Donald Harington

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1973
  • Latest Book:
    October 2020
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Lightning Bug (Dec-1987)
Thirteen Albatrosses (Apr-2002)
Farther Along (May-2008)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Some Other Place, the Right Place

    It is June. Diana Stoving's new Porsche has just broken down on the Garden State Parkway, and Diana, twenty-one, freshly graduated from Sarah Lawrence, sits in a dealer's showroom, waiting for repairs. Bored and impatient, Diana leafs through the loc...

  • The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks



    The Ingledew saga follows six generations through 140 years of abundant living and prodigal loving in a book that was praised as one of the year's best novels by the American Library Association. Drawings by the Author


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  • Lightning Bug

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    Latha Bourne, the attractive postmistress of Stay More-a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks-didn't expect to see Every Dill again. Now everyone in the village is surprised that Every had the nerve to reappear in this tale of loss and of finding.

  • The Cherry Pit

    A flamboyant, lascivious, comic novel about restoration and renewal, in which the protagonist returns to his hometown and encounters a life that is both instantly familiar and disturbingly strange. His journey back begins as a recovery mission, but t...

  • Cockroaches of Stay More

    With this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world. In depicting the cockroach community, who perambulate on gitalon...

  • Choiring Of The Trees

    A rape and a wrongful condemnation--a novel based on a true story. In Arkansas, 1914, a 13-year-old girl is raped in the backwoods of the Ozarks. On her testimony, a young mountaineer is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair. With his celebra...

  • Ekaterina

    A ghost tells the story of Ekaterina, an immigrant novelist who has a yen for pubescent lovers, and, based on the success of one of her novels, takes over the top floor of the Halfmoon Hotel in Aracata Springs...

  • Butterfly Weed

    This is the life story of the colorful physician of Harington’s acclaimed Stay More novels, Doc Swain: how he becomes a physician without benefit of medical school education, how he winds up as a high-school teacher of hygiene and enamored of a pre...

  • Thirteen Albatrosses

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    For decades, Donald Harington has delighted readers with ribald, colorful adventures from Stay More, Arkansas, an imaginary Ozark enclave where shrewd and sexy hill folk mingle with reclusive millionaires rich from Wal-Mart stock, indigenous Indians,...



  • Farther Along

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    He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a museum devoted to the vanished American past, he find he himself wants to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life an culture of a vanished tribe of Indians kno...

  • Enduring

    Forty years ago, Donald Harington created a little town of Stay More, hidden away in the hills of the Ozarks. He populated it with generations of families that had escaped the Appalachians in serach of more room, greener pastures, freedom from conven...

  • With

    WITH is the sensual, suspenseful and irresistible tale of Robin Kerr, a young girl abducted from her family and brought to a remote Ozark mountaintop, where she is left to fend for herself. Over the course of a decade, Robin grows up without human re...

  • The Pitcher Shower

    Every time Hoppy enters a town in his truck, he is greeted with delight and anticipation, showered with warmth, offered meals, and more often than not, pretty girls trying to catch more than just his eye. It's not that Hoppy is so special; it's the p...

  • Let Us Build Us a City

    This work brilliantly fuses travel narrative with history and cultural studies -- yet reads like a novel. It’s also a love story that is in no way fictional. A fan letter to the author from a woman named Kim starts a correspondence which details re...

  • The Guestroom Novelist

    Donald Harington, best known for his fifteen novels, was also a prolific writer of essays, articles, and book reviews.The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany gathers a career-spanning and eclectic selection of nonfiction by the Arkansaw...

  • Double Toil and Trouble

    Double Toil and Trouble is the first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by beloved Arkansas writer Donald Harington (1935â€"2009). Featuring the long-lost suspense novel of the title and four previously unpublished or uncollected stories, th...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donald Harington has published 16 books.

Donald Harington does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Double Toil and Trouble, was published in October 2020.

The first book by Donald Harington, Some Other Place, the Right Place, was published in September 1973.

Yes. Donald Harington has 1 series.
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