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Books Set in San Francisco

Rank Title Author Added

1

Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

4,993 members

108 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thorold, aulsmith, ahef1963

2

The Joy Luck Club

17,678 members

198 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

3

The Bonesetter's Daughter

7,938 members

115 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

4

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

8,759 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: KimarieBee

5

by James Patterson

8,169 members

220 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

6

4,642 members

302 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

7

by Dashiell Hammett

4,286 members

143 reviews

3.8

Member: elia1168

8

More Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

2,642 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

9

Further Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

2,366 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

10

by Armistead Maupin

2,008 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

11

Significant Others

by Armistead Maupin

1,847 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

12

by Armistead Maupin

1,829 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

13

by Emma Donoghue

1,516 members

96 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: KimarieBee

14

The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse

1,487 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: thorold

15

Tea with the Black Dragon

by R. A. MacAvoy

1,484 members

37 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

16

Michael Tolliver Lives

by Armistead Maupin

1,393 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

17

by Laurie R. King

1,325 members

38 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

18

The City, Not Long After

493 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

19

The Little Death

by Michael Nava

299 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

20

by Bill Pronzini

75 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

21

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,400 members

476 reviews

4

22

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

13,884 members

359 reviews

½ 3.7

23

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,191 members

280 reviews

3.9

24

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

8,342 members

724 reviews

3.8

25

by Richard K. Morgan

6,994 members

217 reviews

4

26

All Tomorrow's Parties

by William Gibson

4,530 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

27

The Sisters Brothers

by Patrick deWitt

4,297 members

315 reviews

3.9

28

The Scarlet Plague

574 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

29

Passing Strange {novella}

by Ellen Klages

397 members

34 reviews

3.8

30

by Charles Willeford

289 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

31

Vermilion: The Adventures of Lou Merriwether, Psychopomp

by Molly Tanzer

258 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

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December 2013
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