7 Best indigenous books like My Good Man by Eric Gansworth

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My Good Man

By: Eric Gansworth

3.82

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

BEST OF THE YEAR Kirkus • Boston Globe A literary tour-de-force sure to turn the coming-of-age …

If you liked the indigenous plot in My Good Man by Eric Gansworth , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The Return of the Witch (The Witch's Daughter, #2)

By: Paula Brackston

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Paula Brackston's debut novel, The Witch's Daughter, was the little book that could--with a captiva… read more

Similar categories in Paula Brackston's The Return of the Witch (The Witch's Daughter, #2) book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

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2. When the Angels Left the Old Country

By: Sacha Lamb

4.27

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power o… read more

Similar categories in Sacha Lamb's When the Angels Left the Old Country book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

By: Isaac Blum

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

The Chosen meets Darius the Great in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friend… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Blum's The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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4. We Deserve Monuments

By: Jas Hammonds

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's We Deserve Monuments book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"

-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

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5. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

Similar categories in Dan Santat's A First Time for Everything book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • coming of age
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6. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Suk's The Space Between Here & Now book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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7. A Snake Falls to Earth

By: Darcie Little Badger

3.95

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still … read more

Similar categories in Darcie Little Badger's A Snake Falls to Earth book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • indigenous
"Hey Daysona!"

-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

"And their voices had a keenly musical quality. It wasn't that the animal people barked out literal instrumental notes or sand when they spoke. Rather, their words ignited emotional responses Nina had…"

-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

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8. 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 Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • 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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9. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

Similar categories in Byron Graves's Rez Ball book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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11. Cherish Farrah

By: Bethany C. Morrow

3.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the o… read more

Similar categories in Bethany C. Morrow's Cherish Farrah book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Jesse Wente's Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • audiobook
  • indigenous
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13. 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

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Funeral Songs for Dying Girls book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • indigenous
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14. Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

By: Patricia Park

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Park's Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • race
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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15. Medusa (The Myth of Monsters #1)

By: Katherine Marsh

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award finalist Katherine Percy Jackson meets The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Aca… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's Medusa (The Myth of Monsters #1) book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies Fir… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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17. Hope Ablaze

By: Sarah Mughal Rana

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She lost her words but found her voice. All My Rage meets The Poet X in this electric debut tha… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Mughal Rana's Hope Ablaze book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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18. Lord of the Fly Fest

By: Goldy Moldavsky

3.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One of Us Is Lying meets Lord of the Flies meets Fyre Fest in this wickedly addictive and funny YA … read more

Similar categories in Goldy Moldavsky's Lord of the Fly Fest book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"It's a condition I have where I don't care about things."

-Goldy Moldavsky, Lord of the Fly Fest

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19. Stateless

By: Elizabeth Wein

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A murder mystery set in 1937 Europe with intrigue, glamour, secrets, and betrayal. When Stella Nort… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Wein's Stateless book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Pieces of Me

By: Kate McLaughlin

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The next gut-punching, compulsively readable Kate McLaughlin novel, about a girl finding strength i… read more

Similar categories in Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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21. Manmade Monsters

By: Andrea L. Rogers

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-… read more

Similar categories in Andrea L. Rogers's Manmade Monsters book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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22. When You Look Like Us

By: Pamela N. Harris

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When you look like us—brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades—people think you’re trouble. No… read more

Similar categories in Pamela N. Harris's When You Look Like Us book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • race
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Doesn't matter that I'm the guy in here trying to work. My popping melanin makes me the aggressor in every situation."

-Pamela N. Harris, When You Look Like Us

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23. An Appetite for Miracles

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must co… read more

Similar categories in Laekan Zea Kemp's An Appetite for Miracles book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"...Faith doesn't work without common sense."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Dear God. I know our relationship is not supposed to be transactional. But, You are the one who invented an eye for an eye, so, maybe I can entice you with a good deal."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Because there are people in our lives; rare unexpected people who don't just walk beside us through life; they witness our lives too. They hold our memories in their DNA. So that when one body forget…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

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24. House of Yesterday

By: Deeba Zargarpur

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Taking inspiration from the author's own Afghan-Uzbek heritage, this contemporary YA debut is a bre… read more

Similar categories in Deeba Zargarpur's House of Yesterday book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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25. Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...

By: Jason Reynolds

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish…This is what it could be, should be… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Twenty-Four Seconds from Now... book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • young adult
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26. The Bletchley Riddle

By: Ruta Sepetys

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Shein… read more

Similar categories in Ruta Sepetys's The Bletchley Riddle book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky by Josh Galarza

27. The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky

By: Josh Galarza

4.22

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Mark Oshiro and Adam Silvera comes a fiercely funny and hopeful story of one bo… read more

Similar categories in Josh Galarza's The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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28. Everything We Never Had

By: Randy Ribay

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more

Similar categories in Randy Ribay's Everything We Never Had book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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29. My Good Man

By: Eric Gansworth

3.82

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

BEST OF THE YEAR Kirkus • Boston Globe A literary tour-de-force sure to turn the coming-of-age … read more

Similar categories in Eric Gansworth's My Good Man book and Eric Gansworth's My Good Man

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

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