8 Best indigenous books like All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac

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All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a…

If you liked the indigenous plot in All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. 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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2. 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 Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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3. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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4. Greenwood

By: Michael Christie

4.33

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more

Similar categories in Michael Christie's Greenwood book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

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5. 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 Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"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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6. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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7. 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 Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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8. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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9. 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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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • 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

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10. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

By: Tsering Yangzom Lama

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more

Similar categories in Tsering Yangzom Lama's We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. All the Colour in the World

By: C.S. Richardson

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Richardson's All the Colour in the World book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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13. 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 Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • canada
  • historical
  • indigenous
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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15. All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more

Similar categories in Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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17. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman

4.54

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Stobo Sniderman's Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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18. Dandelion

By: Jamie Chai Yun Liew

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Chai Yun Liew's Dandelion book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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19. Junie

By: Chelene Knight

3.78

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more

Similar categories in Chelene Knight's Junie book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Stray Dogs: Stories

By: Rawi Hage

3.25

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the no… read more

Similar categories in Rawi Hage's Stray Dogs: Stories book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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21. Avenue of Champions

By: Conor Kerr

4.21

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Daniel is a young Métis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergener… read more

Similar categories in Conor Kerr's Avenue of Champions book and Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous

18 must-read fiction books like All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Greenwood

Michael Christie

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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19 Top audiobook books like Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Catherine Leroux

3.32

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