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NAIDOC Week Read and Watch Lists

Celebrate NAIDOC Week with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors, musicians, stories, events and more.

NAIDOC Week LogoThis year's NAIDOC Week theme, 50 Years of Deadly, celebrates five decades of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander strength, culture, leadership and achievement while looking ahead to the next generation.

Discover powerful reads including Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin, Red Dust Running by Anita Heiss and Compassion by Julie Janson.

Scroll down for our recommended reading and watching lists, and celebrate First Nations stories this NAIDOC Week and throughout the year.

Events and activities

 

For more NAIDOC Week events visit the official NAIDOC Week website 

Read and watch

Borrow Box

Access a range of eBooks and audiobooks by and about First Nations people, available for all ages.

Go to Borrow Box

Kanopy

Celebrate NAIDOC Week with Kanopy. Home to a range of films written, directed or led by First Nations people.

Go to Kanopy

First Nations Collection 

Discover First Nations stories, film and music resources. 

The South Australian Public Library Network has a growing collection of material in our First Nations languages.

You can use the “Search Catalogue” to find material in a specific language group e.g. Ngarrindjeri language, Kaurna language, or click on the link below to access all.

Go to Catalogue

More from our collection 

You can place a hold on a book or download an eBook from Libby by clicking on the links in the drop down boxes. 

For young children

Nedingar: Ancestors

By Isobel Bevis

Print copy


Dreaming

By Adam Goodes

Print copy


Afloat

By Kirli Saunders & Freya Blackwood

Print copy. | eBook


Learning Country: A First Nations Journey Around Australia’s Traditional Place Names

By Rhyia Dank

Print copy


Ngali Nga Balun, Ngali Nga Jugun = Our River, Our Country

By Baryulgil Public School

Print copy

 

For primary school children 

Protectors (Wylah The Koorie Warrior, Book 3)

By Jordan Gould, Richard Pritchard

Print copy. | eBook


Always Was, Always Will Be

By Aunty Fair Muir, Sue Lawson

Print copy. | eBook


Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country

By Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, (and six others)

Print copy. | eBook


Songlines: First Knowledges For Younger Readers

By Margo Neale

Print copy. | eBook


This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence

By Corey Tutt

Print copy. | eBook


Bush Survival Skills: An Introduction to First Nations Bush Survival Skills

By Aunty Munya Andrews

Print copy

For high school students

The Skin I’m In

By Steph Tisdell

Print copy. | eBook


First Knowledges Law: The Way of the Ancestors (The First Knowledges Series)

By Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn

eBook


I’m not really here

By Gary Lonesborough

Print copy. | eBook


The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia

By AITSIS, Bruce Pascoe

eBook


Borderland

By Graham Akhurst

Print copy. | eBook


Tell Me Why: For Young Adults

Archie Roach

Print copy. | eBook

For adults 

The Australian Wars: The Truth About the Bloody Battles Fought to Establish the Nation

By Rachel Perkins

Print copy


A piece of red cloth: a novel from Arnhem Land

By Leonie Norrington, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Djawa Burarrwanga & Djawundil Maymuru

Print copy. | eBook


Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place

By Kate Granville

Print copy. | eBook


Murriyang: Song of Time

By Stan Grant

Print copy. | eBook


Big Sky: When the Emu Left the Earth

By Bruce Pascoe, Professor Ray Norris

Print copy


Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New

By Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams, Felicity Meakins

Print copy


Long Yarn Short

By Vanessa-Turnbull Roberts

Print copy. | eBook

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