6 must-read history books like Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: The History of Curve Lake First Nation by Doug Williams

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Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: The History of Curve Lake First Nation

By: Doug Williams

4.64

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In this deeply engaging oral history, Doug Williams, Anishinaabe elder, teacher and mentor to Leann…

If you liked the history plot in Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: The History of Curve Lake First Nation by Doug Williams , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

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"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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2. Green Grass, Running Water

By: Thomas King

4.03

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Nativ… read more

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  • indigenous
"Look,"

-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water

"The Lone Ranger, Ishmael, Robinson Crusoe, and Hawkeye stood in the parking lot of the Blossom Lodge. Beyond the concrete and the asphalt and the cars, beneath the deep curve of the sky, the prairies…"

-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water

"Every July, when Eli was growing up, his mother would close the cabin and move the family to the Sun Dance. Eli would help the other men set up the tepee, and then he and Norma and Camelot would run …"

-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water

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3. Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada

By: Emma Battell Lowman , Adam J Barker

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Canada has never had an Indian problem but it does have a Settler problem. But what does it mean to… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. A Wind in the Door (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #2)

By: Madeleine L'Engle

4.04

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A Wind in the Dooris a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wal… read more

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5. Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)

By: Lois Lowry

3.80

Format: 245 pages,

In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future worl… read more

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6. V for Vendetta

By: Alan Moore , David Lloyd

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

"Remember, remember the fifth of November..." A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedo… read more

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7. Ghost Boys

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.34

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a… read more

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"Bear witness. My tale is told Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don’t let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again"

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

"Bear witness. My tale is told. Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don't let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again."

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

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8. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

By: Gavin de Becker

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US's leading expert on vi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

11. Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad

By: Alice Oswald

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Hardcover

To retrieve the Iliad's' energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story and her account focuses b… read more

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12. Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

By: Connie Willis

4.03

Format: 578 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as si… read more

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"It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"No," she said. "No. It's only a bad time. A terrible time, but not everyone will die. And there will be wonderful times after this. The Renaissance and class reforms and music. Wonderful times. There…"

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

13. 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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14. Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Many promote Reconciliation as a "new" way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing o… read more

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15. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

By: Thomas King

4.65

Format: None pages, ebook

WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more

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16. 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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17. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

By: Bob Joseph

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
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19. Brother

By: David Chariandy

3.99

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

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

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

-David Chariandy, Brother

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20. 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

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

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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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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  • 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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22. The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

By: Desmond Cole

4.45

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and unco… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The false promise of objectivity in journalism reinforces white supremacy."

-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

"it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy—white settlers deny Black communities the necessities of life, then blame us for the social dysfunction that follows."

-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

"This idea that Canada's racial injustices are not as bad as they could be, this notion of Slavery Lite, of Racism Lite, of what my friend calls the "toy version of racism" is a very Canadian way of s…"

-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

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23. Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel

4.40

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more

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  • indigenous
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24. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

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25. Fleabag: The Scriptures

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

4.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming script… read more

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"I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"The funeral liturgy says that life is changed and not ended. I've always loved that, if that's of any help."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"I just think I want someone to tell me how to live my life, Father, because so far, I think I've been getting it wrong."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"[Love] is all any of us want and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

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26. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more

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  • indigenous
"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."

-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

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27. Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life

By: Jonathan Van Ness

4.10

Format: 6 pages, Audiobook

Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collec… read more

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  • nonfiction
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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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  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
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29. The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (Critical Studies in Native History, 20)

By: Susan M. Hill

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Ha… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
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30. Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: The History of Curve Lake First Nation

By: Doug Williams

4.64

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In this deeply engaging oral history, Doug Williams, Anishinaabe elder, teacher and mentor to Leann… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
Cover of Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place by Denise Bolduc

31. Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place

By: Denise Bolduc

4.31

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North Ame… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous

11 must-read nonfiction books like Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: The History of Curve Lake First Nation by Doug Williams

Transform Your Habits

Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada

Emma Battell Lowman , Adam J Barker

3.18

Transform Your Habits

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Gavin de Becker

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

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Funny Boy

Shyam Selvadurai

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Obasan

Joy Kogawa

4.88

Transform Your Habits

How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

Souvankham Thammavongsa

3.85

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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