Nishga
By: Jordan Abel
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastati…
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1. Running in the Family
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- canada
2. North End Love Songs
By: Katherena Vermette
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
For Katherena Vermette, Winnipeg's North End is a neighbourhood of colourful birds, stately elms, a… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- canada
3. The Plague of Doves
By: Louise Erdrich
4.64
Format: None pages,
The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, gene… read more
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4. The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts
By: Tomson Highway
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award T… read more
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- canada
- read for school
5. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- social justice
6. The Weary Blues
By: Langston Hughes
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when … read more
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- poetry
7. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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- canada
"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
8. Half-Breed
By: Maria Campbell
2.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Metis woman's struggle to come to… read more
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9. Islands of Decolonial Love
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more
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10. Zong!
By: Marlene NourbeSe Philip , Setaey Adamu Boateng
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by… read more
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11. This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
By: None
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This Accident of Being Lostis the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winnin… read more
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12. First Wives Club: Coast Salish Style
By: Lee Maracle
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
This poignant and powerful collection of short stories provides revealing glimpses into the life ex… read more
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13. 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
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- canada
14. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- poetry
- social justice
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
15. 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
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- canada
- indigenous
"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)
16. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
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- canada
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
17. Brother
By: David Chariandy
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions o… read more
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- canada
"She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha."-David Chariandy, Brother
18. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
By: Ntozake Shange
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more
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- poetry
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
19. 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
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- indigenous
"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
20. Nishga
By: Jordan Abel
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastati… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- canada
- mental health
- read for school
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- social justice
21. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- indigenous
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
22. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more
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- canada
- indigenous
"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
23. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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- memoir
- canada
- indigenous
- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
24. True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change
By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet , a groundbreaking a… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- canada
- indigenous
25. This Wound Is a World
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.49
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- canada
- indigenous
- nonfiction
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
26. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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- canada
- indigenous
27. On Time and Water
By: Andri Snær Magnason
4.27
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
In the next hundred years, the nature of water on Earth will undergo a fundamental change. Glaciers… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Molte persone hanno avuto negli ultimi mesi la sensazione di vivere un'apocalisse, ma occorre ricordare che il significato della parola greca apokálypsis è «rivelazione». In questo senso i fatti rece…"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
"Sullo schermo le diapositive continuano a scorrere: adesso sono più che altro foto di loro due sugli sci. Il nonno trasporta legname nel rifugio sopra la Draumadalur, nei Bláfjöll. Il rifugio si chia…"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
"Anche se la spudorata devastazione di quel luogo tanto speciale mi rattristava molto, ho optato per parole che tutti potessero considerare sensate e adeguate. Ho usato il linguaggio predominante del …"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
"Per tutto il XX secolo abbiamo preteso che la terra ci fosse utile, abbiamo voluto aumentarne la resa [...]. Buonsenso, lo abbiamo chiamato. A che ci serve una palude? Perché avere tante mosche? Perc…"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
28. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
3.65
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more
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- memoir
- canada
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- social justice
29. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- memoir
- canada
- indigenous
- nonfiction
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
30. The Cherokee Rose
By: Tiya Miles
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Three women uncover the secrets of a Georgia plantation that embodies the intertwined histories of … read more
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- indigenous
31. Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being (7) (Essais Series)
By: Amy Fung
4.23
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn?t think tw… read more
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- memoir
- canada
