Native American literature has transformed from the realm of oral storytelling to a unique blend of modern literature that never forgets its traditions. Below is a selected list of contemporary Native American Literature for Adults within the DeKalb County Public Library system and in no order:

N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa): House Made of Dawn -winner of 1969 Pulitzer Prize
James Welch (Blackfoot-Gros Venture): Fools Crow
Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe): The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage
Linda Hogan (Chicaksaw) Mean Spirit
Joy Harjo (Muskogee-Creek): A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales
Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo): Voice of the Turtle -collection
Michael Dorris: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo): Gardens in the Dunes, Ceremony -currently only availible in audio
Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo): Men on the Moon: Collected Short Stories
Louise Erdrich (Anishinaabe): Master Butchers Singing Club, The Painted Drum
Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d’Alene): The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and even a Young Adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

1. The Strongest Link
2. Remembering Solzhenitsyn
3. Remembering the Past
4. Know Your Accents