Books in or about California
by
John Q McDonald
--- 25 July 2024
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Alameddine, Rabih:
The Angel of History
Alcott, Kathleen:
America was Hard to Find
Austin, Mary:
The Ford
Banham, Reyner:
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Benford, Gregory:
Timescape
Berman, Tosh:
Tosh
Bittner, Mark:
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Brook, James, Chris Carlsson, Nancy J. Peters (eds.):
Reclaiming San Francisco
Bradbury, Ray:
Death is a Lonely Business
Bradbury, Ray:
Let's all Kill Constance
Brautigan, Richard:
Trout Fishing in America
Brautigan, Richard:
Willard and his Bowling Trophies
Brechin, Gray:
Imperial San Francisco
Butler, Octavia E.:
Parable of the Sower
Boyle, T. C.:
Drop City
Cain, James M.:
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Chandler, Raymond:
The Big Sleep
Chandler, Raymond:
Farewell, My Lovely
Chandler, Raymond:
The High Window
Chandler, Raymond:
The Lady in the Lake
Chandler, Raymond:
The Little Sister
Chandler, Raymond:
The Long Goodbye
Chandler, Raymond:
Playback
Chase, Marilyn:
The Barbary Plague
Cline, Emma:
The Girls
Codrescu, Andrei:
Hail Babylon!
Coyote, Peter:
Sleeping Where I Fall
Craddock, William J.:
Be Not Content
Davies, Marion:
The Times We Had
Davis, Mike:
City of Quartz
Davis, Mike:
Ecology of Fear
Dewey, Thomas B.:
The Love-Death Thing
Dick, Philip K.:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Didion, Joan:
Play it as it Lays
Didion, Joan:
Where I was From
Dodge, Jim:
Not Fade Away
Donoghue, Emma:
Frog Music
Egan, Jennifer:
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Eggers, Dave:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Fishburne, Rodes:
Going to See the Elephant
Florence, Ronald:
The Perfect Machine
Frame, Janet:
Living in the Maniototo
Gores, Joe:
Menaced Assassin
Grafton, Sue:
A is for Alibi
Grafton, Sue:
B is for Burglar
Grafton, Sue:
C is for Corpse
Grafton, Sue:
D is for Deadbeat
Grafton, Sue:
E is for Evidence
Grafton, Sue:
F is for Fugitive
Grafton, Sue:
G is for Gumshoe
Grafton, Sue:
H is for Homicide
Grafton, Sue:
I is for Innocent
Grafton, Sue:
J is for Judgment
Grafton, Sue:
K is for Killer
Grafton, Sue:
L is for Lawless
Grafton, Sue:
M is for Malice
Grafton, Sue:
N is for Noose
Grafton, Sue:
O is for Outlaw
Grafton, Sue:
P is for Peril
Grafton, Sue:
Q is for Quarry
Grafton, Sue:
R is for Ricochet
Grafton, Sue:
S is for Silence
Grafton, Sue:
T is for Trespass
Grafton, Sue:
U is for Undertow
Grafton, Sue:
V is for Vengeance
Grafton, Sue:
W is for Wasted
Grafton, Sue:
X
Grafton, Sue:
Y is for Yesterday
Greer, Andrew Sean:
The Path of Minor Planets
Greer, Andrew Sean:
The Story of a Marriage
Handler, Daniel:
The Basic Eight
Himes, Chester:
If He Hollers Let Him Go
Huxley, Aldous:
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
Isherwood, Christopher:
A Single Man
Justison, Paul:
Lost and Found in the 60s
Kadohata, Cynthia:
The Floating World
Kadohata, Cynthia:
In the Heart of the Valley of Love
Kershaw, Alex:
Jack London: A Life
Kushner, Rachel:
The Mars Room
Lamott, Anne:
All New People
Lamott, Anne:
Crooked Little Heart
Lescroart, John:
Dead Irish
Macdonald, Ross:
The Moving Target
Martin, Steve:
Shopgirl
Matheson, Richard:
Somewhere in Time
Maupin, Armistead:
Babycakes
Maupin, Armistead:
Further Tales of the City
Maupin, Armistead:
Michael Tolliver Lives
Maupin, Armistead:
More Tales of the City
Maupin, Armistead:
Significant Others
Maupin, Armistead:
Sure of You
Maupin, Armistead:
Tales of the City
McNally, Dennis:
A Long Strange Trip
Michaels, Lisa:
Split
Millar, Margaret:
The Cannibal Heart
Miller, Henry:
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Miller, John, and Tim Smith (eds.):
San Francisco Thrillers
Minichino, Camille:
The Beryllium Murder
Murphy, Pat:
The City, Not Long After
Ng, Fae Myenne:
Bone
Orange, Tommy:
There There
Paul, Jim:
Medieval in LA
Phillips, Kate:
White Rabbit
Pynchon, Thomas:
Inherent Vice
Pynchon, Thomas:
Vineland
Reid, Robert L. (ed.):
A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada
Robinson, Kim Stanley:
The Gold Coast
Robinson, Kim Stanley:
Pacific Edge
Robinson, Kim Stanley:
The Wild Shore
Rubin, Jasper:
A Negotiated Landscape
Safran, Joshua:
Free Spirit
Schneider, Bart:
Secret Love
Schulberg, Budd:
What Makes Sammy Run?
See, Carolyn:
Golden Days
Sides, Josh:
Erotic City
Sixteen Rivers Press (ed.):
The Place that Inhabits Us
Sperber, A. M., and Eric Lax:
Bogart
St. Aubyn, Edward:
On the Edge
Stegner, Wallace:
The Spectator Bird
Stewart, George:
Earth Abides
Tan, Amy:
The Hundred Secret Senses
Watkins, Claire Vaye:
Gold Fame Citrus
West, Nathanael:
The Day of the Locust
Weston, Carolyn:
Poor, Poor Ophelia
Wilson, Rebecca:
A House with no Roof
Wodehouse, P. G.:
Laughing Gas
Wolfe, Tom:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wood, Summer:
Wrecker
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