California Literature - Fiction and Biography
The following list represents my personal selection of the best regional literature of California. Click a link to go to Amazon.com to purchase the book.
	Mary Austin The Flock The Ford The Land of Little Rain Richard Brautigan A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, The Hawkline Monster (Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Edition) Trout Fishing in America, the Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar Revenge of the Lawn, the Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away William H. Brewer Up and Down California in 1860-64 Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Octavia Butler Mind of My Mind Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep The Long Goodbye Farewell, My Lovely The Lady in the Lake The High Window Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith The Shirley Letters from the California Mines Joan Didion Play It As It Lays : A Novel Slouching Towards Bethlehem Daniel Duane Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast Colin Fletcher The Thousand Mile Summer [out of print, available as audio tapes] William Gibson All Tomorrow's Parties Allen Ginsberg Howl and Other Poems Dashiel Hammet The Maltese Falcon The Glass Key The Continental Op The Thin Man The Dain Curse Bret Harte Bret Harte's Gold Rush: Outcasts of Poker Flat, the Luck of Roaring Camp, Tennesee's Partner and Other Favorites Chester Hines If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer Dies the Swan Hunt Jackson Ramona Robinson Jeffers Selected Poems Stones of the Sur (photography by Morley Baer) Jack Kerouac Dharma Bums Desolation Angels On the Road Big Sur Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Clarence King Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada Theodora Kroeber Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America Ursula LeGuin Always Coming Home Jack London The Valley of the Moon Martin Eden William L. Manley Death Valley in '49: The Autobiography of a Pioneer; Detailing His Life From a Humble Home in the Green Mountains to the Gold Mines of California David Mas Masumoto Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm Armistead Maupin 28 Barbary Lane (the first three volumes of Tales of the City) Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, Volume 4) Significant Others (Tales of the City Series, Volume 5) Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, Volume 6) Johnston McCulley The Mark of Zorro (The Curse of Capistrano) Zorro: The Masters Edition Volume One John Muir My First Summer in the Sierra The Mountains of California The Yosemite [out of print] Walter Nordhoff The Journey of the Flame: 1792-1902 [out of print] Kem Nunn Tapping the Source The Dogs of Winter Pomona Queen Frank Norris The Octopus: A Story of California McTeague: A Story of San Francisco William Saroyan The Human Comedy The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories My Name Is Aram Alexander Saxton Bright Web in the Darkness The Great Midland: The Radical Novel Reconsidered Upton Sinclair Oil! A Novel John Steinbeck East of Eden In Dubious Battle The Log From the Sea of Cortez Tortilla Flat Sweet Thursday Cannery Row The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men The Wayward Bus To a God Unknown The Long Valley The Pastures of Heaven Robert Louis Stevenson The Silverado Squatters George Stewart The California Trail: An Epic With Many Heroes Ordeal By Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party The Pioneers Go West Earth Abides Fire [out of print] Storm [out of print] Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club The Bonesetters Daughter Mark Twain Roughing It The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, The Clawed Back Into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston Farewell to Manzanar, A True Story of Japanese-American Experience During and After the World War II Internment Evelyn Waugh The Loved One Nathaniel West The Day of the Locust Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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