Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State (Western Literature Series)

Haslam divides the state into five regions, selecting prose and poetry from each that reflects their history, terrain, and culture. Many Califonias features sixty-seven authors ranging from Jack London to Maxine Hong Kingston, making it the most diverse general-interest anthology available. 

• American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society in Modern America)
• Where I Was From
• Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
• Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems (Contemporary American Poetry, Poetry Books for Teens and Adults)
• Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
• Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
• Of Mice and Men
• The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
• The Laughing Classroom: Everyone's Guide to Teaching with Humor and Play (Loomans, Diane)
• Assembling California (Annals of the Former World)