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

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 • 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, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of... Read more

The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

Narrated by: Jordan Waunch & Aaliya Warbus

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

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

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

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

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 • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • 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... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on... 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

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

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

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

Stolen

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius

Narrated by: Jade Wheeler

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

* NOW A NETFLIX FILM * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *

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 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 bestsellin 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

The Witch King

By: H.E. Edgmon

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2021

To save a fae kingdom, a trans witch must face his traumatic past and the royal fiancé he left behind.

In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don’t. Wyatt’s betrothal to fae prince Emyr North was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic one devastating night, he... Read more

Fry Bread

By: Kevin Noble Maillard

Narrated by: Kevin Noble Maillard

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. Told in lively and... 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

Warrior 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