#227: Today, we’re once again enlisting some local independent booksellers to help us understand L.A. better. This time we headed to Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore in Sylmar, Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena and Reparations Club near West Adams.

Books mentioned:

• "Ask the Dust" by John Fante
• "Mercurochrome: New Poems" by Wanda Coleman
• "Always Running" by Luis J. Rodriguez
• "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
• "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler
• "The Lost Cause" by Cory Doctorow
• "KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell" by Robeson Taj Frazier with Ben Caldwell
• "There Goes the Neighborhood" by Jade Adia
• "The White Boy Shuffle" by Paul Beatty
• "South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s" by Kellie Jones