Leslie Marmon Silko Books in Order

Returning to Laguna Pueblo after World War II, mixed-ancestry veteran Tayo struggles with traumatic memories and a fractured sense of belonging. His path toward healing reconnects him with Indigenous stories, ceremonial practices, and the relationships between his community and its land.

Stories rooted in Native American legends confront injustice, fractured communities, and the loss of tribal identity. Silko links inherited narratives with contemporary lives, exploring how storytelling sustains memory and belonging under pressures that threaten communal continuity.

Letters between Leslie Marmon Silko and poet James Wright document a friendship that grew from admiration for Ceremony. Their correspondence moves from formal literary discussion toward intimate reflections on work, daily life, and personal struggles as Wright approaches his final illness.

Interwoven lives across the Americas connect the contemporary Southwest with Indigenous histories and ancestral traditions. This sprawling novel examines corruption, dispossession, and resistance, tracing the collision between a destructive modern order and peoples whose ties to the land endure.

Autobiographical narratives, poetry, Pueblo traditions, and photographs explore water's importance to life. Silko connects personal experience with desert landscapes, animals, and spiritual understandings, presenting water as a sustaining presence that links human communities with the wider natural world.

Edited by John Miller and Genevieve Morgan, this literary anthology brings together myths, Native American legends, stories, articles, and poems about the American Southwest. Larry McMurtry appears among a wide-ranging group of contributors exploring the region’s landscapes, peoples, and cultures.

Twenty-two essays consider Native American life through personal memories, Pueblo storytelling, and reflections on land and culture. Silko examines racism, political power, Indigenous traditions, and the meanings of beauty, drawing connections between contemporary experience and inherited knowledge.

Separated from her Sand Lizard people by white soldiers, young Indigo encounters a world far removed from her desert home. Her journey explores gardens, cultural displacement, and the struggle to preserve Indigenous traditions while navigating an encroaching society.

Silko combines memoir, family history, and observations of desert creatures and landscapes. Reflections on ancestry, daily encounters, and the spiritual force of the natural world reveal how place and nonhuman life shape her imagination and understanding of human existence.