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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1994
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Book List in Order: 22 titles






  • Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost ...



  • From a major voice in Southern literature comes award-winning author Ron Rash's Saints at the River, a novel about a town divided by the aftermath of a tragic accident--and the woman caught in the middle. When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tam...



  • Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property near his North Carolina home, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours on th...



  • From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communiti...



  • The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Seren...



  • New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is a storyteller of the highest rank (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel GarcIa MArquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complex...



  • Rooted in places like Watauga County, Goshen Creek, and Dismal Mountain, the poems in Ron Rash’s fourth collection, Waking, electrify dry counties and tobacco fields until they sparkle with the rituals and traditions of Southerners in the stir of t...






  • The New York Times bestselling author of Serena returns to Appalachia, this time at the height of World War I, with the story of a blazing but doomed love affair caught in the turmoil of a nation at war Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Car...



  • Ron Rash, PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena and The Cove, has been called "a gorgeous writer" (Richard Price) with a "reputation for writerly miracles" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times), and is been heralded as "o...



  • PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash turns again to Appalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear, in unforgettable stories that span from the Civil War to the present day. In t...



  • Over the last three decades, Ron Rash has emerged as one of the quintessential American writers of his generation. He has steadily gained critical and commercial recognition from his native Carolinas to an increasingly international audience. With fo...



  • From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume. No one captures the complexities of Appalachia -- a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beau...



  • Ten humorous, interconnected short stories following three narrators as they learn lessons about life in the North Carolina foothills.The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaime...



  • The Shark�s Tooth is a poetic tale of imagination and conservation in which a young girl visiting her grandparents� beach house finds friendship with the ocean�s creatures. Sharks� teeth are given to her by her new aquatic friends as gifts, s...



  • In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land. Les, a long-time sheriff just three-weeks from retirement, cont...



  • New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer, one bewitching young woman -- and the...



  • Barb Goffman -- one of the most celebrated authors and editors in the mystery field -- is selecting modern classic mystery stories for a new imprint at Black Cat Mystery, "Barb Goffman Presents." This volume features "Time Zones," by Ron Rash. Ron Ra...






  • From bestselling and award-winning writer Ron Rash comes a collection of ten searing stories and the return of the villainess who propelled Serena to national acclaim, in a long-awaited novella. Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the lan...



  • ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash (One of the great American authors at work today --The N...



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Award-Winning Books by Ron Rash

Burning Bright
2011 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize -- Fiction
The Cove
2012 Langum Prize for Historical Literature -- Historical Fiction
Saints at the River
2005 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize -- Fiction
2005 SIBA Book Award -- Fiction
Serena
2009 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ron Rash has published 22 books.

Ron Rash does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Caretaker, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Ron Rash, Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina, was published in September 1994.

No. Ron Rash does not write books in series.