BooksList.Best
Search

Mink River

10 best books like Mink River (Brian Doyle): The River Why, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, Winterkill, Border Songs, The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, The Ordinary Truth, In the City of Shy Hunters, West of Here, The Listeners, Saints in Limbo

The River Why
AuthorDavid James Duncan
ISBN0553344862
This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a secluded cabin on a remote...
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
AuthorLyanda Lynn Haupt
ISBN1570614199
Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed-up antics of male woodpeckers, and the mysterious behavior and startling population...
Winterkill
AuthorCraig Lesley
ISBN0312152442
Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father, Red Shirt, is dead, his wife, Loxie, has left him, and his career as a rodeo cowboy is flagging. But when Loxie dies in a car wreck, leaving him with his son, Jack, whom he hardly knows, Danny uses the magnificent stories of...
Border Songs
AuthorJim Lynch
Brandon Vanderkool’s severe dyslexia and six-foot-eight height give him an unusual perspective on his new job with the American Border Patrol, along the Washington/BC border — just a long, grassy ditch, really, barely dividing neighbours who used to be as congenial as those in any small...
The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
AuthorTimothy Egan
ISBN0679734856
Personally I found this book created the seminal event that influenced the remaining course of my life; both as a lifelong resident of Washington State, and particularly as an Aquatic Scientist. My work has caused me to travel many parts of Washington State that Timothy Egan mentions in this book, so...
The Ordinary Truth
AuthorJana Richman
ISBN1937226069
When Nell Jorgensen buried her husband, she buried a piece of herself— and more than one secret. Now, thirty-six years later, the rift between Nell and her daughter Kate threatens to implode as Kate, now forty-six and a water manager for the Nevada Water Authority, plans to pipe water from a huge aquifer...
In the City of Shy Hunters
AuthorTom Spanbauer
ISBN0802138985
Tom Spanbauer is one of the most enchanting writers in America today, and In the City of Shy Hunters, his first novel in ten years, is a "rich and colorful" portrait of New York in the 1980s, told with "raw power" (David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle). Shy, afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with...
West of Here
AuthorJonathan Evison
ISBN1565129520
At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman...
The Listeners
AuthorLeni Zumas
ISBN1935639293
Hypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners explores a far-out world where a patchwork of memory, sensation, and imagination maps the flickering presence of ghosts.

This is the story of a woman whose life is shaped by tragedy. Quinn is thirtysomething, a survivor of a fractured and...
Saints in Limbo
AuthorRiver Jordan
ISBN0307446700
“River Jordan’s Saints in Limbo is a compelling story of the mysteries of existence and, specially, the mysteries of the human heart.”
–Ron Rash, author of Serena and Chemistry and Other Stories

“I lose myself in River’s writing–transported to a different time and place–...
The Residue Years
AuthorMitchell S. Jackson
ISBN1620400286
Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America’s whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the ’90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come...
Evel Knievel Days
AuthorPauls Toutonghi
From the critically-acclaimed author of Red Weather comes a heartwarming, witty story of immigration and belonging, false starts and new beginnings, and finding out what home truly means


   Khosi Saqr has always felt a bit out of place in Butte, Montana, hometown of motorcycle daredevil...
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese Family
AuthorLauren Kessler
ISBN0875952968
Every Oregonian should read Stubborn Twig. It is the history of a Japanese American family, largely based in Hood River, starting with the father's coming to the U.S., landing at Seattle, in 1910. The author charts not only the course of this family's history, but also the course of Japanese Americans...
Lean On Pete
AuthorWilly Vlautin
ISBN0061456535
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table, and a high school he can attend for more than part of a year. But as the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, Charley's been pretty much on his own. When tragic events leave him homeless weeks after...
Ricochet River
AuthorRobin Cody
ISBN1932010041
Set in a fictional Oregon town in the late 1960s, Cody's superlative coming-of-age novel is the story of Wade, Lorna and Jesse--teenagers preparing to break out of their small-town lives. Wade is the local sports hero. Jesse is his friend, a mythical athlete and the Indian kid who applies his own rules...
Trask
AuthorDon Berry
ISBN0870710230
published in 1960 when don berry was 27, trask is often mentioned in the same breath as ken kesey's sometimes a great notion as the finest oregon novel ever written. set along the northern oregon coast range in the late 1840's, trask was inspired by the life of settler, mountain man & fur trapper elbridge...
Portland Noir
AuthorKevin Sampsell
ISBN1933354798
In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities.

Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S....
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
AuthorElla Elizabeth Clark
ISBN0520239261
This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each...
The Jump-Off Creek
AuthorMolly Gloss
ISBN0618565876
4.5 stars

Have you ever read a story and you didn't want it to end? The Jump-Off Creek was like that for me; it was realistic and interesting. The characters worked their way into my subconscious. I found their plain talk quotable. Often, the weather shaped the historical narrative. Simply said,...
Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness
AuthorWilliam L. Sullivan
ISBN0870715267
I picked up this book as I started to day dream about my own adventures across Oregon this summer. I have a mind to backpack through the Three Sisters Wilderness and The Wallowas if I can get enough time off. So of course I picked up this book knowing that William Sullivan is the greatest author of Oregon adventure....
The Living
AuthorAnnie Dillard
Ninety miles north of Seattle on the Washington coast lies Bellingham Bay, where a rough settlement founded in the 1850s would become the town of Whatcom. Here, the Lummi and Nooksack Indian people fish and farm, hermits pay their debts in sockeye salmon, and miners track gold-bearing streams.

Here,...
The Blue Star
AuthorTony Earley
ISBN0316199079
Jim Glass has fallen in love with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven and gives a young man's emotions...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024