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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1992
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • The strangeness of life and death play out in a fictional American small town

    Lyla Mae Muncy meets her first love at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly Summer Bible Church Camp―and regrets it on their awkward first date. After years of being na...



  • A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDAn epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalryFayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a ...



  • “A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families " one white, one Black " whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race MassacreOil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop fo...



  • A love story about Dust Bowl heroes who didn’t leave for California

    Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family’s yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his music, and their daughter with his ch...



  • With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma. So when Robert John Brown, a churchgoing family man and respected community member, is caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers...



  • Lincolnshire, 1537. Amid England’s religious turmoil, fifteen-year-old Anne Askew is forced to take her dead sister’s place in an arranged marriage. The witty, well-educated gentleman’s daughter is determined to free herself from he...




Award-Winning Books by Rilla Askew

Harpsong
2007 IndieFab Award -- Historical Fiction
2008 Oklahoma Book Award -- Fiction
2008 WILLA Literary Award -- Historical Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rilla Askew has published 6 books.

Rilla Askew does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Prize for the Fire, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Rilla Askew, Strange Business, was published in July 1992.

No. Rilla Askew does not write books in series.