Books for Native American Heritage Month

By Coll Rowe | October 3 2024 | English Language ArtsHistorySocial Studies

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month this November, Penguin Random House Education is highlighting books that detail the history of Native Americans, and stories that explore Native American culture and experiences.

Browse our collections here:

Native American Creators

Native American History & Culture

A Novel
9781646222384
NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New Book
$17.95 US
Oct 29, 2024
Paperback
320 Pages
Catapult

9780593546864
Part gripping thriller and part mythological horror, a young Native girl hunts for answers about a string of disappearances, all while being haunted herself.
$18.00 US
Mar 19, 2024
Paperback
368 Pages
Berkley

A novel
9780593318256
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.” —Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez
$29.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Hardcover
336 Pages
Knopf

The First Book of Nampeshiweisit
9780593498286
A young, indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling—and quickly finds herself at odds with the “approved” way of doing things—in the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series.
$18.99 US
May 09, 2023
Paperback
528 Pages
Del Rey

9780593480434
Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: the "discovery" of America told by Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists. Here's the true story of America from the Indigenous perspective.
$8.99 US
Sep 12, 2023
Paperback
272 Pages
Crown Books for Young Readers

9780593624814
An illuminating novel about the importance of reclaiming the past, based on the author’s family history
$17.99 US
Aug 27, 2024
Hardcover
128 Pages
Nancy Paulsen Books