Guide to Oregon Literature

List of Further Reading


Fiction

Don Berry, Trask (2004)
Jennie Bricker, Thirsty Creek (2025)
Daniel Chacón, Chicano Chicanery (2000)
Beverly Cleary, Henry and Beezus (1952)
Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981)
Diane Cook, The New Wilderness (2020)
Harold L. Davis, Harp of a Thousand Strings (1947)
Brian Doyle, Mink River (2010)
Katherine Dunn, Attic (1970)
Katherine Dunn, Toad (2022)
Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (2010)
Abigail Favale, Our Lady of the Sign (2025)
Eileen Garvin, Bumblebee Season (2026)
Molly Gloss, The Heart of Horses (2007)
Molly Gloss, Falling From Horses: A Novel (2014)
Erlinda V. Gonzales-Berry, Paletitas de Guayaba (1991)
Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die (2023)
Ehud Havazelet, Like Never Before (1998)
Peter Brown Hoffmeister, This Is the Part Where You Laugh (2016)
Mitchell Jackson, The Residue Years (2013)
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
Sydney Langford, The Loudest Silence (2024)
John Larison, Northwest of Normal (2009)
John Larison, Holding Lies (2011)
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
Ursula K. Le Guin, Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences (1987)
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002)
Bernard Malamud, A New Life (1961)
Kristina McMorris, The Girls of Good Fortune (2025)
Colin Meloy, Wildwood (2011)
Colin Meloy, Wildwood Imperium (2014)
Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water (2020)
Blake Nelson, Dream School (2011)
Blake Nelson, The City Wants You Alone (2015)
Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath (2016)
Peter Rock, My Abandonment (2009)
Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (2012)
Simone St. James, The Book of Cold Cases (2022)
Aiden Thomas, Cemetary Boys (2020)
Willy Vlautin, Lean on Pete (2010)
Wendy N. Wagner, The Deer Kings (2021)
Renée Watson, Some Places More Than Others (2019)
Renée Watson, Love is a Revolution (2021)
Charlene Willing McManis with Traci Sorell, Indian No More (2019)
Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
George Byron Wright, Baker City 1948 (2005)
Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children (2015)

Nonfiction

Jared D. Aldern and Theresa Lynn Gregor, Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships (2026)
Laura Berg, The First Oregonians (2007)
Andrea Carlisle, A River Runs Under It: 40 Years on a Houseboat in Oregon (2020)
Andrea Carlisle, There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years (2023)
Chief Joseph, “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs” (1879)
Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy (2023)
Beverly Cleary, My Own Two Feet (1995)
Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999)
Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (2017)
Eileen Garvin, How to be a Sister (2010)
Alyssa Graybeal, Floppy (2023)
Asbjørn Grønstad, “One-Dimensional Men: ‘Fight Club’ and the Poetics of the Body” (2003)
Paul A Hanneman, Oregon's Beach and Bottle Bills: The Inside Story (2016)
Linda Hearle, The 140th Anniversary of Oregon School for the Deaf (2010)
R. D. K. Herman, Giving Back: Research and Reciprocity in Indigenous Settings (2018)
Mitchell Jackson, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (2019)
Lara A. Jacobs, Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (2025)
Daniel P. Johnson, “Anti-Japanese Legislation in Oregon, 1917-1923” Oregon Historical Quarterly (Summer, 1996)
Lauren Kessler, Free: Two Years, Six Lives and the Long Journey Home (2022)
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
William Kittredge, The Next Rodeo (2007)
William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways (1982)
David G. Lewis, Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley (2023)
Jim Lichatowich, Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery (2013)
Mitzi Asai Loftus, From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace (2024)
Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams (1986)
Dorothy L. McCall, Ranch Under the Rimrock (1971)
Linda Meanus, My Name is Lamoosh (2023)
R. Gregory Nokes, Breaking Chains (2013)
Johanna Ogden, Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River (2024)
Chuck Palahniuk, Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (2003)
Emma Pattee, “‘We Can’t Let The Kids Go Outdoors’: Our New Reality On The West Coast” (2022)
Emilly Prado, Funeral For Flaca (2021)
Gabriella Ricciardi, “Telling Stories and Building Altars: Mexican American Women’s Altars in
Oregon” in Oregon Historical Quarterly (Winter 2006)
Elizabeth Rusch, The Big One: The Cascadia Earthquakes and the Science of Saving Lives (2020)
Marjorie Sandor, Portrait Of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime (2003)
You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack's Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection, edited by Read Mercer Schuchardt (2008)
Peter Stark, Astoria (2015)
Esther M. Stutzman, When Grandmother Sang Her Song (1979)
Linda Tamura, The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon’s Hood River Valley (1993)
Ellen Waterston, We Could Die Doing This (2025)
Opal Whiteley, The Story of Opal: Journal of an Understanding Heart (1920)
Charles F. Wilkinson, The People Are Dancing Again (2010)
Sally Zanjani, Sarah Winnemucca (2001)

Poetry

Elisa Carlsen, Cormorant (2023)
Eli Clare, Unfurl (2025)
Walt Curtis, The Roses of Portland (1974)
Oliver de la Paz, Requiem for the Orchard (2010)
Oliver de la Paz, Post Subject: A Fable (2014)
Oliver de la Paz, The Diaspora Sonnets (2023)
Amelia Diaz Ettinger, Learning to Love a Western Sky (2020)
Garrett Hongo, Ocean of Clouds (2025)
Walidah Imarisha, Scars/Stars (2013)
Lawson Fusao Inada, Drawing the Line (1997)
Anis Mojgani, The Tigers, They Let Me (2023)
Beth Piatote, Distant Water (2026)
Ellen Waterston, As Far as I Can Anthem (2026)
Emmet Wheatfal, Our Scarlet Blue Wounds (2019)
Elizabeth Woody, Luminaries of the Humble (1994)