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East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as california)
avg rating 4.44 — 635,121 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as california)
avg rating 4.03 — 992,397 ratings — published 1939
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,828,088 ratings — published 1937
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,283,447 ratings — published 2021
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as california)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,996 ratings — published 1943
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as california)
avg rating 4.18 — 82,651 ratings — published 1968
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 224,231 ratings — published 2018
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 123,895 ratings — published 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 151 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 263,630 ratings — published 2018
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as california)
avg rating 4.07 — 866,186 ratings — published 2012
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as california)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,842,403 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as california)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,069,927 ratings — published 2017
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as california)
avg rating 3.51 — 242,792 ratings — published 2016
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as california)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,344,327 ratings — published 2022
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,772,690 ratings — published 2022
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 120 times as california)
avg rating 3.72 — 216,007 ratings — published 2012
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 90,660 ratings — published 1970
Where I Was From (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,425 ratings — published 2003
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as california)
avg rating 4.19 — 261,276 ratings — published 1993
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as california)
avg rating 3.94 — 168,207 ratings — published 1939
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 709,108 ratings — published 1989
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as california)
avg rating 4.30 — 973,647 ratings — published 2021
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by (shelved 109 times as california)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,856 ratings — published
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
by (shelved 100 times as california)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,688 ratings — published 1978
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as california)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,138,284 ratings — published 2021
Tortilla Flat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 3.83 — 63,080 ratings — published 1935
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,878 ratings — published 1979
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,853 ratings — published 1990
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,283 ratings — published 1930
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as california)
avg rating 4.00 — 366,302 ratings — published 1999
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as california)
avg rating 4.12 — 852,935 ratings — published 2020
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as california)
avg rating 4.09 — 27,506 ratings — published 1977
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as california)
avg rating 3.94 — 140,344 ratings — published 1998
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as california)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,539,219 ratings — published 2024
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,569 ratings — published 2016
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 349,559 ratings — published 1960
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as california)
avg rating 3.70 — 63,908 ratings — published 2011
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as california)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,452,489 ratings — published 2022
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as california)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,499 ratings — published 1995
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 199,299 ratings — published 2021
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,891 ratings — published 1986
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,877,078 ratings — published 2021
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 71 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 191,852 ratings — published 1982
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as california)
avg rating 3.78 — 96,121 ratings — published 1987
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as california)
avg rating 3.69 — 97,134 ratings — published 1966
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as california)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,035 ratings — published 1971
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 193,814 ratings — published 2023
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as california)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,980 ratings — published 2000
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as california)
avg rating 4.09 — 232,608 ratings — published 2011
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as california)
avg rating 4.14 — 216,085 ratings — published 1992
“Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.”
― The Brass Verdict
― The Brass Verdict
“This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.”
― A Confederate General from Big Sur
― A Confederate General from Big Sur
