Books Set in Los Angeles

Raymond Chandler's mean streets, Joan Didion's freeways, Bret Easton Ellis's Bel-Air, Eve Babitz's Hollywood — the literary LA you can drive through today.

15 novels mapped, with every real-world location, the history of each place, and what's there today.

All 15 maps set in Los Angeles

• Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid locations map
• Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz locations map
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury locations map
• Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard locations map
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus locations map
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid locations map
• One & Only by Maurene Goo locations map
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson locations map
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler locations map
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman locations map
• The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth Arnott locations map
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty locations map
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid locations map
• The Vision by Dean Koontz locations map
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand locations map

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