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LA books 📕🌴

My favorite books on Los Angeles, both fiction & non-fiction

17wLA books 📕🌴
Tells the stories of often marginalized communities throu... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
Wonderful fun! Swashbuckling historical fiction that brin... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
My favorite LA historian. Sam Sweet writes short non-fict... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
A kooky novella, published in 1971. It's about some hippi... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
The best work of noir fiction I've ever read. I'd take th... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
A collection of columns by Jack Smith, beloved LA Times c... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
Another collection of columns by Jack Smith. These were p... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
The highest quality historic photos I've seen in print. Y... more
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A unique history book focused on a Mexican restaurant tha... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
Similar to the Thomas Guide, this was a pocket atlas with... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
One of the great Hollywood novels. It tells the story of ... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
The other great Hollywood novel. This book is iconic, and... more
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This made me see the freeway system in a new light - both... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
A self-published collection of 3 essays. The eponymous on... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
Dystopian sci-fi set in and around Altadena. A heavy but ... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
A fun satire of the entertainment industry and its handli... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
A must read if you want to understand Westlake, or more g... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
A kind of early predecessor to City of Quartz. Published ... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
One of a trilogy exploring different future scenarios for... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
Leovy follows a skilled LAPD detective as he attempts to ... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
A classic coming-of-age memoir about gang life in East LA... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
I can't recommend this one enough. It tells the story of ... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
Mostly known as the book that invented the "metaverse," i... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
Krist tells the story of Los Angeles' ascendence in the e... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
Todd Lerew is obsessed with museums. This book compiles s... more
17wLA books 📕🌴
An essential reprint of an obscure, long out-of-print col... more
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A sassy architectural guide to LA co-written by legendary... more

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