Adults - Books about California

Updated March 21, 2026
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The golden gate
Chua, Amy
Paper Book
Edgar-nominated debut novel from a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author, set in California at the time of WW2 . Chinatown meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl
Ebook
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people,...
West of Eden : an American place
Stein, Jean
Paper Book
"West of Edenis the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside- Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim u all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in...
The Maltese falcon
Hammett, Dashiell
Paper Book
The character Sam Spade is now the subject of a brand new TV series, MONSIEUR SPADE, starring Clive Owen. One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century. 'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre....
The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy
Paper Book
'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist Discover Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. <...

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