8 best-selling indigenous books like Everything Ancient Was Once New (Indigenous Pacifics) by Case

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Everything Ancient Was Once New (Indigenous Pacifics)

By: Case

4.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concep…

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1. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

By: Matthew Desmond

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more

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  • history
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2. Night Is a Sharkskin Drum

By: Haunani-Kay Trask

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Night Is a Sharkskin Drum is a lyrical evocation of Hawaii by a Native poet whose ancestral land ha… read more

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3. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i

By: Haunani-Kay Trask

3.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Since its publication in 1993, From a Native Daughter, a provocative, well-reasoned attack against … read more

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4. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith

4.25

Format: None pages,

From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… read more

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5. When My Brother Was an Aztec

By: Natalie Díaz

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more

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6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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7. Moloka'i

By: Alan Brennert

3.78

Format: None pages,

This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a l… read more

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8. Black Marks on the White Page

By: Witi Ihimaera , Tina Makereti

4.36

Format: None pages,

A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of… read more

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9. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.73

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more

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"Let us not reason like cowards,"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"There is no story that is not true."

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

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10. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

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11. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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12. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • history
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13. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

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14. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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15. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • history
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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16. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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17. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

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18. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

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  • indigenous
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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19. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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  • indigenous
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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20. Kāwai For Such A Time As This

By: Monty Soutar

4.16

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it’s never… read more

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  • indigenous
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21. Outlawed

By: Anna North

3.51

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life… read more

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"Knowledge can be very valuable, but only if people want it. If they don't, it can be worse than useless."

-Anna North, Outlawed

"Everybody cheers the hanging of a witch," I said. Agnes Rose looked at her dainty watch. "Everybody but us," she said, and she took the matches from me and set one of the ledgers alight."

-Anna North, Outlawed

"Mama says at every birth, death is in the room. You can try to ignore it, or you can acknowledge it, and greet it like a guest, and then you won't be so afraid anymore." Bee looked skeptical. "How do…"

-Anna North, Outlawed

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22. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

By: Alicia Elliott

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more

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  • indigenous
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"

-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

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23. Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

4.01

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more

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  • indigenous
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24. The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration

By: David A. Chang

4.46

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultu… read more

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  • history
  • indigenous
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25. Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo'olelo, Aloha 'Aina, and Ea (Indigenous Americas)

By: Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio

4.73

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body… read more

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26. Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i

By: Candace Fujikane

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that the practice of mapping… read more

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  • history
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27. Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series)

By: No‘u Revilla

4.28

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares ever… read more

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  • indigenous
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28. Everything Ancient Was Once New (Indigenous Pacifics)

By: Case

4.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concep… read more

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  • history
  • indigenous
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29. In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

By: Sophie Chao

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With In the Shadow of the Palms , Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm p… read more

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30. Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania

By: Kealani Cook

4.25

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop relationships with other Pacific Islander… read more

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  • history
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31. Kanaka Hawai'i Cartography: Hula, Navigation, and Oratory (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)

By: Renee Pualani Louis

4.67

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Kanaka Hawai‘i cartographic practices are a compilation of intimate, interactive, and integrative p… read more

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Matthew Desmond

3.37

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4.28

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Matthew Desmond

4.27

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David A. Chang

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Danez Smith

3.97

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Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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Paul Tran

3.87

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4.18

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