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If you’ve never read Wodehouse, I envy you the pleasure of discovering him for the first time.

The 13 most essential L.A. works of short fiction, from a Little Tokyo proto-noir to Fitzgerald, Wodehouse, Bradbury and generations of Chicano pioneers.

Other highlights include rare and first editions of books by Agatha Christie, PG Wodehouse and James Joyce.

Wodehouse put it in “My Man Jeeves,” if people don’t sometimes yield to them?

Wodehouse’s every sentence, my very favorite comic novels are Jerome K. Jerome’s high-spirited “Three Men in a Boat” and the scathing portrait of an unconscious religious hypocrite, H.H.