13 Best indigenous books like Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2) by Eden Robinson

Cover of Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2) by Eden Robinson

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…

If you liked the indigenous plot in Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2) by Eden Robinson , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • 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

2. Keeper'n Me

By: Richard Wagamese

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and … read more

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3. The Reason You Walk

By: Wab Kinew

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Hardcover

A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic Aboriginal star. When his father … read more

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4. Kiss of the Fur Queen

By: Tomson Highway

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are al… read more

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5. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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6. Birdie

By: Tracey Lindberg

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Monkey Beachmeets Green Grass, Running Watermeets The Beachcombersin this wise and funny novel by a… read more

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7. 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 Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • fiction
  • canada
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8. 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 Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • fiction
  • 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)

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9. Five Little Indians

By: Michelle Good

4.48

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Five Little Indians book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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10. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • fiction
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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11. The Theory of Crows

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When … read more

Similar categories in David Alexander Robertson's The Theory of Crows book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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12. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Jonny Appleseed book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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13. 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 Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
  • indigenous
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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 Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • magical realism
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"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. This Place: 150 Years Retold

By: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

4.38

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

In graphic novel format, Indigenous writers explore the untold stories of the past, present, and fu… read more

Similar categories in Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm's This Place: 150 Years Retold book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • canada
  • indigenous
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16. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

Similar categories in Helen Knott's Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • canada
  • indigenous
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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17. 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 Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
Cover of Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2) by Eden Robinson

18. 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 Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • magical realism
  • canada
  • magic
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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19. Hunting by Stars

By: Cherie Dimaline

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A new story about hope and survival. Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions … read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Hunting by Stars book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • canada
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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20. Crow Winter

By: Karen McBride

3.90

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless roo… read more

Similar categories in Karen McBride's Crow Winter book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • magical realism
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
Cover of DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1) by Hartley GoodWeather

21. DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1)

By: Hartley GoodWeather

3.81

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The award-winning, bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian masters… read more

Similar categories in Hartley GoodWeather's DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1) book and Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous

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The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline

3.97

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

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Five Little Indians

Michelle Good

4.48

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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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