Byline: Lisa Meyers McClintick, Special to USA TODAY

At Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, a handcrafted wooden canoe hangs from the ceiling, birch tree trunks bring forest serenity to reading nooks, and quillwork, basketry and Indigenous jewelry add color and atmosphere.

Here's a look at some standout novels

and nonfiction books published since 2020.

"The Angel of Indian Lake"

Stephen Graham Jones

The half-Indian outcast heroine of Jones' Indian Lake trilogy copes with her anger, displacement and the gentrification of her Idaho lake town through horror movies. That comes in handy as real blood starts to spill in "My Heart is a Chainsaw," followed by "Don't Fear the Reaper" and "The Angel of Indian Lake," the final book in the trilogy. Jones also wrote "The Only Good Indians," about four members of the Blackfeet Nation haunted by a past elk hunt, and 2024's "I was a Teenage Slasher."

"A Child of the Indian Race"

Sandy White Hawk

After being taken from the Rosebud Indian Reservation as a toddler, the author faced racism and shaming before turning to drugs and alcohol to numb her trauma. She eventually reconnected with birth relatives and became an advocate for other adoptees taken from their Indigenous communities.

"A Council of Dolls"

Mona Susan Power

Three Yanktonai girls from three generations find comfort in a doll as they survive the aftermath of Indian wars, being forced to leave their families and culture for far-away boarding schools and growing up with a volatile and struggling...