California Newbie

1.
My Dirty California
My Dirty California 3.94 avg rating — 317 ratings
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American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland 4.11 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Blues City: A Walk in Oakland
Blues City: A Walk in Oakland 3.45 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas 4.26 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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California Fire and Life
California Fire and Life 4.06 avg rating — 5,404 ratings
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The Salty Dog
The Salty Dog 3.64 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Where I Was From
Where I Was From 3.86 avg rating — 6,197 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water 4.28 avg rating — 11,660 ratings
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Daughter's Keeper
Daughter's Keeper 3.72 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
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The Invisible Circus
The Invisible Circus 3.54 avg rating — 7,389 ratings
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Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994
Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Behind the Wheel: A Lyft Driver's Log
Behind the Wheel: A Lyft Driver's Log 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Lost in Los Angeles
Lost in Los Angeles 3.82 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Inconvenient Process of Falling
The Inconvenient Process of Falling 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay 3.11 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 149,657 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea 4.02 avg rating — 14,409 ratings
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Accumulation
Accumulation 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The 57 Bus
The 57 Bus 4.10 avg rating — 42,534 ratings
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Life As An Almost
Life As An Almost 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles 4.14 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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The Edge of Maybe
The Edge of Maybe 3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965
Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 3.92 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Tagged: The Apocalypse
Tagged: The Apocalypse 3.31 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Picture Bride
Picture Bride 3.62 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Everybody into the Pool: True Tales
Everybody into the Pool: True Tales 3.54 avg rating — 1,409 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
A Crack in the Edge of the World 3.79 avg rating — 7,186 ratings
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Take What You Got And Fly With It
Take What You Got And Fly With It 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,758 ratings
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Telegraph Avenue
Telegraph Avenue 3.40 avg rating — 21,578 ratings
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Calico Palace
Calico Palace 4.09 avg rating — 2,672 ratings
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Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day 3.99 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (Americans and the California Dream #1)
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (Americans and the California Dream #1) 3.90 avg rating — 178 ratings
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I Woke Up in Love This Morning
I Woke Up in Love This Morning 3.73 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,278 ratings
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California Gold
California Gold 4.10 avg rating — 3,240 ratings
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Cheesemonger
Cheesemonger 3.77 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague 4.06 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
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Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments
Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments 3.21 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Not a Genuine Black Man: Or, How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the Lily-White Suburbs
Not a Genuine Black Man: Or, How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the Lily-White Suburbs 4.06 avg rating — 464 ratings
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The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen
The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen 3.61 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West 4.29 avg rating — 19,127 ratings
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The Black Panthers
The Black Panthers 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism 4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America 3.90 avg rating — 237 ratings
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When the Killing's Done
When the Killing's Done 3.63 avg rating — 5,709 ratings
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles 3.86 avg rating — 861 ratings
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown 4.01 avg rating — 5,116 ratings
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The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California
The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California 3.80 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence 3.96 avg rating — 2,326 ratings