The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a 2025 novel by Native American author Stephen Graham Jones. The audiobook is narrated by Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, and Owen Teale.
The novel was well received by critics, including starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly.
Former President Barack Obama included The Buffalo Hunter Hunter on his summer 2025 reading list for summer 2025. Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness named it one of the best novels of the year. Locus named it one of the year's best horror novels. Time named it among their 100 must read books of 2025, while Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten books of 2025, regardless of genre.
Kirkus Reviews called it a "century-spanning American gothic." The review states that the novel is a slow burn which ultimately pivots upon the Marias Massacre, a historical atrocity in which the United States Army murdered almost 200 Native Americans. The review concluded that the book is a "bloody reckoning with some of AmericaâÂÂs most shameful history."
Writing for NPR, author and critic Gabino Iglesias wrote that the novel was superior to any of Jones's other books, calling it the author's masterpiece. Iglesias praised the novel's prose, which alternates between the distinct voices of Arthur Beaucarne and Good Stab. The review stated that either character could have carried the narrative without the other, but Iglesias believes that the dichotomy between the two narrators allow the work to shine. The review praised the ways in which Jones tackles a bloody and difficult historical subject, writing that the author "has not only chronicled Blackfeet culture but also spoken through his characters against the flawed monolith known as 'the Native American experience.'"
The audiobook received starred reviews from Booklist and Library Journal.