San Francisco Chronicle 2017 100 recommended books
3. 
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
by:
Yiyun Li
3.72 avg rating β 2,501 ratings 4. 
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
by:
Joe Hagan
3.76 avg rating β 2,291 ratings 
64. 
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
by:
Nell Stevens
3.41 avg rating β 1,736 ratings 
66. 
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
by:
Jed Perl
4.15 avg rating β 61 ratings 
68. 
Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture
by:
Gabriel Thompson
4.48 avg rating β 73 ratings 
70. 
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
by:
Bianca Bosker
3.96 avg rating β 15,365 ratings 
72. 
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
by:
Daniel Ellsberg
4.21 avg rating β 3,123 ratings 
75. 
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
by:
Kurt Andersen
4.09 avg rating β 8,698 ratings 76. 
The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
by:
Anne Gisleson
3.67 avg rating β 597 ratings 77. 
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.19 avg rating β 6,914 ratings 78. 
Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption
by:
Benjamin Rachlin
4.32 avg rating β 826 ratings 
80. 
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
by:
Henry Fountain
3.92 avg rating β 1,985 ratings 81. 
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
by:
Peter Moskowitz
4.09 avg rating β 3,603 ratings 
83. 
84. 
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
by:
Robert Hass
4.02 avg rating β 309 ratings 85. 
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by:
James Forman Jr.
4.37 avg rating β 4,460 ratings 
87. 
Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship
by:
Barney Rosset
3.92 avg rating β 26 ratings 88. 
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
by:
Pamela Paul
3.71 avg rating β 4,511 ratings 89. 
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative 3.97 avg rating β 14,019 ratings
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91. 
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by:
Richard White
4.17 avg rating β 1,574 ratings 92. 
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
by:
Jeff Guinn
4.16 avg rating β 18,744 ratings 93. 
Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5,528 ratings
95. 
Survivor CafΓ©: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
by:
Elizabeth Rosner
4.16 avg rating β 573 ratings 96. 
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
by:
Julia Wertz
4.33 avg rating β 1,437 ratings 
98. 
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 avg rating β 30,600 ratings 
100. 
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
by:
Jason Fagone
4.09 avg rating β 23,146 ratings