a better teacher on ensuring you're not falling into racist tropes and tokenizing your characters than by surrounding yourself with beloved stories and characters from that demographic.

For non fiction I've separated culture, language, and lore from the ones that focus on regions, historical events, wars, and people.

I know I'm missing books, but I was sent a lot of recs in private messages I can't track down. Generally if you see a book by these three authors they are the #1 recommended resource from everyone I've spoken with.

C.A. Weslager

Anthony F.C. Wallace

Paul A. W. Wallace

Some of these books are very old so they'll have dated terminology, be out of print, and can be expensive (Red Men on the Brandywine goes for over $200) so I have not been able to read everything on this list. I know there are more than a few with ebooks available through libraries, and some ebooks. My goal is to one day have all these books as PDFs, even if I have to buy and scan them myself.

Fiction

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

The Trickster Trilogy by Eden Robinson

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Crow Winter by Karen McBride

Ghost Lake by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Celia's Song by Lee Maracle

Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor

The Björkan Sagas by Harold Johnson

Wrist by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story by Diane Glancy

Birdie by Tracey Lindberg

Feral series by Cynthia Leitich Smith

How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle

Spirits Dark and Light: Supernatural Tales from the Five Civilized Tribes by Tim Tingle

March Toward the Thunderby Joseph Bruchac.

The Winter People by Joseph Bruchac

Blue Bear Woman by Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau

The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel by Drew Hayden Taylor

The absolutely true diary of a part time indian by Sherman Alexie

Anthologies

Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time

Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi Anthology

Walking the Clouds

Indigenous Sci-fi Anthology

New Suns

Speculative Fiction by People of Color

Taaqtumi

An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories

Love After the End

Anthology of indigiqueer Speculative fiction

Picture Books

Little Bear Builds a Wigwam by Sherman Stoltzfus

When the Shadbush Blooms by Carla Messinger & Sue Katz

The Legend of the Cape May Diamond by Trinka Hakes Noble

Non fiction

Native Harvests: American Indian Wild Foods and Recipes by E. Barrie Kavasch 

We Are Still Here! The Tribal Saga of. NewJersey’s Nanticoke and Lenape Indians, John R. Norwood

The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes, M.R. Harrinton

Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians by Gladys Tantaquidgeon

Oklahoma Delaware Ceremonies, Feasts, and Dances, Frank G. Speck

A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Gladys Tantaquidgeon

History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States, John Heckenwelder

The Celestial Bear Comes Down to Earth, Frank G. Speck

Legends of the Delaware Indians and Picture Writing, Richard C. Adams

Mythology of the Lenape, John Bierhorst

A Study of the Delaware Indian Big House Ceremony, Frank G. Speck

David Zeisberger’s History of Northern American Indians, Rev. David Zeisberberger

Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland, Helen C. Rountree and Thomas E.Davidson

Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd, Based on the Life of Brainerd, Prepared by Jonathan Edwards, D.D. and Afterwards Revised and Enlarged by S.E. Dwight

Strong Medicine Speaks: A Native American Elder has Her Say, Amy Hill Hearth

The Culture and Acculturation of the Delaware Indians, William W. Newcomb, Jr.

A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman by Dawn G. Marsh 

A Delaware – English Lexicon by Zeisberger & Whritenour. 

The Lenape and Their Legends, With Text & Symbols By Daniel G. Brinton

The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage, Herbert Kraft

The Nanticoke, Frank W. Porter, III.

The Nanticoke and Conoy Indians, Frank G. Speck

The Nanticoke Community of Delaware, Frank G. Speck

The Nanticoke Indians Past and Present, C. A. Weslager

A Nation of Women – Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians by Gunlög Fur

Colonialism in the Margins: Cultural Encounters in New Sweden and Lapland by Gunlög Fur 

White Deer and Other Stories Told by the Lenape, John Bierhorst

A Delaware Indian Symposium, Herbert Kraft

History

A History of the Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania by Dr. George P. Donehoo.

Walking Purchase Hoax of 1737 by Ray Thompson.

The Victory With No Name – The Native American Defeat of the First American Army by Colin G. Calloway

William Penn’s Own Account of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians by William Penn.

Indian Paths of Pennsylvania by Paul A. W. Wallace

The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania by C. Hale Sipe.

The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania by C. Hale Sipe.

Teedyuscung: King of the Delawares by Anthony F.C. Wallace

C.A. Weslager's many books

Red Men on the Brandywine

Delawares Forgotten Folk

Delawares Forgotten River

Delewares Burried Past

The Nanticoke Indians

Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier by James H. Merrell.

