This is a bibliography of Los Angeles, California. It includes books specifically about the city and county of Los Angeles and more generally the Greater Los Angeles Area. The list includes both non-fiction and notable works of fiction that significantly relate to the region. The list does not include annual travel books, recipe books, and currently does not contain works about sports in the region. History California histories containing significant material on Los Angeles Kevin Starr, former Professor of History and California's State Librarian has written many highly regarded books on the history of California including the multi-volume Americans & the California Dream Series which contain a significant amount of history about Los Angeles and the surrounding area. California: A History. New York: Modern Library. (2007). 416 pp. Single Volume History of California. Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990–2003. New York: Knopf. (2004). 784 pp. Americans & the California Dream Series by Kevin Starr Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915. New York: Oxford University Press. (1973). 512 pp. Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. New York: Oxford University Press. (1985). 416 pp. Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press. (1990). 496 pp. Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California. New York: Oxford University Press. (1996). 432 pp. The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s. New York: Oxford University Press. (1997). 512 pp. Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940–1950. New York: Oxford University Press. (2003). 386 pp. Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963. New York: Oxford University Press. (2011). 576 pp. Los Angeles histories Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities (U of Minnesota Press, 1999), Compares the three cities in terms of geography, economics and race from 1800 to 1990 Bills, Emily, "Connecting Lines: L.A.'s Telephone History and the Binding of the Region", Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2009), 27–67. Bollens, John C. and Geyer, Grant B. Yorty: Politics of a Constant Candidate. (1973). 245 pp. Mayor 1961–73 Brook, Vincent. Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press; 2013) 301 pages Buntin, John. L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City. (2009). 432 pp. Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso Books, 2006). Davis, Mike, & Wiener, Jon. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.