Indigenous Literature 2025

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21 participants (41 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 12 books by or about Indigenous peoples in Canada throughout 2025. Can include poetry, non-fiction, memoirs, general fiction. Special focus on Mi’kmaq authorship whenever possible for myself, as I live in Mi’kma’ki. 

Challenge Books

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True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould

True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change

Jody Wilson-Raybould

340 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction politics race hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier

The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

368 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir informative reflective slow-paced
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

Tiffany Midge

216 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir challenging funny reflective medium-paced
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty

Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

242 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry by Joy Harjo

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

Joy Harjo

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead

Making Love with the Land

Joshua Whitehead

6 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

Prairie Edge

Conor Kerr

258 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary mystery thriller adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present

Adrienne Keene

144 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative reflective medium-paced
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

Revisioning History for Young People

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

272 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

ReVisioning American History

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

296 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced