Fiction/Poetry

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
2. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
3. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
4. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson
5. Wilson by Daniel Clowes
6. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
7. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
9. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larsson
10. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
11. L.A. Noir 2: The Classics edited by Denise Hamilton
12. Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin
13. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow
14. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
15. Ask the Dust by John Fante
16. Inheritance by Steven Reigns
17. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
18. The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury
19. The Book of Genesis by R. Crumb
20. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
21. Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
22. Alone With You by Marisa Silver
23. Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
24. Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter
25. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (illustrated by Camille Garcia

Nonfiction

1. Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
2. Just Kids by Patti Smith (Hardcover)
3. Secret Stairs by Charles Fleming
4. SLAKE:The Los Angeles Quarterly
5. McSweeney’s 33: The Panorama Newspaper
6. Role Models by John Waters
7. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
8. Life by Keith Richards
9. I Found This Funny edited by Judd Apatow
10. Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
11. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
12. L.A. Bizarro by Anthony Lovett
13. People’s History of the U.S. by Howard Zinn
14. Down and Derby by Alex Cohen
15. Picture This! By Lynda Barry
16. Walking L.A. by Erin Mahoney Harris
17. Just Kids by Patti Smith (paperback)
18. Food Rules by Michael Pollan
19. The Lost Art of Reading by David Ulin
20. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
21. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
22. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky
23. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
24. Selby is in Your Place by Lesley Arfin
25. You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier