Books about Oregon on The Real Oregon

Yes, we do like to read. We like to read about a place before we go there. We like to read about a place while we’re in it, and after we come home, too.

And we have a pretty broad idea of what constitutes a book “about a place.” Ken Kesey wrote a couple great Oregon novels. They’re as good a guide book as you’re going to find to what really goes on here.

Here’s a few more to ponder.

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Books about Oregon

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Ken Kesey statue, downtown Eugene, 2006
If you’re looking for books to read while you’re vacationing in Oregon, start with the late Ken Kesey’s “Sometimes a Great Notion.”

The essential Oregon novel, it was written by Kesey before he got famous and ran afoul of the ’60s. A wild and wonderful, tragic and inspiring logging family that raises a ruckus with its independent ways. Also a movie, not as good.

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