Indigenous Authors

Blue Bear Woman

By: Virginia Pesempaeo Bordeleau

Narrated by: Tai Amy Grauman

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Blue Bear Woman or Ourse bleue is the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman. The story of a young Cree woman’s search for her roots and identity, this is also the author’s debut novel, originally published in 2007, and it will be her second book to be published in English. The novel has been described as a “texte de... Read more

Apple

By: Eric Gansworth

Narrated by: Eric Gansworth

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way?The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside.Eric Gansworth is... Read more

Little Big Bully

By: Heid E. Erdrich

Narrated by: Heid E. Erdrich

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

In a new collection that is "a force of nature" (Amy Gerstler), renowned Native poet Heid E. Erdrich applies her rich inventive voice and fierce wit to the deforming effects of harassment and oppression.

Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled... Read more

The Brave

By: James Bird

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Collin can't help himself―he has a unique condition that finds him counting every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies, and a continual frustration to the adults around him, including his father. When Collin asked to leave yet another school, his dad decides to send him to live in Minnesota with the... Read more

Black Water

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: David A. Robertson

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year
A Quill & Quire Book of the Year
A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open and with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family, identity and love.” —Cherie... Read more

Unsettling Canada

By: Arthur Manuel & Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Unsettling Canada, a Canadian bestseller, is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson. Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important national and international reputations. But the differences between... Read more

Offerings

By: Michael ByungJu Kim

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joon—also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his... Read more

Carry

By: Toni Jensen

Narrated by: Toni Jensen

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence.

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • Goop Book Club Pick • “Essential . . . We need more voices like Toni Jensen’s, more books like Carry.”—Tommy... Read more

Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Ana Rodriguez & Gary Tiedemann

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When the other gods grow tired in their attempt to create humankind, only one does not give up: the Feathered Serpent. He embarks on a dangerous journey full of fearsome foes and harsh elements, facing each trial with wisdom, bravery, and resourcefulness before confronting his final challenge at Mictlan, the underworld. In the spirit of Duncan... Read more

Diamond in the Rough

By: Isobella Crowley, Michael Anderle & Ell Leigh C...

Narrated by: Emma Lysy

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The secret world is being hidden by a vampire hundreds of years old—and her human frat-boy apprentice. He might shape up to be an asset if she doesn't kill him first. Between setting up the office and hiring new preternatural staff, with some surprising...talents, Taylor tasks Remy with a new case. She assumes he will stick to her instructions,... Read more

The Gift Is in the Making

By: author

Narrated by: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Tiffany Ayalik

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gift Is in the Making retells previously published Anishinaabeg stories, bringing to life Anishinaabeg values and teachings to a new generation. Readers are immersed in a world where all genders are respected, the tiniest being has influence in the world, and unconditional love binds families and communities to each other and to their... Read more

The Evolution of Alice

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Andrew White Martin & Olivia Lucas

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Peopled with unforgettable characters and told from multiple points of view, this is a novel where spirits are alive, forgiveness is possible, and love is the only thing that matters. Alice is a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up. Life has never been easy, but she’s managed to get by with the... Read more

The Beadworkers

By: Beth Piatote

Narrated by: Beth Piatote, various narrators, Christian Nagl...

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Beth Piatote’s luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary worldTold with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find... Read more

The Yield

By: Tara June Winch

Narrated by: Tony Briggs

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award and 2021 Kate Challis RAKA Award! ""A beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present.""—Kate Morton“A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia.”—Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize winning author of The Narrow Road to the... Read more

Sweetest Kulu

By: Celina Kalluk

Narrated by: Celina Kalluk

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Winner of a Wordcraft Circle Award Named Best Bedtime Book Huffington Post Selected as Top Summer Read for the TD Summer Reading Club "Dream a little, Kulu, this world now sings a most beautiful song of you." This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by... Read more

Resistance

By: Tori Amos

Narrated by: Tori Amos

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos.

Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music... Read more

Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

Narrated by: Tommy Pico

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.



Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a nature... Read more

Tilly and the Crazy Eights

By: Monique Gray Smith

Narrated by: Michelle Thrush

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2019–20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award An unexpected journey can be powerful medicine. When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket list road trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows... Read more

Tell Me Why

By: Archie Roach

Narrated by: Archie Roach

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 ABIA Audiobook of the Year

A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader.

Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach – stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader – but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who... Read more

Walking the Old Road

By: Staci Lola Drouillard

Narrated by: Staci Lola Drouillard

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the history of the North ShoreAt the turn of the nineteenth century, one mile east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, you would have found Chippewa City, a village that as many as 200 Anishinaabe families called home. Today you will find only Highway 61,... Read more

One Drum

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fans of Richard Wagamese’s writing will be heartened by the news that the bestselling author left behind a manuscript he’d been working on until shortly before his death in 2017.In One Drum, Wagamese wrote, “I am not a shaman. Nor am I an elder, a pipe carrier, or a celebrated traditionalist. I am merely one who has trudged the same path many of... Read more

The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear

By: Gerry Spence

Narrated by: Milton Bagby

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry SpenceThis is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged as part of a conspiracy with the murder of a white man at Russell Means’s Yellow Thunder Camp in 1982, a... Read more

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

By: Joy Harjo

Narrated by: Joy Harjo

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United StatesIn these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from... Read more

The Pale-Faced Lie

By: David Crow

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty,... Read more