The Bookish Mindset

This blog was wrote as an accompaniment for my 2025 reading challenge, check out all the details here! Read nine books from nine prompts over the first six months of the year and be entered into a draw to win a bundle of bookish goodies.

Read on for Indigenous characters at the forefront across many a genre!

YA Thriller

• The Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley
• Warrior Girl Unearthed – Angeline Boulley
• Looking for Smoke – K.A. Cobell*
• Elatsoe – Darcie Little Badger*

Fantasy

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath – Moniquill Blackgoose*
• Black Sun – Rebecca Roanhorse*
• Walking in Two Worlds – Wab Kinew*
• A Snake Falls to Earth – Darcie Little Badger*

Horror

• Never Whistle at Night – Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
• Bad Cree – Jessica Johns*
• Green Fuse Burning – Tiffany Morris*

Romance

• The Truth According to Ember – Danica Nava*
• Hearts Unbroken – Cynthia Leitich Smith*
• Heartbeat Braves – Pamela Sanderson*

Literary

• Wandering Stars – Tommy Orange*
• Where the Dead Sit Talking – Brandon Hobson*
• The Grass Dancer – Mona Susan Power*
• Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko*
• Saints of the Household – Ari Tison*

Non-Fiction

• Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Carry – Toni Jenson*
• The Service Berry – Robin Wall Kimmerer*
• We Will Not Be Saved – Nemonte Nenquimo*

Poetry

• Poukahangatus – Tayi Tibble*
• It Was Never Going to Be Okay – Jaye Simpson*
• Words Like Thunder – Lois Beardslee*

Those with a * denote that these books are on my TBR and I haven’t read them, just for full transparency.

This blog was wrote as an accompaniment for my 2025 reading challenge, check out all the details here! Read nine books from nine prompts over the first six months of the year and be entered into a draw to win a bundle of bookish goodies.

If you’d like to get yourself a copy of any of the above, you can support local bookshops while doing so on Bookshop.org with this link here.

If you like what you’ve read and would like to access more content, I’d love if you could take a look at my patreon and consider supporting my content on there too.

And don’t forget to check out my other blogs and reviews – you can find books with similar themes in the same folder link below, or click back onto blogs to see the whole offering.

Last updated 01/01/2025