Drew Hayden Taylor

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2000
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Boy in the Treehouse / The Girl Who Loved Her Horses

  • In a World Created by a Drunken God

  • The Night Wanderer

    Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she’s deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself, but he’s also a little creepy.

    Little ...

  • Fearless Warriors

    Internationally acclaimed as a playwright, screen-writer, comic and sardonic commentator on the endless gaffs, absurdities and the profound and painful misunderstandings that continue to characterize social interactions between aboriginal and non-abo...

  • Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

    In the tradition of Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees comes a hilarious romp about how the arrival of a mysterious stranger turns an Indian reserve upside down. Otter Lake is a sleepy little community...

  • Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

    Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is the emotional story of a woman’s struggle to acknowledge her birth family. Grace, a Native girl adopted by a White family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother’s funeral...

  • The Bootlegger Blues

    This comedy by the author of Toronto at Dreamer's Rock and Education Is Our Right is about love, family, and what to do with too much beer. Set on a reserve, it follows the plight of Martha, a church-going, teetotaling woman who finds herself stuck ...

  • God and the Indian

    While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman who lives on the streets, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a First Nations residential school. Desperate to hear the man acknowledge the terrible abuse...

  • Someday

    Someday is a powerful new play by award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor.  The story in Someday, though told through fictional characters and full of Taylor's distinctive wit and humour, is based on the real-life tragedies suffered by many ...



  • Toronto at Dreamer's Rock & Education is Our Right

    In these two plays, Drew Hayden Taylor delves into the past and speculates about the future as he examines the dilemmas facing young Native Canadians. Toronto at Dreamer's Rock is a moving portrayal of a teenage boy who is torn between the tradit...

  • Cerulean Blue

    Cerulean Blue is a comedic play about a struggling blues band invited to participate in a benefit concert for a First Nation community in conflict with governmental authorities. Upon arriving, the band discovers the entire lineup of musical acts has ...

  • Dead White Writer on the Floor

    Dead White Writer on the Floor uses two literary conventions -- theatre of the absurd and mystery novels -- to create one of the funniest and thought-provoking plays ever about identity politics. In Act One, six “savages”; noble, innocent, ignora...

  • Take Us to Your Chief

    A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the s...

  • Cottagers and Indians

  • Chasing Painted Horses

    When Ralph Thomas comes across graffiti of a horse in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning, he is stopped in his tracks. He recognizes this horse. A half-asleep Indigenous homeless man sees Ralph’s reaction to the horse and calls o...

  • Sir John A.

  • Cold

    INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of Kobo CA's Top Horror Ebooks and Top Horror Audiobook of 2024A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer ...

  • Open House

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Drew Hayden Taylor has published 18 books.

The next book by Drew Hayden Taylor, Open House, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Drew Hayden Taylor, The Boy in the Treehouse / The Girl Who Loved Her Horses, was published in September 2000.

No. Drew Hayden Taylor does not write books in series.
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