California History
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
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Natalia Molina
4.15 avg rating — 422 ratings 3. 
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San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History
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Beth Winegarner
4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 5. 
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
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J.S. Holliday
4.17 avg rating — 196 ratings 
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,787 ratings
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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (Americans and the California Dream #1)
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Kevin Starr
3.90 avg rating — 178 ratings 9. 
Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California
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J.S. Holliday
4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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The Anza Trail and the Settling of California (California Legacy Book) 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850
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Neal Harlow
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
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H.W. Brands
4.05 avg rating — 1,630 ratings 
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Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 3)
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Gray Brechin
3.92 avg rating — 405 ratings 
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Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000
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Stephanie Barron
4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings 24. 
The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871
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Scott Zesch
4.01 avg rating — 67 ratings 
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The Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience
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Timothy White
3.93 avg rating — 270 ratings 
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
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Les Standiford
3.86 avg rating — 861 ratings 31. 
The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown 3.95 avg rating — 728 ratings
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The Silver Dons...and the Pioneers Who Overwhelmed California (History of San Diego Vol. 3 ) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound
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Ralph J. Gleason
3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings 35. 
Junipero Serra: The Illustrated Story of the Franciscan Founder of California's Missions
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Don DeNevi
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings 36. 
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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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
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Rebecca Solnit
4.15 avg rating — 1,578 ratings 38. 
Sacramento: An Illustrated History 1839-1874: From Sutter's Fort to Capital City
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Thor Severson
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 39. 
Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
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Greg Renoff
4.22 avg rating — 1,493 ratings 
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The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California
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Richard Rayner
3.80 avg rating — 263 ratings 41. 
Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of The Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror
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Lew Irwin
4.31 avg rating — 49 ratings 43. 
Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California (Volume 22) 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847
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Winston Groom
4.01 avg rating — 393 ratings 
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Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual
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Lauren Coodley
3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings 
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Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California
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Lisbeth Haas
3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings 51. 
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
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William J. Mann
3.63 avg rating — 5,109 ratings 53. 
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
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Lili Anolik
3.59 avg rating — 2,486 ratings 
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
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Tracey Goessel
4.10 avg rating — 147 ratings 56. 
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
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Herbert Asbury
3.85 avg rating — 872 ratings 57. 
Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
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Douglas Flamming
4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings 58. 
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
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Cari Beauchamp
4.35 avg rating — 319 ratings 59. 
Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
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Judy Yung
3.94 avg rating — 125 ratings 59. 
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
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M. Kat Anderson
4.58 avg rating — 494 ratings 61. 
The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California
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Alexander Saxton
3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings 62. 
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
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Michael Wallis
4.23 avg rating — 2,603 ratings 63. 
¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
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When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
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Susan H. Kamei
4.34 avg rating — 169 ratings 65. 
So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
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David Browne
4.16 avg rating — 702 ratings 
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Gold Fleet for California: Forty-Niners from Australia and New Zealand
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Charles Bateson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 68. 
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We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
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Stacy Russo
3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings 74. 
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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Lisa See
3.95 avg rating — 11,026 ratings 
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 3.85 avg rating — 361 ratings
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To California by Sea: A Maritime History of the California Gold Rush
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James P. Delgado
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry
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Patricia Ortlieb
3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings 79. 
Native Peoples of California (North American Indian Nations)
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Linda Lowery
3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Vintage Fresno: Pictorial Recollections of a Western City
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Edwin M Eaton
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Tales of San Francisco: "San Francisco Is Your Home," "San Francisco Kaleidoscope" and "The Streets of San Francisco"
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Samuel Dickson
3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings 89. 
The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
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Ben Tarnoff
3.82 avg rating — 754 ratings 92. 
Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series) (Volume 3)
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Kevin Starr
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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Marilyn Chase
3.83 avg rating — 1,102 ratings 97. 
The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family
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Isis Aquarian
4.13 avg rating — 240 ratings 98. 
Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era (Americans and the California Dream #2)
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Kevin Starr
4.01 avg rating — 143 ratings 98. 
We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
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Marc Spitz
3.97 avg rating — 2,738 ratings 98. 
The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 3.76 avg rating — 234 ratings