10 Best indigenous books like Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

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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…

If you liked the indigenous plot in Five Little Indians by Michelle Good , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Indian Horse

By: Richard Wagamese

4.42

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant reside… read more

Similar categories in Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are."

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unra…"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds …"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to be…"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

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2. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

By: Tanya Talaga

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Talaga's Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."

-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

3. 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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4. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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5. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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6. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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7. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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8. What Strange Paradise

By: Omar El Akkad

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more

Similar categories in Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

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9. Greenwood

By: Michael Christie

4.33

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more

Similar categories in Michael Christie's Greenwood book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

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10. 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

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Five Little Indians book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"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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12. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

By: Bob Joseph

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more

Similar categories in Bob Joseph's 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • canada
  • indigenous
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13. Looking for Jane

By: Heather Marshall

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more

Similar categories in Heather Marshall's Looking for Jane book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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14. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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15. 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

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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16. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

By: Jesse Thistle

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more

Similar categories in Jesse Thistle's From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • audiobook
  • book club
  • canada
  • indigenous
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17. Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel

4.40

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Daniel's Daughters of the Deer book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • canada
  • historical
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Strangers

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 336 pages, None

From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Strangers book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."

-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers

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19. 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 Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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20. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing by Clayton Thomas-Muller

21. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

By: Clayton Thomas-Muller

3.65

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more

Similar categories in Clayton Thomas-Muller's Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing book and Michelle Good's Five Little Indians

  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous

14 must-read fiction books like Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

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Richard Wagamese

4.42

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

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Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Ce que je sais de toi

Éric Chacour

4.43

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

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