San Francisco Gate 2010 100 recommended books

1.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3) 4.24 avg rating — 765,871 ratings
2.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,045 ratings
3.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,283 ratings
4.
Day Out of Days: Stories
Day Out of Days: Stories 3.94 avg rating — 589 ratings
4.
The Finkler Question
The Finkler Question 2.83 avg rating — 15,956 ratings
6.
I Hotel
I Hotel 3.85 avg rating — 798 ratings
7.
Parrot and Olivier in America
Parrot and Olivier in America 3.44 avg rating — 7,567 ratings
8.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 3.25 avg rating — 68,151 ratings
9.
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History 3.75 avg rating — 563 ratings
9.
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery 4.18 avg rating — 6,498 ratings
11.
Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century
Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century 3.83 avg rating — 220 ratings
12.
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin 4.33 avg rating — 13,982 ratings
13.
Alone With You: Stories
Alone With You: Stories 3.64 avg rating — 413 ratings
14.
By Nightfall
By Nightfall 3.44 avg rating — 10,615 ratings
15.
Citrus County
Citrus County 3.61 avg rating — 2,104 ratings
16.
Dear Money
Dear Money 3.23 avg rating — 286 ratings
17.
Death Is Not an Option: Stories
Death Is Not an Option: Stories 3.74 avg rating — 754 ratings
18.
Dimanche and Other Stories
Dimanche and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 876 ratings
19.
Everything
Everything 3.45 avg rating — 282 ratings
20.
The False Friend
The False Friend 2.77 avg rating — 3,089 ratings
21.
Foreign Bodies
Foreign Bodies 3.19 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
22.
The Frozen Rabbi
The Frozen Rabbi 3.08 avg rating — 980 ratings
23.
Fun with Problems: Stories
Fun with Problems: Stories 3.28 avg rating — 385 ratings
24.
The Gin Closet
The Gin Closet 3.48 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
25.
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
by: Yiyun Li
3.70 avg rating — 2,715 ratings
26.
Great House
Great House 3.49 avg rating — 18,529 ratings
27.
How to Read the Air
How to Read the Air 3.27 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
28.
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories 3.77 avg rating — 2,655 ratings
29.
The Imperfectionists
The Imperfectionists 3.55 avg rating — 50,178 ratings
30.
The Instructions
The Instructions 4.08 avg rating — 2,736 ratings
31.
The Invisible Bridge
The Invisible Bridge 4.18 avg rating — 53,715 ratings
32.
The Lake Shore Limited
The Lake Shore Limited 3.37 avg rating — 4,421 ratings
33.
Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories 4.10 avg rating — 453 ratings
34.
Long song, never far from nowhere, fruit of the lemon 3 books collection set
Long song, never far from nowhere, fruit of the lemon 3 books collection set it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
35.
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
The Lost Books of the Odyssey 3.92 avg rating — 3,448 ratings
36.
Matterhorn
Matterhorn 4.27 avg rating — 46,463 ratings
37.
El muro de la memoria
El muro de la memoria 4.08 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
38.
Monsieur Pain
Monsieur Pain 3.34 avg rating — 3,655 ratings
39.
The More I Owe You
The More I Owe You 3.87 avg rating — 169 ratings
40.
My Hollywood
My Hollywood 3.10 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
41.
Nemesis
Nemesis 3.86 avg rating — 17,816 ratings
42.
The New Yorker Stories
The New Yorker Stories 3.79 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
43.
No Place For Heroes
No Place For Heroes 3.63 avg rating — 667 ratings
44.
A Novel Bookstore
A Novel Bookstore 3.50 avg rating — 4,149 ratings
45.
Ransom
Ransom 3.70 avg rating — 5,090 ratings
46.
Ruby's Spoon
Ruby's Spoon 3.15 avg rating — 223 ratings
47.
Skippy Dies
Skippy Dies 3.79 avg rating — 26,312 ratings
48.
Solar
Solar 3.29 avg rating — 28,951 ratings
49.
Sourland: Stories
Sourland: Stories 3.50 avg rating — 938 ratings
50.
Super Sad True Love Story
Super Sad True Love Story 3.45 avg rating — 41,498 ratings
51.
The Surrendered
The Surrendered 3.67 avg rating — 4,861 ratings
52.
The Unnamed
The Unnamed 3.33 avg rating — 9,035 ratings
53.
Walks With Men
Walks With Men 2.72 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
54.
What Becomes
What Becomes 3.56 avg rating — 279 ratings
55.
What Is Left the Daughter
What Is Left the Daughter 3.47 avg rating — 2,833 ratings
56.
Wild Child and Other Stories
Wild Child and Other Stories 3.69 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
57.
American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 3.95 avg rating — 261 ratings
58.
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet 4.01 avg rating — 2,031 ratings
59.
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories 3.76 avg rating — 5,186 ratings
60.
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition 3.80 avg rating — 8,727 ratings
61.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,095 ratings
62.
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. David Remnick
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. David Remnick 4.10 avg rating — 4,654 ratings
63.
Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3)
Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3) 4.11 avg rating — 22,241 ratings
64.
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory 4.26 avg rating — 8,013 ratings
65.
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr 4.18 avg rating — 357 ratings
66.
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food 4.05 avg rating — 6,843 ratings
67.
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy 4.20 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
68.
The Grace of Silence: A Memoir
The Grace of Silence: A Memoir 3.87 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
69.
Half a Life
Half a Life 3.58 avg rating — 4,930 ratings
70.
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Hitch 22: A Memoir 4.02 avg rating — 22,232 ratings
71.
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture 3.91 avg rating — 319 ratings
72.
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance 4.11 avg rating — 585 ratings
73.
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters 4.23 avg rating — 834 ratings
74.
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir 3.81 avg rating — 2,713 ratings
75.
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic 4.14 avg rating — 104 ratings
76.
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron 4.15 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
77.
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship 3.96 avg rating — 12,229 ratings
78.
Life
Life 3.89 avg rating — 97,138 ratings
79.
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture 3.91 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
80.
Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography 3.67 avg rating — 1,244 ratings
81.
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 4.45 avg rating — 96,061 ratings
82.
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth 3.82 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
83.
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them 3.71 avg rating — 5,946 ratings
84.
The Professor and Other Writings. Terry Castle
The Professor and Other Writings. Terry Castle 3.79 avg rating — 317 ratings
85.
The Promise: President Obama, Year One
The Promise: President Obama, Year One 4.03 avg rating — 2,738 ratings
86.
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian 3.51 avg rating — 4,309 ratings
87.
Letters
Letters 4.11 avg rating — 254 ratings
88.
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography 4.15 avg rating — 588 ratings
89.
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves 3.62 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
90.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 3.89 avg rating — 32,232 ratings
91.
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends
by: Tom Segev
3.62 avg rating — 178 ratings
92.
A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California
A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California 4.51 avg rating — 83 ratings
93.
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith 3.70 avg rating — 759 ratings
94.
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America 4.19 avg rating — 835 ratings
95.
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival 4.07 avg rating — 18,586 ratings
96.
Travels in Siberia
Travels in Siberia 3.92 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
97.
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons 4.06 avg rating — 327 ratings
98.
War
War 4.25 avg rating — 23,756 ratings
99.
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean 4.04 avg rating — 11,332 ratings
100.
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend 4.10 avg rating — 2,997 ratings