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Reading the States: Oregon

Friday, September 21, 2012


State: OREGON

Fiction:

- If I Stay* by Gayle Forman
- Honey in the Horn by Harold Lenoir Davis
- The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss
- Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
- No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
- The River Why* by David James Duncan
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* by Ken Kesey
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn 
- Wildwood by Colin Meloy
- Piecing Me Together* by Renee Watson
- The Ramona Collection* by Beverly Cleary

Nonfiction:
- Blue Like Jazz* by Donald Miller
- The Oregon Trail: An American Saga, by David Dary
- Blue Moon Over Thurman Street* by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Good Rain by Timothy Egan
- A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
- Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
- Stubborn Twig by Lauren Kessler
- Journals of Lewis and Clark by John Bakeless
- The Oregon Desert by E. R. Jackman
- Living Among Headstones by Shannon Applegate
- Astoria by Washington Irving
- Portland Confidential by Phil Stanford
- Hole in the Sky by William Kittredge 
- Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk

Authors Known for Writing about the State:  
- Blake Nelson

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Abigail Scott Duniway
- Jean M. Auel
- Patricia A. McKillip
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Beverly Cleary

Great Bookstores:
Powell’s 
Winter River Books
Sunflower Books

*Books I've Read
 
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