Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.
Braiding Sweetgrass
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more
View audiobookThe Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
Narrated by: Aaliya Warbus & Jordan Waunch
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty yearsJuly 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks... Read more
View audiobookWandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cue...
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek... Read more
View audiobookMoon of the Crusted Snow
By: Waubgeshig Rice
Narrated by: Billy Merasty
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voiceWith winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives,... Read more
View audiobookThere There
By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuer...
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling... Read more
Firekeeper's Daughter
By: Angeline Boulley
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"Isabella Star LaBlanc brings an authentic-sounding narration to this powerful audiobook...Dialogue, including words in other languages, is handled with effortless transitions and clear depictions between characters. This audiobook should not be missed." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB... Read more
The Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small... Read more
View audiobookThe Night Watchman
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST, AMAZON, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight... Read more
View audiobookBlack Sun
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab & Shaun Ta...
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the “engrossing and vibrant” (Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby) first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.
A... Read more
Don't Fear the Reaper
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc, Jane Levy, Alexis Floyd,...
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A Locus Award Finalist
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this “superb” (Publishers Weekly) sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author... Read more
The Rediscovery of America
By: Ned Blackhawk
Narrated by: Jason Grasl
Length: 17 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American... Read more
View audiobookWarrior Girl Unearthed
By: Angeline Boulley
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Named One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023
"Actor Isabella Star LaBlanc excels at leading the reader deeper into the story with a tone that exudes both intriguing mystery and genuine emotion." —BookPage
"Isabella Star LaBlanc, a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota narrator, accurately delivers Native intonations and rhythms while narrating a second book... Read more
Gathering Moss
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide,... Read more
The Only Good Indians
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From USA TODAY bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a “masterpiece” (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. Labeled “one of 2020’s buzziest horror novels” (Entertainment Weekly), this is a remarkable horror story that “will give you nightmares—the... Read more
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
By: Moniquill Blackgoose
Narrated by: Charley Flyte
Length: 16 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA, LOCUS, AND LODESTAR AWARDS • “My favorite book of the year . . . a coming-of-age story that is cozy and hair-raising in equal measure.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“I tore through it, caught up in an enthusiasm for dragons that I hadn’t experienced since I was a teenager obsessed with... Read more
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Cara Gee
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course” (BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham... Read more
Sisters of the Lost Nation
By: Nick Medina
Narrated by: Elva Guerra & Nick Medina
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Barnes and Noble ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ GoodReads ∙ Book Riot ∙ CrimeReads ∙ Ms. Magazine ∙ SheReads ∙ Amazon Editor's Pick ∙ Tor.com ∙ and more!
A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all... Read more
The Star That Always Stays
By: Anna Rose Johnson
Narrated by: Elise Randall Modica
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"Growing up on Beaver Island, Grand-père told Norvia stories—stories about her ancestor Migizi, about Biboonke-o-nini the Wintermaker, about the Crane Clan and the Reindeer Clan. He sang her songs in the old language, and her grandmothers taught her to make story quilts and maple candy. On the island, Norvia was proud of her Ojibwe heritage.... Read more
View audiobookFevered Star
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, N...
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
USA TODAY Bestseller
Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sun—finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and Locus awards.
There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying
The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun... Read more
Thunder Song
By: Sasha LaPointe
Narrated by: Sasha LaPointe
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?š?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and... Read more
View audiobookBad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.
"A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart." —Paul... Read more
The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato—where the reserved,... Read more
View audiobookWinter Counts
By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as ""a hell of a debut""
""Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book."" —Louise ErdrichVirgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is... Read more
Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A... Read more
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