Los Angeles


City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Library Book
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
Play It As It Lays
Less Than Zero
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
The Day of the Locust
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
Daisy Jones & The Six
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
White Oleander
Eve's Hollywood
Brazen Violations by Jonathan MacphersonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Falling of Love by Marisa OldhamThe Urban Mystique by Josh StephensMy Dirty California by Jason Mosberg
Awesome L.A. Books
64 books — 47 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisWhite Oleander by Janet FitchThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestThe Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)
347 books — 301 voters

Foyer Pleasure by John KobalEuphoria Fashion by Heidi BivensJust Loomis by Matthias HarderLAPD '53 by James EllroyLife in a Mental Hospital by William J. Kurdi
Books Owned By David Lynch
177 books — 2 voters

The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy SpaldingPlague of flies by Laurel Anne HillAna of California by Andi TeranEverything Leads to You by Nina LaCourOne of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Young Adult Fiction set in California
362 books — 93 voters
Austin Blues by Gary A. KeithThe Lincoln Lawyer Novels by Michael ConnellyJustice Redeemed by Scott PrattGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.A Sense of Urgency by Windle Turley
Southern California Legal Thrillers
45 books — 8 voters

Mark Barkawitz
“ Oh, we’ll see you again, Mike. Just not with the same, pretty face. I hear you’re an actor, too. Pity. Your days of wooing leading ladies are about to end. ”
― Mark Barkawitz, Full Moon Saturday Night

Bret Easton Ellis
“ What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?' 'Why not?' She sits on the mattress after I get up. Muriel screams. 'Because... I don't know,' she sighs. I look at her and don't feel anything and walk out with my vest. ...more ”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

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NaNo Los Angeles Reading books written for National Novel Writing Month and/or by local Wrimos!
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