For a historical bibliography of the built environment in the Los Angeles area, see Richard Longstreth's online compilation for the Society of Architectural Historians

The following offer historical materials on Wilshire Boulevard, or address a theme related to the development of the boulevard. For a more complete bibliography, see Kevin Roderick's Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles.

Berger, Robert. Sacred Spaces: Historic Houses of Worship in the City of Angels. Glendale: Balcony Press, 2003.

Gebhard, David, and Robert Winter. An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles. Revised Edition. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2003.

Hess, Alan. Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004.

Heimann, Jim. California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001.

Hines, Thomas. "The Linear City: Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1895-1945." In Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920 , edited by Jan Cigliano and Sarah Bradford Landau. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994.

Longstreth, Richard. City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1997.

Longstreth, Richard. The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.

Roderick, Kevin. Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles. Santa Monica: Angel City Press, 2005.

Suisman, Doug. Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public. Los Angeles: Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 1989.