12 Best indigenous books like On/Me by Francine Cunningham

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On/Me

By: Francine Cunningham

4.08

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Francine Cunningham lives with constant reminders that she doesn’t fit the desired expectations of …

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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

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"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. Ravensong

By: Lee Maracle

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lee Maracle, author of the best-selling I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism,… read more

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3. The Graveyard Book

By: Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean

4.16

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly n… read more

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"Leave no path untaken."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"You are almost never cool to your children."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself wih you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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4. Skim

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.77

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensit… read more

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"Being sixteen is officially the worst thing I've ever been."

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

"I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still."

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

"This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with …"

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

5. The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills

By: Daniel Coyle

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

The Little Book of Talentis a manual for building a faster brain and a better you. It is an easy-to… read more

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6. C

By: Tom McCarthy

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Remainder, which Zadie Smith hailed as "one of the great English novels of … read more

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7. Scarborough

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 208 pages,

Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more

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8. We Are the Ants

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

There are a few things Henry Denton knows, and a few things he doesn't. Henry knows that his mom is… read more

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9. A Really Good Brown Girl

By: Marilyn Dumont

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

NOW AVAILABLE IN A NEW EDITION - A Really Good Brown Girl: Brick Books Classics 4, ISBN 97817713134… read more

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10. Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more

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"So never give in,"

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Tulips were a tray of jewels."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

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11. 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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12. 1984: The Graphic Novel

By: Fido Nesti

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always wat… read more

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13. Plain Bad Heroines

By: Emily M. Danforth

3.65

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable stu… read more

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"Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"She was a person like this: full of opinion and firm standing, she planted her flag in more topics than you could quite believe she could actually care about."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"So many things felt so routinely disappointing to her that it seemed a shame to waste this evening on that mild unhappiness, one that she could admit to herself possibly wasn't deserved."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

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14. Weasels in the Attic

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more

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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic

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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

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  • indigenous
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16. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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17. I Am Still Alive

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.87

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

After Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn’t act fast, the co… read more

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"Fire is warmth and food and clean water, but it’s hard and time-consuming, and people die because they spend all their time making the fire and no time finding water or building a shelter."

-Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

"I look at the wall where those first words - SMART, NOT STRONG - have been joined by dozens more. Pay attention to the wind. Steep drop west of the snag. Say something out loud at least once a day. R…"

-Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

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18. Not My Problem

By: Ciara Smyth

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aideen has plenty of problems she can’t fix. Her best (and only) friend is pulling away. Her mother… read more

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"I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"She really did look relieved. Like the stick up her her ass had decreased in width or length."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"I'd never met someone I hated more. Would it have been wrong to burn her house down to get out?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"It's all a load of bolloxology, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of making fun of you, am I?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

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

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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20. 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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"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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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. If I Go Missing

By: Brianna Jonnie

4.49

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

If I Go Missing is derived from excerpts of a letter that went viral and was also the basis of a do… read more

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  • indigenous
Cover of All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures) by Tanya Talaga

23. All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)

By: Tanya Talaga

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the ala… read more

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  • indigenous
"In Ojibwe and Cree culture, leadership didn't mean power; it meant caring."

-Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)

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24. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

4.39

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more

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  • indigenous
Cover of Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

25. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-n… read more

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Cover of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

26. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more

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"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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27. Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

By: Darrel J. McLeod

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree famil… read more

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Cover of Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt

28. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

By: Angela Sterritt

4.51

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more

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  • indigenous
Cover of The Italian Cure by Melodie Campbell

29. The Italian Cure

By: Melodie Campbell

2.93

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Charlie's world comes crashing down when her fianc� leaves her for another woman. Then Aunt Della w… read more

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30. On/Me

By: Francine Cunningham

4.08

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Francine Cunningham lives with constant reminders that she doesn’t fit the desired expectations of … read more

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31. with/holding

By: Chantal Gibson

4.55

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

with/holding is a collection of genre-blurring poems that examines the representation and reproduct… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Medicine Walk

Richard Wagamese

4.30

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Ravensong

Lee Maracle

3.73

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Skim

Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.77

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

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David Alexander Robertson , Scott B. Henderson

4.17

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Lucile de Pesloüan

3.93

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Je pense que j'en aurai pas

Catherine Gauthier

4.45

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Brianna Jonnie

4.49

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