Nita’s NAIDOC Reads

Here is a very short list of titles I’ve read (or re-read) this year by First Nations authors that I’m recommending to YOU!

There’s something below for everyone. Pick one, pick them all.

Enjoy and share with others because reading opens doors, hearts and minds.

Fiction

Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch (winner of the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction)

This all Come Back Now: an anthology of First Nations speculative fiction by Mykaela Saunders (ed)

Non-fiction

Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation by Jackie Huggins

Jack of Hearts: QX11594 by Jackie Huggins and Ngaire Jarro

Marrul: Aboriginal Identity & the Fight for Rights by Inala Cooper

True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture by Terri Janke

Kids

This is Me by Sally Morgan

Charlie’s Swim by Edie Wright / illustrated by Charmaine Ledden-Lewis

The Shop Train by Josie Wowolla Boyle / illustrated by Paul Seden

YA

My Spare Heart by Jared Thomas

Poetry

Drop Bear by Evelyn Araluen (Winner of the 2022 Stella Prize)

Also check out my three Black Book Challenges (and stay tuned for a new one coming soon!):

Also, I’ve listed 20 Reasons You Should Read Blak (with an updated version in the release of Am I Black Enough for You? 10 years on).

And here’s your chance to pre-order a copy of Growing Up Wiradjuri, stories by Wiradjuri Elders, due for release in September through Magalaba Books. Pre-order here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/growing-up-wiradjuri-anita-heiss/book/9781922613745.htm