The Orenda
10 best books like The Orenda (Joseph Boyden): Washington Black, The Marrow Thieves, Indian Horse, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Brother, The Break, Half Blood Blues, Birdie, The Back of the Turtle, The Wire: Truth Be Told
| Author | Esi Edugyan |
| ISBN | 0525521429 |
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.
When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch,"...
| Author | Cherie Dimaline |
| ISBN | 1770864865 |
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow,...
| Author | Richard Wagamese |
| ISBN | 1553654021 |
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his...
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
| Author | Thomas King |
| ISBN | 0385674058 |
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize
The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North...
| Author | David Chariandy |
| ISBN | 1635572045 |
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.
With shimmering...
| Author | Katherena Vermette |
| ISBN | 1487001118 |
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist
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 | Esi Edugyan |
| ISBN | 1846687756 |
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. A German citizen. And he is black.
Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin....
| Author | Tracey Lindberg |
| ISBN | 1554682940 |
Monkey Beach meets Green Grass, Running Water meets The Beachcombers in this wise and funny novel by a debut Cree author
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....
| Author | Thomas King |
| ISBN | 1443431621 |
This is Thomas King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass,...
| Author | Rafael Alvarez |
| ISBN | 0743497325 |
Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series "The Wire," hailed as "the best show on television, period" by the "San Francisco Chronicle." "The New York Times" calls it "a vital part of the television landscape...unvarnished realism." "Time" declares that "The Wire," "like its underfunded,...
