Set in Oregon

Level up by checking out these books set in our home state of Oregon!

Updated April 7, 2025
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Kesey, Ken.
Paper Book
Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce artinet. Quickly, he takes over the yard and...
Oregon
Carlile, Henry
Paper Book
Henry Carlile's fourth book of poems is deeply connected though not confined to the Pacific Northwest. The poems in Oregon range from haiku to near epic, a single mother's efforts to provide during the end of the Great Depression and World War II, a favorite uncle killed in the Ardennes,...
River song
Lesley, Craig.
Paper Book
Sometimes a great notion : a novel
Kesey, Ken.
Paper Book
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that...
Walking the High Desert Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail
Waterston, Ellen
Ebook
Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration, introducing readers to a "trusting, naïve, earnest,...

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