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Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
by (shelved 135 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,021 ratings — published 1978
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.72 — 218,955 ratings — published 2012
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,278 ratings — published 2012
Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,378 ratings — published 2013
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,108 ratings — published 1930
Sourdough (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.74 — 64,274 ratings — published 2017
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.97 — 718,672 ratings — published 1989
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Chairman's Circle Books)
by (shelved 69 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,284 ratings — published 2010
Frog Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.20 — 27,087 ratings — published 2014
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.18 — 129,191 ratings — published 2021
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.01 — 237,810 ratings — published 2023
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.10 — 236,739 ratings — published 2011
More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,977 ratings — published 1980
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.83 — 920 ratings — published 1933
A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.03 — 125,591 ratings — published 2006
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.69 — 185,063 ratings — published 2000
The Nature of Fragile Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,702 ratings — published 2021
Valencia (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,204 ratings — published 2000
The Golden Gate (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,917 ratings — published 1986
China Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,639 ratings — published 1989
Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,303 ratings — published 1982
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.93 — 53,996 ratings — published 2008
Bloodsucking Fiends (A Love Story, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,393 ratings — published 1995
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.43 — 49,587 ratings — published 2018
China Dolls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.67 — 40,381 ratings — published 2014
Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4)
by (shelved 31 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,959 ratings — published 1984
We Run the Tides (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.63 — 17,618 ratings — published 2021
The Japanese Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.89 — 100,513 ratings — published 2015
Significant Others (Tales of the City, #5)
by (shelved 30 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,892 ratings — published 1987
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.62 — 231,859 ratings — published 2017
All the Birds in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.59 — 49,432 ratings — published 2016
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.95 — 144,683 ratings — published 1998
Michael Tolliver Lives (Tales of the City, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,508 ratings — published 2007
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
by (shelved 28 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.59 — 244,590 ratings — published 1962
Sure of You (Tales of the City, #6)
by (shelved 28 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,009 ratings — published 1989
The Spellman Files (The Spellmans, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,388 ratings — published 2007
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
by (shelved 27 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,037 ratings — published 1899
The Phoenix Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.86 — 53,306 ratings — published 2024
1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.10 — 365,583 ratings — published 2001
Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.16 — 719 ratings — published 2014
Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City, #8)
by (shelved 25 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,280 ratings — published 2010
You Suck (A Love Story, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.85 — 51,563 ratings — published 2007
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,557 ratings — published 1982
Uncanny Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.63 — 35,851 ratings — published 2020
Automatic Noodle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.67 — 30,627 ratings — published 2025
The Immortalists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.71 — 225,076 ratings — published 2018
The Circle (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.43 — 235,682 ratings — published 2013
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,828 ratings — published 1968
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.70 — 256,251 ratings — published 2010
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as san-francisco)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,231 ratings — published 1957
“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”
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“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
― Middlesex
