8 Top native american books like The Removed by Brandon Hobson

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The Removed

By: Brandon Hobson

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic d…

"I saw the rain lifting from earth to sky."

-Brandon Hobson, The Removed

"We are always restless, carrying the dreams of children and the elderly, the tired and sick, the poor, the wounded. The Removed."

-Brandon Hobson, The Removed

If you liked the native american plot in The Removed by Brandon Hobson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk

1. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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2. Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more

Similar categories in Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • audiobook
  • native american
  • indigenous
"Pain expanded my heart."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"You are such a home to me."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

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3. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's There There book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

Cover of The Removed by Brandon Hobson

4. The Removed

By: Brandon Hobson

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic d… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Hobson's The Removed book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"I saw the rain lifting from earth to sky."

-Brandon Hobson, The Removed

"We are always restless, carrying the dreams of children and the elderly, the tired and sick, the poor, the wounded. The Removed."

-Brandon Hobson, The Removed

Cover of A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

5. A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Porter's A Grandmother Begins the Story book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

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6. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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7. Swim Home to the Vanished

By: Brendan Shay Basham

3.35

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the river swallowed Kai, Damien’s little brother didn’t die so much as vanish. As the unbea… read more

Similar categories in Brendan Shay Basham's Swim Home to the Vanished book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Elliott's And Then She Fell book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • magical realism
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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9. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Night of the Living Rez book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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10. Empire of Wild

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.74

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. Winter Counts

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

3.84

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dange… read more

Similar categories in David Heska Wanbli Weiden's Winter Counts book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There is no word for goodbye in Lakota. That's what my mother used to tell me. Sure, there are words like toksa, which meant "later," that were used by people as a modern substitute. She'd told me la…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

"But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depr…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

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12. White Horse

By: Erika T. Wurth

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face … read more

Similar categories in Erika T. Wurth's White Horse book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples

13. This Town Sleeps

By: Dennis E. Staples

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Elegant and gritty, angry and funny. Staples’s work is emotional without being sentimental. Dennis… read more

Similar categories in Dennis E. Staples's This Town Sleeps book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • magical realism
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Spirits can be bitches like that."

-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps

"We're boys. That's what we're supposed to do."

-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps

"It's better to wake up than fall back asleep in a town with no dreams."

-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps

"Did you know you can just order a trophy from a company and engrave it however you want? I ordered myself a trophy in the exact size, shape, and fake plastic luster as the one state basketball champi…"

-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps

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14. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

Similar categories in Nick Medina's Sisters of the Lost Nation book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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15. Everything

By: Andrea Cohen

3.74

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

The poems in Everything, Andrea Cohen’s seventh collection, traffic in wonder and woe, in dialogue … read more

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16. We Play a Game (Volume 112) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

By: Duy Doan

3.55

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

The 112th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores the Vietnamese-American experience   … read more

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17. In the Night of Memory

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation. When Lo… read more

Similar categories in Linda LeGarde Grover's In the Night of Memory book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • literary fiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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18. Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go

By: Cleo Qian

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alien… read more

Similar categories in Cleo Qian's Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Pretty: A Memoir

By: KB Brookins

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir ab… read more

Similar categories in KB Brookins's Pretty: A Memoir book and Brandon Hobson's The Removed

  • audiobook
Cover of Les âmes féroces by Marie Vingtras

20. Les âmes féroces

By: Marie Vingtras

3.60

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

« Ici, la nuit est belle. (…) Leo avance de tache de lumière en tache de lumière et entre les deux,… read more

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21. Video Games

By: Kelly Ann Gonzales

3.88

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

After David the Writer leaves Cameron de la Cruz for a night out at Dave and Busters in Manhattan, … read more

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15 Top fiction books like The Removed by Brandon Hobson

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

There There

Tommy Orange

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Removed

Brandon Hobson

3.39

Transform Your Habits

A Grandmother Begins the Story

Michelle Porter

3.84

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16 Top fiction books like Swim Home to the Vanished by Brendan Shay Basham

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft

3.26

Transform Your Habits

A Grandmother Begins the Story

Michelle Porter

3.84

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