The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire by Francis Jennings.

The Crucible of War: 7 Years War & the Fate of the British Empire in British North American 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson

At The Crossroads: Indians & Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763 by Jane T. Merritt

The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America by Scott Weidensaul

Dark & Bloody Ground: The American Revolution Along the Southern Frontier by Richard D. Blackmon

Gods of War, Gods of Peace by Russell Bourne

Our Savage Neighbors: How the Indian War Transformed Early America by Peter Silver

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books (assuming it’s okay to submit more than one):

Ángeles Vicente, Zezé (1909)

Rosa Guy, Ruby (1976)

Deborah Hautzig, Hey, Dollface (1978)

Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)

Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower (1979)

Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind (1982)

Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)

John Preston, Franny, the Queen of Provincetown (1983)

Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984)

Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

Chrystos, Not Vanishing (1988)

Ian Iqbal Rashid, Black Markets, White Boyfriends, and Other Elisions (1991)

Crìsdean Whyte (Christopher Whyte), Uirsgeul / Myth (1991)

Carlos Sanrune, El gladiador de Chueca (1992)

Tom Lennon, When Love Comes to Town (1993)

Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque and Maurizio Jannelli, Princesa (1994)

Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile (1994)

Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy (1994)

Gregory Maguire, Wicked (1995)

Christos Tsiolkas, Loaded (1995)

Nina Revoyr, The Necessary Hunger (1997)

Lola Van Guardia (Isabel Franc), Con pedigree (1997)

Tom Lennon, Crazy Love (1999)

Micheál Ó Conghaile, Sna Fir (1999)

Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic (2002)

Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads (2003)

Esdras Parra, Aún no (2004)

Barry McCrea, The First Verse (2005)

Manuel Tzoc, Gay(o) (2010)

Tama Wise, Street Dreams (2012)

Dane Figueroa Edidi, Yemaya’s Daughters (2013)

Jamie Berrout, Otros Valles (2014)

Niviaq Korneliussen, Homo sapienne (2014)

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, This Accident of Being Lost (2016)

Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Wrist (2016)

Trifonia Meliba Obono, La bastarda (2016)

Sofia Samatar, The Winged Histories (2016)

Kai Cheng Thom, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (2016)

jia qing wilson-yang, Small Beauty (2016)

Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World (2017)

Elliot Cooper, Rogue Wolf (2017)

Kevin Lambert, Querelle de Roberval (2018)

Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed (2018)

Masande Ntshanga, Triangulum (2019)

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2020)

Tlotlo Tsamaase, The Silence of the Wilting Skin (2020)

Bendi Barrett, Empire of the Feast (2022)

Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water (2022)

Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Tauhou (2022)

if you’d rather keep it to one book at a time: Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984).

Thank you so much for this fantastic list! They're all queued.

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Episode 122 - Bad Book Reading Habits

It’s our 5th anniversary episode and this time we’re discussing Bad Book Reading Habits! Sticky notes, bookmarks, tagging and tracking, borrowing more library books than we can read, books on display in video calls, reading books out of order, throwing books in the garbage, and more! Plus: Which host is a book goblin? (The answer may surprise you.)

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mentioned

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

The copy of the book mentioned that had marginalia

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Acquired Traits by Raissa Berg

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros

ttyl by Lauren Myracle

Links, Articles, and Things

Marginalia (Wikipedia)

WereBear (Wikipedia)

Convergence (Wikipedia)

Goblin (Dungeons & Dragons) (Wikipedia)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Wikipedia)

Sequel Rights: A Review of Locus Reviews

Twitterature (Wikipedia)

30 books by Indigenous authors published in the past 5 years

Since 2020, we’ve been sharing lists of books by authors of colour for every new genre we read - and with our non-genre episodes, sharing lists for the genres we covered in our early episodes. The early episode we’re creating a booklist for this month is Episode 009: Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations. Our booklist for this episode features works by Indigenous authors that have been published since that episode came out in 2016.

Fiction

Bawaajigan: Stories of Power edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Indians on Vacation by Thomas King

There There by Tommy Orange

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Non-Fiction

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel

From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for A Stronger Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Young Adult

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

Strangers by David Alexander Robertson

Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Picture Books

Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim by Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder, and Gordon Jourdain

You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel

Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt and Amanda Strong

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal

Poetry

NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway

From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx

it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Comics

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls

Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan

Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette and Scott B. Henderson

Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

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