New Books by Indigenous Writers of Turtle Island
This list includes novels, short fiction, and poetry collections to essays and nonfiction. Suffice it to say there’s something for everyone on this list. Here are 12 wonderful reasons to keep reading!
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Are You Ready to Be Un-Settled?
Unknown.
2023
100 poems to break your heart
2021
"100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"-- Provided by publisher.
Bad Cree : a novel = ācimoiᐧn
Johns, Jessica, author
2023
Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. Mackenzie continues to accidentally bring back items from her dreams, dreams that are eerily similar to real memories of her older sister and Kokum before their untimely deaths. Desperate for help, Mackenzie returns to her mother, sister, cousin, and aunties in her small Alberta hometown. Together, they try to uncover what is haunting Mackenzie before something irrevocable happens to anyone else around her.
Don't fear the reaper
Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972- author
2023
Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho.
Indigiqueerness : a conversation about storytelling
Whitehead, Joshua (Writer), author
2023
Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Joshua Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits.
Moon of the turning leaves : a novel
Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979- author
2023
It's been over a decade since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy. Evan's people are in some ways stronger than ever. But resources in and around their new settlement are beginning to dry up, and the elders warn that they cannot afford to stay indefinitely. Evan and his fifteen-year-old daughter, Nangohns, are elected to lead a small scouting party on a months-long trip to seek new beginnings, and discover what kind of life - and what dangers - still exist in the lands to the south.
Poet warrior : a memoir
Harjo, Joy, author
2021
In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Weaving together the voices that shaped her, Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, the teachings of a changing earth, and the poets who paved her way. She explores her grief at the loss of her mother and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member.
The storyteller
Hobson, Brandon, author.
2023
Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
To shape a dragon's breath
Blackgoose, Moniquill, author
2023
The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations--until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, to them, Anequs is revered: a Person Who Belongs to a Dragon. Unfortunately for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have a quite different opinion. They have a very specific idea on how a dragon should be raised--and who should be doing the raising--and Anequs does not meet any of their requirements. Only with great reluctance do they allow Anequs to enroll in a proper Anglish dragon school on the mainland. If she cannot succeed there, then her dragon will be destroyed.
Truth telling : seven conversations about Indigenous life in Canada.
Good, Michelle, author
2023
This is a collection of essays about the contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. From resistance and reconciliation to the resurgence and reclamation of Indigenous power, Michelle Good explores the issues through a series of personal essays. Michelle Good delves into the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin social institutions in Canada and prevents meaningful and substantive reconciliation.
VenCo : a novel
Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author
2023
Meena Good, one of the most powerful witches, is called to bring together seven special witches and seven special spoons. With only one more spoon to find, a very powerful adversary has Meena's coven in his sights - Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter. Meena sends Lucky St. James on a dangerous, sometimes hilarious, road trip in search of the seventh spoon - where Lucky's final showdown with Jay Christos will determine whether the coven will be completed, ushering in a new beginning, or whether witches will be forced to remain forever underground
