What are your favorite books written by Native American/Indigenous people and/or Latinx authors?
What are your favorite books written by Native American/Indigenous people and/or Latinx authors?
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One of the best , I think, is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
Two of my favorite authors are Louise Erdrich and Sandra Cisneros
I loved House on Mango Street. Haven’t read anything by Erdrich.
I wish I could recommend just one Erdrich, but I’ve loved each one I’ve read! Love Medicine was her first, and introduces many of the characters that pop up in later books.
Awesome, I will definitely check her out! Thanks!
I adore Sandra Cisneros!
Louise Erdrich books are based on modern American Indian themes
Thanks, will check her out!
And she owns a bookstore in Minneapolis! Gotta love her https://birchbarkbooks.com/
Living the dream. ?
Try The Liberation of Ravenna Morton, by Suzanne Jenkins. I read it years ago and the characters are still with me. It’s about Native peoples lives.
I love books where the characters stay with you! I’m looking more for books written by Indigenous/Native American/Latinx folks to honor their voices/experiences/culture.
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Sherman Alexie’s Blasphemy is our library’s Community Read this month! He’s one of my all-time favorite authors.
I recently bought The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, but I haven’t read it yet.
Empire of The Summer Moon is one of my all time favourite books. The story of Quanah Parker. S.C Gwynne.
Junot Diaz’s Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Mink River bye Brian Doyle.
Love this book!!
Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
In the Time of the Butterflies by Alvarez…one of my all-time favorites.
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Good book. But was it written by an indigenous author?
House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende
One of my favorites!
Love Allende, but that was my favorite.
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa is the funniest book I’ve ever read. He’s a Nobel prize winner. Also Love in the Time of Cholera. Like Water for Chocolate.
I read something by Sherman Alexie years ago, but I can’t remember the title. I know he wrote The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, but I don’t think that’s what it was. How sad.
Maybe reservation blues?
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian?
Indian killer?
Victor Villaseñor Rain of Gold
Isabel Allende, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie
Sara, was it The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian?
The Round House
Nonfiction:
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Fiction:
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Marcelo in the Real World and Last Summer of the Death Warriors, both by Francisco X. Stork
Aristotle & Dante ❤️
Reservation Blues
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17174.A_Yellow_Raft_in_Blue_Water?ac=1&from_search=true
I really liked that book!
@Patricia Me too. But Michael Dorris’ story is so heartbreaking.
@Beverly I agree. I read it years ago (decades ago?) and just remember it being powerful.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/693208.The_Absolutely_True_Diary_of_a_Part_Time_Indian?ac=1&from_search=true
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17071488-if-i-ever-get-out-of-here
Try The Round House by Louise Erdrich. It is a remarkable story of revenge that won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012.
Don’t forget the Tony Hillerman mysteries with Leaphorn and Chee.
This came across my feed today: http://www.hbook.com/2017/10/blogs/out-of-the-box/updated-booklist-indigenous-peoples-day/
Great share! Thank you.
Ben Saenz
And a few more names for you. Winona LaDuke has several books. Wilma Mankiller may as well. http://bust.com/feminism/14897-5-amazing-indigenous-women-to-celebrate-instead-of-christopher-columbus.html
I wanted to look up a book I read in college and found the author was a male ( I did not remember that), he married (then divorced) another author I like, and I found out he is now dead. But the book “A yellow raft in blue water” was good.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9387.Michael_Dorris
He , Michael Dorris, died. She, Louise Erdrich, is still alive.
Corrected the grammar ?
I bought a Louise Erdrich book today at my local used bookstore, The Round House.
Excellent!
I’m excited to read it.
She is great! Every single book is incredible.
Everything by Sherman Alexie
A bit academic, but Borderlands/La Frontera The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua is a classic. She recently (or maybe not too recently) edited a book of women of color, too.
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday.
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Louise Erdrich. Sherman Alexie.my favorites
Anything by Sherman Alexie or Louise Erdrich.
Yep…. what they said….?
Anything by Thomas King
@We shared this list for young people http://www.readbrightly.com/new-childrens-ya-books-hispanic-heritage/