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Ron Rash Books in Order

Ron Rash has written 24 books, published between 1994 and 2023. The first book is The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina (1994) and the newest is The Caretaker (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
24
Published
1994–2023
Pages on record
4,287 in 20 of 24 books
Reading time
71–107 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,287 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 20 of 24 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Ron Rash, author

Ron Rash is an American writer working in three forms: poetry, short fiction and the novel. Rash holds the Parris Distinguished Professorship in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University, and mountain life, town life and regional history run through the writing. His 24 catalogued books open with the 1994 story collection The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth, take in the poetry of Eureka Mill (1998) and the novels One Foot in Eden (2002), Saints at the River (2004) and Serena (2008), and end at The Caretaker (2023).

How many Ron Rash books are there?

Ron Rash has 24 books, released between 1994 and 2023.

Ron Rash Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 24 Ron Rash books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina by Ron Rash (1994)
  2. Cover of Eureka Mill by Ron Rash (1998)
  3. Cover of Casualties by Ron Rash (2000)
  4. Cover of Among the Believers by Ron Rash (2000)
  5. Cover of Raising the Dead by Ron Rash (2002)
  6. Cover of Saints at the River by Ron Rash (2004)
  7. Cover of The World Made Straight by Ron Rash (2006)
  8. Cover of Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash (2007)
  9. Cover of Serena by Ron Rash (2008)
  10. Cover of Burning Bright by Ron Rash (2010)
  11. Cover of Waking by Ron Rash (2011)
  12. Cover of Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories by Ron Rash (2014)
  13. Cover of The Shark's Tooth by Ron Rash (2015)
  14. Cover of The Risen by Ron Rash (2016)
  15. Cover of In the Valley by Ron Rash (2020)
  16. Cover of The Caretaker by Ron Rash (2023)
  1. 2
    Eureka Mill1998 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199864
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  2. 3
    Casualties2000 · 151 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000151
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  3. 4
    Among the Believers2000 · 71 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200071
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  4. 5
    One Foot in Eden2002 · 214 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002214
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  5. 6
    Raising the Dead2002 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200296
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  6. 7
    Saints at the River2004 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004256
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 8
    The World Made Straight2006 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006304
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  8. 10
    Serena2008 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008400
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  9. 11
    Burning Bright2010 · 205 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010205
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 12
    Waking2011 · 74 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201174
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  11. 13
    The Cove2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  12. 14
    My Father Like a River2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  13. 15
    Nothing Gold Can Stay2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  14. 16
    Above the Waterfall2014 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014272
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  15. 17
    The Ron Rash Reader2014 · 401 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014401
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  16. 18
    Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories2014 · 434 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014434
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  17. 19
    The Shark's Tooth2015 · 40 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201540
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  18. 20
    The Risen2016 · 255 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016255
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  19. 21
    Poems: New and Selected2016 · 171 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016171
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  20. 22
    Eclipse Over Clemson2017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017–
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  21. 23
    In the Valley2020 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020240
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  22. 24
    The Caretaker2023 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2023256
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Ron Rash books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

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24 books

24 Ron Rash titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Ron Rash books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 24 Ron Rash books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Ron Rash

Start with The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ron Rash book?

The Caretaker (2023) is the newest Ron Rash book released so far.

Is there a new Ron Rash book coming?

No next Ron Rash book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Ron Rash has won

Wikidata records 2 awards for Ron Rash. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Grand Prix de Littérature Policière2014Wonfor The Cove
  • North Carolina Award for Literature2011Won

Ron Rash at a glance

Paused
No new Ron Rash title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Ron Rash books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
4,287 pages across the 20 of 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 227 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ron Rash books, 12 of 24, were published in the 2010s.

What the Ron Rash books are about

20 of the 24 Ron Rash books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mountain life is tagged on 4 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.