21 must-read indigenous books like Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3) by Eden Robinson

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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…

If you liked the indigenous plot in Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3) by Eden Robinson , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

By: Richard Wagamese

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook

2. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake … read more

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  • magical realism
  • canada
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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3. 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
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

4. 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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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

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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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

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  • audiobook
  • 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

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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10. 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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  • fiction
  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • 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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11. Indians on Vacation

By: Thomas King

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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12. 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

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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13. 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

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  • audiobook
  • 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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14. 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

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  • fiction
  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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15. 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

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  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

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  • magical realism
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

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17. 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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  • magical realism
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • 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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18. The Strangers

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 336 pages, None

From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more

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  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."

-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers

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19. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

4.39

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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20. 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

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  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. 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

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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22. 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

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  • canada
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. 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

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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24. 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

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  • canada
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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25. Starlight

By: Richard Wagamese

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medic… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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26. 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

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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27. 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 Eden Robinson's Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3)

  • urban fantasy
  • magical realism
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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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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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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29. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

By: Brandi Morin

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi M… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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30. 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

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

31. 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

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous

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Drew Hayden Taylor

4.55

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Cherie Dimaline

3.97

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Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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4.28

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Éric Chacour

4.43

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

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