Best Books About How Totally Screwed up L.A. Is

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Brazen Violations (Betts & Walker Book 2)
Brazen Violations (Betts & Walker Book 2) 4.12 avg rating — 158 ratings
2.
All Good Things Die in L.A.
All Good Things Die in L.A. 3.33 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3) 4.18 avg rating — 35,727 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 4.21 avg rating — 4,679 ratings
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Less Than Zero
Less Than Zero 3.60 avg rating — 95,135 ratings
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White Oleander
White Oleander really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 363,346 ratings
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The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 93,951 ratings
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The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust 3.70 avg rating — 23,730 ratings
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. 4.09 avg rating — 25,194 ratings
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Confetti Covered Quicksand
Confetti Covered Quicksand 3.91 avg rating — 397 ratings
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The Sunset Strip Diaries
The Sunset Strip Diaries 3.79 avg rating — 649 ratings
13.
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Roger Rabbit, #1)
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Roger Rabbit, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 3,988 ratings
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The Urban Mystique: Notes on California, Los Angeles, and Beyond
The Urban Mystique: Notes on California, Los Angeles, and Beyond 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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My Dirty California
My Dirty California 3.94 avg rating — 315 ratings
16.
To Live and Die in L.A.
To Live and Die in L.A. 3.75 avg rating — 293 ratings
16.
Play It As It Lays
Play It As It Lays 3.91 avg rating — 85,256 ratings
18.
A Stranger Like You
A Stranger Like You 3.07 avg rating — 911 ratings
19.
So L.A.
So L.A. 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge 3.62 avg rating — 18,375 ratings
21.
A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly 4.03 avg rating — 108,213 ratings
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Hell's Angels
Hell's Angels 3.98 avg rating — 53,566 ratings
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Screwjack
Screwjack 3.51 avg rating — 4,595 ratings
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Dating in Los Angeles: Dissecting the Dysfunction
Dating in Los Angeles: Dissecting the Dysfunction 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
25.
Ann Marie's Asylum (Master and Apprentice, #1)
Ann Marie's Asylum (Master and Apprentice, #1) 3.48 avg rating — 135 ratings
25.
Imperial Bedrooms
Imperial Bedrooms 3.20 avg rating — 20,431 ratings
27.
Shopgirl
Shopgirl 3.42 avg rating — 39,379 ratings
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Famous For Nothing
Famous For Nothing 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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South on Pacific Coast Highway
South on Pacific Coast Highway 4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce 3.93 avg rating — 10,537 ratings
31.
Violent Spring (Ivan Monk, #1)
Violent Spring (Ivan Monk, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 131 ratings
32.
Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)
Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 86,920 ratings
33.
Girl With Curious Hair
Girl With Curious Hair 3.85 avg rating — 14,856 ratings
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Bottom Feeders
Bottom Feeders 3.35 avg rating — 97 ratings
33.
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating — 25,284 ratings
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles 3.47 avg rating — 116 ratings
33.
Sunset Trip
Sunset Trip 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture
Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture 4.33 avg rating — 121 ratings
33.
Vagablonde
Vagablonde
by: Anna Dorn
3.51 avg rating — 774 ratings
33.
The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles
The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles 3.96 avg rating — 100 ratings
33.
Inter State: Essays from California
Inter State: Essays from California 3.81 avg rating — 90 ratings
33.
The Nowhere City
The Nowhere City 3.58 avg rating — 566 ratings
43.
The Informers
The Informers 3.40 avg rating — 19,728 ratings
43.
Coloring Outside The Lines: A Memoir
Coloring Outside The Lines: A Memoir 3.26 avg rating — 69 ratings
43.
Marilyn's Last Sessions
Marilyn's Last Sessions 3.52 avg rating — 436 ratings
43.
Exalted
Exalted
by: Anna Dorn
3.75 avg rating — 3,431 ratings
43.
My Face for the World to See
My Face for the World to See 3.72 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
48.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,458 ratings
48.
Not Without You
Not Without You 3.66 avg rating — 1,236 ratings
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Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe
Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe 4.11 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
51.
Marilyn: A Biography
Marilyn: A Biography 3.73 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
52.
Girls in the Picture: A Novel
Girls in the Picture: A Novel 3.64 avg rating — 8,186 ratings