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Recommended Reading from Los Angeles A to Z by Leonard Pitt and Dale Pitt For additional help, please
use the Los Angeles Reasearch Sources on the City of Angels Homepage to find other resources and information for
your study of Los Angeles and your research paper.
- Abella, Alex || The Killing Saints
- Acosta, Oscar Zeta || The Revolt of the Cockroach People|| Autobiography of Brown Buffalo
- Aldin, Mary K. || It Depends on What You Call Living: The Blues in LA ( Living Blues: A Journal of the Black American Blues Tradition 1988 (May-June) Vol. 19 No. 3: 24-27)
- Allen, James || The Ethnic Quilt: Population Diversity in Southern California
- Allende, Isabel || The Infinite Plan
- Angat-Nowisk, Doris || One-Way Ticket to Hollywood: Film Artists of Austrian and German Origin in Los Angeles
- Babitz, Eve || Black Swans
- Bachelard, Gaston|| The Poetics Space
- Bakalinsky, Adah and Gordon, Larry ||
Stairway Walks in Los Angeles
- Baker, Dorothy || Young man with a Horn
- Baker, James Robert || Tim and Pete
- Banham, Reyner || Los Angeles: The Architecture of the Four Ecologies
- Banks, Sheryl G. || Limeys in the Orange Grove: The British Novel in Los Angeles (Thesis/Dissertation, 1986)
- Beck, W.|| The California Experience: A Literary Odyssey
- Bezzerides, A.I. || Long Haul
- Block, Francesca Lia || Theives Market || There is a Happy Land
- Bradbury, Ray || Graveyard for Lunatics || The Martian Chronicles
- Braverman, Kate || Palm Latitudes || Wonders of the West
- Bryant, Clora|| Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles
- Bukowski, Charles || Hollywood a Novel || Ham on Rye || Tales
of Ordinary Madness
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice || The Girl From Hollywood
- Cain, James M. || The Postman Always Rings Twice || Double Indemnity || Mildred Pierce
- Carver, R. || Short Cuts: Selected Stories
- Chandler, Raymond || The Big Sleep || Farewell My Lovely || The High Window || The
Lady in the lake || Little
Sister || "Writers in Hollywood"
- Chrichton, Michael || Rising Sun
- Clark, Al || Raymond Chandler in Hollywood
- Clark, Virginia M. || Aldous Huxley and Film
- Clarke, Charles Galloway|| Early Film Making in Los Angeles
- Clinton, Michelle T. || Free Your Mind and Your Ass will Follow
- Colasurdo, Mark || Down Central Avenue
- Coleman, Wanda || A War of Eyes and Other Stories
- Collins, Jackie || American Star || Hollywood Husbands
- Connelly, Michael ||
Angels Flight || Blood Work || The Black Echo
- Crais, R. || L.A. Requiem
- Davis, Mike || The City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles || Excerpt: "L.A. Inferno" || The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
- Dick, Philip K. || Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Didion, Joan || Play it As it Lays || The White Album || Slouching Towards Bethlehem
|| Excerpt: "Los Angeles Notebook"
- Dreighton, Len || Violent Ward
- Drinkard, Michael || Disobedience
- Dunne, John Gregory || True Confessions || Playland
- Dukes, Carol Muske || Saving St. Germ
- Ellis, Bret Easton || Less Than Zero
- Ellroy, James || The Black Dahlia || White Jazz || LA
Confidential || Hollywood
Nocturns
- Evans, Veichal J. || Chester Chimes: Chronicler of the Black Experience
- Eversz,Robert|| Shooting Elvis
- Fante, John || Ask the Dust, Chapter 1|| The Road to Los Angeles || Dreams of Bunker Hill|| Selected Letters 1932-1981
- Ferrigno, Robert || The Horse Latitudes || The Chesire Moon
- Felske, Coerte V. W.|| Word
- Fine, David, ed. || Los Angeles in Fiction|| Introduction
- Fine, Richard|| James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott || The Last Tycoon || The Pat Hobby Stories
- Forrest, Katerine V.|| Murder by Tradition
- Friedman, Ellen G. ed.|| Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations
- Gale, Iain|| Waugh's World: A guide to Novels of Evelyn Waugh
