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East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as california)
avg rating 4.45 — 671,928 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as california)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,010,405 ratings — published 1939
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,893,145 ratings — published 1937
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,326,006 ratings — published 2021
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as california)
avg rating 4.18 — 85,834 ratings — published 1968
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as california)
avg rating 4.06 — 158,093 ratings — published 1943
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,352 ratings — published 2018
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 126,497 ratings — published 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 152 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 268,136 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as california)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,255,938 ratings — published 2017
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as california)
avg rating 4.07 — 878,000 ratings — published 2012
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as california)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,904,466 ratings — published 2019
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as california)
avg rating 3.51 — 247,158 ratings — published 2016
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 95,205 ratings — published 1970
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as california)
avg rating 4.19 — 280,551 ratings — published 1993
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,843,738 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,415,930 ratings — published 2022
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as california)
avg rating 3.72 — 217,533 ratings — published 2012
Where I Was From (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,617 ratings — published 2003
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 118 times as california)
avg rating 3.94 — 171,153 ratings — published 1939
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as california)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,042,295 ratings — published 2021
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 714,390 ratings — published 1989
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by (shelved 114 times as california)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,893 ratings — published
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
by (shelved 102 times as california)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,358 ratings — published 1978
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as california)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,183,973 ratings — published 2021
Tortilla Flat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as california)
avg rating 3.83 — 65,014 ratings — published 1935
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,989 ratings — published 1979
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 91 times as california)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,985 ratings — published 1990
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,366 ratings — published 1930
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as california)
avg rating 4.00 — 368,946 ratings — published 1999
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as california)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,620 ratings — published 1977
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as california)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,703,695 ratings — published 2024
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as california)
avg rating 4.12 — 871,889 ratings — published 2020
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as california)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,553,703 ratings — published 2022
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 352,634 ratings — published 1960
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as california)
avg rating 3.95 — 142,372 ratings — published 1998
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 130,107 ratings — published 2016
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as california)
avg rating 3.71 — 65,102 ratings — published 2011
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as california)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,907 ratings — published 1995
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,989,529 ratings — published 2021
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 193,447 ratings — published 1982
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 220,588 ratings — published 2023
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 212,432 ratings — published 2021
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as california)
avg rating 3.69 — 99,911 ratings — published 1966
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,090 ratings — published 1986
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as california)
avg rating 3.79 — 99,833 ratings — published 1987
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as california)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,629 ratings — published 1971
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 235,040 ratings — published 2011
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as california)
avg rating 4.05 — 116,526 ratings — published 2000
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as california)
avg rating 4.14 — 219,474 ratings — published 1992
“I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night.”
― Howl and Other Poems
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night.”
― Howl and Other Poems
“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
