🌴 1980s California

Books capturing California in the Reagan era — a landscape of excess, ambition, and cultural contradiction, from Silicon Valley's dawn to the AIDS crisis. These stories pulse with the decade's restless, neon-lit energy.

Less Than Zero

by Bret Easton Ellis • 1985

Home from college, Clay drifts through LA parties where the glamour hides something rotting.

3.61

102k+

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💸 Rich Kid Ennui 👁️ Passive Narrator

Less Than Zero 88%

Home from college, Clay drifts through LA parties where the glamour hides something rotting.

by Bret Easton Ellis 1985

3.61

102k+ ratings

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💸 Rich Kid Ennui 👁️ Passive Narrator

Malibu Rising

by Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2021

Four Malibu siblings, one legendary party, and a house that will burn to the ground by morning.

4.02

1.3M+

🏡 Family Saga 🌊 Sibling Bonds 💔 Absent Father

Malibu Rising 88%

Four Malibu siblings, one legendary party, and a house that will burn to the ground by morning.

by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2021

4.02

1.3M+ ratings

🏡 Family Saga 🌊 Sibling Bonds 💔 Absent Father

Sex and Rage

by Eve Babitz • 2017

In Hollywood parties and New York salons, a surfer chases the person the glamour keeps hiding.

3.55

20k+

🌴 Bohemian Los Angeles 🎬 Hollywood Facade 🖋️ Female Artist Journey

Sex and Rage 88%

In Hollywood parties and New York salons, a surfer chases the person the glamour keeps hiding.

by Eve Babitz 2017

3.55

20k+ ratings

🌴 Bohemian Los Angeles 🎬 Hollywood Facade 🖋️ Female Artist Journey

Scar Tissue

by Anthony Kiedis • 2004

His father gave him drugs at eleven. This is what happened after.

4.10

103k+

🎸 Rock Memoirs 💉 Heroin Addiction 🩹 Recovery Journey

Scar Tissue 88%

His father gave him drugs at eleven. This is what happened after.

by Anthony Kiedis 2004

4.10

103k+ ratings

🎸 Rock Memoirs 💉 Heroin Addiction 🩹 Recovery Journey

I Used to Be Charming

by Eve Babitz • 2019

Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.

4.13

2k+

🌴 Los Angeles History ✌️ American Counterculture 📝 New Journalism

I Used to Be Charming 87%

Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.

by Eve Babitz 2019

4.13

2k+ ratings

🌴 Los Angeles History ✌️ American Counterculture 📝 New Journalism

The Dirt

by Tommy Lee • 2001

One authorized biography, four versions of every disaster, and zero effort to agree on the facts.

4.14

50k+

📖 Oral History 🎸 Rock Memoirs 🥂 Fame And Excess

The Dirt 87%

One authorized biography, four versions of every disaster, and zero effort to agree on the facts.

by Tommy Lee 2001

4.14

50k+ ratings

📖 Oral History 🎸 Rock Memoirs 🥂 Fame And Excess

When There Was Us

by K.C. Lake • 2024

In 1982, a lonely gas station attendant falls for two best friends who refuse to share.

4.22

134

💕 Polyamorous Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🫂 Found Family

When There Was Us 86%

In 1982, a lonely gas station attendant falls for two best friends who refuse to share.

by K.C. Lake 2024

4.22

134 ratings

💕 Polyamorous Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🫂 Found Family

Wonderland Avenue

by Danny Sugerman • 1989

Jim Morrison gave him a purpose at 12; drugs gave him a heart infection at 21.

4.25

3k+

🎸 Rock And Roll Excess 💊 Addiction Recovery 🌟 Celebrity Addiction

Wonderland Avenue 86%

Jim Morrison gave him a purpose at 12; drugs gave him a heart infection at 21.

by Danny Sugerman 1989

4.25

3k+ ratings

🎸 Rock And Roll Excess 💊 Addiction Recovery 🌟 Celebrity Addiction

The Gentleman's Hour

by Don Winslow • 2011

A surfer murdered. A false confession. PI Boone Daniels hunts the killer inside his own tribe.

4.13

6k+

🏄 Surf Noir 🕵️ Ex-Cop Detective ☀️ Sunshine Noir

The Gentleman's Hour 86%

A surfer murdered. A false confession. PI Boone Daniels hunts the killer inside his own tribe.

by Don Winslow 2011

4.13

6k+ ratings

🏄 Surf Noir 🕵️ Ex-Cop Detective ☀️ Sunshine Noir

When the Bough Breaks

by Jonathan Kellerman • 1985

A retired psychologist probes a child's memory of murder and discovers a ring of predators.

