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California Books
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East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as california)
avg rating 4.44 — 651,987 ratings — published 1952
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as california)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,001,273 ratings — published 1939
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,861,492 ratings — published 1937
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,305,052 ratings — published 2021
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 198 times as california)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,975 ratings — published 1943
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as california)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,196 ratings — published 1968
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 228,168 ratings — published 2018
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 125,255 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 — 265,932 ratings — published 2018
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as california)
avg rating 4.07 — 872,159 ratings — published 2012
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as california)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,170,442 ratings — published 2017
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as california)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,875,124 ratings — published 2019
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as california)
avg rating 3.51 — 244,910 ratings — published 2016
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as california)
avg rating 3.90 — 92,853 ratings — published 1970
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as california)
avg rating 4.19 — 270,971 ratings — published 1993
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as california)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,382,338 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 — 216,754 ratings — published 2012
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,811,321 ratings — published 2022
Where I Was From (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,510 ratings — published 2003
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as california)
avg rating 3.94 — 169,695 ratings — published 1939
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as california)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,009,329 ratings — published 2021
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as california)
avg rating 3.97 — 711,528 ratings — published 1989
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by (shelved 111 times as california)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,877 ratings — published
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
by (shelved 101 times as california)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,005 ratings — published 1978
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as california)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,162,645 ratings — published 2021
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as california)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,895 ratings — published 1990
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 4.00 — 367,555 ratings — published 1999
Tortilla Flat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 3.83 — 64,013 ratings — published 1935
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,886 ratings — published 1979
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,328 ratings — published 1930
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as california)
avg rating 4.12 — 863,201 ratings — published 2020
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as california)
avg rating 3.95 — 141,336 ratings — published 1998
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as california)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,630,249 ratings — published 2024
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as california)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,505 ratings — published 1977
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 351,091 ratings — published 1960
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as california)
avg rating 3.88 — 129,308 ratings — published 2016
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as california)
avg rating 3.71 — 64,475 ratings — published 2011
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as california)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,506,462 ratings — published 2022
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 3.86 — 192,572 ratings — published 1982
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as california)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,706 ratings — published 1995
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,936,659 ratings — published 2021
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 206,096 ratings — published 2021
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as california)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,978 ratings — published 1986
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as california)
avg rating 3.69 — 98,486 ratings — published 1966
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as california)
avg rating 3.79 — 97,761 ratings — published 1987
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as california)
avg rating 4.02 — 205,590 ratings — published 2023
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as california)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,306 ratings — published 1971
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as california)
avg rating 4.10 — 233,746 ratings — published 2011
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as california)
avg rating 4.14 — 217,688 ratings — published 1992
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as california)
avg rating 4.05 — 115,076 ratings — published 2000
“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
“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
