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Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanCannery Row by John Steinbeck
Novels Set in California
922 books — 371 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanTales of the City by Armistead MaupinThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin SloanChina Blues by Ki Longfellow
San Francisco Bay Area Fiction
446 books — 337 voters

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangAl Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer CholdenkoSmile by Raina TelgemeierGrandfather's Journey by Allen SayOne Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
YA & Children's Books Set in the San Francisco Bay Area
353 books — 82 voters
Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora KroeberSan Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries by Beth WinegarnerThe World Rushed In by J.S. HollidayHistoric San Francisco by Rand RichardsThe Anza Trail and the Settling of California by Vladimir Guerrero
Northern Californian history (nonfiction)
123 books — 36 voters

My Dirty California by Jason MosbergAmerican Babylon by Robert O. SelfBlues City by Ishmael ReedInfinite City by Rebecca SolnitCalifornia Fire and Life by Don Winslow
California Newbie
51 books — 26 voters
The Customer Is Always Wrong by Mimi PondThere There by Tommy OrangeOver Easy by Mimi PondThe Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniWelcome to Oakland by Eric Miles Williamson
Oakland California Books
151 books — 16 voters

Cult Girls by Natalie GrandSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan DidionUnbound by Dina Gu BrumfieldA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiSeason of the Witch by David Talbot
Bay Area books
15 books — 8 voters
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe Promised Land by Nicholas LemannA Nation Under Our Feet by Steven HahnThe Southern Diaspora by James N. GregoryKrazy by Michael Tisserand
Canaan Bound: Nonfiction Books on America's Epic Great Migration
42 books — 3 voters

Living for the City by Donna MurchThe Chinese of Oakland by Eve Armentrout MaAmerican Babylon by Robert O. SelfMan of Tomorrow by Jim NewtonA City for Children by Marta Gutman
U.S. Cities: Oakland, California (nonfiction)
21 books — 3 voters
The Turner House by Angela FlournoyIf Sons, Then Heirs by Lorene CaryA Different Drummer by William Melvin KelleyBlood on the Forge by William AttawayColor Me Dark by Patricia C. McKissack
Fiction Books on The Great Migration by African-Americans
5 books — 1 voter

ABC Oakland by Michael WertzOne Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Picture Books of the East Bay
2 books — 1 voter

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