- Gamboa, Harry Jr.|| I Don't Buy My Tacos Too Close to Sex Change Clinics
- Gibson, William || Virtual Light Griffith, Beatrice || American Me
- Harris, MacDonald || A Portrait of My Desire
- Haywood, Gar Anthony || Fear of the Dark || You Can Die Trying
- Himes, Chester || If he Hollers Let Him Go
- Hoopes, Roy|| Cain: The Biography of James M. Cain
- Huxley, Aldous || After Many A Summer Dies A Swan || Ape and Essence
- Isherwood, Christopher || A Single Man|| Berlin Stories (Caberet)||Down There On a Visit
- Jackson, Helen Hunt || Ramona
- Kadohata, Cynthia || In the Heart of the Valley of Love
- Lacy, Bill and Susan deMenil eds.|| Angels and Franciscans: Innovative Architecture from Los Angeles and San Francisco
- Lambert, Mercedes|| Dogtown
- Lawrence, Cynthia|| Take Out City
- Leimbach, Marti || Sun Dial Street
- Leong, Russell || Geography of One
- Lothrop, Gloria Ricci || Italians in Los Angeles
- Luhr, William|| Raymond Chandler and Film
- Lurie, Alison || The Nowhere City
- Madden, David|| James M. Cain
- Mailer, Norman || The Deer Park
- Maxwell, A.E. || Murder Hurts
- Mc Coy, Horace || They Shoot Horses Don't They? || I Should Have Stayed Home
- Mc Williams, Carey|| The Los Angeles Archipelago
- Mc Williams, Carey|| Southern California: An Island on the Land
- Merrill-Mersky, Carol|| Exiles in Paradise
- Miller, J., ed. || Los Angeles Stories: Great Writers on the City
- Min,Pyong G. || Korean Immigrants in Los Angeles
- Mizner, Arthur || The Far Side of Paradise
- Monette, Paul || Borrowed Time || Afterlife || The
Gold Diggers
- Mosley, Walter|| Devil in a Blue Dress
|| A Red Death || White Butterfly || Black
Betty || A Little Yellow
Dog || Always Outnummbered,
Always Outgunned
- Moss, Rick || Not Quite Paradise
- Munson, Douglas A. || El Nino
- Nunn, Kern || Pomona Queen
- Parker, T. Jefferson || Little Saigon
- Pendo, Stephen|| Raymond Chadler on Screen: His Novels into Film
- AnPitt, Leonard and Dale Pitt|| Los Angeles A to Z: AN Encyclopedia of the City and County
- Powers, Richard || Operation Wandering Soul
- Preiss, Byron ed.|| Raymond Chadler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration
- Pychon, Thomas || The Crying Lot 49
- Queen Ellery || The Origin of Evil
- Rayner, Richard || LA Without A Map
- Rechy, John || The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez || City of Night
- Reid, David, ed. || Sex, Death and God in L.A.
- Reyes, Maria || Twelve Bars Past Goodnight
- Rieff, David|| Los Angeles: Capitol of the Third World
- Roberts, Brain and Schwadel ||
L.A. Short Cuts
- Rolfe, Lionel || In Search of Literary L.A.
- Rorty, James || Continent's End
- Schulberg, Budd || What Makes Sammy Run? || The Disenchanted
- Scott, Allen J. and Edward W. Soja|| The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century
- See, Carolyn || Making History || Golden Days || The
Handy Man
- Shirley, John || Jody and Annie on TV
- Sinclair, Upton || Oil || Co-op
- Singleton, John and Veronica Chambers|| Poetic Justice: Film Making South Central Style
- Smith, Charlie || Chimney Rock
- Smoodin, Roberta || White Horse Cafe
- Straight, Susan || Aquaboogie
- Taylor, Erika || The Sun Maiden
- Thorpe, Edward|| Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler
- Tolkin, Michael || The Player || Among the Dead
- Vidal, Gore || In Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920's
- Vandenburgh, Jane || Failure to Zig Zag
- Wagner, Anton|| Los Angeles
- Wagner, Bruce || Force Majeure
- Wambaugh, Joseph || The Big Orange || The New Centurions || The Choir Boys
- Ward, Elizabeth and Alain Silver|| Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
- Waugh, Evelyn || The Loved One
- Weaver, John D. || Los Angeles; The Enormous Village 1781-1981
- West, Nathaniel || Day of the Locust
- Zukin, Sharon|| Landscape of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
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