4.02

68k+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🔍 Psychologist Sleuth 🕸️ Criminal Conspiracy

When the Bough Breaks 86%

A retired psychologist probes a child's memory of murder and discovers a ring of predators.

by Jonathan Kellerman 1985

4.02

68k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🔍 Psychologist Sleuth 🕸️ Criminal Conspiracy

The Shards

by Bret Easton Ellis • 2023

A closeted senior in 1981 LA is certain the beautiful new boy is a serial killer.

4.00

45k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🔪 Serial Killer Thriller

The Shards 86%

A closeted senior in 1981 LA is certain the beautiful new boy is a serial killer.

by Bret Easton Ellis 2023

4.00

45k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🔪 Serial Killer Thriller

The White Album

by Joan Didion • 1979

A writer, a psychiatric breakdown, and the California essays that defined an unraveling decade.

4.02

51k+

🔍 Cultural Criticism 📰 New Journalism ✌️ Sixties Counterculture

The White Album 86%

A writer, a psychiatric breakdown, and the California essays that defined an unraveling decade.

by Joan Didion 1979

4.02

51k+ ratings

🔍 Cultural Criticism 📰 New Journalism ✌️ Sixties Counterculture

SMiLE

by Domenic Priore • 2005

His band buried his pop symphony. Bootleggers kept it alive. It took 37 years to finally premiere.

3.80

145

🎸 1960s Music 📼 Lost Albums ⚔️ Creative Differences

SMiLE 86%

His band buried his pop symphony. Bootleggers kept it alive. It took 37 years to finally premiere.

by Domenic Priore 2005

3.80

145 ratings

🎸 1960s Music 📼 Lost Albums ⚔️ Creative Differences

The Age of Abundance

by Brink Lindsey • 2007

Postwar abundance split America into two rival faiths; their deadlock still defines us.

3.51

134

🇺🇸 Postwar America 💰 Mass Affluence ✌️ Counterculture

The Age of Abundance 86%

Postwar abundance split America into two rival faiths; their deadlock still defines us.

by Brink Lindsey 2007

3.51

134 ratings

🇺🇸 Postwar America 💰 Mass Affluence ✌️ Counterculture

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion • 1968

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

4.18

85k+

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture

Slouching Towards Bethlehem 86%

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

by Joan Didion 1968

4.18

85k+ ratings

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture

The Island Club

by Nicola Harrison • 2026

Three women's secrets, scandals, and a shot at redemption collide at a 1950s island tennis club.

3.71

4k+

🕰️ 1950s America 🌴 California Beach Town 🎾 Women'S Tennis

The Island Club 86%

Three women's secrets, scandals, and a shot at redemption collide at a 1950s island tennis club.

by Nicola Harrison 2026

3.71

4k+ ratings

🕰️ 1950s America 🌴 California Beach Town 🎾 Women'S Tennis

The Last Coyote

by Michael Connelly • 1995

Suspended, a detective reopens his mother's cold case and stirs a cover-up someone still kills for.

4.26

86k+

🚔 Police Procedural 📁 Cold Case 🐺 Lone Wolf Detective

The Last Coyote 86%

Suspended, a detective reopens his mother's cold case and stirs a cover-up someone still kills for.

by Michael Connelly 1995

4.26

86k+ ratings

🚔 Police Procedural 📁 Cold Case 🐺 Lone Wolf Detective

Belinda

by Anne Rampling • 1986

A celebrated children's author meets a teenage runaway. She becomes his model, lover, and ruin.

3.62

14k+

🖤 Age Gap Romance 📖 Literary Erotica 🎨 Muse And Artist

Belinda 86%

A celebrated children's author meets a teenage runaway. She becomes his model, lover, and ruin.

by Anne Rampling 1986

3.62

14k+ ratings

🖤 Age Gap Romance 📖 Literary Erotica 🎨 Muse And Artist

Wouldn't it Be Nice

by Charles L. Granata • 2003

Brian Wilson quit the road, made an album America ignored, and Britain crowned it a masterpiece.

3.93

513

🎧 Album Deep Dives 🎛️ Music Production ✍️ Songwriting Process

Wouldn't it Be Nice 86%

Brian Wilson quit the road, made an album America ignored, and Britain crowned it a masterpiece.

by Charles L. Granata 2003

3.93

513 ratings

🎧 Album Deep Dives 🎛️ Music Production ✍️ Songwriting Process

The Girls

by Emma Cline • 2016

A lonely teenager joins a cult in 1969 and becomes obsessed with its most captivating girl.

