Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanDaughter of Fortune by Isabel AllendeThe Black Dahlia by James EllroyThe Wild Birds by Emily Strelow
California Historical Fiction
279 books — 132 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
283 books — 386 voters