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20 Greatest Oregon Books Ever

This is a list compiled by Brian Doyle for Portland Monthly magazine in October 2006.
1. Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
  
2. The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
3. Winter Count
by Barry Lopez
  
4. The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
by David Duncan
  
5. Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest (Northwest Reprints)
by Stewart Hall Holbrook
  
6. The Country Boy
by Homer Davenport
  
7. Ricochet River
by Robin Cody
  
8. Stepping Westward: The Long Search for Home in the Pacific Northwest
by Sallie Tisdale
  
9. Hole in the Sky: A Memoir
by William Kittredge
  
10. True Believer
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
  
11.
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 The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
by Alvin M. Josephy
  
12. The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
by Meriwether Lewis
  
13. Oregon Geographic Names
by Lewis A. McArthur
  
14. Ramona the Pest
by Beverly Cleary
  
15.
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 Fire at Eden's Gate: Tom McCall & the Oregon Story
by Brent Walth
  
16. The Jump-Off Creek
by Molly Gloss
  
17. Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
by William Stafford
  
18.
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 Nehalem Tillamook Tales (Northwest Reprints)  
19. To Build a Ship
by Don Berry
  
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.