There’s something about reading a book that takes you to another place, even better if that other place is your favorite city. So if you’re looking for books set in Los Angeles to add to your reading list, look no further. From murder mysteries to romance novels, these books will take you on a literary journey through the City of Angels. So grab a latte, sit back, and get ready for some serious Angeleno escapism.
Dear Los Angeles by David Kipen
The Hunt by Faye Kellerman
Detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus return to Los Angeles when a kidnapping hits close to home.
Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman
A young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn’t need to leave everything behind after all, from Abbi Waxman, USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.
Mimi Lee Gets a Clue by Jennifer J. Chow
Mimi Lee is in over her head. There’s her new Los Angeles pet grooming shop to run, her matchmaking mother to thwart, her talking cat Marshmallow to tend to–oh, and the murder of a local breeder to solve…now if only Mimi hadn’t landed herself on top of the suspect list.
Lurkers by Sandi Tan
From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers.
If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now by Via Bleidner
If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous by Now is an insider’s collection of funny and warmhearted stories about coming of age in the Los Angeles suburb famed for birthing the Kardashian-Jenners and the Bling Ring.
L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón
The Perishing by Natashia Deón
A Black immortal in 1930’s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler.
In the Face of the Sun by Denny S. Bryce
In this haunting novel, the author of Wild Women and the Blues weaves together two stories as they unfold decades apart, as a woman on the run from an abusive husband joins her intrepid aunt as they head across the country from Chicago to Los Angeles, and confront a painful and shadowy past that has reverberated across generations.
Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher
A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in this searing and darkly funny memoir that upends our ideas about desire, class, and power.
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles–a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice.
My Dirty California by Jason Mosberg
In this literary thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family’s killer–aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy pasts.
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