Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
By: David Treuer
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 17 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal.
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one... Read more
Classified
By: Traci Sorell
Narrated by: DeLanna Studi, Traci Sorell & John Ross
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. This story traces her journey from being the only girl in a high-school math class to becoming a teacher to pursuing an engineering degree, joining the top-secret Skunk Works division of Lockheed, and being a mentor for Native... Read more
View audiobookA Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
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... 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
View audiobookWhite 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
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
View audiobookThe 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 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
View audiobookA Snake Falls to Earth
By: Darcie Little Badger
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Kinsale Hueston
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEWBERY AWARD HONOR
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Nina 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 14 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 L. 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
View audiobookThe Removed
By: Brandon Hobson
Narrated by: Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Stud...
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love.” —Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROMUSA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment... Read more
View audiobookThe Barren Grounds
By: David A. Robertson
Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their... Read more
The Death of Sitting Bear
By: N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition.
“The poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and appreciation of words. . . . I believe that poetry is the highest form of verbal expression. Although I have... Read more
This Town Sleeps
By: Dennis E. Staples
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.
On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the... Read more
Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
Narrated by: Tanya Tagaq
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst... Read more
LaRose
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 14 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionFinalist for the PEN Faulkner AwardIn this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves, wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale... Read more
View audiobookThe Journey of Crazy Horse
By: Joseph Marshall
Narrated by: Joseph Marshall
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who—with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership—fought for his people's land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating... Read more
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