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East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 353 times as california)
avg rating 4.46 — 760,979 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as california)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,034,242 ratings — published 1939
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,971,409 ratings — published 1937
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,385,175 ratings — published 2021
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as california)
avg rating 4.18 — 89,776 ratings — published 1968
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 201 times as california)
avg rating 4.06 — 163,412 ratings — published 1943
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,417 ratings — published 2018
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,869 ratings — published 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 155 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 274,245 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as california)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,487,171 ratings — published 2017
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as california)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,964,522 ratings — published 2019
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as california)
avg rating 4.07 — 894,237 ratings — published 2012
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as california)
avg rating 3.51 — 253,142 ratings — published 2016
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as california)
avg rating 3.89 — 101,239 ratings — published 1970
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as california)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,743 ratings — published 1993
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,920,443 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,485,429 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 — 219,502 ratings — published 2012
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as california)
avg rating 3.93 — 174,562 ratings — published 1939
Where I Was From (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,838 ratings — published 2003
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as california)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,112,178 ratings — published 2021
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 720,169 ratings — published 1989
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by (shelved 112 times as california)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,925 ratings — published
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
by (shelved 104 times as california)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,201 ratings — published 1978
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as california)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,221,965 ratings — published 2021
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as california)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,494 ratings — published 1979
Tortilla Flat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as california)
avg rating 3.83 — 67,456 ratings — published 1935
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as california)
avg rating 4.07 — 32,584 ratings — published 1977
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as california)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,102 ratings — published 1990
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,817 ratings — published 1930
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 4.01 — 372,775 ratings — published 1999
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as california)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,858,968 ratings — published 2024
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 888,418 ratings — published 2020
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 356,069 ratings — published 1960
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as california)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,644,262 ratings — published 2022
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as california)
avg rating 3.95 — 145,543 ratings — published 1998
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as california)
avg rating 3.71 — 66,368 ratings — published 2011
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 131,634 ratings — published 2016
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as california)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,220,883 ratings — published 2021
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as california)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,740 ratings — published 1965
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as california)
avg rating 3.66 — 35,343 ratings — published 1995
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 4.01 — 243,448 ratings — published 2023
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 4.09 — 224,232 ratings — published 2021
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,399 ratings — published 1982
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,332 ratings — published 1986
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as california)
avg rating 4.24 — 63,526 ratings — published 1971
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as california)
avg rating 3.80 — 102,174 ratings — published 1987
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as california)
avg rating 3.62 — 107,637 ratings — published 1985
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as california)
avg rating 4.15 — 224,349 ratings — published 1992
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as california)
avg rating 4.05 — 118,950 ratings — published 2000
“Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.”
― Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
― Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
