Oregon City Local Authors Genre List

Books written by local authors in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated September 13, 2025
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The alpine zen an Emma Lord mystery
Daheim, Mary.
Paper Book
An Emma Lord MysteryThe final installment in Mary Daheim's beloved and long-running small-town mystery series featuring newspaper editor-publisher Emma Lord.As an early summer heat wave beats down on Alpine, Emma Lord and her staff at The Alpine Advocate are treading lightly. For unfathomable...
Betrayal
Margolin, Phillip
Paper Book
In Phillip Margolin's Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life. Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade...
Blasphemy : [new and selected stories]
Alexie, Sherman
Paper Book
Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner award...
Collected stories
Carver, Raymond
Paper Book
In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run...
Eight girls taking pictures : a novel
Otto, Whitney.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of How to Make an American Quilt comes a powerful and sweeping novel inspired by the lives of famous female photographers. Bestselling author Whitney Otto' s Eight Girls Taking Pictures i s a profoundly moving portrayal of the lives of...
Fight Club : a novel
Palahniuk, Chuck.
Audiobook
Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything....
The girl who fell from the sky : a novel
Durrow, Heidi W.
Paper Book
Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop. Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time...
The invention of sound
Palahniuk, Chuck
Paper Book
A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold. Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago....
The lathe of heaven : a novel
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Ebook
This science fiction classic by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author is "a rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion" (The New York Times). In a near-future world beset by war, climate change, and overpopulation, Portland...
The mammoth hunters
Auel, Jean M.
Paper Book
Mink river : a novel
Doyle, Brian
Audiobook
In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works...
Not forever, but for now : a novel
Palahniuk, Chuck
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over. Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up...
One Kick
Cain, Chelsea.
Paper Book
Meet Kick Lannigan. She's twenty-one. She can pick any lock. She knows five ways to kill you with a jacket. Get ready to fall in love. From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first...
Red clocks : a novel
Zumas, Leni
Paper Book
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. Five women. One question. What is a woman for? ...
The river is waiting : a novel
Lamb, Wally
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK #1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a propulsive novel following a young father grappling with unbearable tragedy as he searches for hope,...
The small backs of children : a novel
Yuknavitch, Lidia
Paper Book
National Bestseller A masterful literary talent explores the treacherous, often violent borders between war and sex, love and art. With the flash of a camera, one girl's life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. . . In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an...
Tales from Earthsea
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Paper Book
The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Books of Earthsea. This collection contains the novella "The Finder" and the short stories "The Bones of the Earth," "Darkrose and Diamond," "On the High Marsh," and "Dragonfly." ...
Thrust
Yuknavitch, Lidia
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER THRUST IS: "Epic." -The New York Times "A triumph." --Elle "Stunningly beautiful." --The Daily Beast "Both of the moment and utterly timeless." --Chicago Review of Books "A book to take in...
The unreal and the real : the selected short stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Paper Book
A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin--selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories. She has won...

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