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Poll: What’s your favorite book about Los Angeles?

By Carolyn Kellogg
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It’s the top 12, the final dozen, your 12 favorite books about Los Angeles! Which will emerge as the favorite among them all? Vote now, below: Choose among Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, Bret Easton Ellis and Joan Didion, John Fante and Nathanael West, Mike Davis and Thomas Pynchon.

A week ago, we asked you to tell us your favorite books about Los Angeles; the answers came pouring in on Twitter and Facebook, so many that we had a runoff. A few who performed well -- Dawn Schiller, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez and Terrill Lee Lankford -- also made our top 12, after rallying votes in their favor.

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Now, vote for your favorite Los Angeles book: Your 12 finalists are listed alphabetically by title below. The polls will close Thursday morning.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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