Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Ties That Bind | 2005 | Buy |
| The House on Diamond Hill | 2010 | Buy |
| Tales from the Haunted South | 2015 | Buy |
| The Dawn of Detroit | 2017 | Buy |
| All That She Carried | 2021 | Buy |
| Wild Girls | 2023 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Cherokee Rose | 2015 | Buy |
| Night Flyer | 2024 | Buy |
Tiya Miles is a historian whose work focuses on the intersections of Black and Indigenous American history. She holds a position at Harvard University and has received numerous awards for her scholarship, including a MacArthur Fellowship. Her non-fiction books examine overlooked stories and material artifacts to reconstruct the lives of people often absent from conventional historical narratives.
Her best-known book, All That She Carried (2021), won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction. It tells the story of an embroidered cotton sack that was given by an enslaved mother to her daughter upon their separation, and traces the object across generations. Miles’ other non-fiction works include Ties That Bind, which examines Afro-Cherokee kinship in the 19th century, and The Dawn of Detroit, which uncovers the history of slavery in the Great Lakes region. She has also written two novels, The Cherokee Rose and Night Flyer, which bring her historical research into fictional form.