Let's start this list strong with Marrow Thieves

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**Marrow Thieves **and its sequel, Hunting by Stars, is set in a dystopian near-future North America where most of humanity has lost its ability to dream...except for Indigenous people. And to try and solve that problem, colonizers have begun to kidnap Indigenous people so that they can harvest their bone marrow in an effort to try and restore their ability to dream.

The Halfling Saga

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**The Halfling Saga, **which includes **A Broken Blade, A Shadow Crown, A Vicious Game **and An Honored Vow follows Kiera, a halfling--half fae, half human--who has spent the last five decades serving the King who colonized her people, leaving their lands desecrated, their people nearly extinct, and their magic all but eradicated. She has not only been forced to serve in his elite army of Halflings, but she has risen to its head. Now, she is the king's deadliest assassin, and when her most recent mission leads her toward a mysterious enemy who has taken refuge in the faeland, she must make drastic decisions about who she is, what she is capable of, and where her loyalty should lie.

Never Whistle at Night

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This dark fiction anthology centers Indigenous voices from all across the United States and will terrify you to your core. It is some of the scariest stories I have ever seen presented in so few words. Go in ready to not sleep for a while.

Bad Cree

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Bad Cree follows a young indigenous (Cree Nation, obviously) woman named Mackenzie. She is being haunted by dreams and omens that point her toward a previous tregedy where she lost her sister at her family's lakefront campsite. Since that tragedy, she has avoided the lake--and her family--but now, if she wants to ever know peace again, she is going to have to return home and face the monsters that refuse to loosen their grip on her...and her family.

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

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This is the best dragon book you will ever read. It follows a young woman who is the first on her Island to find--and bond with--a dragon in many generations. It seems like a blessing, but there's a problem: the anglish conquerors do not approve. They eventually agree to let her keep her dragon, but only under the condition that she come to one of their schools and learn to handle her dragon according to the traditions and methods they have developed. Of course she agrees, because the alternative is worse. But neither she nor her dragon have any intention of becoming the cookie-cutter students everyone expects them to be.

CONCLUSION

These are just a few of my favorite indigenous books and I hope that you will give a few of them space on your shelves this month! But more important than that, I hope that you will consider opening up your shelf to indigenous authors all year round. And to help you with that, I am going to introduce you to an indigenous creator who will keep you in book recommendations long after you've gotten through the ones I've shared with you here!

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This is my friend, Naomi! She is a proud indigenous woman who is fighting to create more space for indigenous authors and the stories that they bring into the world. I would encourage you to go follow her on TikTok & Instagram . And in addition to paying attention to her book recommendations, she also recently launched her own bindery publishing Imprint, Boozhoo books! Please go g ive her a follow there too and help her to bring more indigenous books into the world!