What to Read After City of Quartz
Readers who loved City of Quartz by Mike Davis keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where City of Quartz is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after City of Quartz
Crabgrass Frontier
Nature's metropolis
The Image of the City
The city in history
Americans and the California dream, 1850-1915
Dark age ahead
Coast of dreams
If He Hollers Let Him Go
Where I Was From
Hollow City
Ecology of fear
Planet of Slums
Urban Fortunes
California
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Late Victorian Holocausts
Magical Urbanism
The production of space
The condition of postmodernity
The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
Reconstruction
The Age of Reform
Non-places
America