Suggestions for books set in California.
Reading through the states of the US.
Today’s state is California.
Suggestions for books set in California.
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Reading through the states of the US.
Today’s state is California.
Suggestions for books set in California.
Angle of Repose-Wallace Stegner; Gold Fame Citrus-Claire Vaye Watkins
The Valley Of The Giants, by Peter B Kyne.
Steinbeck’s Cannery Row ♥️
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Anything by Ann Lamott. I loved Blue Shoe, although the subject matter is a little tough.
Steinbeck!!!
Agree. Anything Steinbeck.
Read some Joan Didion.
Steinbeck
Pasedena
Check out Pasadena by David Ebershoff
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/869609
This one is mine by Maria Semple.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31624980-the-girl-who-knew-too-much?ac=1&from_search=true
East of Eden!!!
The Bennie Harper series by Earlene Fowler. Written and set in California. Gotta support my local gal. 🙂
Two Years before the Mast – excellent nonfiction account by Dana about his time as a seaman – described California before the gold rush
Raymond Chandler noir novels
Pick a Steinbeck, any Steinbeck!
I second that!!
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
East of Eden by Steinbeck
A bunch of Christopher Moore’s books are set in California!
The Girls
The Big Exit by David Carnoy
Steinbeck’s Cannery Row
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
White Oleander by Janet Finch
The Treasure of Pleasant Valley by Frank Yerby
Allie and Bea
or
Take me With You
Both by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Sharon McCone series by Marcia Muller
There’s a dystopian one called California & it’s awesome
Steinbeck’s East of Eden and Cannery Row.
California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker. Also Sue Grafton’s alphabet series.
The sue Grafton series! Get busy..
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Good one!
Thomas Pynchon – Crying of lot 49/Vineland/Inherent Vice
What a great idea!