9 Best fantasy books like Monsters (The Reckoner, #2) by David Alexander Robertson

Cover of Monsters (The Reckoner, #2) by David Alexander Robertson

Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

By: David Alexander Robertson

4.15

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The mystery at Wounded Sky First Nation continues in the heart-stopping sequel to Strangers, by Gov…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Monsters (The Reckoner, #2) by David Alexander Robertson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Medicine Walk

By: Richard Wagamese

4.30

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the mos… read more

Similar categories in Richard Wagamese's Medicine Walk book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
"There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment."

-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

"She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book."

-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

"There was a feeling in him like a bruise, a purple ache that set between his ribs. He tasted a cry building at the back of his throat. It was too familiar and made him fearful."

-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

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2. OCDaniel

By: Wesley King

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Incredible Space Raiders from Space! comes a brand-new coming-of-age story about… read more

Similar categories in Wesley King's OCDaniel book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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3. The Nest

By: Kenneth Oppel , Jon Klassen

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

For some kids summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it's just another season of worr… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Oppel's The Nest book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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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 David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • 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

5. Dream Wheels

By: Richard Wagamese

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from b… read more

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6. 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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7. Tilly

By: Monique Gray Smith

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Tilly has always known she's part Lakota on her dad's side. She's grown up with the traditional tea… read more

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8. The Night Wanderer

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her fath… read more

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9. Glass Beads

By: Dawn Dumont

3.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

These short stories interconnect the friendships of four First Nations people -- Everett Kaiswatim,… read more

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10. 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 David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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11. The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3)

By: Peter Brown

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The action-packed third installment in Peter Brown's internationally bestselling The Wild Robot ser… read more

Similar categories in Peter Brown's The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3) book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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12. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bow's Simon Sort of Says book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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13. 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

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  • 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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14. The Space Between Here & Now

By: Sarah Suk

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA … read more

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  • canada
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. 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 David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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16. 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 David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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17. Starfish

By: Lisa Fipps

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this debut novel-in-verse. Eve… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Fipps's Starfish book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"I'm a starfish, taking p all the room I want."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"No matter what others say or do, embrace what makes you, you."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

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18. Brother

By: David Chariandy

3.99

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions o… read more

Similar categories in David Chariandy's Brother book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha."

-David Chariandy, Brother

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19. 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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20. The Benefits of Being an Octopus

By: Ann Braden

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Some people can do their homework. Some people get to have crushes on boys. Some people have other … read more

Similar categories in Ann Braden's The Benefits of Being an Octopus book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Is a fishing rod evil because it catches someone's dinner? No. It's a tool. Just the way a gun is. Just the way a chain saw is. Just don't give it to the wrong person."

-Ann Braden, The Benefits of Being an Octopus

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21. 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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  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • 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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22. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

4.05

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful stor… read more

Similar categories in Jen Ferguson's The Summer of Bitter and Sweet book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

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

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

24. How to Raise an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist… read more

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  • audiobook
"To raise an antiracist is to raise a critical thinker. And to raise a critical thinker is to raise an antiracist."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Caregivers must model a critical home, a critical classroom, a critical community, for kids to defy and question everything that’s questionable."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Literacy is not an end. Literacy should be taught as a means to critical thinking. Knowledge isn't an end. Knowledge is a means to critical thinking. The smartest student is not the student who is th…"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Instead of calling these IB and AP courses "gifted" classes, I call them privileged classes. The students in the classes are privileged. Colleges give preferential treatment to students who take thes…"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

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25. 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 David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • canada
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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27. 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 David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • canada
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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28. Hidden on the High Wire

By: Kathy Kacer

4.10

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1941, Irene Lorch must perform the most perilous balancing act of her life… Ire… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Kacer's Hidden on the High Wire book and David Alexander Robertson's Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

  • canada
  • audiobook
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29. Apartment 713

By: Kevin Sylvester

4.26

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Secret ballrooms, hidden artwork and unlikely friends—welcome to the Regency, where even time moves… read more

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  • canada
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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30. Monsters (The Reckoner, #2)

By: David Alexander Robertson

4.15

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The mystery at Wounded Sky First Nation continues in the heart-stopping sequel to Strangers, by Gov… read more

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  • canada
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow by Aimée Craft

31. Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

By: Aimée Craft

4.44

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work toget… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
"The beauty of their silence was in everything that they heard around them."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

"…for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Like the original treaty."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

"Every person was born with a set of spiritual instructions or understandings, my girl. It’s what we do with it that defines us as human beings."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

"By having the sun rise every day, the earth and the sky are renewing their commitment to work together. And we in turn honor that relationship and directly benefit from it."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

23 must-read fiction books like Monsters (The Reckoner, #2) by David Alexander Robertson

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Medicine Walk

Richard Wagamese

4.30

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OCDaniel

Wesley King

3.93

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The Nest

Kenneth Oppel , Jon Klassen

3.41

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The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline

3.97

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

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The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

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The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

3.46

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