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For more information on the California Gold Rush, The Bee recommends the following books:
Nonfiction
- What I Saw in California, by Edwin Bryant
- Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation, by Malcolm Rohrbough
- The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, by J.S. Holliday
"California's Gold Rush Country"
Cover courtesy "California's Gold Rush Country" - California's Gold Rush Country, by Leslie Kelly
- The California Gold Country: Highway 49 Revisited, by Elliot Koeppel
- California Gold, by Rodman W. Paul
- Men to Match My Mountains, by Irving Stone
- California, A History, by Andrew Rolle
- California: The Great Exception, by Carey McWilliams
- California: Land of New Beginnings, by David Lavender
- Inventing the Dream, by Kevin Starr
- Americans and the California Dream, by Kevin Starr
- To the Golden Shore, compiled by Peter Browning
- Black California, by B. Gordon Wheeler
- Mormons and the Discovery of Gold, by Norma B. Ricketts
- Mother Lode Gold Mining Stories, by C.M. Goethe
- Nuggets of Nevada County History, by Juanita Kennedy Browne
- California's El Dorado, Yesterday and Today, by Herman Daniel Jerrett
- Sacramento: The Heart of California, by Richard Trainor
- History of the Sacramento Valley, by Joseph McGowan
- Sacramento, an Illustrated History: 1839-1874, by Thor Severson
- Essays and Assays: California History Reappraised, edited by George Knoles
- California Controversies: Major Issues in the History of the State, edited by Leonard Pitt
- A Short History of Sacramento, by Dorothy Kupcha Leland
- California: Gold Days, by Owen C. Coy
- Garden of the Sun, by Wallace Smith
- They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush, by Jo Ann Levy
- The Shirley Letters, edited by Carl Wheat
Fiction
- The Diary of a 49er, edited by Chauncey Canfield
- River of Red Gold, by Naida West
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