3.51

245k+

🔮 Cult Fiction ☀️ 1960s California 🖤 Female Obsession

The Girls 85%

A lonely teenager joins a cult in 1969 and becomes obsessed with its most captivating girl.

by Emma Cline 2016

3.51

245k+ ratings

🔮 Cult Fiction ☀️ 1960s California 🖤 Female Obsession

See A Little Light

by Bob Mould • 2011

Father's fury. The Ramones' first record. Then amphetamines and a closet that almost won.

3.80

2k+

🔥 Hardcore Punk 🌈 Closeted Identity 🤝 Creative Partnerships

See A Little Light 85%

Father's fury. The Ramones' first record. Then amphetamines and a closet that almost won.

by Bob Mould 2011

3.80

2k+ ratings

🔥 Hardcore Punk 🌈 Closeted Identity 🤝 Creative Partnerships

The World Played Chess

by Robert Dugoni • 2021

A Vietnam vet's journal links a father and son to a war that never ended.

4.44

40k+

🎖️ Vietnam War 🏖️ 1970s California 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons

The World Played Chess 85%

A Vietnam vet's journal links a father and son to a war that never ended.

by Robert Dugoni 2021

4.44

40k+ ratings

🎖️ Vietnam War 🏖️ 1970s California 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

by Rob Lowe • 2011

His 80s fame crashed into scandal. A sign in Fiji showed him what he actually wanted.

3.88

86k+

🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Career 🎥 Behind The Scenes

Stories I Only Tell My Friends 85%

His 80s fame crashed into scandal. A sign in Fiji showed him what he actually wanted.

by Rob Lowe 2011

3.88

86k+ ratings

🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Career 🎥 Behind The Scenes

Bruce Lee

by Bruce Lee • 2001

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

4.21

1k+

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir

Bruce Lee 85%

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

by Bruce Lee 2001

4.21

1k+ ratings

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir

The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives

by Elizabeth Arnott • 2026

Once married to murderers, three women in 1960s California pursue a new killer the police dismiss.

3.55

15k+

🖤 Feminist Crime Fiction 👯 Female Friendship 🫂 Found Family

The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives Summary

The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives 85%

Once married to murderers, three women in 1960s California pursue a new killer the police dismiss.

by Elizabeth Arnott 2026

3.55

15k+ ratings

🖤 Feminist Crime Fiction 👯 Female Friendship 🫂 Found Family

Brothers

by Alex Van Halen • 2024

Alex Van Halen remembers Eddie: the immigrant brotherhood that built rock's most explosive band.

4.08

9k+

🎸 Rock Music History 🎤 Band Memoirs 👥 Sibling Bands

Brothers 85%

Alex Van Halen remembers Eddie: the immigrant brotherhood that built rock's most explosive band.

by Alex Van Halen 2024

4.08

9k+ ratings

🎸 Rock Music History 🎤 Band Memoirs 👥 Sibling Bands

Stranger Things

by Suyi Davies • 2022

Lucas Sinclair's fresh start meets Hawkins racism and a demon that feeds on trauma.

4.07

2k+

🏚️ Supernatural Small Town 🎒 Coming Of Age Horror 🔄 Code Switching

Stranger Things 85%

Lucas Sinclair's fresh start meets Hawkins racism and a demon that feeds on trauma.

by Suyi Davies 2022

4.07

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Supernatural Small Town 🎒 Coming Of Age Horror 🔄 Code Switching

Friends Like These

by Meg Rosoff • 2022

A small-town intern in 1983 New York is remade by a magnetic friend, then must remake herself.

3.30

3k+

🖤 Toxic Female Friendship 🗽 1980s New York 🐠 Fish Out Of Water

Friends Like These 85%

A small-town intern in 1983 New York is remade by a magnetic friend, then must remake herself.

by Meg Rosoff 2022

3.30

3k+ ratings

🖤 Toxic Female Friendship 🗽 1980s New York 🐠 Fish Out Of Water

The Kings of Cool

by Don Winslow • 2012

A surf-town marijuana empire faces a shakedown from the violent men who run the drug trade.

4.00

9k+

🏄 Surf Noir 💊 Drug War Saga 🖤 Found Family

The Kings of Cool 85%

A surf-town marijuana empire faces a shakedown from the violent men who run the drug trade.

by Don Winslow 2012

4.00

9k+ ratings

🏄 Surf Noir 💊 Drug War Saga 🖤 Found Family

The Knockout Queen

by Rufi Thorpe • 2020

Two suburban misfits bond over drag shows. One of them will kill for the other.

