Set in Oregon

Oregon is the ideal platform for a story and lot of people have set their novels here. In the mood to visit fictional Oregon? Here's a list to get you started.

Updated June 9, 2024
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Skin & Bones
Watson, Renee
Paper Book
Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature. From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately...
The librarianist : a novel
deWitt, Patrick
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.  Bob Comet is a retired librarian...
Double shot death
Duncan, Emmeline
Paper Book
With its entrepreneurial, 20-something protagonist, focus on a hipster-run food truck pod in Portland, Oregon, and real-world issues involving homelessness and gentrification, this second Ground Rules Mystery is a modern, fresh-voiced, and witty cozy featuring a sleuth who can make a perfect...
Fever house : a novel
Rosson, Keith (Novelist)
Paper Book
"Exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace. Read Fever Housenow."-STEPHEN KING A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.
Honey in the horn
Davis, H. L.
Paper Book
Set in Oregon in the early years of the twentieth century, H. L. Davis's Honey in the Horn chronicles the struggles faced by homesteaders as they attempted to settle down and eke out subsistence from a still-wild land. With sly humor and keenly observed detail, Davis pays homage to the...
All coyote's children : a novel
Husted, Bette Lynch
Paper Book
Jack and Annie Fallon had been living what seemed the ideal life with their son Riley, spending the school year in Portland, where Jack was a professor of Native American history, and summers at Jack's family ranch in northeastern Oregon, on land surrounded by the Umatilla Indian Reservation....
After dark
Margolin, Phillip.
Paper Book
Gone, But Not Forgotten rocketed Phillip Margolin into the select company of million-selling novelists. Here he displays again the same genius for best-selling suspense in another intricate, breathtaking thriller of multiple murder in the legal community of the Pacific Northwest. ...
Heart-shaped box
Henry, April.
Paper Book
Claire Montrose wasn't part of her high school's in-crowd. Too smart, too tall, too skinny, and too young-looking, she didn't have a lot of fun back then. But that won't stop Claire from attending her twentieth class reunion. After all, those former disadvantages now work very well for her, plus she...
The jump-off creek
Gloss, Molly.
Paper Book
In the Oregon mountains setting of the 1890s, a woman gives her side of pioneering the West. Lydia Sanderson is determined that she will not become lonely as she forges a place of her own. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
River song
Lesley, Craig.
Paper Book
River Song rejoins Danny Kachiah, the Oregonian Nez Perce drifter and failed rodeo rider first introduced in Craig Lesley's award-winning novel, Winterkill. Danny is determined to get closer to his son, Jack, to teach him traditional ways to steer him away from rodeoing. Danny and Jack...
Arsenic with Austen
Hyde, Katherine Bolger
Paper Book
When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart 35 years before, and nearly lose her own life. Emily travels to the sleepy coastal village of...
Death bee comes her
Coco, Nancy
Paper Book
Nancy Coco, author of the popular Candy-Coated Mystery series, brings the Pacific Northwest's rainy coast to life with her new Oregon Honeycomb Mystery series starring Wren Johnson and her Havana Brown cat, Everett. Wren owns a specialty shop in the tourist town of Oceanview, where it's all...
Mink river : a novel
Doyle, Brian
Paper Book
The story of the small Oregon coast town of Neawanaka and its people.
Sometimes a great notion
Kesey, Ken.
Paper Book
Wildest dreams
Carr, Robyn
Paper Book
With Thunder Point, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr has created a town where hard work and determination are all it takes to make dreams come true  Blake Smiley searched the country for just the right place to call home. The professional triathlete has...
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...
The trail of lost hearts
Garvis Graves, Tracey
Paper Book
Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn't see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behind her. No...
The book of cold cases
St. James, Simone
Paper Book
In 1977, Claire Lake was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect, but she was acquitted. In 2017, Shea Collins runs a true crime website, a passion fuelled by the attempted...
Without mercy
Jackson, Lisa.
Paper Book
"A Juicy Creep-A-Thon. . .Builds To A Suprising Cliffhanger Ending." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) At first, it sounds like the answer to a parent's prayers: an elite boarding school in the Oregon mountains where wayward kids turn their lives around. But behind the idyllic...

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