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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,897 ratings — published 1990
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.94 — 169,721 ratings — published 1939
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.88 — 125,270 ratings — published 2018
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
by (shelved 106 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.10 — 39,819 ratings — published 1939
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.90 — 92,883 ratings — published 1970
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.61 — 101,377 ratings — published 1985
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,514 ratings — published 1977
The Day of the Locust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.69 — 24,303 ratings — published 1939
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.14 — 217,719 ratings — published 1992
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.79 — 97,792 ratings — published 1987
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,875,625 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,171,710 ratings — published 2017
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.00 — 367,582 ratings — published 1999
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,382,873 ratings — published 2022
Eve's Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,268 ratings — published 1974
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.16 — 877 ratings — published 1971
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,471 ratings — published 1990
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,217 ratings — published 1968
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles (Audio CD)
by (shelved 49 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,159 ratings — published 2018
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,750 ratings — published 2009
The Sellout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.74 — 75,476 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 46 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 47,170 ratings — published 1953
Southern California: An Island on the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.25 — 343 ratings — published 1946
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.18 — 38,692 ratings — published 1990
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,898 ratings — published 1979
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,219 ratings — published 1940
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,305,368 ratings — published 2021
The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)
by (shelved 40 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.12 — 110,291 ratings — published 2017
Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #8)
by (shelved 39 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,762 ratings — published 1999
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,708 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 — 2,128 ratings — published 2009
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,513 ratings — published 2021
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.36 — 513 ratings — published 2020
Your House Will Pay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,495 ratings — published 2019
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,685 ratings — published 1974
The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.13 — 95,547 ratings — published 1993
Echo Park (Harry Bosch, #12; Harry Bosch Universe, #17)
by (shelved 34 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,945 ratings — published 2006
Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.75 — 15,079 ratings — published 1989
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,496 ratings — published 1992
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,781 ratings — published 2015
The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.24 — 80,438 ratings — published 1994
The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.26 — 85,677 ratings — published 1995
If He Hollers Let Him Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,636 ratings — published 1945
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.92 — 140,425 ratings — published 1971
The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,493 ratings — published 2011
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.79 — 113,128 ratings — published 2019
Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32)
by (shelved 30 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,031 ratings — published 2018
Sex and Rage (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.55 — 18,707 ratings — published 1979
“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.”
― Less Than Zero
'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.”
― Less Than Zero
“I imagined that my own life was simple and sweet, and sometimes it was, but there were odd things going around town. There were rumors. There were stories. Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable. This mystical flirtation with the idea of “sin"–this sense that it was possible to go "too far”, and that many people were doing it–this was very much with us in Los Angeles in 1968 and 1969. A demented and seductive vortical tension was building in the community. The jitters were setting in. I recall a time when the dogs barked every night and the moon was always full.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
