Our NCRL Reads author program, A Conversation with Tommy Orange, has been postponed, but there are many great books you can read right now by Native American writers.
Here are a few available through our Hoopla and Overdrive Services. Start here!
Fiction
There There by Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma)
Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a tribe of the Anishinaabe), Hoopla and Overdrive
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo)
Fools Crow by James Welch (Blackfeet and A’aninin)
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
The Break by Katherena Vermette (Métis)
Memoir
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (Nlaka’pamux, part of the Interior Salish language group in British Columbia, Hoopla and Overdrive
Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo (Muscogee (Creek) Nation)
Mystery
Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon (White Earth Anishinabe Nation)
Not For Nothing by Stephen Graham Jones ( Blackfeet Native American)
SciFi/Fantasy
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (African American and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo)
Graphic Novel
Earth 2: Society (2015-2017) Vol. 1 by Daniel H. Wilson (Cherokee Nation), Hoopla
Elementary School
All Around Us by Xelena Gonzalez (Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation)
How Things Came to Be by Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley (Inuit)
Middle School
Skeleton Man series by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a tribe of the Anishinaabe
Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (African American and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo), Hoopla
Young Adult
Feral Nights by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Creek Nation)
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Creek Nation)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d’Alene), Overdrive
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