7 must-read indigenous books like Bug by Yolanda Bonnell

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Bug

By: Yolanda Bonnell

4.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

bug is a solo performance and artistic ceremony that highlights the ongoing effects of colonialism …

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Cover of Fleabag: The Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

1. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

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  • plays
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2. The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts

By: Tomson Highway

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award T… read more

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  • plays
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3. Finding Audrey

By: Sophie Kinsella

3.75

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

Audrey can't leave the house. she can't even take off her dark glasses inside the house. Then he… read more

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"Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me."

-Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

"You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels."

-Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

"But, Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. That's life."

-Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

"She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late."

-Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

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4. Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing

By: Tomson Highway

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tells anot… read more

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  • plays

5. 4.48 Psychosis

By: Sarah Kane

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more

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6. The Unnatural and Accidental Women

By: Marie Clements

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

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7. Incendies

By: Wajdi Mouawad

4.37

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Lorsque le notaire Lebel fait aux jumeaux Jeanne et Simon Marwan la lecture du testament de leur mè… read more

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  • plays
"L'enfance est un couteau planté dans la gorge."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Maintenant que nous sommes ensemble, ça va mieux."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Ce n'est jamais bon signe lorsque la jeunesse s'enfuit."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Every balle que je mets dans le fusil, Is like a poème. And I shoot a poème to the people and it is the précision of my poème qui tue les gens"

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

8. Annie Mae's Movement

By: Yvette Nolan

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Annie Mae's Movementexplores what is must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a… read more

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9. Shattered Warrior

By: Sharon Shinn , Molly Knox Ostertag

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's been eight years since Colleen Cavenaugh's home world was conquered by the Derichets. These al… read more

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10. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

By: Emma R. Alban

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from havin… read more

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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. Wash Day Diaries

By: Jamila Rowser

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to t… read more

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13. Emergency Skin

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.03

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more

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"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

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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. Slave Play

By: Jeremy O. Harris

4.18

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th… read more

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  • plays
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16. Remote Control

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.85

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

The new book by Nebula and Hugo Award-winner, Nnedi Okorafor."She’s the adopted daughter of the Ang… read more

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17. River Woman

By: Katherena Vermette

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second coll… read more

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  • indigenous
"Truth is a seed planted deep If you want to get it you have to dig."

-Katherena Vermette, River Woman

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18. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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19. In Deeper Waters

By: F.T. Lukens

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his comin… read more

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"The world isn't kind" Tal said as Garrett held him at arm's length, the flames of the torch flickering from the ground, casting both in eerie shadows. "But that doesn't mean I cant be."

-F.T. Lukens, In Deeper Waters

"Heart aching, he decided then he wouldn't allow his magic to become a weapon, even for his own family. He'd rather be locked in a tower or exiled off the known map than become the monster his heritag…"

-F.T. Lukens, In Deeper Waters

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20. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

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"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

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21. Navigate Your Stars

By: Jesmyn Ward

4.19

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work, and the po… read more

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"I realized education wasn't one choice. It was a lifetime undertaking."

-Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars

"Success is not the result of making one good choice, of taking one step. Real success requires step, after step, after step, after step. It requires choice after choice, it demands life-long educatio…"

-Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars

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22. Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

By: Faith G. Harper

3.32

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes--having melt … read more

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"We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself."

-Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

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23. The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brough… read more

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"Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory."

-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because…"

-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

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24. La méduse

By: Boum

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Odette a une méduse dans l’œil, qu’elle seule peut voir. Une méduse qui se multiplie. Avec un p… read more

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25. 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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26. God and the Indian

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman who lives on the streets, is shocked … read more

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  • plays
  • indigenous
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27. Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story

By: Kim Senklip Harvey

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

TIME: All. SPACE: The Multiverse. Come along for the ride to Kamloopa, the largest Powwow on the … read more

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  • indigenous
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28. Scars and Stars: Poems

By: Jesse Thistle

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of th… read more

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Cover of Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future by Drew Hayden Taylor

29. Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In 'Me Tomorrow', First Nations, Metis and Inuit artists, activists, educators and writers, youth a… read more

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30. Bug

By: Yolanda Bonnell

4.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

bug is a solo performance and artistic ceremony that highlights the ongoing effects of colonialism … read more

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31. The Hours That Remain

By: Keith Barker

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Denise has spent the last five years dedicated to uncovering the truth behind her sister Michelle’s… read more

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  • plays

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Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

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The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts

Tomson Highway

4.00

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Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing

Tomson Highway

4.12

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Wajdi Mouawad

4.37

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Emma R. Alban

3.82

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Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

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On the Same Page

Haley Cass

4.40

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Meryl Wilsner

3.77

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