Recommended Indigenous Reads for National Native American Heritage Month

Happy November! In the United States, November is National Native American Heritage Month. As we always say, you should be reading Indigenous authors all year long! But to kick off November, we put together a list of recommended books by Indigenous authors — some scary, some not so much — to keep your TBR shelf both full and inclusive all year long. Did we miss your favorite? Tell us in the comments!

The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth

Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty

The Removed by Brandson Hobson

The Thanksgiving Play & What Would Crazy Horse Do? by Larissa Fasthorse

Anoka by Shane Hawk

A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

Indiginerds: Tales From Modern Indigenous Life by Alina Pete (ed.)

The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories by Kate Ashwin (ed.)

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (eds.)

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk by Black Hawk

Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan

Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems by Jake Skeets

Pour One for the Devil by Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.

it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson

American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šá

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry by Joy Harjo (ed.)

Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris

The El by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

The Whistler by Nick Medina

Soft As Bones: A Memoir by Chyana Marie Sage

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Love is a War Song by Danica Nava

Hole in The Sky by Daniel H. Wilson

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