18 must-read indigenous books like In the Night of Memory by Linda LeGarde Grover

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In the Night of Memory

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation. When Lo…

If you liked the indigenous plot in In the Night of Memory by Linda LeGarde Grover , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Tapestry of Fortunes

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A wonderful new novel about four women who take a trip into their past, to find again the people th… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Berg's Tapestry of Fortunes book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn & Chee, #19)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Legendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back! The supremely talented daughter of New York Ti… read more

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3. The Partly Cloudy Patriot

By: Sarah Vowell , None

4.33

Format: 57 pages,

Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy road… read more

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4. Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.98

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Nothing in Renee Blackbear’s world had prepared her for college or for the hurt that happens in the… read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2) book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • adult
  • fiction
"But this is the country I know. This Valley. This river. This flat land that goes on forever. The dang wind chill every winter. The wind blowing across this prairie we bend over and walk into. We get…"

-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

"Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of …"

-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

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5. Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

4.25

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more

Similar categories in Oscar Hokeah's Calling for a Blanket Dance book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

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6. The Removed

By: Brandon Hobson

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic d… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Hobson's The Removed book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"I saw the rain lifting from earth to sky."

-Brandon Hobson, The Removed

"We are always restless, carrying the dreams of children and the elderly, the tired and sick, the poor, the wounded. The Removed."

-Brandon Hobson, The Removed

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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 Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • literary fiction
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"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. The Seed Keeper

By: Diane Wilson

4.30

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more

Similar categories in Diane Wilson's The Seed Keeper book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • native american
  • indigenous
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

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9. The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life

By: Mark Synnott

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The climbing community had long considered a "free solo" ascent of El Capitan an impossible feat so… read more

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"Peter Croft once explained the feeling you get from free soloing as a heightened type of perception. A little edge that you need to stand on looks huge—everything comes into high relief. That’s just …"

-Mark Synnott, The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life

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10. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

Similar categories in Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • native american
  • indigenous
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11. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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12. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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13. Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a … read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1) book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • native american
  • fiction
  • indigenous
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14. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • family
  • contemporary
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15. 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 Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • contemporary
  • native american
  • fiction
  • indigenous
"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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16. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

By: Simon Winchester

3.79

Format: 464 pages, ebook

The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—o… read more

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17. Bestiary

By: K-Ming Chang

3.44

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more

Similar categories in K-Ming Chang's Bestiary book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It was a relief to love something already dead."

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

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18. Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • literary fiction
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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19. A Council of Dolls

By: Mona Susan Power

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more

Similar categories in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

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20. Winter Counts

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

3.84

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dange… read more

Similar categories in David Heska Wanbli Weiden's Winter Counts book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"There is no word for goodbye in Lakota. That's what my mother used to tell me. Sure, there are words like toksa, which meant "later," that were used by people as a modern substitute. She'd told me la…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

"But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depr…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

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21. Crooked Hallelujah

By: Kelli Jo Ford

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of t… read more

Similar categories in Kelli Jo Ford's Crooked Hallelujah book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • family
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22. Probably Ruby

By: Lisa Bird-Wilson

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable d… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Bird-Wilson's Probably Ruby book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
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23. Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

By: Kathleen West

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Small Admissions, a wry and cleverly observed de… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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24. Flores and Miss Paula

By: Melissa Rivero

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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25. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

By: Anton Treuer

4.40

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions an… read more

Similar categories in Anton Treuer's Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • native american
  • indigenous
". . . we are souls. We have bodies, which are just temporary houses for our souls. . .The body is a container."

-Anton Treuer, Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

"Here in the United States, very little effort has been made to voice formal apologies, make reparations, or pass political mandates about education. Yet this country was founded in part by genocidal …"

-Anton Treuer, Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

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26. 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 Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • native american
  • fiction
  • indigenous
Cover of Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec

27. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

Similar categories in Patty Krawec's Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • native american
  • indigenous
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Cover of Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) by William Kent Krueger

28. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • adult fiction
  • native american
  • fiction
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

29. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • fiction
Cover of In the Night of Memory by Linda LeGarde Grover

30. In the Night of Memory

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation. When Lo… read more

Similar categories in Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
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31. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red book and Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

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Elizabeth Berg

3.78

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Marcie R. Rendon

3.98

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Calling for a Blanket Dance

Oscar Hokeah

4.25

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Brandon Hobson

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Elly Griffiths

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Elizabeth Strout

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Chris Brookmyre

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