Is it just me or did I get the hardest assignment? I drew the books slot for our series of stories on the best in Oregon arts and culture.
And while I have had a blast poring âover many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,â as a non-Oregonian once wrote, winnowing this puppy down has not been easy.
Originally I hoped to come up with a Top 10 list. Hopeless, utterly hopeless. Then I decided to have two lists, one for fiction and the other for nonfiction. Much better, but as you can see, the outcome is far more than just 20 books. But now that I have organized it on the basis of authors I m closer to keeping the project from killing too many trees.