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East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as california)
avg rating 4.46 — 723,708 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 266 times as california)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,027,500 ratings — published 1939
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,950,496 ratings — published 1937
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,373,537 ratings — published 2021
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as california)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,795 ratings — published 1968
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 201 times as california)
avg rating 4.06 — 161,845 ratings — published 1943
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 235,767 ratings — published 2018
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,240 ratings — published 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 154 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 271,979 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as california)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,430,893 ratings — published 2017
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as california)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,949,851 ratings — published 2019
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as california)
avg rating 4.07 — 888,418 ratings — published 2012
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as california)
avg rating 3.51 — 251,635 ratings — published 2016
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 99,906 ratings — published 1970
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as california)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,552 ratings — published 1993
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,901,719 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,466,727 ratings — published 2022
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as california)
avg rating 3.72 — 218,933 ratings — published 2012
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as california)
avg rating 3.94 — 173,613 ratings — published 1939
Where I Was From (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,786 ratings — published 2003
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as california)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,093,777 ratings — published 2021
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 718,625 ratings — published 1989
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by (shelved 113 times as california)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,919 ratings — published
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
by (shelved 103 times as california)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,011 ratings — published 1978
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as california)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,212,656 ratings — published 2021
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as california)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,864 ratings — published 1979
Tortilla Flat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as california)
avg rating 3.83 — 66,827 ratings — published 1935
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,085 ratings — published 1930
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as california)
avg rating 4.07 — 31,961 ratings — published 1977
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as california)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,064 ratings — published 1990
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 4.01 — 371,319 ratings — published 1999
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 883,743 ratings — published 2020
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as california)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,820,034 ratings — published 2024
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as california)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,621,698 ratings — published 2022
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 355,221 ratings — published 1960
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as california)
avg rating 3.95 — 144,647 ratings — published 1998
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as california)
avg rating 3.71 — 66,018 ratings — published 2011
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 131,248 ratings — published 2016
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as california)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,116,355 ratings — published 2021
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as california)
avg rating 3.69 — 101,997 ratings — published 1965
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as california)
avg rating 3.66 — 35,238 ratings — published 1995
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 4.01 — 237,648 ratings — published 2023
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 221,805 ratings — published 2021
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,825 ratings — published 1982
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,259 ratings — published 1986
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as california)
avg rating 4.24 — 63,259 ratings — published 1971
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as california)
avg rating 3.62 — 106,733 ratings — published 1985
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as california)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,615 ratings — published 1987
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as california)
avg rating 4.15 — 222,572 ratings — published 1992
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 236,719 ratings — published 2011
“What does she do?"
"She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.”
― Past Imperfect
"She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.”
― Past Imperfect
“So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.”
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