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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 — 5,110 ratings — published 1990
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.93 — 174,672 ratings — published 1939
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,941 ratings — published 2018
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
by (shelved 110 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,394 ratings — published 1939
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.89 — 101,374 ratings — published 1970
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.62 — 107,726 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 — 32,642 ratings — published 1977
The Day of the Locust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.69 — 24,896 ratings — published 1939
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.15 — 224,524 ratings — published 1992
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.80 — 102,230 ratings — published 1987
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,965,833 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,492,446 ratings — published 2017
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.18 — 89,860 ratings — published 1968
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.01 — 372,894 ratings — published 1999
Eve's Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,449 ratings — published 1974
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.16 — 901 ratings — published 1971
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,255 ratings — published 2022
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.86 — 32,116 ratings — published 1990
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.80 — 40,192 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 — 2,285 ratings — published 2018
The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by (shelved 48 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,863 ratings — published 1953
The Sellout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.74 — 77,500 ratings — published 2015
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 — 41,714 ratings — published 1990
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,555 ratings — published 1979
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,501 ratings — published 1940
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 — 1,386,205 ratings — published 2021
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,631 ratings — published 2021
The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)
by (shelved 41 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.11 — 116,215 ratings — published 2017
Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #8)
by (shelved 40 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.24 — 73,619 ratings — published 1999
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.66 — 35,356 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 — 540 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 — 2,162 ratings — published 2009
The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.14 — 99,990 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 — 1,554 ratings — published 1992
Your House Will Pay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,193 ratings — published 2019
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,265 ratings — published 1974
The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.24 — 84,178 ratings — published 1994
Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.75 — 15,167 ratings — published 1989
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,258 ratings — published 2015
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.05 — 39,411 ratings — published 1964
The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.27 — 89,054 ratings — published 1995
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 33 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.92 — 144,738 ratings — published 1971
If He Hollers Let Him Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,715 ratings — published 1945
Echo Park (Harry Bosch, #12; Harry Bosch Universe, #17)
by (shelved 32 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,607 ratings — published 2006
Sex and Rage (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.54 — 21,258 ratings — published 1979
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.73 — 316 ratings — published 2015
The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 4.21 — 78,348 ratings — published 2011
The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory (Haymarket)
by (shelved 31 times as los-angeles)
avg rating 3.61 — 166 ratings — published 1997
“The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognising only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit their right to respect in that environment ... There is no place in that town for the "interesting failure" or for anyone who is not determined on a life that will be shaped in a upward-heading curve.”
― Past Imperfect
― Past Imperfect
