8 Best indigenous books like Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives) by Blake M. Hausman

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Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

By: Blake M. Hausman

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Sherman Alexie meets William Gibson. Louise Erdrich meets Franz Kafka. Leslie Marmon Silko meets Ph…

If you liked the indigenous plot in Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives) by Blake M. Hausman , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story

By: LeAnne Howe

3.83

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma, during the baseball fever of 190… read more

Similar categories in LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
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2. Tracks

By: Louise Erdrich

4.50

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Set earliest in time within the cycle of her prizewinning and bestselling books, Love Medicine and … read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's Tracks book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Indian Horse

By: Richard Wagamese

4.42

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant reside… read more

Similar categories in Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are."

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unra…"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds …"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to be…"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

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4. 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 Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"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

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5. Future Home of the Living God

By: Louise Erdrich

3.60

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn ch… read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless."

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

"I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,"

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

"Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?"

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

"I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out."

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

6. The Way of Thorn and Thunder

By: Daniel Heath Justice

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Taking fantasy literature beyond the stereotypes, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunde… read more

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7. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

By: Herman Melville , John Bryant

3.56

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay,… read more

Similar categories in Herman Melville's Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking."

-Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

8. Potiki

By: Patricia Grace

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A Maori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purcha… read more

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9. Ceremony

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more

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10. The Only Good Indians

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.70

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Only Good Indians book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • fiction
  • horror
"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

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11. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • fiction
  • horror
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12. 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 Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. The River

By: Peter Heller

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip—of a friendship tested by fire, white w… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's The River book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • fiction
"He had a few good friends who respected him and would do anything for him. Why did anyone else need to be impressed?"

-Peter Heller, The River

"Late August, a clear night becoming cold. There was no aurora borealis, just the dense sparks of the stars blown from their own ancient fire."

-Peter Heller, The River

"And the eagles. They seemed to mark the canoe's progress from the gray spires of dead spruce, spaced downriver like watchmen on some lost frontier..."

-Peter Heller, The River

"Rich people are another species. Sort of lost in their own way. It's a good thing they have country clubs and shit because it keeps them kinda corralled up in one place."

-Peter Heller, The River

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14. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • native american
  • indigenous
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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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

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • science fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • 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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16. 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 Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • historical fiction
  • native american
  • fiction
  • indigenous
"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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17. Even As We Breathe

By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Even As We Breathe introduces the reader to twenty-year-old Cowney Sequoyah and the mountains of we… read more

Similar categories in Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle's Even As We Breathe book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • historical fiction
  • native american
  • fiction
  • indigenous
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18. Zombie Bake-Off

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.50

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gathe… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Zombie Bake-Off book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • fiction
  • horror
"If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Zombie Bake-Off

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19. Manmade Monsters

By: Andrea L. Rogers

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-… read more

Similar categories in Andrea L. Rogers's Manmade Monsters book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
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20. Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

By: Blake M. Hausman

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Sherman Alexie meets William Gibson. Louise Erdrich meets Franz Kafka. Leslie Marmon Silko meets Ph… read more

Similar categories in Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives) book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • magical realism
  • science fiction fantasy
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • read for school
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • historical fiction
  • speculative fiction
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21. Evidence of Red: Poems and Prose (Earthworks)

By: LeAnne Howe

4.09

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Evidence of Redcontains dramatic events of the creation of a people, interwoven with a haunting nar… read more

Similar categories in LeAnne Howe's Evidence of Red: Poems and Prose (Earthworks) book and Blake M. Hausman's Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

  • native american
  • indigenous

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Louise Erdrich

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Richard Wagamese

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Cherie Dimaline

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Nick Cutter

3.42

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Paul Tremblay

3.79

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John Langan

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