Native American Fiction Resources
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Crooked Hallelujah by ISBN: 9780802149121Publication Date: 2020-07-14Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine--a mixed-blood Cherokee woman-- and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma's Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn't easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. -
The Only Good Indians by ISBN: 9781982136451Publication Date: 2020-07-14A tale of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. -
Where the Dead Sit Talking by ISBN: 9781616958879Publication Date: 2018-02-20Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American background and tumultuous paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah's feelings towards Rosemary deepen, the precariousness of their lives and the scars of their pasts threaten to undo them both. -
Perma Red by ISBN: 039914899XPublication Date: 2002-06-10Perma Red is a love-crossed saga about a young woman coming of age under perilous circumstances, and about the consequences of her often contradictory desires. -
The Night Watchman by ISBN: 9780062671189Publication Date: 2020-03-03Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. -
Ceremony by ISBN: 9780143104919Publication Date: 2006-12-26The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit -
There There by ISBN: 9780525520375Publication Date: 2018-06-05Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. -
House Made of Dawn by ISBN: 9780061859977Publication Date: 2010-04-13A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. -
Winter in the Blood by ISBN: 9780143105220Publication Date: 2008-07-29During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. -
Empire of Wild by Call Number: PR9199.4.D56 E57 2020ISBN: 0735277184Publication Date: DimalineJoan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year - ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument. Still grieving and severely hungover, Joan hears Victor's unmistakable voice coming from inside a revival tent in a gritty Walmart parking lot. He has the same face, the same eyes, the same hands. He doesn't recognize Joan, insists his name is Eugene Wolff, and that he is a reverend whose mission is to spread the word of Jesus and grow His flock. Joan turns to Ajean, an elderly foul-mouthed card shark who is one of the few among Métis community steeped in the traditions of the Métis people and knowledgeable about their ancient enemies.
Featured Authors
Louise Erdrich is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa)
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of twenty-five or so novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are The Only Good Indians and Night of the Mannequins. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.
