Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.
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 fiancƩ he left behind.
In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croftā¦donāt. Wyattās 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
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 2021 by NPR and Esquire
From Kliph Nesteroff, āthe human encyclopedia of comedyā (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy.
It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hillās stand-up routine: āMy people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate... Read more
The Fae Keeper
By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Dani Martineck
Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In the heart-stopping sequel to The Witch King, Wyatt and Emyr attempt to rebuild Asalin despite unexpected new enemies within their kingdom.
Two weeks after the door to Faery closed once more, Asalin is still in turmoil.Ā Emyr and Wyatt are hunting Derek and Clarke themselves after having abolished the corrupt Guard, and are trying to convince... 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.Ā Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real.Ā VenCo is funny, tense, and cracking with a dark, divine energy.""Ā Ā ---Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The SentenceFor fans of The Once and Future Witches and Practical Magic, comes... Read more
View audiobookFry Bread
By: Kevin Noble Maillard
Narrated by: Kevin Noble Maillard
Length: 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. Told in lively and... Read more
View audiobookWinter Counts
By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as ""a hell of a debut""
""Winter CountsĀ is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book.""Ā āLouise ErdrichVirgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.Ā When justice is... Read more
Moon of the Turning Leaves
By: Waubgeshig Rice
Narrated by: Billy Merasty
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
āWaubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine.Ā Moon of the Turning LeavesĀ is a restorative balm for my spirit.ā āĀ Angeline Boulley,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Firekeeper's DaughterIn this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novelĀ Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by... Read more
View audiobookShe Is Not Your Rehab
By: Matt Brown
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers the men in his barbershop a haircut with a difference: a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. As the creator of My Fathers Barbers, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Zealand men to break free from the cycle of abuse ā and those men have in turn inspired Matt and his wife,... Read more
View audiobookCalling 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.Ā
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 fatherās injury at the hands... 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
View audiobookWoman of Light
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Narrated by: Melinna Bobadilla
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ A ādazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyricalāĀ (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of anĀ Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina
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āSometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like youāre... Read more
Thunder Song
By: Sasha LaPointe
Narrated by: Sasha LaPointe
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?Å”?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and... Read more
View audiobookEmpire of Wild
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
āDeftly written, gripping and informative.Ā Empire of WildĀ is a rip-roaring read!āāMargaret Atwood, From Instagram
āEmpire of WildĀ is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsiveāall the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it.āāTommy... 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
View audiobookLaRose
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-winningĀ The Round HouseĀ and theĀ Pulitzer PrizeĀ nomineeĀ The Plague of Doves,Ā wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale... Read more
View audiobookThe 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 byĀ The New York Times,Ā TIME,Ā The Washington Post,Ā NPR,Ā Hudson Booksellers,Ā The New York Public Library,Ā The Dallas Morning News,Ā andĀ Library Journal.
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one... 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 womanās 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." āPaul... 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 Kingās Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the kingās 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
View audiobookClassified
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 audiobookEverything 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
View audiobookSisters of the Lost Nation
By: Nick Medina
Narrated by: Elva Guerra & Nick Medina
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Barnes and NobleĀ āĀ BuzzFeed ā GoodReads ā Book Riot ā CrimeReads ā Ms. Magazine ā SheReads ā Amazon Editor's Pick ā Tor.comĀ ā and more!
A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all... Read more
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
By: Liliāuokalani
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States.
Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in... 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
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems
By: Mikeas SƔnchez
Narrated by: Mikeas SƔnchez, Wendy Call & Shook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas SƔnchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism... Read more
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