Novels set in California

1951 novel by J. D. Salinger

1939 novel by John Steinbeck

1937 novella by John Steinbeck

1952 novel by John Steinbeck

science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick

1962 novel by Philip K. Dick

2004 novel by David Mitchell

novel by James M. Cain

2011 novel by Rick Riordan

novel by Jules Verne

Animorphs is a science fantasy series of youth books written by Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, writing together under the name K. A. Applegate, and published by Scholastic. It is told in first person, with all six main characters taking turns narrating the books through their own perspectives. The core themes of the series are horror, war, imperialism, dehumanization, sanity, morality, innocence, leadership, freedom, family, and growing up.

1985 novel by Cormac McCarthy

1935 novel by John Steinbeck

novel by Robert Bloch (1959)

novel by John Steinbeck

novel by Philip K. Dick

Japanese anime television series

2006 novel by Vernor Vinge

novel by Johnston McCulley

novel by John Steinbeck

Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and annexation of the territory by the United States, Ramona explores the life of a mixed-race Scottish–Native American orphan girl. The story was inspired by the marriage of Hugo Reid and Victoria Reid.

Vineland is a 1990 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon set in California in 1984, the year of President Ronald Reagan's reelection. Through flashbacks, its characters, who lived through the 1960s, account for the free spirit of rebellion of that decade, and describe the traits of the "fascistic Nixonian repression" and the war on drugs that clashed with it. The book portrays transformations in U.S. society from the 1960s to the 1980s.

1937 novel by John Steinbeck

1962 novel by Jack Kerouac

thumb|right|Scan of the 1927 first edition Oil! is an American novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandal and takes place in Southern California. It is a social and political satire skewering the human foibles of all its characters.

novel by James M. Cain

1960 children's novel by Scott O'Dell

1994 novel by Frederick Forsyth

1996 novel by Michael Crichton

2005 novel by Isabel Allende

1993 science fiction novel by Octavia E. Butler

2018 novel by Rick Riordan

novel by John Steinbeck

novel by John Steinbeck

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1991 novel by Francine Rivers

2010 novel by Jennifer Egan

2013 novel by Jhumpa Lahiri

1987 novel by Dean Koontz

novel by Robert Bloch (1990)

series of novels attributed to Francine Pascal

1991 novel by Douglas Coupland

2009 novel by Aprilynne Pike

1994 short story collection by Bret Easton Ellis

novel by William Saroyan

novel by Philip K. Dick written in 1959 and published in 1975

1947 novel by John Steinbeck

book series by Erin Hunter

1992 novel by James Ellroy

2022 novel by Bonnie Garmus

1966 novel by Scott O'Dell

1985 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

2005 novel by Dean Koontz

1995 novel by Jonathan Lethem

1977 novel by Gary Brandner

1968 novel by Frank Herbert