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Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She is the author as well of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.

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Series

Lidie Newton


A Historical Fiction series (1998 - 2026)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Women passing under pressure
  • Wry survivors reinventing themselves after loss
  • Historical upheaval with sharp, fearless heroines

The Horses of Oak Valley Ranch


A Young Adult Children & Middle Grade series (2009 - 2013)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Horse ranch life with real chores and barn drama
  • Coming-of-age friendships shaped by horses more than classmates
  • Horse stories with eerie bonds and high-stakes animal mysteries

The Last Hundred Years


A Historical Fiction series (2014 - 2015)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Year-by-year family sagas across a changing American century
  • Farm families reshaped by history, climate, and hard inheritance
  • Siblings splitting into radically different lives across generations

Ellen and Ned


A Children & Middle Grade series (2018 - 2020)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Horse-crazy kids finding themselves at the barn
  • Adoption stories with messy family shifts
  • Growing up through riding lessons and jump training

Standalone Fiction

At Paradise Gate

Duplicate Keys

The Age of Grief

The Age of Grief

Short story collection

The Greenlanders

Ordinary Love and Good Will

Ordinary Love and Good Will

Short story collection

A Thousand Acres

Barn Blind

Moo

Moo


Horse Heaven

Good Faith

Ten Days in the Hills

Private Life

Lily

Lily

Short story

The Hillside

The Hillside

Short story

Perestroika in Paris

A Dangerous Business

Lucky

Lucky

Standalone Non-fiction

Catskill Crafts Artisans of The Catskill Mountains

The Sagas of Icelanders

Charles Dickens

A Year at the Races

13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

The Man Who Invented the Computer

The Questions That Matter Most

Children & Middle Grade Books

Twenty Yawns

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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