L.A. DEEP CUTS

Commonwealth

By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Hope Davis
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

“Patchett leaves behind the exotic locales and intricate plots of State of Wonder and Bel Canto for an even darker and more difficult place to navigate -- the interior of a blended family over the course of several decades. While more domestic than many of her previous novels, Commonwealth offers plenty of intrigue and surprises as Patchett... Read more

Shopgirl

By: Steve Martin
Narrated by: Steve Martin
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

THE BESTSELLING NOVEL BY STEVE MARTIN
IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore..."
Mirabelle captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost... Read more

The Big Sleep

A Philip Marlowe Novel

By: Raymond Chandler
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle... Read more

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

A Novel

By: Aimee Bender
Narrated by: Aimee Bender
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a... Read more

Becoming Los Angeles

Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place

By: DJ Waldie
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Bestselling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays.

Becoming Los Angeles, a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir Holy Land, blends history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Angelenos have seen themselves and their city. Waldie’s particular... Read more

Your House Will Pay

A Novel

By: Steph Cha
Narrated by: Greta Jung & Glenn Davis
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

“Riveting story of two families struggles as racial violence has forever bound them together. Read more

The First Bad Man

A Novel

By: Miranda July
Narrated by: Miranda July
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

The New York Times Bestseller

The “brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut novel from Miranda July, acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.

Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She... Read more

Milk Fed

A Novel

By: Melissa Broder
Narrated by: Melissa Broder
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

“As someone who had an ED, this book was hard because it was so good. The author nails the absolute and total mindf***ery of eating disorders. About how it's a mold that eats at more than your body image or self esteem, but like, every facet of your being, twisting not just your relationships to food but also to people, work, and life. Read more

Cultish

The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

“Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this on Libro.fm. Entertaining, informative, and a must-read (listen to) for anyone interested in Cults, MLMs, Fitness, the English language... etc. Read more

A Man Named Doll

By: Jonathan Ames
Narrated by: Jonathan Ames
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

In this deliciously noir novel from the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll embarks on a quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles  as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child).  Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living... Read more

The Butterfly Lampshade

A Novel

By: Aimee Bender
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

“I absolutely loved reading The Butterfly Lampshade. We’re escorted through Aimee Bender’s novel by Francie, who as a child is removed from her mother’s care because of mental illness. Throughout the story, Francie questions her own sanity as she deeply believes she witnesses phenomena that defy nature. Increasingly, she withdraws from the world,... Read more

Weetzie Bat

Weetzie Bat: Book #1

By: Francesca Lia Block
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Lanky lizards and rubber chickens, slinkster dogs and Lanka girls-Weetzie Bat knows them all in the glitzy never-never land of L.A. With her blonde flat-top and trendy clothes, Weetzie Bat cruises from high school to neon clubs, looking for her Secret Agent Lover Man. When she meets dark-haired Dirk and his red Pontiac, their search for love is... Read more

Trejo

My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

By: Danny Trejo & Donal Logue
Narrated by: Danny Trejo & Donal Logue
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

In this “celebration of a life fully lived” (Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us), discover the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey from crime, prison, addiction, and loss—it’s “enough to make you believe in the possibility of a Hollywood ending” (The New York Times Book Review).

On screen, Danny... Read more

City of Quartz

Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By: Mike Davis
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last... Read more

Twilight Man

Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

By: Liz Brown
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Liz Brown
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

"Twilight Man is biography, romance, and nonfiction mystery, carrying with it the bite of fiction." -- Los Angeles Review of Books


“In Twilight Man, Liz Brown uncovers a noir fairytale, a new glimpse into the opulent Gilded Age empire of the Clark family.” —Bill Dedman, co-author of The New York Times bestseller Empty Mansions: The Mysterious... Read more

We Play Ourselves

A Novel

By: Jen Silverman
Narrated by: Renata Friedman
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects.

FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A blistering story about the costs of creating art.”—O: The Oprah... Read more

The Black Kids

By: Christina Hammonds Reed
Narrated by: Kiersey Clemons
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

“"I know she resents me and resents being here. She thinks I don't care. But it's not that; it's that there's so very much to care about, so much to feel, and instead of trying to sort out what's in my head, sometimes I don't want to feel any of it."

Christina Hammonds Reed's writing is gorgeous and transporting as she tells the story of... Read more

Holy Land

A Suburban Memoir

By: D.J. Waldie
Narrated by: Rich Miller
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Since its original publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In "quick, translucent prose" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a prototypical post-World War II suburb. Laid out in 316 sections as carefully measured as a grid... Read more

Creatures

A Novel

By: Crissy Van Meter
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

“Creatures is a novel that invokes the senses most often left to the wayside in fiction: touch, taste, and smell. This imagery is unique to how Evie, our narrator, perceives her surroundings of Winter Island and the people who float in and out of her life. As readers experience Evie’s past, present, and future concurrently, they are left with a... Read more

Everything Now

Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

By: Rosecrans Baldwin
Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America's western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally, aesthetically,... Read more