Books for Native American Heritage Month

By Coll Rowe | September 30 2025 | LiteratureSocial StudiesSociology

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

Browse our collections here:

Native American Creators

Native American History & Culture

We Survived the Night
We Survived the Night
Julian Brave NoiseCat
9780593320785
A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today, and the director of the Oscar®-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love, and resurgence.“Julian Brave NoiseCat seamlessly connects true tales of identity and betrayal, love and abandonment, clarity and confusion. We Survived the Night is a whirling, radiant gift to the reader.” —Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman
$30.00 US
Oct 14, 2025
Hardcover
432 Pages
Knopf
Who Gets to Be Indian?
Who Gets to Be Indian?
Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations About Native American Identity
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
9780807044964
An investigation into how Native American identity became a commodity, from cultural appropriation to ethnic fraud to disenrollment
$29.95 US
Oct 07, 2025
Hardcover
280 Pages
Beacon Press
The Whistler
The Whistler
Nick Medina
9780593820407
A young man is haunted by a mythological specter bent on stealing everything he loves in this unsettling horror from the author of Indian Burial Ground and Sisters of the Lost Nation.
$30.00 US
Sep 16, 2025
Hardcover
368 Pages
Berkley
Washing My Mother's Body
Washing My Mother's Body
A Ceremony for Grief
Joy Harjo
9781984861368
A beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s poem “Washing My Mother’s Body,” which offers a way through grief when the loss appears unbearable.
$17.99 US
Apr 01, 2025
Hardcover
80 Pages
Ten Speed Press
The El
The El
A Novel
Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
9780593686768
From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across Chicago to a momentous meeting, inspired by the cult classic The Warriors“Cool and real as hell.” —Tommy Orange, bestselling author of There There
$17.00 US
Aug 12, 2025
Paperback
192 Pages
Vintage
Sisters of the Lost Nation
Sisters of the Lost Nation
Nick Medina
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.
$19.00 US
Mar 19, 2024
Paperback
368 Pages
Berkley
The Berry Pickers
The Berry Pickers
A Novel
Amanda Peters
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
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
The First Book of Nampeshiweisit
Moniquill Blackgoose
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
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