Fiction set in San Francisco
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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Everyman's Library Classics)
Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique in the shape of a …
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan
4 stars
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles …
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Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In …
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
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Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. …
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Smile: from the #1new york timesbestselling author by Raina Telgemeier
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely …
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Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat …
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Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
5 stars
It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in …
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All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert …
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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (A Berkley medallion book -- D3080.)
4 stars
The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set …
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
4 stars
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on …
