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20002015 21st Century Fiction (does not include YA or Children’s Fiction) Novels Alexie, Sherman. Flight. Grove Press, Black Cat; First Edition 2007 Paperback Alexie, Sherman. Reservation Blues. Grove Press, Reprint edition 2005 Alexie, Sherman. Indian Killer. Grove Press; Reprint edition 2008 Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Grove Press; 20th Anniversary Edition 2013 Erdrich, Louise. The Round House. Harper. Reprint Edition, 2012 Hardcover Erdrich, Louise. The Round House. Harper. Reprint Edition, 2012 Paperback Erdrich, Louise. The Round House. Harper Perennial. Reprint Edition, 2013 Gansworth, Eric. If I Ever Get Out of Here. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2014 Guess, Sequoyah. The Books of Red Eye. Kholvn Books, 2014 Hogan, Linda. People of the Whale. W. W. Norton & Company, 2008 Hoklotubbe, Sara Sue. Sinking Suspicions (Sadie Walele Mystery Series). University of Arizona Press, 2014 Howe, LeAnne. Choctalking on Other Realities. Aunt Lute Press, 2013 (cross-listed on memoir, published as novel, but is mixed genre) Jones, Stephen Graham, edited by Theo Van Alst. The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones. University of New Mexico Press, 2015 Jones, Stephen Graham. Chapter Six. Tor Books, 2014 Jones, Stephen Graham. States of Grace, Spring Gun Press, 2014 Jones, Stephen Graham, with Paul Tremblay. Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly, 2014 Jones, Stephen Graham. The Elvis Room. This Is Horror, 2014 Jones, Stephen Graham. After the People Lights Have Gone Off, 2014 Jones, Stephen Graham. Not for Nothing. Dzanc Books, 2014 Jones, Stephen Graham. The Gospel of Z. Samhain Publishing, 2014 Jones, Stephen Graham. The Least of My Scars. Broken River Books, 2013 Jones, Stephen Graham. Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth. Laxy Fascists Press, 2013 Jones, Stephen Graham. Sterling City. Nightscape Press, 2013 Jones, Stephen Graham. Flushboy. Dzanc Books, 2013 Jones, Stephen Graham. Three Miles Past, Nightscape Press, 2013 LeGarde Gover, Linda. The Road Back to Sweetgrass. University of Minnesota Press, 2014 Livingston, Chip. Naming Ceremony. Lethe Press, 2014 Paperback McAdams, Janet. Red Weather. University of Arizona Press, 2012 Morgan, Phillip Carroll. Anompolichi: The Wordmaster. White Dog Press, 2014 Power, Susan. Sacred Wilderness. Michigan State University Press, 2014 Paperback Rodriguez, Linda. Every Hidden Fear (Skeet Bannon Series). Minotaur Press, 2014 Hardcover Rodriguez, Linda. Every Broken Trust Skeet Bannon Series). Minotaur Press, 2013 Hardcover Rodriguez, Linda. Every Last Secret (Skeet Bannion Series). Minotaur Press, 2012 Hardcover Vizenor, Gerald. Blue Ravens: a historical novel. Wesleyan University Press, 2014 Washburn, Frances. The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band. University of Arizona Press, 2014 Wurth, Erika. Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend. Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2014 Collections Alexie, Sherman. Blasphemy. Grove Press, 2013 Paperback Alexie, Sherman. Ten Little Indians. Grove Press, 2004 Reprint Edition Alexie, Sherman. War Dances. Grove Press; Reprint edition 2010 Alexie, Sherman. The Toughest Indian in the World. Grove Press; Reprint edition 2000 Alexie, Sherman. Face. Hanging Loose Press 2009 Alexie, Sherman. One Stick Song. Hanging Loose Press; 1st edition 2000 Van Alst, Theodore. The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones. University of New Mexico Press, 2015 .

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Sherman Alexie's Reservation: Relocating the Center of Indian
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