Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books Public

Tookie is a character who works in a bookstore in Louise Erdrich's novel, 'The Sentence'.

Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters. —Tookie

Ghost-Managing Book List - The Uninvited Guests, by Sadie Jones - Ceremonies of the Damned, by Adrian C. Louis - Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice - Father of Lies, by Brian Evenson - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead - Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto - The Hatak Witches, by Devon A. Mihesuah - Beloved, by Toni Morrison - The Through, by A. Rafael Johnson - Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders - Savage Conversations, by LeAnne Howe - The Regeneration Trilogy, by Pat Barker - Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth - Songs for Discharming, by Denise Sweet - Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57, by Gerald Vizenor

Short Perfect Novels - Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel - Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson - Sula, by Toni Morrison - The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad - The All of It, by Jeannette Haine - Winter in the Blood, by James Welch - Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle - The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald - First Love, by Ivan Turgenev - Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys - Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf - Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee - Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai

Sailboat Table (table by Quint Hankle) - The Voyage of the Narwhal, by Andrea Barrett - Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector - Boy Kings of Texas, by Domingo Martinez - The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline - A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James - There There, by Tommy Orange - Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine - Underland, by Robert Macfarlane - The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio - Deacon King Kong, by James McBride - The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett - Will and Testament, by Vigdis Hjorth - Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada - The Door, by Magda Svabo - The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth - Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff - The Overstory, by Richard Power - Night Train, by Lise Erdrich - Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado - The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, edited by John Freeman - Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates - Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore - Mongrels, by Stephen Graham Jones - The Office of Historical Corrections, by Danielle Evans - Tenth of December, by George Saunders - Murder on the Red River, by Marcie R. Rendon - Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam - Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong - The Unwomanly Face of War, by Svetlana Alexievich - Standard Deviation, by Katherine Heiny - All My Puny Sorrows, by Miriam Toews - The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen - Mean Spirit, by Linda Hogan - NW, by Zadie Smith - Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande - Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Firekeeper’s Daughter, by Angeline Boulley - Erasure, by Percival Everett - Sharks in the Time of Saviors, by Kawai Strong Washburn - Heaven, by Mieko Kawakami

Books for Banned Love - Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh - The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje - Euphoria, by Lily King - The Red and the Black, by Stendahl - Luster, by Raven Leilani - Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday - All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy - Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides - The Vixen, by Francine Prose - Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison - The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason

Indigenous Lives - Holding Our World Together, by Brenda J. Child - American Indian Stories, by Zitkala-Sa - A History of My Brief Body, by Billy-Ray Belcourt - The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert - Apple: Skin to the Core, by Eric Gansworth - Heart Berries, by Terese Marie Mailhot - The Blue Sky, by Galsan Tschinag - Crazy Brave, by Joy Harjo - Standoff, by Jacqueline Keeler - Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer - You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, by Sherman Alexie - Spirit Car, by Diane Wilson - Two Old Women, by Velma Wallis - Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School, by Adam Fortunate Eagle - Split Tooth, by Tanya Tagaq - Walking the Rez Road, by Jim Northrup - Mamaskatch, by Darrel J. McLeod

Indigenous Poetry - Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, by Joy Harjo - Ghost River (Wakpá Wanági), by Trevino L. Brings Plenty - The Book of Medicines, by Linda Hogan - The Smoke That Settled, by Jay Thomas Bad Heart Bull - The Crooked Beak of Love, by Duane Niatum - Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier - Little Big Bully, by Heid E. Erdrich - A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation, by Eric Gansworth - NDN Coping Mechanisms, by Billy-Ray Belcourt - The Invisible Musician, by Ray A. Young Bear - When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, edited by Joy Harjo - New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich - The Failure of Certain Charms, by Gordon Henry Jr.

Indigenous History and Nonfiction - Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong, by Paul Chaat Smith - Decolonizing Methodologies, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith - Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian - War of 1862, edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Alan R.Woodworth - Being Dakota, by Amos E. Oneroad and Alanson B. Skinner - Boarding School Blues, edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller,and Lorene Sisquoc - Masters of Empire, by Michael A. McDonnell - Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior - Boarding School Seasons, by Brenda J. Child - They Called It Prairie Light, by K. Tsianina Lomawaima - To Be a Water Protector, by Winona LaDuke - Minneapolis: An Urban Biography, by Tom Weber

Sublime Books - The Known World, by Edward P. Jones - The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro - A Thousand Trails Home, by Seth Kantner - House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday - Faithful and Virtuous Night, by Louise Glück - The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy, by Robert Bly - The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman - Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, by Mahmoud Darwish - Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges, trans. Andrew Hurley - The Xenogenesis Trilogy, by Octavia E. Butler - Map: Collected and Last Poems, by Wisława Szymborska - In the Lateness of the World, by Carolyn Forché - Angels, by Denis Johnson - Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz - Hope Against Hope, by Nadezhda Mandelstam - Exhalation, by Ted Chaing - Strange Empire, by Joseph Kinsey Howard

Tookie’s Pandemic Reading - Deep Survival, by Laurence Gonzales - The Lost City of the Monkey God, by Douglas Preston - The House of Broken Angels, by Luis Alberto Urrea - The Heartsong of Charging Elk, by James Welch - Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky - The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey - Let’s Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell - The Aubrey/Maturin Novels, by Patrick O’Brian - The Ibis Trilogy, by Amitav Ghosh - The Golden Wolf Saga, by Linnea Hartsuyker - Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Coyote Warrior, by Paul VanDevelder

Incarceration - Felon, by Reginald Dwayne Betts - Against the Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa - Waiting for an Echo, by Christine Montross, M.D. - The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner - The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander - This Is Where, by Louise K. Waakaa’igan - I Will Never See the World Again, by Ahmet Altan - Sorrow Mountain, by Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelley - American Prison, by Shane Bauer - Solitary, by Albert Woodfox - Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y. Davis - 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, by Ai Weiwei

If you are interested in the books on these lists, please seek them out at your local independent bookstore. Miigwech!