San Francisco Gate 2012 100 recommended books

1.
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 102,600 ratings
2.
My Brilliant Friend (My Brilliant Friend, #1)
My Brilliant Friend (My Brilliant Friend, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 435,476 ratings
3.
Three Strong Women
Three Strong Women 3.23 avg rating — 4,198 ratings
4.
Aerogrammes: and Other Stories
Aerogrammes: and Other Stories 3.69 avg rating — 408 ratings
5.
Astray
Astray 3.58 avg rating — 6,693 ratings
6.
Battleborn: Stories
Battleborn: Stories 4.12 avg rating — 5,353 ratings
7.
Beautiful Ruins
Beautiful Ruins 3.68 avg rating — 182,960 ratings
8.
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories 4.17 avg rating — 4,556 ratings
9.
Building Stories
Building Stories 4.33 avg rating — 7,322 ratings
10.
Capital
Capital 3.71 avg rating — 14,539 ratings
11.
City of Bohane
City of Bohane 3.84 avg rating — 4,903 ratings
12.
Contents May Have Shifted
Contents May Have Shifted 3.60 avg rating — 1,744 ratings
13.
Dirt
Dirt 3.19 avg rating — 1,833 ratings
14.
The Dog Stars
The Dog Stars 3.95 avg rating — 69,777 ratings
15.
Drifting House
Drifting House
by: Krys Lee
3.64 avg rating — 1,141 ratings
16.
Enchantment: New and Selected Stories
Enchantment: New and Selected Stories 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
17.
Forgotten Country
Forgotten Country 3.50 avg rating — 3,125 ratings
18.
Gods Without Men
Gods Without Men 3.65 avg rating — 4,350 ratings
19.
Gone Girl
Gone Girl 4.14 avg rating — 3,358,452 ratings
20.
Gone to the Forest
Gone to the Forest 3.26 avg rating — 592 ratings
21.
Half Blood Blues
Half Blood Blues 3.70 avg rating — 17,537 ratings
22.
Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories
Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories 3.43 avg rating — 431 ratings
23.
HHhH
HHhH 4.07 avg rating — 27,466 ratings
24.
Hold It 'Til It Hurts
Hold It 'Til It Hurts 3.62 avg rating — 242 ratings
25.
Home
Home 3.83 avg rating — 27,292 ratings
26.
How Should a Person Be?
How Should a Person Be? 3.33 avg rating — 16,644 ratings
27.
In One Person
In One Person 3.70 avg rating — 27,465 ratings
28.
In the Kingdom of Men
In the Kingdom of Men 3.42 avg rating — 2,825 ratings
29.
Inside
Inside 3.48 avg rating — 3,919 ratings
30.
Jack Holmes and His Friend
Jack Holmes and His Friend 3.60 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
31.
Later Poems Selected and New: 1971–2012
Later Poems Selected and New: 1971–2012 4.30 avg rating — 146 ratings
32.
The Lifeboat
The Lifeboat 3.20 avg rating — 25,241 ratings
33.
Magnificence
Magnificence 3.41 avg rating — 943 ratings
34.
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 214,022 ratings
35.
Monstress: Stories
Monstress: Stories 3.95 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
36.
The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story
The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story 3.81 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
37.
No One Is Here Except All of Us
No One Is Here Except All of Us 3.38 avg rating — 2,666 ratings
38.
NW
NW 3.48 avg rating — 44,462 ratings
39.
The Odditorium: Stories
The Odditorium: Stories 3.64 avg rating — 88 ratings
40.
The Orphan Master's Son
The Orphan Master's Son 4.07 avg rating — 102,949 ratings
41.
Panorama City
Panorama City 3.58 avg rating — 734 ratings
42.
Perla
Perla 3.96 avg rating — 1,868 ratings
43.
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971
by: Lew Welch
4.26 avg rating — 226 ratings
44.
San Miguel
San Miguel 3.69 avg rating — 4,586 ratings
45.
