Indigenous Authors

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

A Two-Spirit Journey

By: Ma-Nee Chacaby

Narrated by: Marsha Knight

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.... Read more

A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

Narrated by: Michelle Porter, Jani Lauzon, Tara Sky, Tantoo ...

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.

Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women... 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

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

Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep... 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

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

By: Dr. Anton Treuer

Narrated by: Dr. Anton Treuer

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young listeners alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?," "What's it like for... 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 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

VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Michelle St. John

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

""Once I opened VenCo, I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real. VenCo is funny, tense, and cracking with a dark, divine energy.""  ---Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The SentenceFor fans of The Once and Future Witches and Practical Magic, comes... Read more

The Sea-Ringed World

By: Maria Garcia Esperon

Narrated by: David Bowles

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The... 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

Decolonizing Trauma Work

By: Renee Linklater

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies, indigenous author Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in the Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” of colonialism at the center, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue... Read more

Living Resistance

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

Narrated by: Kaitlin B. Curtice

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.



Curtice... Read more

Antelope Woman

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Louise Erdrich

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, and a new foreword by the author—a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures.“Audacious and surprising. . . . One of America’s most... Read more

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

By: Kliph Nesteroff

Narrated by: Kliph Nesteroff

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

*A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Esquire*

"A remarkable book." —Steve Martin

"An illumating and stereotype-busting history of Native Americans and comedy" (The Washington Post) from Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE).

It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill’s stand-up routine: “My people are from... Read more

Who We Are

By: Murray Sinclair

Narrated by: Murray Sinclair, Niigaan Sinclair & Shelagh Rogers

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Book to Read This Fall by CBC Books and the Toronto Star • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books and Top 100 Books of the 2024

Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditionally... Read more

A Shadow Crown

By: Melissa Blair

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off.To the kingdom, Keera is the king’s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow—the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on... Read more

Even As We Breathe

By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in... Read more

The Seven Circles

By: Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins

Narrated by: Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this revolutionary self-help guide, including audiobook exclusive exercises, two beloved Native American wellness activists offer wisdom for achieving spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge.When wellness teachers and husband-wife duo Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins founded their Indigenous... Read more

Night of the Mannequins

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We thought we'd play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead.



One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until is starts killing.



Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He'll be a hero. He'll save everyone to the best... Read more

In My Own Moccasins

By: Helen Knott

Narrated by: Helen Knott

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and... 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