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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

All books added
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 by Joy Harjo

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

Joy Harjo

272 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Spirits Dancing - The Night Sky, Indigenous Knowledge, and Living Connections to the Cosmos by Annette S. Lee

Spirits Dancing - The Night Sky, Indigenous Knowledge, and Living Connections to the Cosmos

Annette S. Lee

154 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction
Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes

Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir

Ernestine Hayes

172 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

310 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Caroline Dodds Pennock

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

223 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

Five Little Indians

Michelle Good

304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

8 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Waiting for the Long Night Moon by Amanda Peters

Waiting for the Long Night Moon

Amanda Peters

256 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction historical short stories emotional reflective sad fast-paced