Favorites in Oregon Fiction

This bibliography of fiction titles is based on an article by Brian Booth, founder of Literary Arts and the Oregon Book Awards, and was first published in the OLA Quarterly, summer 1999, and re-printed here with his permission. Mr. Booth is the editor of Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistlepunks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest, OSU Press, 1992.

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Author	Selected Titles	Annotation
Berry, Don	Trask (1960)	The first of Berry's three acclaimed Oregon novels.
Davis, H. L.	Honey in the Horn (1935)	Rural Oregon, 1906-1908. Won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Davis, H. L.	Winds of Morning (1952)	Journey of an old horse herder and a young sheriff in the Mid-Columbia River country, 1926-1927.
Duncan, David James	The River Why (1983)	Epic of Oregon fly fishing. First novel published by Sierra Club.
Gloss, Molly	Jump-Off Creek (1989)	Harsh life of an independent widow in the Blue Mountains, 1890's.
Kesey, Ken	Sometimes a Great Notion (1964)	Massive tale of family conflict in an Oregon coastal town. Considered by many the greatest Northwest novel.
LeGuin, Ursula	Searoad, Chronicles of Klatsand (1991)	Lives of residents in a coastal community, 1890's to present.
LeGuin, Ursula	Lathe of Heaven (1971)	Story of a Portlander whose dreams come true.
Lesley, Craig	The Sky Fisherman (1995)	Compassionate story of white and Native American cultures, east of the Cascades.
Lopez, Barry	River Notes: the Dance of Herons (1975)	Three stories of life along a river.
Malamud, Bernard	A New Life (1961)	Humorous story of academia in fictional Corvallis.
Shetzline, David	Heckletooth 3 (1969)	Deeply moving story of loggers, a forest fire, and an out of season hunt.