Indigenous Authors

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

Black 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

Moon 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

The 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 years

July 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

The Babysitter Lives

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc & Stephen Graham Jones

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“I enjoyed The Babysitter Lives very much. It’s perfect for audio, as really scary stories always are, and this one is really scary. Perfect for a long car ride…especially when you’re almost out of gas and you start wondering if maybe someone has gotten into the backseat and will lurch into the rearview mirror.” —Stephen King

Only on Audio! A... 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

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

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

There 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

I Was A Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Stephen Graham Jones

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY Bestseller
An Alex Award Winner

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for... Read more

The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION • A FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION ""A sweeping, tender-hearted epic.""—Harper's BazaarIn this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces,... 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

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 bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a “masterpiece” (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. This is a remarkable horror story that “will give you nightmares—the good kind of course” (BuzzFeed).

From New York Times bestselling author Stephen... 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

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NEBULA AND LODESTAR AWARDS • FINALIST FOR THE ASTOUNDING, LOCUS, AND BRITISH FANTASY NEWCOMER 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... Read more

The 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

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 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

Wandering 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

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 Truth According to Ember

By: Danica Nava

Narrated by: Siena East

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more in this USA Today bestselling rom-com by critically acclaimed author Danica Nava.

Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar—well, not for anything that counted at least. But her job search is not going well and when her resumé is rejected for... Read more

Fevered Star

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, N...

Length: 12 hours 57 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

The Round House

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Gary Farmer

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable BookFrom one of the most revered novelists of our time, an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.One Sunday in the... Read more

Woman of Light

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Narrated by: Melinna Bobadilla

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina
 
“Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re... Read more