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My Dirty California
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3.93 avg rating — 331 ratings
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American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
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4.11 avg rating — 362 ratings
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Blues City: A Walk in Oakland
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3.45 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
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4.26 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
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California Fire and Life
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4.07 avg rating — 5,517 ratings
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The Salty Dog
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3.64 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Where I Was From
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3.86 avg rating — 6,402 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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4.28 avg rating — 11,869 ratings
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Daughter's Keeper
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3.72 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
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The Invisible Circus
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3.54 avg rating — 7,459 ratings
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Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994
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3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Behind the Wheel: A Lyft Driver's Log
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Lost in Los Angeles
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3.82 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Inconvenient Process of Falling
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4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Monterey Bay
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3.10 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 153,401 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
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4.03 avg rating — 14,567 ratings
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Accumulation
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4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The 57 Bus
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4.09 avg rating — 43,654 ratings
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Life As An Almost
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4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
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4.14 avg rating — 2,115 ratings
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The Edge of Maybe
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3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965
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3.92 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Tagged: The Apocalypse
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3.32 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Picture Bride
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3.63 avg rating — 944 ratings
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Everybody into the Pool: True Tales – A Bestselling and Irreverent Memoir of Life's Paradoxes from Suburbs to Fringe
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3.54 avg rating — 1,413 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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3.79 avg rating — 7,240 ratings
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Take What You Got And Fly With It
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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4.18 avg rating — 82,156 ratings
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Telegraph Avenue
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3.40 avg rating — 21,697 ratings
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Calico Palace
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4.09 avg rating — 2,696 ratings
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Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
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3.99 avg rating — 812 ratings
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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (Americans and the California Dream #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 178 ratings
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I Woke Up in Love This Morning
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3.71 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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3.73 avg rating — 33,766 ratings
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California Gold
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4.10 avg rating — 3,314 ratings
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Cheesemonger
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3.77 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
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4.06 avg rating — 1,916 ratings
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Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments
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3.21 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Not a Genuine Black Man: Or, How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the Lily-White Suburbs
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4.07 avg rating — 472 ratings
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The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen
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3.61 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
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4.30 avg rating — 19,969 ratings
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The Black Panthers
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4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
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4.04 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
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3.89 avg rating — 244 ratings
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When the Killing's Done
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3.64 avg rating — 5,767 ratings
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
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3.86 avg rating — 886 ratings
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
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4.01 avg rating — 5,157 ratings
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The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California
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3.80 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
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3.97 avg rating — 2,534 ratings
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
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4.25 avg rating — 37,930 ratings
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