The Greatest Books of All Time Set in San Francisco

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
12039 Crash Override Zoë Quinn 2017 American English
12122 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12187 When Dimple Met Rishi Sandhya Menon 2017 American English
12249 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth 1986 Indian English
12246 Cinderella Ate My Daughter Peggy Orenstein 2011 American English
12250 Ship Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea Gary Kinder 1998 American English
12427 The Twenty Six Words That Created The Internet Jeff Kosseff 2019 American English
12453 My Name Is Emilia Del Valle Isabel Allende 2025 Unknown English
12458 The Collected Schizophrenias Esmé Weijun Wang 2019 American English
12514 The Loom And Other Stories R. A. Sasaki 1991 American English
12548 Picks And Shovels Cory Doctorow 2025 Canadian English
12656 War Of The Whales Joshua Horwitz 2014 American English
12656 Thunder & Lightning Lauren Redniss 2015 Unknown English
12656 The Barbary Coast Herbert Asbury 2009 American English
12697 No Filter Sarah Frier 2020 American English
12916 Like, Comment, Subscribe Mark Bergen 2022 Unknown English
12962 Sky Daddy Kate Folk 2025 Unknown English
13247 We Are Not Free Traci Chee 2020 American English
13267 Bone Fae Myenne Ng 1993 American English
13257 The Spoken Word Revolution Mark Eleveld 2003 Unknown English
13293 Outside The Gates Of Eden Peter Bacon Hales 2014 Unknown English
13338 Candyfreak Steve Almond 2004 American English
13553 Tell The Machine Goodnight Katie Williams 2018 American English
13716 Tweak Nic Sheff 2007 American English
13753 Tales Of Beatnik Glory Ed Saunders 1975 American English
13772 Beautiful Boy David Sheff 2008 American English
13886 American Voyeur Benoit Denizet-Lewis 2009 American English
14176 To Be A Machine Mark O'Connell 2017 Irish English
14232 Last Night At The Telegraph Club Malinda Lo 2021 American English
14498 Super Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt 2009 American English
14588 Two Truths And A Lie Ellen McGarrahan 2021 Unknown English
14984 Smile Raina Telgemeier 2010 American English
14984 Last Stop On Market Street Matt de la Peña 2015 American English
14984 Virtual Light William Gibson 1993 American English
14984 Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan 2012 American English
14984 Genentech Sally Smith Hughes 2009 Unknown English
14984 The Faculty of Dreams Sara Stridsberg 2006 Swedish Swedish
14984 Sharks In The Time Of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn 2020 American English
15590 The Making Of A Counter Culture Theodore Roszak 1969 American English
15632 Brass Charles Gilman Norris 1921 American English
15653 Certain People Of Importance Kathleen Thompson Norris 1922 American English
15663 Supermoney George Goodman 1972 American English
15826 Children Of The Atom Wilmar H. Shiras 1953 American English
15848 Hard Rain Falling Don Carpenter 1966 American English
15903 Vertigo Boileau-Narcejac 1954 French French
15903 America Is In The Heart Carlos Bulosan 1946 Filipino English
15903 The Cruise Of The Snark Jack London 1911 American English
16670 Factotum Charles Bukowski 1975 American English
17130 The Continental Op Dashiell Hammett 1974 American English
16868 The Time Of Your Life William Saroyan 1939 American English
17130 Little Brother Cory Doctorow 2008 Canadian English
17130 Lying Low Diane Johnson 1990 American English
17130 Superior Women Alice Adams 1984 American English
17130 Fathers Herb Gold 1994 American English
17040 The Splendid Idle Forties Gertrude Atherton 1902 American English
17130 The Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole Gerald Rosen 1977 American English
17130 Confessions Of Madame Psyche Dorothy Bryant 1986 American English
17130 Y The Last Man Brian K. Vaughan 2002 American English
17130 Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice For Murderers Jesse Q. Sutanto 2023 British English
17130 Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull 2014 American English
17130 Every Living Thing Jason Roberts 2024 Unknown English
17130 The Bride Test Helen Hoang 2019 American English
17130 The Meaning Of Freedom Angela Davis 2012 American English
17130 You Suck Christopher Moore 2007 American English
17130 Utopia Avenue David Mitchell 2020 British English
17130 Red Earth And Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra 1995 Indian English
17130 Theodore Rex Edmund Morris 2001 American English
17130 The Witching Hour Anne Rice 1990 American English
17130 The Food Lab J. Kenji López-Alt 2015 American English
17130 The Antidote Oliver Burkeman 2012 British English
17130 Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand 2009 American English
17130 The 4 Hour Work Week Timothy Ferriss 2007 American English
17130 The Monk Of Mokha Dave Eggers 2018 American English
17130 Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda 2010 Unknown English
17130 The Way We Never Were Stephanie Countz 1992 Unknown English
17130 We Both Laughed In Pleasure Lou Sullivan 2019 American English
17130 Bonk Mary Roach 2008 American English
17130 Lexicon Max Barry 2013 Australian English
17130 Spook Mary Roach 2005 American English
17130 Made In America Bill Bryson 1994 American English
17130 The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin 2018 American English
17130 Drawdown Paul Hawken 2017 American English
17130 Algorithms To Live By Brian Christian 2016 American English
17130 Three Month Fever Gary Indiana 1999 American English
17130 Quichotte Salman Rushdie 2019 British English
17130 The Language Of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh 2011 American English
17130 Traveling Mercies Anne Lamott 1999 American English
17130 Invisible Prisons Lisa Moore, Jack Whalen 2024 Unknown Unknown
17130 Lunar New Year Love Story Gene Luen Yang 2024 Unknown English
17130 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor Hank Green 2020 American English
17130 Mastery George Leonard 1991 American English
17130 Sea Of Glory Nathaniel Philbrick 2003 American English
17130 The Disaster Artist Greg Sestero 2013 American English
17130 El Viento Conoce Mi Nombre / The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende 2023 Chilean Spanish
17130 Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx 1996 American English
17130 Tides Of Fire James Rollins 2023 American English
17130 The Way Of Zen Alan Watts 1989 British English
17130 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17130 Lost Connections Johann Hari 2018 British English
17130 The Great American Bus Ride Irma Kurtz 1993 Unknown English
17130 Benevolence And Betrayal Alexander Stille 1991 American English
17130 From Airline Reservations To Sonic The Hedgehog Martin Campbell-Kelly 2003 British English
17130 Fire In The Valley Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine 1984 American English
17130 The Ultimate History Of Video Games Steven L. Kent 2001 American English
17130 More Work For Mother Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1983 American English
17130 Angela Davis Angela Davis 1974 American English
17130 Green Island Shawna Yang Ryan 2016 Unknown English
17130 The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge 2007 Canadian English
17130 The Americans, Baby Frank Moorhouse 1972 Australian English
17130 The Infinite Plan Isabel Allende 1992 Chilean Spanish
17130 Neo Confucianism Stephen C. Angle, Justin Tiwald 2017 Chinese English
17130 The Rise And Fall Of The Second American Republic Manisha Sinha 2024 Unknown English
17130 Freethinkers Susan Jacoby 2004 American English
17130 Horse Barbie Geena Rocero 2023 Unknown English
17130 Four Treasures Of The Sky Jenny Tinghui Zhang 2022 Unknown English
17130 The Adventures Of Sam Spade Dashiell Hammett 1944 American English
17130 The Summer Game Roger Angell 1972 American English
17130 The Long Season Jim Brosnan 1960 American English
17130 Joe Di Maggio Richard Ben Cramer 2000 American English
17130 The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract Bill James 1985 American English