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Your favorite L.A. book, Round 1: Which Fante, Didion, Ellroy, Connelly to choose?

By Carolyn Kellogg
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Tuesday we put out a call on Twitter and Facebook for readers to tell us what their favorite Los Angeles book was. We’d thought we could post the results here in a simple vote -- which do you like best? -- but the response was too overwheming to do it in just one go.

Close to 100 favorite L.A. book titles came in, including fiction and nonfiction, Hollywood memoir and poetry, fantasy and mystery (lots of mystery). And some very L.A. authors were so popular that more than one of their books were favorites: two each from Michael Connelly, Joan Didion, Janet Fitch and Bret Easton Ellis; three by John Fante; four by Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy; and five different titles by Charles Bukowski. In this round, we ask you to choose just one book by each author -- vote in the poll below.

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-- 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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