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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,063 ratings — published 1990
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.94 — 173,584 ratings — published 1939
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,224 ratings — published 2018
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
by (shelved 110 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,064 ratings — published 1939
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.90 — 99,869 ratings — published 1970
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.62 — 106,694 ratings — published 1985
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.07 — 31,935 ratings — published 1977
The Day of the Locust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.69 — 24,758 ratings — published 1939
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.15 — 222,545 ratings — published 1992
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.80 — 101,605 ratings — published 1987
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,949,463 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,429,242 ratings — published 2017
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.01 — 371,287 ratings — published 1999
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,763 ratings — published 1968
Eve's Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,233 ratings — published 1974
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.16 — 899 ratings — published 1971
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,466,145 ratings — published 2022
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,831 ratings — published 1990
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,940 ratings — published 2009
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles (Audio CD)
by (shelved 51 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,265 ratings — published 2018
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 48 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,503 ratings — published 1953
The Sellout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.74 — 77,091 ratings — published 2015
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,845 ratings — published 1979
To Live and Drink in L.A. (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.98 — 466 ratings — published 2011
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 41,491 ratings — published 1990
Southern California: An Island on the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.25 — 346 ratings — published 1946
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,373,159 ratings — published 2021
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,246 ratings — published 1940
The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)
by (shelved 41 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.12 — 115,127 ratings — published 2017
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,612 ratings — published 2021
Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #8)
by (shelved 40 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,791 ratings — published 1999
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.66 — 35,234 ratings — published 1995
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.37 — 531 ratings — published 2020
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,153 ratings — published 2009
Your House Will Pay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,988 ratings — published 2019
The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.13 — 98,731 ratings — published 1993
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,541 ratings — published 1992
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,587 ratings — published 1974
The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.24 — 83,131 ratings — published 1994
Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.75 — 15,144 ratings — published 1989
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,213 ratings — published 2015
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.05 — 39,105 ratings — published 1964
Echo Park (Harry Bosch, #12; Harry Bosch Universe, #17)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,107 ratings — published 2006
The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.27 — 88,169 ratings — published 1995
If He Hollers Let Him Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,698 ratings — published 1945
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.92 — 143,829 ratings — published 1971
L.A. Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.48 — 4,835 ratings — published 1982
Sex and Rage (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.54 — 20,829 ratings — published 1979
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.73 — 314 ratings — published 2015
The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.21 — 77,751 ratings — published 2011
“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
“what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.”
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