California Memoirs

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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 — 19,530 ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
They Called Us Enemy 4.42 avg rating — 50,168 ratings
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Wishful Drinking
Wishful Drinking 3.82 avg rating — 91,329 ratings
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A Stolen Life
A Stolen Life 3.96 avg rating — 141,489 ratings
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America 3.84 avg rating — 27,112 ratings
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Smile (Smile, #1)
Smile (Smile, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 301,074 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 — 33,274 ratings
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In Pieces
In Pieces 3.95 avg rating — 40,888 ratings
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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm 3.98 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
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Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience
Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience 4.25 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont 3.67 avg rating — 4,467 ratings
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The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst
The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst 3.59 avg rating — 942 ratings
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Rain of Gold
Rain of Gold 4.50 avg rating — 8,212 ratings
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Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
by: Alia Volz
4.35 avg rating — 1,576 ratings
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The Real Frank Zappa Book
The Real Frank Zappa Book 4.13 avg rating — 6,579 ratings
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
by: Rob Lowe
3.87 avg rating — 83,930 ratings
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The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
by: Mark Arax
4.43 avg rating — 1,351 ratings
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My Own Two Feet: A Memoir
My Own Two Feet: A Memoir 4.23 avg rating — 1,958 ratings
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Know My Name
Know My Name 4.69 avg rating — 243,445 ratings
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I Love Yous Are for White People
I Love Yous Are for White People
by: Lac Su
3.52 avg rating — 8,142 ratings
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Lettuce Wars
Lettuce Wars 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen
Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen 3.49 avg rating — 296 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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My Lobotomy: A Memoir
My Lobotomy: A Memoir 3.76 avg rating — 14,247 ratings
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Dear Mad'm
Dear Mad'm 4.22 avg rating — 231 ratings
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To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu
To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu 3.98 avg rating — 1,404 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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Coreyography
Coreyography 3.88 avg rating — 6,860 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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Sisters (Smile, #2)
Sisters (Smile, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 108,520 ratings
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Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture
Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture 4.33 avg rating — 121 ratings
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In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09 4.10 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Love Life
Love Life
by: Rob Lowe
3.68 avg rating — 11,508 ratings
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The Silverado Squatters
The Silverado Squatters 3.40 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Wildflower
Wildflower 3.60 avg rating — 40,711 ratings
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Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State 3.82 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.09 avg rating — 5,578 ratings
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 4.07 avg rating — 7,563 ratings
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A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature
A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating — 25,284 ratings
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I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir
I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir 3.78 avg rating — 3,098 ratings
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Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad 3.80 avg rating — 4,290 ratings
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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward 4.09 avg rating — 16,683 ratings
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Louie, Take a Look at This!: My Time with Huell Howser
Louie, Take a Look at This!: My Time with Huell Howser 4.12 avg rating — 150 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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Chinese Playground: A Memoir
Chinese Playground: A Memoir
by: Bill Lee
3.99 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 3.80 avg rating — 12,134 ratings
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A House with No Roof: After My Father's Assassination, A Memoir
A House with No Roof: After My Father's Assassination, A Memoir 4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Always Running
Always Running 4.04 avg rating — 8,340 ratings
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The Lost Daughter: A Memoir
The Lost Daughter: A Memoir 3.86 avg rating — 516 ratings
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir 4.20 avg rating — 8,037 ratings
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Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir
Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir 3.75 avg rating — 1,766 ratings
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Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen
Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen 3.94 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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We Are All Shipwrecks
We Are All Shipwrecks 3.78 avg rating — 826 ratings
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A Dream Called Home
A Dream Called Home 4.28 avg rating — 2,662 ratings
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My Dark Places
My Dark Places 3.84 avg rating — 7,444 ratings
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Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses
Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses 3.71 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
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Hollywood Park
Hollywood Park 4.29 avg rating — 16,295 ratings
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Depth Takes a Holiday
Depth Takes a Holiday 3.59 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Finding My Invincible Summer
Finding My Invincible Summer 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Cast Member Confidential: A Disneyfied Memoir
Cast Member Confidential: A Disneyfied Memoir 3.19 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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Watering the Greyhound Garden: Stories from the Streets of San Francisco
Watering the Greyhound Garden: Stories from the Streets of San Francisco 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Olympic Spirit and Other Stories
The Olympic Spirit and Other Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Great Western Divide
The Great Western Divide it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Greenhouse
The Greenhouse 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Just Another Number
Just Another Number 3.69 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Skin Deep
Skin Deep 3.88 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights
Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights 4.44 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997
Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 4.34 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Love That Bunch
Love That Bunch 3.99 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father 4.05 avg rating — 4,076 ratings
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Burro Genius
Burro Genius 4.15 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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A Way of Life, Like Any Other
A Way of Life, Like Any Other 3.57 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son
The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son 3.84 avg rating — 1,608 ratings
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El salón de los artistas exiliados en California: Salka Viertel acogió en su exilio a actores, intelectuales prominentes y personas anónimas huidas del nazismo
El salón de los artistas exiliados en California: Salka Viertel acogió en su exilio a actores, intelectuales prominentes y personas anónimas huidas del nazismo 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Kids and Cocktails Don't Mix: A Memoir
Kids and Cocktails Don't Mix: A Memoir 4.48 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Drug Store Days: My Youth Among the Pills and Potions
Drug Store Days: My Youth Among the Pills and Potions 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Alcatraz Kid: A frank description by an ancient warrior about his teenage days on Alcatraz Island during the last years of the Army occupation on Alcatraz.
Alcatraz Kid: A frank description by an ancient warrior about his teenage days on Alcatraz Island during the last years of the Army occupation on Alcatraz. 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography
The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography 3.87 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Growing Up Along California's North Coast: Boyhood Days In Humboldt County During The 1930s
Growing Up Along California's North Coast: Boyhood Days In Humboldt County During The 1930s really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America
Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America 3.78 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Life and Times of R. Crumb: Comments from Contemporaries
The Life and Times of R. Crumb: Comments from Contemporaries 3.68 avg rating — 44 ratings
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 3.69 avg rating — 182,714 ratings
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An Immigrant's Daughter, A Biography of Molly Miyako Kimura
An Immigrant's Daughter, A Biography of Molly Miyako Kimura 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Twenty Years in the Backwoods of California
Twenty Years in the Backwoods of California really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment
Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
by: Lynn Hill
4.16 avg rating — 1,387 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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Crumb Family Comic
Crumb Family Comic 4.09 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Take This Man: A Memoir
Take This Man: A Memoir 3.74 avg rating — 1,308 ratings
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Gurus in the Parking Lot: Living On and Within Mt. Shasta
Gurus in the Parking Lot: Living On and Within Mt. Shasta it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Cholos and Surfers: A Latino Family Album
Cholos and Surfers: A Latino Family Album really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods 4.01 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
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Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag 3.67 avg rating — 911 ratings
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Frank Zappa, I Am The American Dream
Frank Zappa, I Am The American Dream 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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What It's Like to Live Now
What It's Like to Live Now 3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Oh the Glory of It All
Oh the Glory of It All 3.62 avg rating — 5,665 ratings
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At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Making of an Activist
At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Making of an Activist 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise
Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise 3.82 avg rating — 9,659 ratings
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Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles Flo and Eddie and Frank Zappa | Rock Music Biography and Memoir of a Legendary Musician | Behind the Scenes with The Turtles and Frank Zappa’s Band
Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles Flo and Eddie and Frank Zappa | Rock Music Biography and Memoir of a Legendary Musician | Behind the Scenes with The Turtles and Frank Zappa’s Band 3.87 avg rating — 391 ratings
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