Storyteller

10 best books like Storyteller (Leslie Marmon Silko): Stones from the River, Love Medicine, The Master Butchers Singing Club, Angle of Repose, House Made of Dawn, The Grass Dancer, Winter in the Blood, The Heartsong of Charging Elk, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002, Stones for Ibarra

Stones from the River

Author

Ursula Hegi

From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palm comes a stunning novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times.

Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she...

Love Medicine

Author	Louise Erdrich
ISBN	0060786469

A member of the Chippewa and Obijwe tribes, Louise Erdrich has been a leading voice in Native American literature for over thirty years. Determined to publish her first book before she turned thirty, Erdrich wrote Love Medicine at the age of twenty nine, and this debut novel won the National Critics...

The Master Butchers Singing Club

Author	Louise Erdrich
ISBN	0060837055

From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.”

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the...

Angle of Repose

Author	Wallace Stegner
ISBN	0140169300

Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface...

House Made of Dawn

Author	N. Scott Momaday
ISBN	0072434201

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a proud stranger in his native land.

He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The...

The Grass Dancer

Author	Susan Power
ISBN	0425159531

What I said in the secrecy of my thoughts was: Fanny, mazaska, the white iron you call money, is useless to me. Even the goods I take from the sutler's store, the flour, coffee, sugar, and tobacco, the knives and blankets, are things I do not want. I give them to my cousins who live upriver.These words belong...

Winter in the Blood

Author	James Welch
ISBN	0140086447

What caught my attention with this book was one of the blurbs on the cover (I read an edition different from the Penguin classics one) from Charles R. Larson from The New Republic that says:
"For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others,...

The Heartsong of Charging Elk

Author	James Welch
ISBN	0385496753

From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow, a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination.

Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South...

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

Author	Joy Harjo
ISBN	0393325342

Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous...

Stones for Ibarra

Author	Harriet Doerr
ISBN	0140075623

Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty, have come to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine abandoned by Richard's grandfather fifty years before. They have mortgaged, sold, borrowed, left friends and country, to settle in this remote spot; their plan is to live...