The Back of the Turtle
10 best books like The Back of the Turtle (Thomas King): The Marrow Thieves, Indian Horse, The Diviners, The Jade Peony, Brother, Through Black Spruce, The Orenda, The Break, Motorcycles & Sweetgrass, Son of a Trickster
| Author | Cherie Dimaline |
| ISBN | 1770864865 |
Indian Horse
| Author | Richard Wagamese |
| ISBN | 1553654021 |
| Author | Margaret Laurence |
| ISBN | 0226469352 |
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between...
| Author | Wayson Choy |
| ISBN | 1590512162 |
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Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the backdrop for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid reminiscences of...
| Author | David Chariandy |
| ISBN | 1635572045 |
With shimmering...
| Author | Joseph Boyden |
| ISBN | 0670020575 |
Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now lying in a coma in a hospital in his hometown of Moose Factory, Ontario. His niece Annie Bird, beautiful and self-reliant, has returned from her own perilous journey to...
| Author | Joseph Boyden |
| ISBN | 0670064181 |
The Break
| Author | Katherena Vermette |
| ISBN | 1487001118 |
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.
In...
| Author | Drew Hayden Taylor |
| ISBN | 0307398056 |
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie,...
Son of a Trickster
| Author | Eden Robinson |
| ISBN | 0345810783 |
| Author | Tanya Tagaq |
Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous....
| Author | Waubgeshig Rice |
| ISBN | 1770414002 |
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members...
Trickster Drift
| Author | Eden Robinson |
In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being...
| Author | Tracey Lindberg |
| ISBN | 1554682940 |
Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions....
Starlight
| Author | Richard Wagamese |
| ISBN | 0771070845 |
The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive...