Books about Los Angeles: Our top city-based reads

Fall is here, and even (especially) if you aren't headed back to school, now's the time to curl up with and dig into a good book. And what better subject than our fair city? We racked our brains—and those of some local, independent booksellers—to come up with a must-read list of books about Los Angeles, from new fiction to modern classics and some history tomes to round out the bunch.