Books Set In California

1.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,533 ratings
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Ten Good Reasons (Sandy Cove, #2)
Ten Good Reasons (Sandy Cove, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 337 ratings
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East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,122 ratings
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Defy (Sinners of Saint, #0.5)
Defy (Sinners of Saint, #0.5)
by: L.J. Shen
3.84 avg rating — 47,015 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,747 ratings
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The Red Bikini (Sandy Cove, #1)
The Red Bikini (Sandy Cove, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 325 ratings
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The Woman From Death Row (Jade Stryker, #1)
The Woman From Death Row (Jade Stryker, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Daughter of Fortune
Daughter of Fortune 3.94 avg rating — 138,047 ratings
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Hollywood Wives (Hollywood Series, #1)
Hollywood Wives (Hollywood Series, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 12,689 ratings
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 149,636 ratings
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Sorrow
Sorrow 4.41 avg rating — 990 ratings
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Clover Blue
Clover Blue 4.12 avg rating — 1,917 ratings
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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon 3.87 avg rating — 113,184 ratings
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Freaks I've Met
Freaks I've Met 3.56 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove, #1)
Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 47,112 ratings
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My Dirty California
My Dirty California 3.94 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4.09 avg rating — 495,929 ratings
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 165,221 ratings
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Unscripted
Unscripted 3.67 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Lost in Los Angeles
Lost in Los Angeles 3.82 avg rating — 148 ratings
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House of Sand and Fog
House of Sand and Fog 3.86 avg rating — 135,351 ratings
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Wings (Wings, #1)
Wings (Wings, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 82,963 ratings
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 214,014 ratings
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Game On (Game On #1)
Game On (Game On #1) 3.49 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Dating in Los Angeles: Dissecting the Dysfunction
Dating in Los Angeles: Dissecting the Dysfunction 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Middle Ground: Stories
The Middle Ground: Stories 4.03 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 4.13 avg rating — 1,251,484 ratings
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Golda's Hutch
Golda's Hutch 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment.
Farewell to Manzanar: A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment. 3.71 avg rating — 19,529 ratings
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Proposal (The Mediator, #6.5)
Proposal (The Mediator, #6.5)
by: Meg Cabot
3.95 avg rating — 6,416 ratings
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All's Fair and Other California Stories
All's Fair and Other California Stories 3.64 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,399 ratings
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Sidelined (Game On, #3)
Sidelined (Game On, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Fool's Puzzle (Benni Harper, #1)
Fool's Puzzle (Benni Harper, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 5,477 ratings
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Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat 3.83 avg rating — 61,118 ratings
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A Deal with the Devil (The Devils, #1)
A Deal with the Devil (The Devils, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 56,477 ratings
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 3.25 avg rating — 68,151 ratings
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Della: A Memoir of My Daughter
Della: A Memoir of My Daughter 3.74 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated 4.09 avg rating — 18,171 ratings
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Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge 3.62 avg rating — 18,373 ratings
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Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple 4.12 avg rating — 3,917 ratings
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Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)
Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 274,562 ratings
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How to Be an American Housewife
How to Be an American Housewife 3.65 avg rating — 13,575 ratings
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The Blue Knight
The Blue Knight 3.89 avg rating — 2,142 ratings
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 78,158 ratings
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Butterfly Weeds (Butterfly Weeds, #1)
Butterfly Weeds (Butterfly Weeds, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 3,441 ratings
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Too Grand for Words
Too Grand for Words 4.47 avg rating — 72 ratings
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A Fistful of Sky (LaZelle, #1)
A Fistful of Sky (LaZelle, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 1,650 ratings
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When the Killing's Done
When the Killing's Done 3.63 avg rating — 5,708 ratings
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The Serial
The Serial 3.70 avg rating — 294 ratings
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The Master Of Monterey
