15 Top indigenous books like Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

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Empire of Wild

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.74

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov…

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1. Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

By: Eden Robinson

3.82

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classi… read more

Similar categories in Eden Robinson's Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1) book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
"He wasn't going to be alone after she died, but the world was going to be a lonelier place without her."

-Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

2. Traplines

By: Eden Robinson

3.73

Format: 112 pages,

The menacing underside of family life is the subject of Eden Robinson's debut collection. In crackl… read more

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3. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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4. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • canada
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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7. A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Porter's A Grandmother Begins the Story book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

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8. River Mumma

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more

Similar categories in Zalika Reid-Benta's River Mumma book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
  • audiobook
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9. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

Similar categories in Angeline Boulley's Warrior Girl Unearthed book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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10. Indian Burial Ground

By: Nick Medina

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more

Similar categories in Nick Medina's Indian Burial Ground book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"

-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground

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11. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Making Love with the Land: Essays book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • canada
  • indigenous
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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12. Empire of Wild

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.74

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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13. White Horse

By: Erika T. Wurth

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face … read more

Similar categories in Erika T. Wurth's White Horse book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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14. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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15. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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16. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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17. Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

By: Eden Robinson

4.29

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, the sec… read more

Similar categories in Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2) book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
  • indigenous
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18. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

Similar categories in Nick Medina's Sisters of the Lost Nation book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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19. Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more

Similar categories in Drew Hayden Taylor's Cold book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3)

By: Eden Robinson

4.12

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, from the bestselling a… read more

Similar categories in Eden Robinson's Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3) book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. A Girl Called Echo Omnibus

By: Katherena Vermette

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Métis teenager Echo Desjardins is struggling to adjust to a new school and a new home. When an ordi… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's A Girl Called Echo Omnibus book and Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild

  • fiction
  • indigenous

18 must-read fiction books like Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

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Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

Eden Robinson

3.82

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

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Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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16 Best fiction books like A Girl Called Echo Omnibus by Katherena Vermette

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

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Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7

James Tynion IV

4.28

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Things in the Basement

Ben Hatke

4.23

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