Any good fiction books set in Berkeley?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>yeah? (ten char)</p>

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<p>Indeed, there are at least 40.</p>

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<p>Holy ****. That's a lot. I'm going to Amazon that list up later tonight. Until then, does any one have specific recommendations? </p>

<p>Thanks greatestyen!</p>

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<p>This one is on the list above, looks interesting, particularly if you're South Asian or a female grad student</p>

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<p>Irving Stone's work might be good for gaining an understanding of pre-60s Berkeley as presente in fiction.</p>

<p><a href="http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/bancroftiana/123/stone.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/bancroftiana/123/stone.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Jill Smith is a Berkeley detective. There are ten books in the series written by Susan Dunlap. I've only read 'A Dinner To Die For' (1987), but it was a pretty good read and accurately captured the Gourmet Ghetto and Foodie-dom of Berkeley</p>

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<p>Donald Duk by Frank Chin</p>

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<p>Here's a definite goody - 'Prizes' by Erich Segal... It follows three people in their attempts at garnering the Nobel Prize - one is a child prodigy - Isabel - who is coerced by her father into joining Berkeley in the wee young years of teenagehood, and who finally manages to propound the GUT (Grand Unified Theory - connects all of what we know) at, guess where, Berkeley. A good read, and three guesses for who wins the Nobel Prize:</p>

<p>Gimme an I, gimme an S, gimme an A...</p>

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<p>the dharma bums by jack kerouac (sort of)</p>

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<p>In Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Oedipa goes to Berkeley at one point. That's all I got that I can remember right now. I think I read some other novels that had parts set in Berkeley, but I can't remember which novels those were.</p>