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in Whitley County, Kentucky, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Outdoors & Nature, Young Adult

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Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of six novels--Clay's Quilt, 2001; A Parchment of Leaves, 2003; The Coal Tattoo, 2005; Eli the Good, 2009; Same Sun Here (co-authored with Neela Vaswani) 2012; Southernmost (2018), as well as a book of creative nonfiction, Something's Rising, co-authored with Jason Howard, 2009; and three plays.

His work frequently appears in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Salon. He is former commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered". His writing has appeared in recently in Time, Ecotone, Oxford American, Garden and Gun, and many other publications.

House serves on the fiction faculty at the Spalding School of Writing and as the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Berea College.

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	Southernmost 3.95 avg rating — 9,372 ratings — published 2018 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Parchment of Leaves 4.22 avg rating — 5,284 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lark Ascending 4.16 avg rating — 5,075 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clay's Quilt 4.05 avg rating — 4,814 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Same Sun Here by Silas House (Goodreads Author), Neela Vaswani 3.98 avg rating — 3,421 ratings — published 2012 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Coal Tattoo 4.10 avg rating — 3,019 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eli the Good 4.16 avg rating — 2,299 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal by Silas House (Goodreads Author), Jason Howard, Lee Smith (Foreword), Hal Crowther (Foreword) 4.30 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All These Ghosts 4.83 avg rating — 162 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hurting Part: Evolution of an American Play 4.32 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Murder in an Irish Village (Irish Village Mystery, #1)

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“I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

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“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

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“I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

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What shall we read in September, 2020? Books published after 1980.

Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror, by Eden Royce

15 votes 23.1%

Clay's Quilt, by Silas House

12 votes 18.5%

One Mississippi, by Mark Childress

12 votes 18.5%

Miss Jane, by Brad Watson

12 votes 18.5%

A Gracious Plenty, by Sheri Reynolds

7 votes 10.8%

Small Treasons, by Mark Powell

7 votes 10.8%

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