Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.

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
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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

Future Home of the Living God
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable BookLouise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic eventThe world as we know it is ending.... Read more
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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
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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

Elatsoe
By: Darcie Little Badger
Narrated by: Kinsale Hueston
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream.There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly every day, like the ability to make an orb of... Read more
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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
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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
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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

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 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

To Shape a Dragon's Breath
By: Moniquill Blackgoose
Narrated by: Charley Flyte
Length: 16 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“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 that I hadn’t experienced since I was a teenager obsessed with Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea and Anne McCaffrey’s Pern.”—NPR
A BEST BOOK OF THE... 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
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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

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

A Broken Blade
By: Melissa Blair
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
My body is made of scars,some were done to me,but most I did to myself.Keera is a killer. As the King’s Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the king’s favored assassin. When a mysterious figure moves against the Crown, Keera is called upon to hunt down the so-called Shadow.She tracks her target into the magical lands of the... Read more
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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

Fevered Star
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, N...
Length: 12 hours 49 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

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

Blood Sisters
By: Vanessa Lillie
Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos & Erin Tripp
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister.
There are secrets in the land.
As an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the... 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
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A Mind Spread out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as ""a mind spread out on the ground."" In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal... Read more
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Don't Fear the Reaper
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc, Jane Levy, Alexis Floyd,...
Length: 15 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
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 Stephen Graham Jones.
Four... Read more

The Rediscovery of America
By: Ned Blackhawk
Narrated by: Jason Grasl
Length: TBA
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
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