10/14/2026
Explore Los Angeles by bus and by book! Here are some interesting book recommendations all about LA for your next bus ride.
📚 East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte - a collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization
📚 The Library Book - a well-researched nonfiction about the tragic 1986 LA Public Library Fire, the investigation around it, and the importance of libraries and books – especially in our digital age
📚 The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles - a vivid account of the birth of modern LA and the people who willed it into existence by pushing the limits of human engineering and peddling fantasies