3.74

16k+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming-Of-Age 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🫂 Found Family

The Knockout Queen 85%

Two suburban misfits bond over drag shows. One of them will kill for the other.

by Rufi Thorpe 2020

3.74

16k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming-Of-Age 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🫂 Found Family

Boy Swallows Universe

by Trent Dalton • 2018

In 1980s Brisbane, a boy finds a red telephone that spills his family's deadly secrets.

4.34

100k+

🖤 Dark Coming-Of-Age 🕶️ Literary Noir 👬 Brotherly Bond

Boy Swallows Universe 85%

In 1980s Brisbane, a boy finds a red telephone that spills his family's deadly secrets.

by Trent Dalton 2018

4.34

100k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Coming-Of-Age 🕶️ Literary Noir 👬 Brotherly Bond

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys

by Mark Dillon • 2012

Fifty songs that built and nearly destroyed a California garage band turned icon.

3.92

128

🎵 Song By Song Biography 🎸 1960s Rock 🎛️ Studio Innovation

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys 85%

Fifty songs that built and nearly destroyed a California garage band turned icon.

by Mark Dillon 2012

3.92

128 ratings

🎵 Song By Song Biography 🎸 1960s Rock 🎛️ Studio Innovation

Stranger Things, Season One

by Matthew J. Gilbert • 2025

When Will Byers disappears, his friends find a silent, powerful girl who knows what took him.

4.32

199

🏚️ Small-Town Horror 📺 Nostalgic Horror 👥 Found Family

Stranger Things, Season One 85%

When Will Byers disappears, his friends find a silent, powerful girl who knows what took him.

by Matthew J. Gilbert 2025

4.32

199 ratings

🏚️ Small-Town Horror 📺 Nostalgic Horror 👥 Found Family

Whole Earth

by John Markoff • 2022

One LSD trip, one catalog, and the man who connected the counterculture to the computer age.

3.90

242

🌻 Counterculture History 🕸️ Systems Thinking 🌍 Environmental Pragmatism

Whole Earth 85%

One LSD trip, one catalog, and the man who connected the counterculture to the computer age.

by John Markoff 2022

3.90

242 ratings

🌻 Counterculture History 🕸️ Systems Thinking 🌍 Environmental Pragmatism

The Third Eye

by Lois Duncan • 1984

A teenage babysitter's visions find a missing child, pulling her toward a truth she cannot escape.

3.86

4k+

🔮 Psychic Detective 😔 Reluctant Psychic 🧬 Psychic Inheritance

The Third Eye 85%

A teenage babysitter's visions find a missing child, pulling her toward a truth she cannot escape.

by Lois Duncan 1984

3.86

4k+ ratings

🔮 Psychic Detective 😔 Reluctant Psychic 🧬 Psychic Inheritance

Big Sur

by Jack Kerouac • 1962

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

3.83

38k+

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist

Big Sur 85%

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

by Jack Kerouac 1962

3.83

38k+ ratings

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist

The Last Romantics

by Tara Conklin • 2019

After their father dies and their mother retreats, four siblings raise themselves in feral freedom.

3.70

49k+

💔 Parental Neglect ⭐ Golden Boy Downfall ✍️ Writer Narrator

The Last Romantics 85%

After their father dies and their mother retreats, four siblings raise themselves in feral freedom.

by Tara Conklin 2019

3.70

49k+ ratings

💔 Parental Neglect ⭐ Golden Boy Downfall ✍️ Writer Narrator

Ask the Dust

by John Fante • 1939

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

4.10

40k+

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love

Ask the Dust 85%

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

by John Fante 1939

4.10

40k+ ratings

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love

Mad at the World

by William Souder • 2020

He wrote the great novel of collective suffering, then fled the collective embrace of fame.

4.07

1k+

🖋️ Literary Biography 🇺🇸 American Writers 🏭 Social Realism

Mad at the World 85%

He wrote the great novel of collective suffering, then fled the collective embrace of fame.

by William Souder 2020

4.07

1k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography 🇺🇸 American Writers 🏭 Social Realism

The Waiting

by Michael Connelly • 2024

A stolen badge. A serial rapist unearthed by DNA. One detective chasing both off the record.

4.35

74k+

🚔 Police Procedural 📂 Cold Case Investigation 🔍 Female Detective

The Waiting 85%

A stolen badge. A serial rapist unearthed by DNA. One detective chasing both off the record.

by Michael Connelly 2024

4.35

74k+ ratings

🚔 Police Procedural 📂 Cold Case Investigation 🔍 Female Detective

Prince

by Ronin Ro • 2011

A million-dollar unknown deal, then 'slave' scrawled on his cheek: the war for artistic control.

