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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,869 ratings — published 1990
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.94 — 168,574 ratings — published 1939
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.88 — 124,254 ratings — published 2018
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
by (shelved 104 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.10 — 39,478 ratings — published 1939
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.90 — 91,215 ratings — published 1970
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.61 — 99,660 ratings — published 1985
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,830 ratings — published 1977
The Day of the Locust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.69 — 24,194 ratings — published 1939
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.14 — 216,538 ratings — published 1992
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.78 — 96,479 ratings — published 1987
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,851,784 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,101,201 ratings — published 2017
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.00 — 366,627 ratings — published 1999
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,355,512 ratings — published 2022
Eve's Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,069 ratings — published 1974
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.16 — 867 ratings — published 1971
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,199 ratings — published 1990
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,045 ratings — published 1968
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,393 ratings — published 2009
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles (Audio CD)
by (shelved 48 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,133 ratings — published 2018
The Sellout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.74 — 74,918 ratings — published 2015
To Live and Drink in L.A. (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.98 — 467 ratings — published 2011
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 45 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,777 ratings — published 1953
Southern California: An Island on the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.26 — 340 ratings — published 1946
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.18 — 37,636 ratings — published 1990
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,150 ratings — published 1979
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,871 ratings — published 1940
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,289,621 ratings — published 2021
The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)
by (shelved 39 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.12 — 108,789 ratings — published 2017
Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #8)
by (shelved 39 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,140 ratings — published 1999
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,555 ratings — published 1995
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,121 ratings — published 2009
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,492 ratings — published 2021
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.37 — 506 ratings — published 2020
Your House Will Pay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,415 ratings — published 2019
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,102 ratings — published 1974
The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.13 — 94,760 ratings — published 1993
Echo Park (Harry Bosch, #12; Harry Bosch Universe, #17)
by (shelved 34 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,416 ratings — published 2006
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,484 ratings — published 1992
If He Hollers Let Him Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,605 ratings — published 1945
The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.24 — 79,735 ratings — published 1994
The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.26 — 85,027 ratings — published 1995
Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.75 — 15,045 ratings — published 1989
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,576 ratings — published 2015
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.93 — 139,495 ratings — published 1971
The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.21 — 74,922 ratings — published 2011
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,443 ratings — published 2019
Sex and Rage (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.55 — 18,252 ratings — published 1979
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.75 — 303 ratings — published 2015
“Even though I grew up two hours south, I had rarely ventured to Los Angeles. I soon learned that my dad wasn't totally off base when he said, "Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes." . . . "Remember. Family," he said. "Also, how do I get back to I-5? I hate this fucking city.”
― Sh*t My Dad Says
― Sh*t My Dad Says
“The old folk from Indiana and Iowa and Illinois, from Boston and Kansas City and Des Moines, they sold their homes and their stores, and they came here by train and by automobile to the land of sunshine, to die in the sun, with just enough money to live until the sun killed them, tore themselves out by the roots in their last days, deserted the smug prosperity of Kansas City and Chicago and Peoria to find a place in the sun. And when they got here they found that other and greater thieves had already taken possession, that even the sun belonged to the others; Smith and Jones and Parker, druggist, banker, baker, dust of Chicago and Cincinnati and Cleveland on their shoes, doomed to die in the sun, a few dollars in the bank, enough to subscribe to the Los Angeles Times, enough to keep alive the illusion that this was paradise, that their little papier-mâché homes were castles.”
― Ask the Dust
― Ask the Dust