Seating Arrangements
Seating Arrangements 3.08 avg rating — 23,108 ratings
46.
Shout Her Lovely Name
Shout Her Lovely Name 3.52 avg rating — 917 ratings
47.
Stay Awake
Stay Awake
by: Dan Chaon
3.67 avg rating — 2,807 ratings
48.
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door: Stories
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door: Stories 3.92 avg rating — 7,970 ratings
49.
Sweet Tooth
Sweet Tooth 3.44 avg rating — 51,881 ratings
50.
Telegraph Avenue
Telegraph Avenue 3.40 avg rating — 21,576 ratings
51.
This Is How You Lose Her
This Is How You Lose Her 3.74 avg rating — 99,565 ratings
52.
Treasure Island!!!
Treasure Island!!! 3.35 avg rating — 2,816 ratings
53.
True Believers
True Believers 3.60 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
54.
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys 4.01 avg rating — 392 ratings
55.
The Vanishers
The Vanishers 3.13 avg rating — 3,305 ratings
56.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Where'd You Go, Bernadette 3.87 avg rating — 592,717 ratings
57.
A Working Theory of Love
A Working Theory of Love 3.28 avg rating — 2,777 ratings
58.
The Yellow Birds
The Yellow Birds 3.74 avg rating — 26,457 ratings
59.
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama 3.71 avg rating — 35,013 ratings
60.
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars 3.65 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
61.
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies 3.93 avg rating — 733 ratings
62.
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History 3.84 avg rating — 2,632 ratings
63.
Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner
Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner 4.13 avg rating — 413 ratings
64.
Cezanne: A Life
Cezanne: A Life 3.87 avg rating — 261 ratings
65.
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
by: Joy Harjo
4.20 avg rating — 7,638 ratings
66.
David Park: A Painter's Life
David Park: A Painter's Life 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
67.
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis 3.84 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
68.
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies 3.99 avg rating — 13,561 ratings
69.
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis 3.56 avg rating — 855 ratings
70.
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
by: D.T. Max
3.76 avg rating — 9,598 ratings
71.
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King 4.11 avg rating — 7,968 ratings
72.
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas 4.09 avg rating — 520 ratings
73.
Fraternity
Fraternity 3.86 avg rating — 423 ratings
74.
A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi 3.74 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
75.
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine 4.11 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
76.
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places 3.95 avg rating — 627 ratings
77.
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness 4.13 avg rating — 180 ratings
78.
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Joseph Anton: A Memoir 3.65 avg rating — 9,221 ratings
79.
Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist
Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist 4.02 avg rating — 185 ratings
80.
Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood
Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood 3.58 avg rating — 1,139 ratings
81.
Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature
Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature 4.22 avg rating — 122 ratings
82.
Mortality
Mortality 4.12 avg rating — 29,012 ratings
83.
Oblivion: A Memoir
Oblivion: A Memoir 4.39 avg rating — 21,269 ratings
84.
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring 3.91 avg rating — 933 ratings
85.
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War 4.04 avg rating — 133 ratings
86.
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future 3.78 avg rating — 1,426 ratings
87.
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy 4.08 avg rating — 4,310 ratings
88.
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up 3.79 avg rating — 22,904 ratings
89.
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power 3.99 avg rating — 4,162 ratings
90.
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus 3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings
91.
The Richard Burton Diaries
The Richard Burton Diaries 3.96 avg rating — 730 ratings
92.
Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography
Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography 4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings
93.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic 4.42 avg rating — 20,024 ratings
94.
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power 4.34 avg rating — 482 ratings
95.
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy 3.98 avg rating — 137 ratings
96.
The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac 4.06 avg rating — 419 ratings
97.
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture 3.90 avg rating — 308 ratings
98.
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God 3.94 avg rating — 954 ratings
99.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,468 ratings
100.
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room 3.76 avg rating — 1,552 ratings