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Joe Wilkins

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Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon. He is the author of a novel, Fall Back Down When I Die, praised as “remarkable and unforgettable” in a starred review at Booklist. A finalist for the First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction and the Pacific Northwest Book Award, Fall Back Down When I Die won the High Plains Book Award and has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and German. Wilkins is also the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, and four collections of poetry, including Pastoral, 1994, and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award. His second novel, The Entire Sky, is out now with Little, Brown. Wilkins directs ...more

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	Fall Back Down When I Die 4.02 avg rating — 1,109 ratings — published 2019 — 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 Entire Sky 4.43 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 2024 — 5 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 Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on The Big Dry 4.39 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2012 — 10 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
	Killing the Murnion Dogs 4.44 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	When We Were Birds: Poems 4.45 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2016	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
	Notes from the Journey Westward (White Pine Press Poetry Prize, 17) 4.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2012	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
	Far Enough: A Western in Fragments 4.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2015	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
	Pastoral, 1994 4.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2025	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
	Ragged Point Road 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2006	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
	Thieve 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2019	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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Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family is a finalist for the 2027 Pacific Northwest Book Awards! Sure nice to share this nod with friends Maya Jewell Zeller, Emily Ruskovich, and Willy Vlautin. A very fine PNW reading list.

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Montana: An Uncommon Land

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“They worked together at the Starbucks on Grand, and—let’s see, what else could she tell him?—they were both about the biggest Avett Brothers fans in probably the whole state of Montana.”
― Joe Wilkins, Fall Back Down When I Die

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“Ranching was life distilled: birth and death, the hard winter giving way to spring, and spring to the heat and fast black storms of summer. There was a violence in it, a violence you tried in all ways to diminish but a violence you nonetheless had to know and hold. In this tilting world, when so many had gotten away from anything resembling the actual, were living what Rene thought of as supermarket lives, ranching at least kept you close to what mattered, to what was real.”
― Joe Wilkins, The Entire Sky

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― Joe Wilkins, The Entire Sky: A Novel

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