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East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as california)
avg rating 4.45 — 695,853 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as california)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,018,809 ratings — published 1939
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,921,644 ratings — published 1937
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,349,924 ratings — published 2021
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as california)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,405 ratings — published 1968
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as california)
avg rating 4.06 — 159,947 ratings — published 1943
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,691 ratings — published 2018
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 127,440 ratings — published 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 153 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 270,143 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as california)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,346,662 ratings — published 2017
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as california)
avg rating 4.07 — 883,652 ratings — published 2012
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as california)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,928,166 ratings — published 2019
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as california)
avg rating 3.51 — 249,426 ratings — published 2016
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 97,679 ratings — published 1970
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,872,791 ratings — published 2022
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as california)
avg rating 4.19 — 289,033 ratings — published 1993
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,441,679 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 — 218,255 ratings — published 2012
Where I Was From (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,706 ratings — published 2003
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as california)
avg rating 3.94 — 172,458 ratings — published 1939
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as california)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,069,335 ratings — published 2021
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 716,736 ratings — published 1989
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by (shelved 114 times as california)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,908 ratings — published
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
by (shelved 101 times as california)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,731 ratings — published 1978
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as california)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,200,691 ratings — published 2021
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as california)
avg rating 4.01 — 52,920 ratings — published 1979
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 91 times as california)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,026 ratings — published 1990
Tortilla Flat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as california)
avg rating 3.83 — 65,910 ratings — published 1935
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,311 ratings — published 1930
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as california)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,829 ratings — published 1977
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as california)
avg rating 4.00 — 370,145 ratings — published 1999
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as california)
avg rating 4.12 — 878,088 ratings — published 2020
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as california)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,764,794 ratings — published 2024
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as california)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,589,256 ratings — published 2022
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 354,049 ratings — published 1960
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as california)
avg rating 3.95 — 143,423 ratings — published 1998
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 130,729 ratings — published 2016
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as california)
avg rating 3.71 — 65,562 ratings — published 2011
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as california)
avg rating 3.66 — 35,071 ratings — published 1995
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,047,605 ratings — published 2021
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as california)
avg rating 4.01 — 230,965 ratings — published 2023
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 217,818 ratings — published 2021
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as california)
avg rating 3.69 — 100,971 ratings — published 1966
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 74 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,235 ratings — published 1982
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,169 ratings — published 1986
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as california)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,943 ratings — published 1971
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as california)
avg rating 3.80 — 100,922 ratings — published 1987
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as california)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,726 ratings — published 2021
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as california)
avg rating 4.15 — 221,105 ratings — published 1992
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 235,964 ratings — published 2011
“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.”
― Sex and Rage
― Sex and Rage
“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
