Los Angeles


City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
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
White Oleander
Eve's Hollywood
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
A Single Man by Christopher IsherwoodCity of Night by John RechyThe Hours by Michael CunninghamLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisMen Writing Men Illustrated by Rick Longfield
Gay Books Set in Los Angeles
12 books — 5 voters
The Woman I Wanted to Be [First Edition Signed by Diane von F... by Diane Von FurstenbergThe Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina  BrownCovet the Comeback by Christos GarkinosGrace by Grace CoddingtonD.V. by Diana Vreeland
Best Fashion Memoirs
11 books — 6 voters

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki HoustonThey Called Us Enemy by George TakeiWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherA Stolen Life by Jaycee DugardMy Ailing Champion by Demetrius Koubourlis
California Memoirs
285 books — 71 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaThe Library Book by Susan OrleanWater to the Angels by Les StandifordCity of Quartz by Mike  Davis
Los Angeles (nonfiction)
114 books — 39 voters

Jack Kerouac
I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. ...more
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Mark Barkawitz
Any weapons or drugs, Mr. Hepp?” she asked. “No. Of course not.” She continued to look inside the car at the back seat. “What’s in the briefcase?
Mark Barkawitz, Full Moon Saturday Night

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