Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Black Dahlia by James EllroyDaughter of Fortune by Isabel AllendeThe Wild Birds by Emily Strelow
California Historical Fiction
285 books — 139 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyTrue Grit by Charles PortisAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Literary Westerns
291 books — 404 voters