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California

California Great Books list by Gary Kurtz and Dr. Kevin Starr
 

Mary Austin. The Land of Little Rain.

Mike Davis. City of Quartz: Excavating the future in Los Angeles.

Jack London. The Valley of the Moon.

Carey McWilliams. California, the Great Exception.

John Muir. The Mountains of California.

Frank Norris. The Octopus: A Story of California.

Irving Berdine Richman. California under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847.

Josiah Royce. California, from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second
Vigilance Committee in San Francisco: A Study of American Character.

John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath.

Bayard Taylor. Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire.

Gary Kurtz adds:
Kevin Starr, Californians and the American Dream.

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Gary F. Kurutz has worked in the Rare Book dept. of the Huntington Library, served as Library Director of the California Historical Society, and for the last 19 years, he has been head of Special Collections at the State Library. Dr. Starr is the Librarian of the State of California.

Recent California novel: California Fire and Life by Don Winslow