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July 12, 2013
The Best L.A. Novel
L.A. Weekly has been running a tournament-style competition to determine "The Best L.A. Novel." They sorted the novels into four "regions:"
HOLLYWOOD
- What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
- The Player by Michael Tolkin
- The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
- The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
- An Inconvenient Woman by Dominick Dunne
- Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
REBELS & OUTCASTS
- Oil! by Sinclair Lewis
- The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta
- If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
- Locas by Yxta Maya Murray
- Lithium for Medea by Kate Braverman
- White Oleander by Janet Fitch
- The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
- The Tattooed Soldier by Hector Tobar
NOIR
- True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
- L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
- Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
- Double Indemnity by James Cain
- The Big Sleep by Ramond Chandler
- The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
- The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
- Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
LOST SOULS
- Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
- City of Night by John Rechy
- post office by Charles Bukowski
- Ask the Dust by John Fante
- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
- Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita
- Empty The Sun by Joseph Mattson
- Golden Days by Carolyn See
And the winner is...If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
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