Fiction
Adamic,
Louis. Laughing in the Jungle (1932).
Bradbury, Ray. The
Martian Chronicles (1950).
Cain, James M. The
Postman Always Rings Twice (1934);
Double
Indemnity (1936).
Chandler, Raymond. The
Big Sleep; Pickup
on Noon Street; Farewell
My Lovely;
The
Simple Art of Murder (stories).
Dana, Richard Henry. Two
Years Before the Mast.
Didion, Joan. Play
it as it Lays (1970).
Ellroy, James. The
Black Dahlia (1987); The
Big Nowhere (1988);
L.A. Confidential (1990);
White
Jazz; My
Dark Places.
Fante, John. Ask
the Dust (1939).
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The
Last Tycoon (1939).
Hammett, Dashiell. The
Maltese Falcon (1929).
Harte, Bret. "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "Outcasts
of Poker Flat", etc.
Himes, Chester. If
He Hollers, Let Him Go (1945); Lonely
Crusade.
Huxley, Aldous. After
Many a Summer Dies the Swan (1939);
Ape
and Essence (1948).
London, Jack.
McCoy, Horace. They
Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935).
Mosley, Walter. Devil
in a Blue Dress.
Norris, Frank. McTeague;
The
Octopus.
Pynchon, Thomas. The
Crying of Lot 49 (1966).
Rechy, John. City
of Night (1963).
Remarque, Erich Maria. Shadows
in Paradise.
Steinbeck, John. The
Grapes of Wrath; Cannery
Row;
East of Eden; Of
Mice and Men.
West, Nathanael. The
Day of the Locust (1939)
Non-fiction
Adorno,
Theodor, and Max Horkheimer. Dialectic
of Enlightenment.
Banham, Reyner. Los Angeles: Architecture of the Four Ecologies
(1971).
Davis, Mike. City
of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990);
The
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Diaster
(1999).
Didion, Joan. Slouching
Towards Bethlehem (1963).
Fulton, William. The
Reluctant Metropolis.
Mayo, Morrow. Los Angeles (1933).
McWilliams, Carey. Southern
California: Island on the Land (1946).
Milosz, Czeslaw. Visions
from San Francisco Bay (1969).
Steele, James. Los
Angeles Architecture (1993).
Webb, Michael. Architecture
+ Design LA (1997).
outstanding, handy, and well-designed
guide to L.A. architecture.