It’s Labor Day, so summer reading is officially over even if, with Fogust behind us, summer is only just kicking into gear in San Francisco. Here’s what I finished in the past three months, organized by theme. The books weren’t selected on that basis, but I take inspiration from Susan Orlean’s memoir, the first book I mention below and the last one I read, where she talks about the experience of being in a library: “There are the books you pass on your way to the book you want, and there are the...