Does anyone have any good recommendations for fiction books set in the Pacific Northwest and in which the natural landscape plays a large role? I guess non-fiction would also be ok, but fiction would be first-prize 🙂
It’s a bit ridiculous but the Ivory Carver series by Sue Harrison is set on the islands of this region.
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The Brothers K – David James Duncan
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest – Ken Kesey
Those three are definitely PNW based, in terms of most nature based I’d go with Sometimes a Great Notion.
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The Living by Annie Dillard. Set in pugot sound early settler times. I grew up in PNW and this book really captures it. One of my all time favs.
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The Good Rain by Timothy Egan
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*Our Lady of the Forest* by David Guterson follows itinerant mushroom pickers in Washington (one of whom thinks she saw the Virgin Mary), so it spends a lot of time out in the woods.
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It’s a bit ridiculous but the Ivory Carver series by Sue Harrison is set on the islands of this region.
The Brothers K – David James Duncan
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest – Ken Kesey
Those three are definitely PNW based, in terms of most nature based I’d go with Sometimes a Great Notion.
The Living by Annie Dillard. Set in pugot sound early settler times. I grew up in PNW and this book really captures it. One of my all time favs.
The Good Rain by Timothy Egan
*Our Lady of the Forest* by David Guterson follows itinerant mushroom pickers in Washington (one of whom thinks she saw the Virgin Mary), so it spends a lot of time out in the woods.