Indigenous Authors

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

By: Mikeas Sánchez

Narrated by: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call & Shook

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism... Read more

Bad 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

Tread of Angels

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in an “intricate…engrossing” (The Washington Post) new world of dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun, Rebecca... Read more

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

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

Dirrayawadha

By: Anita Heiss

Narrated by: Tamala Shelton

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'Dirrayawadha is full of heart and hope, truth-telling and history – and shimmers with language too' Guardian

'A story from the past given vivid life for new understanding’​ Kate Grenville
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Bathurst, 1820s

Miinaa was a young girl when the white ghosts first arrived. She remembers the day they raised a... Read more

Moon of the Turning Leaves

By: Waubgeshig Rice

Narrated by: Billy Merasty

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Waubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a restorative balm for my spirit.” — Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's DaughterIn this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by... 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

Kinauvit?

By: Norma Dunning

Narrated by: Norma Dunning

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System
In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the... 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

Màgòdiz

By: Gabe Calderón

Narrated by: Everett Rain

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Màgòdiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack 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

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

Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

Narrated by: Oscar Hokeah & Rainy Fields

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. 

Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands... 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 us?... 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 23 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 Leitich 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