November is Native American Heritage Month! To help bookstores and libraries celebrate, we’ve put together this roundup of recent books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to spotlight all month and year-round. (We publish longer reading lists each month as well—check out our most recent reading list for Native American Heritage Month for more books to feature!)
Poetry
Word-Made World by Chee Brossy
The Word Works | October 30, 2025
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 9781944585884
According to Jennifer Elise Foerster, the poems in this collection “exude a deep respect for language, land, and cultural belonging, illuminating our ephemeral word-made worlds.”
Mele by Kalehua Kim
Trio House Press | July 1, 2025
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 9781949487367
This poetry collection “embodies the meaning of the word ‘mele’—a Hawaiian song or chant traditionally used to preserve history through the oral tradition.”
Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
Red Hen Press | April 8, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781636282084
The core of Paschen’s poetry collection “grapples with a dark period of American history, ‘The Reign of Terror,’ when outsiders murdered individual members of the Osage for their oil headrights.”
Siren of Atlantis by Cedar Sigo
Wave Books | April 15, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9798891060135
The poems in this collection “speak to Sigo’s profound experience of learning to write again after suffering a stroke in 2022.”
Horses by Jake Skeets
Milkweed Editions | March 24, 2026
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781639551521
Skeets’s second collection “patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants.”
Fiction
Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Santa Fe Writers Project | November 4, 2025
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group
ISBN: 9781951631512
These stories “of resilience offer readers a glimpse behind the bird-of-paradise curtains and a look at what’s not in the travel magazines.”
The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice
Aunt Lute Books | April 14, 2026
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 978-1951874124
In this novel, eleven-year-old Emily’s “arrival in Larissa, Texas, changes the search for the missing children and the way the women of Larissa relate to each other.”
Nonfiction & Hybrid Works
Verb Animate: Poetry and Prose from Collaborative Acts by Heid E. Erdrich
Trio House Press | February 27, 2025
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 9781949487503
This collection of poems and reflections “explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich’s artistic collaborations with Twin Cities choreographers, visual artists, digital artists, and others.”
SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger
Ayin Press/Aora Books | September 2, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781961814264
This hybrid work “seeks to reimagine Indigenous life and culture in a postcolonial world where space exploration has reduced and reconfigured the earth’s population.”
Positively Uncivilized by Rena Priest
Raven Chronicles Press | August 4, 2025
Distributor: IngramSpark
ISBN: 9798991403238
This essay collection “examines the impact of human inhabitants on planet earth” and includes “personal accounts of the deterioration of salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest and the loss of Indigenous history.”
