Award Winning Indigenous Fiction

November is National Native American Heritage Month, and in order to celebrate, we’ve composed a list of award-winning fiction novels in our collection by indigenous authors. Some of the awards won by books on this list are: Alex Award, Shirley Jackson Award, Bram Stoker Award, American Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, and even the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

BIRDIE by Tracey Lindberg (DBE 00023, BRG 03835)
BREAK by Katherena Vermette (DB 91006, BRG 03920)
CEREMONY by Leslie Marmon Silko (DB 13366, BR 03484)
FIVE LITTLE INDIANS by Michelle Good (DB 112115, LB 0000088)
GREEN GRASS, RUNNING WATER by Thomas King (DB 37393)
INDIAN HORSE by Richard Wagamese (DBC 27578, BRG 03820)
MONKEY BEACH by Eden Robinson (DB 63141, BRG 00386)
MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW by Waubgeshig Rice (DB 95719)
NIGHT WANDERER: A NATIVE GOTHIC NOVEL by Drew Hayden Taylor (DBC 24723)
NIGHT WATCHMAN by Louise Erdrich (DB 98896, BR 23078, LB 12937)
ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones (DB 100116)
ROUND HOUSE by Louise Erdrich (DB 75641)
THERE THERE by Tommy Orange (DB 91321, BR 22564)
WARRIOR GIRL UNEARTHED by Angeline Boulley (DB 114761)