20 Greatest Oregon Books Ever

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This is a list compiled by Brian Doyle for Portland Monthly magazine in October 2006.

  1. 1.
    Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

  2. 2.
    The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  3. 3.
    Winter Count
    by Barry Lopez

  4. 4.
    The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
    by David James Duncan

  5. 6.
    The Country Boy
    by Homer Davenport

  6. 7.
    Ricochet River
    by Robin Cody

  7. 9.
    Hole in the Sky: A Memoir (Vintage)
    by William Kittredge

  8. 10.
    True Believer
    by Virginia Euwer Wolff

  9. 11.
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    The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
    by Alvin M. Josephy

  10. 12.
    The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
    by Meriwether Lewis

  11. 13.
    Oregon Geographic Names
    by Lewis A. McArthur

  12. 14.
    Ramona the Pest
    by Beverly Cleary

  13. 15.
    Fire at Eden's Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story
    by Brent Walth

  14. 16.
    The Jump-Off Creek
    by Molly Gloss

  15. 17.
    Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
    by William Stafford

  16. 18.
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    Nehalem Tillamook Tales (Northwest Reprints)
    by Clara Pearson

  17. 19.
    To Build a Ship
    by Don Berry

  18. 20.
    In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History
    by Ellen Morris Bishop

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Created by ggchickapee on Jan 14, 2007.
 

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Untitled — 5 years ago

How about The Singing Creek: Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley?




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