Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (ISBN 0671882317) is a 1993 book by Mexican-American author Luis J. Rodriguez.

It is a memoir of his youth as a member of a street gang in Los Angeles (specifically, East Los Angeles and the city's eastern suburbs), which has been highly acclaimed and compared to the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London in its description of the lives of desperate, impoverished individuals in big cities.

The book has been banned by many school districts in the U.S. for its frank sexual realism.

Banned books