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Another Punch in the Head
Gary Phillips’s antihero returns in The Haul, a gripping new heist novel.
5 min
California Dreaming
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Heading to the coast? These 10 California-connected reads—from literary fiction to celebrity memoirs—are easy to sink into all summer long.
2 min
The Making of Cannabis Country
Charlie Harris’s lucid history of Mendocino County, Mendo, charts how a Northern California outpost was transformed into a lab for counterculture, cannabis and the shifting American West.
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Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (July 16, 2026)
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James Sallis and the Art of Crime Fiction
7 min
