LA's Indie Booksellers On Best Books About The City — Just In Time For The Holidays How To LA

#199: Today, we’re enlisting some local booksellers to help us understand L.A. better.

Staffers from Skylight Books in Los Feliz, The Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood, Book Soup in West Hollywood and Chevalier’s Books in Larchmont Village shared their favorite books about Los Angeles:


"Amnesiascope" by Steve Erickson
"The Dog Park" by Dennis Etchison
"City of Quartz" by Mike Davis
"Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles" by Rosecrans Baldwin
"The Library Book" by Susan Orlean
"Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology" edited by David Ulin
"Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018" edited by David Kipen
"Ed Ruscha/ Now Then: A Retrospective" from MoMA Press
"The Cobrasnake: Y2Ks Archive" by Mark Hunter
"She" by Michelle Latiolais
"Seventy-Two and One Half Miles Across Los Angeles" by Mark Ruwedel
"Koreatown Dreaming: Stories and Portraits of Korean Immigrant Life" by Emanuel Hahn

Stay tuned for more picks from other local indie bookshops in the New Year!