Book Recommendations for
General Fiction, set in California
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Sarah Manguso
Paperback: 05/13/2025
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from...
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Miranda July
Paperback: 05/13/2025
The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising ...
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J. Nicole Jones
Paperback: 05/06/2025
A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her marriage, ...
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Amor Towles
Paperback: 04/08/2025
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly ...
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Kate Folk
Hardcover: 04/08/2025
Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with an unusual obsession, in this "razor-sharp and tender-...
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Bonnie Garmus
Paperback: 04/01/2025
A must-read debut! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a "formidable, unapologetic and inspiring" (Parade) scientist in 1960s...
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Brittany Newell
Hardcover: 02/04/2025
A young woman's madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany ...
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