The Master Of Monterey 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Murder on Ice (A Figure Skating Mystery #1)
Murder on Ice (A Figure Skating Mystery #1) 3.18 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Lost in the Light
Lost in the Light 3.84 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Indelible
Indelible 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Disneylanders
Disneylanders 3.79 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century
Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century 4.12 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Dream Brother
Dream Brother 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Gold Rush Girl (The California Argonauts, #1)
Gold Rush Girl (The California Argonauts, #1) 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Canter of the Heart (The Equestrian and the Aviator, #1)
A Canter of the Heart (The Equestrian and the Aviator, #1)
by: E.E. West
4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Deep Blue (Blue, #1)
Deep Blue (Blue, #1) 3.52 avg rating — 10,956 ratings
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
by: Lisa See
3.95 avg rating — 11,026 ratings
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August 9th
August 9th 4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Falling Under (Falling Under, #1)
Falling Under (Falling Under, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 16,573 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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A Duty to Betray
A Duty to Betray 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Altered
Altered 3.73 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Water Ghosts
Water Ghosts 3.32 avg rating — 536 ratings
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Egg Heaven: Stories
Egg Heaven: Stories 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Semi-Scripted (Wanderlove, #2)
Semi-Scripted (Wanderlove, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Two Lovers: the love story of Carole Lombard and Russ Columbo
Two Lovers: the love story of Carole Lombard and Russ Columbo 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History) 4.32 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Accumulation
Accumulation 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Launch (Rise of the Anointed #1)
Launch (Rise of the Anointed #1) 4.25 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Bound (The Witches of Doyle #1)
Bound (The Witches of Doyle #1) 4.05 avg rating — 1,841 ratings
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The Impossibility of Us
The Impossibility of Us 4.12 avg rating — 902 ratings
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Virtual Velocity: An L.A. Story
Virtual Velocity: An L.A. Story 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Black Dahlia, Red Rose
Black Dahlia, Red Rose 3.74 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
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The Curse of Capistrano
The Curse of Capistrano 3.99 avg rating — 7,073 ratings
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The Angelfall Trilogy (Penryn & the End of Days, #1-3)
The Angelfall Trilogy (Penryn & the End of Days, #1-3)
by: Susan Ee
4.46 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
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Solomon's Oak
Solomon's Oak 3.77 avg rating — 2,773 ratings
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About That Night (Moonrise Beach, #5)
About That Night (Moonrise Beach, #5) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Mulholland Meat
Mulholland Meat
by: Kip Nolan
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Never Say Goodbye (Brothers Montgomery. #1)
Never Say Goodbye (Brothers Montgomery. #1)
by: Kim Sakwa
4.37 avg rating — 589 ratings
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Princess of the Paddock: Ground-Level Observations On An Unexpected Life
Princess of the Paddock: Ground-Level Observations On An Unexpected Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Inter State: Essays from California
Inter State: Essays from California 3.81 avg rating — 90 ratings
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I Thirst (The Veritas Chronicles, #1)
I Thirst (The Veritas Chronicles, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Sierra Gold Mystery (Dana Girls - Revised, 10)
The Sierra Gold Mystery (Dana Girls - Revised, 10) 3.48 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Devil You Know (Detective Margaret Nolan, #3)
The Devil You Know (Detective Margaret Nolan, #3) 3.55 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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A Brush With Fame
A Brush With Fame 3.38 avg rating — 74 ratings
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True Grandeur
True Grandeur 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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En ik alleen overleefde
En ik alleen overleefde 4.12 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Calm Before An Earthquake
Calm Before An Earthquake 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Pale Demon (The Hollows, #9)
Pale Demon (The Hollows, #9) 4.43 avg rating — 48,762 ratings
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The Mighty Six-Ninety (690)
The Mighty Six-Ninety (690) 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love 4.31 avg rating — 6,694 ratings
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Seven Tears Into the Sea
Seven Tears Into the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 3,099 ratings
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 3.90 avg rating — 24,681 ratings
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The Garden of the World (Western Literature and Fiction Series)
The Garden of the World (Western Literature and Fiction Series) 4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Pearls of Pleasure
Pearls of Pleasure 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Upside Down (Off the Map, #1)
Upside Down (Off the Map, #1)
by: Lia Riley
3.68 avg rating — 1,693 ratings
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