Does someone special in your life constantly threaten to move to L.A.? Satiate their California dreaming with a novel instead. While you can always pick up a classic from Joan Didion or Eve Babitz, we also recommend branching out with "Pizza Girl" by Jean Kyoung Frazier (a staff pick from bookseller Kathryn), or @mcnallyeditions' very own "The Goodby People" by Gavin Lambert, recently recommended by @frynaomifry in @newyorkermag . "Smart and funny and weird and dark, Jean Kyoung Frazier's Pizza Girl is so much fun. The narrator sucked me in immediately because she’s chaotic in the best way and tackles big issues like the meaning of family, how to find your place in the world, and whether pickles belong on pizza. This is the perfect weirdo beach read." -- Kathryn, Williamsburg "My main feelings as I recently tore into Gavin Lambert’s 'The Goodby People,' from 1971, were surprise that no one had ever recommended this jewel of an L.A. novel to me, along with happiness that I had now, at least, finally come across it... The book’s protagonists—a youngish, wealthy widow whose powerful producer husband has recently died, a hot bisexual hustler dodging the Vietnam draft, a runaway who pursues a perceived mystical connection to an older, has-been actress—are all wandering half-unseeingly through a world teetering between Old Hollywood grandness and freaked-out bohemianism." — Naomi Fry