8 Top indigenous books like Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2) by Pamela Sanderson

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Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

By: Pamela Sanderson

4.12

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

The future of the Crooked Rock Urban Indian Center remains uncertain. Ester Parker has it under …

If you liked the indigenous plot in Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2) by Pamela Sanderson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. 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

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  • 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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2. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3) book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
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3. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.66

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more

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  • fiction
"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

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6. The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan’s greatest crime writers. In 1940s Japan, t… read more

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  • fiction
"Detective you have to arrest her. You have to arrest her and put her to death. Not just the regular death penalty - that's not good enough for her. I want her to hang by her heels, rip her to shreds,…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2)

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7. Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the i… read more

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  • fiction
"Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly."

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

"Mảnh trăng lưỡi liềm mùng mười còn treo trên sườn núi Suribachi, bầu trời lấp lánh muôn ánh sao. Sông Ngân kéo chiếc đuôi dài thượt ngang qua, có thể thấy thấp thoáng quầng sáng trắng sữa. Đảo Ngục M…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

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8. 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 Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
  • indigenous
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9. Mrs. Wickham

By: Sarah Page

3.78

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

2 hours, 3 minutes Imagine if you made one little mistake when you were young and were punished… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Page's Mrs. Wickham book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
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10. 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 Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • contemporary
  • 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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11. The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)

By: Alix E. Harrow

4.33

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s … read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3) book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
"He doesn’t move or speak, but he doesn’t need to. I know his desires by the pace of his breath and the tilt of his shoulders, by the shape of his jaw and the heat of his gaze. I know him, and in know…"

-Alix E. Harrow, The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)

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12. Deceived by the Gargoyles (Monstrous Matches, #2)

By: Lillian Lark

4.11

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

A curvy librarian looking to start a family, a clan of gargoyles, and the deception that starts it … read more

Similar categories in Lillian Lark's Deceived by the Gargoyles (Monstrous Matches, #2) book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • romance
"We don't need to compare hardships. There is no need for a hierarchy of suffering between us."

-Lillian Lark, Deceived by the Gargoyles (Monstrous Matches, #2)

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13. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Night of the Living Rez book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • indigenous
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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14. 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

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's VenCo book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
  • indigenous
"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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15. White Horse

By: Erika T. Wurth

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face … read more

Similar categories in Erika T. Wurth's White Horse book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
  • indigenous
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16. The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.89

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb… read more

Similar categories in Seishi Yokomizo's The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
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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

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
  • 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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18. The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.83

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and The In… read more

Similar categories in Seishi Yokomizo's The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3) book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
"The only person who had not touched the pickles was me! I never did like pickles..."

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)

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19. The Backbone of the World

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.93

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined shor… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Backbone of the World book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • fiction
  • indigenous
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20. Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

By: Pamela Sanderson

4.12

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

The future of the Crooked Rock Urban Indian Center remains uncertain. Ester Parker has it under … read more

Similar categories in Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2) book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • romance
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
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21. The Truth According to Ember

By: Danica Nava

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much mor… read more

Similar categories in Danica Nava's The Truth According to Ember book and Pamela Sanderson's Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2)

  • romance
  • contemporary romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 must-read fiction books like Lovesick Braves (Crooked Rock, #2) by Pamela Sanderson

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Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

Marcie R. Rendon

3.98

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Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)

Marcie R. Rendon

3.97

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Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

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Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

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21 Top fiction books like VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

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Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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