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Nonfiction Reads
For those who are looking to learn about history and nonfiction reads please check out these books written by  Polynesian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander authors! 
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

16 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

T Kira Madden

311 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

Julian Aguon

2 hours, 37 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac

4 hours, 48 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics science informative reflective fast-paced
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

224 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva

Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism

Noenoe K. Silva

8 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity

Narrating Native Histories

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

241 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history reference sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal by Naomi Klein

On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

Naomi Klein

10 hours, 22 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction politics science reflective slow-paced
Growing Up Local: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose from Hawai'i by

Growing Up Local: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose from Hawai'i

376 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction classics
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

Lili'uokalani

9 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 1898 (editions) user-added

nonfiction autobiography history emotional informative reflective slow-paced