3.39

441

🎵 Music Biography 💿 Record Industry 🎨 Artistic Control

Prince 85%

A million-dollar unknown deal, then 'slave' scrawled on his cheek: the war for artistic control.

by Ronin Ro 2011

3.39

441 ratings

🎵 Music Biography 💿 Record Industry 🎨 Artistic Control

Mile Marker Zero

by William McKeen • 2011

1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.

3.93

567

🏝️ Island Life 🌴 Bohemian Lifestyle ✌️ Counterculture

Mile Marker Zero 85%

1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.

by William McKeen 2011

3.93

567 ratings

🏝️ Island Life 🌴 Bohemian Lifestyle ✌️ Counterculture

What I Saw at the Revolution

by Peggy Noonan • 1990

A Brooklyn speechwriter gives Reagan his voice, then finds power is hollow at the center.

3.91

852

🇺🇸 Reagan Era 🏛️ White House Memoirs ✍️ Political Speechwriting

What I Saw at the Revolution 85%

A Brooklyn speechwriter gives Reagan his voice, then finds power is hollow at the center.

by Peggy Noonan 1990

3.91

852 ratings

🇺🇸 Reagan Era 🏛️ White House Memoirs ✍️ Political Speechwriting

Vineland

by Thomas Pynchon • 1990

A hippie's welfare window jump hooks a fed and his daughter's hunt for her vanished mother.

3.75

18k+

🤣 Postmodern Satire 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 📹 Surveillance State

Vineland 85%

A hippie's welfare window jump hooks a fed and his daughter's hunt for her vanished mother.

by Thomas Pynchon 1990

3.75

18k+ ratings

🤣 Postmodern Satire 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 📹 Surveillance State

Sinatra's Century

by David Lehman • 2015

A hundred glimpses of a singer who mapped an American century: mob, movies, music.

3.97

169

🎵 Great American Songbook 🌟 Cultural Icons 🎲 Rat Pack

Sinatra's Century 85%

A hundred glimpses of a singer who mapped an American century: mob, movies, music.

by David Lehman 2015

3.97

169 ratings

🎵 Great American Songbook 🌟 Cultural Icons 🎲 Rat Pack

Gather Together in My Name

by Maya Angelou • 1974

A teenage mother alone in San Francisco, Maya Angelou chases dignity on her own stubborn terms.

4.32

19k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🖤 Black Womanhood 🎭 Self Invention

Gather Together in My Name 85%

A teenage mother alone in San Francisco, Maya Angelou chases dignity on her own stubborn terms.

by Maya Angelou 1974

4.32

19k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🖤 Black Womanhood 🎭 Self Invention

Run With the Hunted

by Charles Bukowski • 1994

Childhood beatings, dead-end jobs, cheap wine: an outsider's life in his own poems and stories.

4.26

5k+

🚬 Dirty Realism ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 🍺 Hard Drinking Writer

Run With the Hunted 85%

Childhood beatings, dead-end jobs, cheap wine: an outsider's life in his own poems and stories.

by Charles Bukowski 1994

4.26

5k+ ratings

🚬 Dirty Realism ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 🍺 Hard Drinking Writer

Ramona Forever

by Beverly Cleary • 1984

Ramona Quimby braces for a new baby, a family wedding, and the hardest job: big sister.

4.08

35k+

🏠 Slice Of Life 👧 Sibling Rivalry 👶 New Baby

Ramona Forever 85%

Ramona Quimby braces for a new baby, a family wedding, and the hardest job: big sister.

by Beverly Cleary 1984

4.08

35k+ ratings

🏠 Slice Of Life 👧 Sibling Rivalry 👶 New Baby

Cinema Speculation

by Quentin Tarantino • 2022

How a child snuck into adult movies in 1970s Los Angeles and came out a filmmaker.

4.04

15k+

🎬 New Hollywood 🎞️ Cinephilia 🎥 Genre Cinema

Cinema Speculation 85%

How a child snuck into adult movies in 1970s Los Angeles and came out a filmmaker.

by Quentin Tarantino 2022

4.04

15k+ ratings

🎬 New Hollywood 🎞️ Cinephilia 🎥 Genre Cinema

L.A. Women

by Ella Berman • 2025

A novelist mines her best friend's life for fiction in Laurel Canyon. Then the friend vanishes.

3.47

3k+

🖤 Complicated Female Friendship 🎨 Muse And Artist ✍️ Writers Writing About Writers

L.A. Women 85%

A novelist mines her best friend's life for fiction in Laurel Canyon. Then the friend vanishes.

by Ella Berman 2025

3.47

3k+ ratings

🖤 Complicated Female Friendship 🎨 Muse And Artist ✍️ Writers Writing About Writers

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