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The Bibliography

A list of selected texts, all informative and entertaining.

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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of California by Alvaro Jaramillo

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age by Richard Rayner

Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers' Oral History by Harvey Schwartz

California: A History by Kevin Starr

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis

Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 by Kevin Starr

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates

The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco: A Gallery of Fakers and Frauds, Rascals and Robber Barons, Scoundrels and Scalawags by Charles F. Adams

The Mountains of California by John Muir

My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein

The Overstory by Richard Powers

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Land Use in California: Politics of Land by Robert C. Fellmeth & Ralph Nader

Rocks and Minerals of California by Brown, Vinson, Allan, David, Stark & James

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future by Manuel Pastor

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein

Where I Was From by Joan Didion

The White Album: Essays by Joan Didion