Indigenous Authors

White Horse

By: Erika T. Wurth

Narrated by: Tonantzin Carmelo

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"The audiobook narrated by Tonantzin Carmelo is enthralling." - Buzzfeed

"Narrator Tonantzin Carmelo’s portrayal of Kari imbues her with a rebellious and tenacious attitude that makes her immediately likable." - Library Journal

Erika T. Wurth's White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she... Read more

The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions... Read more

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Tara Sky & Jessica Matten

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series.

Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her... Read more

Stolen

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius

Narrated by: Jade Wheeler

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

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A spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law.

On a winter day north of the... Read more

The Everlasting Road

By: Wab Kinew

Narrated by: Michelle Bardach

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The boundaries between the virtual and the real world become dangerously blurred for a young Indigenous girl in the follow-up to the YA fantasy debut Walking in Two Worlds from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series.

Devastated by the loss of her older brother to cancer, Bugz... Read more

Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the
ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook.
As a lone portal to... Read more

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

Narrated by: Julie Lumsden

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person—and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. A William C. Morris Award Honor Book and a Stonewall Award... Read more

Body Work

By: Melissa Febos

Narrated by: Melissa Febos

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the questions which run through it.

How might we go about capturing on the page the relationships that have formed... Read more

A Snake Falls to Earth

By: Darcie Little Badger

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Kinsale Hueston

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEWBERY AWARD HONORNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTNATIONAL BESTSELLERNina is a Lipan girl in our world. She’s always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of... Read more

The Great Bear

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Brefny Caribou

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time.

Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan... Read more

Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Diaz

Narrated by: Natalie Diaz

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection

Postcolonial Love Poem, the brilliant second collection from Natalie Diaz, holds in its pages the urgent appeal for all bodies―bodies of... Read more

Kiss of the Fur Queen

By: Tomson Highway

Narrated by: Patricia Cano

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests.

As young men, estranged from... Read more

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

Narrated by: Drew Hayden Taylor

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
 
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil,... Read more

Call Me Indian

By: Fred Sasakamoose

Narrated by: Wilton Littlechild

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Fred Sasakamoose played in the NHL before First Nations people had the right to vote in Canada. This page turner will have you cheering for 'Fast Freddy' as he faces off against huge challenges both on and off the ice--a great gift to every proud hockey fan, Canadian, and Indigenous person."
--Wab Kinew, Leader of the Manitoba... Read more

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

By: Cynthia L. Smith

Narrated by: Kenny Ramos & DeLanna Studi

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.... Read more

The Removed

By: Brandon Hobson

Narrated by: Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Stud...

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love.” —Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROMUSA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment... Read more

The Barren Grounds

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Brefny Caribou

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their... Read more

The Death of Sitting Bear

By: N. Scott Momaday

Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition. 

“The poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and appreciation of words. . . . I believe that poetry is the highest form of verbal expression. Although I have... Read more

This Town Sleeps

By: Dennis E. Staples

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.

On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the... Read more

Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

Narrated by: Tanya Tagaq

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst... Read more

The Journey of Crazy Horse

By: Joseph Marshall

Narrated by: Joseph Marshall

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who—with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership—fought for his people's land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating... Read more

Inheritance

By: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn & Mi...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Three people – Indigenous, immigrant, and settler – journey over dangerous terrain in a race against time, and each other, to gain control of a vast parcel of land. YOU decide how events unfold, ultimately determining how the land is stewarded, and by whom.
 
An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when... Read more

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1

By: Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon

Narrated by: Gail Maurice

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego... Read more

Godly Heathens

By: H.E. Edgmon

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Avi Roque is the perfect narrator for this queer YA fantasy...The novel hits all the expected beats of YA fantasy, and Roque infuses it with even more life and drama." —AudioFile

Godly Heathens is the first book in H.E. Edgmon's YA contemporary fantasy duology The Ouroboros, in which a teen, Gem, finds out they’re a reincarnated god from... Read more