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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in California

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Literary Fiction - 116
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  • Colored Television
    Danzy Senna
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial ...
  • Time's Mouth
    Time's Mouth: A Novel
    Edan Lepucki
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow ...
  • There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
    Ruben Reyes
    Hardcover: 08/06/2024
     
    An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future ...
  • The Golden Gate
    Amy Chua
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that ...
  • California Golden
    Melanie Benjamin
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    Two sisters navigate the thrilling, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ...
  • Liars
    Liars: A Novel
    Sarah Manguso
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from...
  • Bury Your Gays
    Chuck Tingle
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it ...

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