What to Read After California
Readers who loved California by Kevin Starr keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where California is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after California
The worst years of our lives
Where I Was From
City of Quartz
A book of migrations
Beyond the Hundreth Meridian
Los Angeles Stories
Americans and the California dream, 1850-1915
A crack in the edge of the world
The Day of Battle
Titan
The tortilla curtain
White trash
The Confusion. Volume II of the Baroque Cycle
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Hocus Pocus
Valis
Play It as It Lays
Hell's Angels
Quicksilver
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Sixth Extinction
Alexander Hamilton
Cryptonomicon