California


East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Malibu Rising
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
There There
The Library Book
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Daisy Jones & The Six
The Girls
Play It As It Lays
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Telegraph Avenue by Michael ChabonLoose Change by Sara DavidsonLaura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko TamakiAt Berkeley in the Sixties by Jo FreemanBerkeley Bohemia Artists and Visionaries of the Early 20th Ce... by Ed Herny
Berkeley, California
171 books — 21 voters

The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy SpaldingAna of California by Andi TeranEverything Leads to You by Nina LaCourOne of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManusLaura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
Young Adult Fiction set in California
361 books — 88 voters
The Animated Man by Michael BarrierThe Haunted Mansion by Jason SurrellThe Disneyland® Encyclopedia by Chris StrodderBehind the Magic by karal-ann-marlingPirates of the Caribbean by Jason Surrell
Disneyland
170 books — 22 voters

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ReidA Touch of Stardust by Kate AlcottAll the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana TrigianiThe Garden on Sunset by Martin TurnbullThe Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Hollywood Historical Fiction
166 books — 118 voters
A Single Man by Christopher IsherwoodCity of Night by John RechyThe Hours by Michael CunninghamLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisMen Writing Men Illustrated by Rick Longfield
Gay Books Set in Los Angeles
12 books — 5 voters

Allen Ginsberg
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. ...more
Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

Julian Fellowes
Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognising only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit thei ...more
Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect

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Back to California A discussion group about novels, stories and songs that include the mystique of California. From…more
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