Recs if you like Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised...

LANDBACK is a generations long movement focused on getting Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands, globally. LANDBACK exists today as political, organizing, and narrative framework with the goal of collective liberation. These titles are popularly considered essential reading. Under Construction!! **Disclaimer & online resources in the comments

books about the imagination as limited/unlimited by racialization and colonization. suggestions welcome!

Poetry written by Indigenous writers of Turtle Island and the Pacific Islands.

Emphasis on intersectionality.

Disclaimer: I am not Pacific Islander, but we should all strive to read more Pasifika authors!

The grouping of Pasifika and Asian communities has a complex history. And because of this grouping, Pasifika authors are largely underrepresented.

Check out Pacific Islanders in Publishing (I cannot figure out how to hyperlink, sorry) for more recs!

I have not read all of the books on this list, so please let me know if any are not fit for this list!

Suggestions are always welcome!

want to read more from New Zealand, but not sure where to start? here! start right here

Whether it be the authors, the characters, the setting, or the country itself, these books are some of the essential reads of Aotearoa New Zealand. Fiction to nonfiction, prose to poetry, the stories of our people and our land are here. This list is ever-growing, and I will continue to add to it as I read more pukapuka from our shores.