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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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3.88 avg rating — 355,562 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club
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3.97 avg rating — 719,255 ratings
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The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 101,859 ratings
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Daughter of Fortune
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3.95 avg rating — 145,040 ratings
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The Wild Birds
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3.97 avg rating — 377 ratings
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L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
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4.19 avg rating — 41,580 ratings
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Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 165,843 ratings
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The Day of the Locust
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3.69 avg rating — 24,816 ratings
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Clover Blue
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4.12 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
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China Blues
by
4.14 avg rating — 1,641 ratings
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| 11 |
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 31,939 ratings
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The Buddha in the Attic
by
3.71 avg rating — 66,188 ratings
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Esperanza Rising
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4.05 avg rating — 118,557 ratings
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| 14 |
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White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
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3.92 avg rating — 10,506 ratings
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Zorro
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3.81 avg rating — 25,117 ratings
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A Desert between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories
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4.53 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Secret Life of Anna Blanc (An Anna Blanc Mystery Book 1)
by
3.57 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
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The Girl with Ghost Eyes
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3.85 avg rating — 4,510 ratings
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At the Edge of the Orchard
by
3.69 avg rating — 24,174 ratings
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| 20 |
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Zia (Island of the Blue Dolphins, #2)
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3.51 avg rating — 5,434 ratings
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Jubilee Trail
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4.16 avg rating — 4,554 ratings
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Calico Palace
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4.10 avg rating — 2,763 ratings
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| 21 |
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China Dolls
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3.67 avg rating — 40,463 ratings
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| 24 |
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Lessons in Chemistry
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4.28 avg rating — 1,910,603 ratings
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Rush of Shadows
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3.92 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Proud Breed
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4.35 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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Frog Music
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3.20 avg rating — 27,099 ratings
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The Girls in the Picture
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3.64 avg rating — 8,542 ratings
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The Four Winds
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4.30 avg rating — 1,101,989 ratings
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A Little Yellow Dog (Easy Rawlins, #5)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,792 ratings
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The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 19,470 ratings
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Under the Almond Trees
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4.27 avg rating — 33 ratings
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There's Only One Sin in Hollywood
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3.95 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
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Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #5)
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3.57 avg rating — 4,435 ratings
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By the Great Horn Spoon!
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4.12 avg rating — 8,629 ratings
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The Lonesome Gods
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4.24 avg rating — 9,903 ratings
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Ramona
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3.77 avg rating — 2,633 ratings
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The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
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3.71 avg rating — 556 ratings
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A Touch of Stardust
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3.66 avg rating — 5,375 ratings
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Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 3,396 ratings
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| 41 |
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The Immigrants (Lavette Family, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 10,508 ratings
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The Octopus: A Story of California
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3.83 avg rating — 2,120 ratings
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California Gold
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4.10 avg rating — 3,435 ratings
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| 44 |
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The Japanese Lover
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3.89 avg rating — 100,828 ratings
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A Dangerous Business
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3.17 avg rating — 9,086 ratings
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A Rebel Among Us (Renegade #3)
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4.77 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Promise of Fate
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4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 48 |
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The Californios
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3.95 avg rating — 2,988 ratings
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Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 46,584 ratings
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The Invisible Circus
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3.55 avg rating — 7,625 ratings
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Weedflower
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3.92 avg rating — 4,984 ratings
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| 51 |
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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4.18 avg rating — 129,853 ratings
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East of Eden
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4.46 avg rating — 737,504 ratings
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| 54 |
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Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 20,822 ratings
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Anita of Rancho Del Mar
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3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings
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| 56 |
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City of Flickering Light
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3.83 avg rating — 2,100 ratings
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| 57 |
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Black Betty (Easy Rawlins, #4)
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4.07 avg rating — 5,864 ratings
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| 58 |
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Water Ghosts
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3.30 avg rating — 552 ratings
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| 59 |
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A Red Death (Easy Rawlins #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 6,522 ratings
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The Master Of Monterey
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4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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| 59 |
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Outrun the Moon
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3.95 avg rating — 5,892 ratings
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| 62 |
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White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins, #3)
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4.05 avg rating — 5,320 ratings
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| 63 |
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The Blossom Festival
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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| 63 |
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The Garden of the World (Western Literature and Fiction Series)
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4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
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| 63 |
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All New People
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3.69 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
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| 66 |
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California! (Wagons West, #6)
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4.02 avg rating — 768 ratings
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| 67 |
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All the Stars in the Heavens
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3.60 avg rating — 14,280 ratings
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| 68 |
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Gone Fishin' (Easy Rawlins, #6)
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3.89 avg rating — 3,225 ratings
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| 69 |
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The Nature of Fragile Things
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4.26 avg rating — 90,062 ratings
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Passage West
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4.12 avg rating — 887 ratings
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Monterey Bay
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3.10 avg rating — 702 ratings
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The Secret Life of Mrs. London
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3.87 avg rating — 1,049 ratings
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Razzmatazz
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4.10 avg rating — 5,464 ratings
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Noir
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3.80 avg rating — 17,830 ratings
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The Bohemians
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4.05 avg rating — 4,657 ratings
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My Beautiful Hippie
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3.71 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Sunset Crowd
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3.38 avg rating — 1,920 ratings
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| 78 |
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Stars Over Sunset Boulevard
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3.73 avg rating — 6,773 ratings
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On the Rooftop
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3.21 avg rating — 12,667 ratings
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The Light on Farallon Island
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3.87 avg rating — 9,503 ratings
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| 81 |
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Platinum Doll: A Novel About Jean Harlow
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3.57 avg rating — 601 ratings
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| 82 |
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Al Capone Shines My Shoes (Tales from Alcatraz, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 8,639 ratings
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| 82 |
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Not So Wild a Dream
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4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings
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| 82 |
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The Kept Girl
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3.59 avg rating — 119 ratings
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| 82 |
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Gold Rush Girl (The California Argonauts, #1)
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4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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| 82 |
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A Canter of the Heart (The Equestrian and the Aviator, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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| 82 |
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Love, Sex, and Understanding the Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 42 ratings
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| 82 |
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The Beginning (Gold Rush Brides #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 241 ratings
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| 82 |
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Bret Harte's Gold Rush: Outcasts of Poker Flat," "the Luck of Roaring Camp," "tennessee's Partner," and Other Favorites
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3.69 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Blossom: Book One of the Blossom Trilogy
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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| 82 |
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Incurable
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4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings
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| 82 |
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Seasons of Love and War
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4.48 avg rating — 67 ratings
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| 82 |
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Kit's Mine (A Daring California Novel Book 1)
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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| 82 |
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The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,435 ratings
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| 82 |
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Zorro, Year One, Volume 1: Trail of the Fox
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4.02 avg rating — 244 ratings
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| 82 |
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Museum of Human Beings
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3.27 avg rating — 96 ratings
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| 82 |
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River of Skulls
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Far River
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3.93 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Death of the Zanjero (Old Los Angeles #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The California Immigrant (Monterey Bay #1)
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3.42 avg rating — 59 ratings
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I removed the Steinbeck novels from this list as all were set in the same time period in which they were originally written.
I removed Farewell to Manzanar and On Gold Mountain, which are not fiction.
