Here are some books by Native & Indigenous American authors - from fiction to memoir to historical retellings.
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last updated August, 2026

I don’t know if you’d be interested in adding, but “Man Made Monsters” by Andrea L. Rogers with illustrations by Jeff Edwards is a great collection of horror/historical fiction short stories, and its author and illustrator are both members of the Cherokee Nation. I’m still reading it, but halfway through and I’m very impressed!
Also, “Winter Counts” (by Lakota author David Heska Wanbli Weiden) is an excellent thriller!
Finally, Traci Sorell (another Cherokee author) has written a number of Native American children’s books that are really good (one of my favorites being “We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga”).
Thank you so much for the recommendations! I've added them to the list and will definitely be checking them out soon!
Hope you enjoy! Thank you for putting together a great list!
Apologies for the emojis, everyone. There aren't any (distinctive) Native emojis aside from the feather and PB said I needed to have 3.
Hii! I have a few recs if that's okay! Just wanted to add some more Wampanoag rep hehe
Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs (I know Linda personally and she is wonderful)
Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power and The Search for Indigenous Identity by Joseph Lee
Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England by Siobhan Senier (If I am not mistaken she herself is not native, but the actual works are all native and she worked on it with a dozen tribal editors as well as tribal historians)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi Tribe not Wamp but a lot of my Wamp family love this one lol)