100 books
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San Francisco Books
Showing 1-50 of 5,448
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
by (shelved 134 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,688 ratings — published 1978
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.72 — 216,002 ratings — published 2012
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,907 ratings — published 2012
Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,302 ratings — published 2013
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,270 ratings — published 1930
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,262 ratings — published 2010
Sourdough (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.75 — 62,325 ratings — published 2017
Frog Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.20 — 26,801 ratings — published 2014
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.97 — 709,088 ratings — published 1989
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.20 — 117,503 ratings — published 2021
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.02 — 193,644 ratings — published 2023
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.09 — 232,593 ratings — published 2011
More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,573 ratings — published 1980
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.84 — 894 ratings — published 1933
A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.03 — 123,800 ratings — published 2006
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.69 — 183,581 ratings — published 2000
Valencia (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,756 ratings — published 2000
The Nature of Fragile Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.26 — 83,317 ratings — published 2021
Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,988 ratings — published 1982
China Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,630 ratings — published 1989
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.92 — 53,142 ratings — published 2008
The Golden Gate (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,851 ratings — published 1986
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.44 — 47,913 ratings — published 2018
China Dolls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.66 — 39,293 ratings — published 2014
Bloodsucking Fiends (A Love Story, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.94 — 66,669 ratings — published 1995
The Japanese Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.89 — 96,414 ratings — published 2015
Significant Others (Tales of the City, #5)
by (shelved 30 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,700 ratings — published 1987
Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4)
by (shelved 30 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,724 ratings — published 1984
We Run the Tides (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,107 ratings — published 2021
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.62 — 223,313 ratings — published 2017
All the Birds in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.59 — 48,720 ratings — published 2016
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.59 — 234,967 ratings — published 1962
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.94 — 140,333 ratings — published 1998
Michael Tolliver Lives (Tales of the City, #7)
by (shelved 28 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,366 ratings — published 2007
1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.10 — 358,519 ratings — published 2001
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
by (shelved 27 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.68 — 6,827 ratings — published 1899
Sure of You (Tales of the City, #6)
by (shelved 27 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,853 ratings — published 1989
The Spellman Files (The Spellmans, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.87 — 37,698 ratings — published 2007
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,517 ratings — published 1982
You Suck (A Love Story, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.85 — 51,049 ratings — published 2007
The Phoenix Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.85 — 45,991 ratings — published 2024
Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.16 — 714 ratings — published 2014
Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City, #8)
by (shelved 24 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,141 ratings — published 2010
Uncanny Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.63 — 35,281 ratings — published 2020
The Circle (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.43 — 230,688 ratings — published 2013
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.18 — 82,625 ratings — published 1968
The Immortalists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.71 — 219,935 ratings — published 2018
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.61 — 447,413 ratings — published 1957
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,109 ratings — published 2003
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,244 ratings — published 2005
“world is a drama, we are the actors with our play role”
― Too Politically Sensitive: Since When Is Murder Too Politically Sensitive
― Too Politically Sensitive: Since When Is Murder Too Politically Sensitive
“After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco . . .”
― Middlesex
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