#43 of 21 in California Studies in Food and Culture
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
ByRachel Laudan
1996 • 5 Readers • 482 pages
All About Me!
ByMel Brooks
Short Cuts: Selected Stories
ByRaymond Carver
Love Lockdown
ByElizabeth Greenwood
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
ByNick Offerman
Broken Faith
ByMitch Weiss
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
ByAmanda Montell
Black Klansman
ByRon Stallworth
Just Mercy
ByBryan Stevenson
Blood in the Water
ByHeather Ann Thompson
2016 • 23 Readers • 752 pages • 4.5
Being Wrong
ByKathryn Schulz
2010 • 23 Readers • 339 pages • 3
Lost & Found
ByKathryn Schulz
2018 • 17 Readers • 4.5
Pain and Prejudice: A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies
ByGabrielle Jackson
2019 • 8 Readers • 360 pages • 2.5
Giving Up the Ghost
ByHilary Mantel
2003 • 16 Readers • 272 pages • 5
Ask Me About My New God
ByMaria Bamford
1 Reader
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
ByAlison Bechdel
World Travel
ByLaurie Woolever,Anthony Bourdain
2 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
ByLewis Carroll
Lost Girls
ByRobert Kolker
Yellow Bird
BySierra Crane Murdoch
I Hope This Finds You Well
ByKate Baer
Motherless Brooklyn
ByJonathan Lethem
Born a Crime
ByTrevor Noah
Taste
ByStanley Tucci
Blonde
ByJoyce Carol Oates
2000 • 1 Reader
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
ByAubrey Gordon
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
ByRoach Mary
A Woman Like Her
BySanam Maher
Ramona the Brave
ByBeverly Cleary,Stockard Channing,+1 more
Isaac's Storm
ByErik Larson
The Double
ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Constance Garnett(Translator)
My Friend Anna
ByRachel DeLoache Williams
True Grit
ByCharles Portis
The Island of Sea Women
ByLisa See
2019 • 142 Readers • 384 pages • 4.1
Know My Name: A Memoir
ByChanel Miller
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
ByJohn Carreyrou
A Man Called Ove
ByFredrik Backman,Henning Koch(Translator)
American Predator
ByMaureen Callahan
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
ByFredrik Backman
2015 • 15 Readers • 342 pages • 4.5
Wishful Drinking
ByCarrie Fisher
The Glass Castle
ByJeannette Walls
A Kim Jong-Il Production
ByPaul Fischer
Hollywood Park
ByMikel Jollett
Breath
ByJames Nestor
Hidden Valley Road
ByRobert Kolker
2020 • 157 Readers • 400 pages • 4.3
Becoming
ByMichelle Obama
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
ByGregg Olsen
1997 • 17 Readers • 436 pages • 3.6
The Burger Chef Murders in Indiana
ByJulie Young
1 Reader
The Best of Me
ByDavid Sedaris
Howl and Other Poems
ByAllen Ginsberg,Barry Miles
The Joy Luck Club
ByAmy Tan
Love in the Time of Cholera
ByGabriel García Márquez,Edith Grossman(Translator)
How Toddlers Thrive
ByTovah P Klein
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy
ByElizabeth Kendall
Dad Is Fat
ByJim Gaffigan
If Beale Street Could Talk
ByJames Baldwin
The Ghosts of Eden Park
ByKaren Abbott
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
ByJonathan Van Ness
Naked
ByDavid Sedaris
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
ByRobert Louis Stevenson
The Glass Hotel
ByEmily St. John Mandel
Is This Anything?
ByJerry Seinfeld
My Friend Dahmer
ByDerf Backderf,Marc Meyers
People Who Eat Darkness
ByRichard Lloyd Parry
Holidays on Ice
ByDavid Sedaris
The Boston Strangler
ByGerold Frank
Catch and Kill
ByRonan Farrow
#1 of 1 in Como agua para chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
ByLaura Esquivel,Thomas Christensen,+1 more
Role Models
ByJohn Waters
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
ByPatrick Radden Keefe
Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
ByPeter Graham
Oh Crap! Potty Training
ByJamie Glowacki
2011 • 21 Readers • 294 pages • 3.5
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
ByMichelle Alexander
2010 • 357 Readers • 4.5
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
ByDeborah Feldman
Pilgrim's Wilderness
ByTom Kizzia
