San Francisco History
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
by:
David Talbot
4.31 avg rating — 6,694 ratings 2. 
The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
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Ben Tarnoff
3.82 avg rating — 754 ratings 2. 
San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History
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Beth Winegarner
4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 4. 
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
by:
Herbert Asbury
3.85 avg rating — 872 ratings 5. 
BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
by:
Michael C. Healy
3.66 avg rating — 168 ratings 6. 
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The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound
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Ralph J. Gleason
3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings 
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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Marilyn Chase
3.83 avg rating — 1,102 ratings 10. 
Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes and Radical Histories
by:
Chris Carlsson
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings 12. 
Passages to America: Oral Histories of Child Immigrants from Ellis Island and Angel Island
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Emmy E. Werner
3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area
by:
Susan Stryker
3.87 avg rating — 62 ratings 15. 
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
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H.W. Brands
4.05 avg rating — 1,630 ratings 15. 
So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
by:
David Browne
4.16 avg rating — 702 ratings 17. 
Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers' Oral History
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Harvey Schwartz
4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings 18. 
The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
by:
Bob Calhoun
3.61 avg rating — 309 ratings 19. 
San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
by:
Dennis Smith
3.58 avg rating — 408 ratings 
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Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 3)
by:
Gray Brechin
3.92 avg rating — 405 ratings 
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Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity
by:
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
3.48 avg rating — 25 ratings 22. 
The Gate: The True Story of the Design and Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge
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John van der Zee
4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Sally Stanford: California's Grand Bordello House Madam
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Alton Pryor
3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco
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Robert Graysmith
3.23 avg rating — 208 ratings 
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The Hop-Heads: Personal Experiences Among the Users of "Dope" in the San Francisco Underworld
by:
Fred V. Williams
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 22. 
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
by:
Alia Volz
4.35 avg rating — 1,576 ratings 
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
by:
David K. Randall
4.06 avg rating — 1,862 ratings 
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The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 3.76 avg rating — 234 ratings
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A Free Library in This City: The Illustrated History of the San Francisco Public Library 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Life on the First Waves of Radical Bohemianism in San Francisco: Oral history transcript / 1997 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Lion of the Vigilantes: William T. Coleman and the Life of Old San Francisco 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics Into Comix
by:
James P. Danky
3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings 51. 
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Footloose in Arcadia: A Personal Record of Jack London, George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce
by:
Joseph Noel
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 54. 
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Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip
by:
Joel Selvin
3.89 avg rating — 755 ratings 
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The Oakland Ghost, and Ancient Phenomena; with a Review of the Oakland Committee liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
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Ulf Olsson
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 59. 
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The Golden State Phantasticks: The California Romantics and Related Subjects 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
by:
John King
4.12 avg rating — 302 ratings 64. 
This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
by:
Blair Jackson
4.38 avg rating — 465 ratings 
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Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead
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Bill Kreutzmann
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,007 ratings 
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San Francisco's Golden Era: A Picture Story of San Francisco Before the Fire (325 Illustrations, 4 in Full Color)
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Lucius Beebe
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 70. 
No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
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Peter Richardson
4.08 avg rating — 291 ratings 
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A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
by:
Dennis McNally
4.25 avg rating — 2,910 ratings 73. 
Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
by:
Daniel J. Flynn
3.82 avg rating — 150 ratings 73. 
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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
by:
Joe Hagan
3.76 avg rating — 2,291 ratings 
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Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco, California: Embracing Incidents, Triumphant Death Scenes, Etc.
by:
William Taylor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone
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Robin Green
3.43 avg rating — 460 ratings 81. 
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories
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Chris Pollock
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings 81. 
The Vanished Ruin Era; San Francisco's Classic Artistry of Ruin Depicted in Picture and Song 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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20 Years of Rolling Stone: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
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Jann S. Wenner
3.82 avg rating — 114 ratings 84. 
Legendary Locals of San Francisco's Richmond, Sunset, and Golden Gate Park
by:
Lorri Ungaretti
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 84. 
The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing: Anarchy and Terrorism in Progressive Era America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Conversations with Greil Marcus (Literary Conversations Series)
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Joe Bonomo
4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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City of Souls: San Francisco's Necropolis at Colma
by:
Michael Svanevik
3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings 90. 
Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason
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Ralph J. Gleason
3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings 90. 
Reel San Francisco Stories: An Annotated Filmography of the Bay Area 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools
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Rand Quinn
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 93. 
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Bloody Bay: Grassroots Policing in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
by:
Darren A Raspa
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 96. 
The Crookedest Railroad in the World: A History of the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad of California
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Theodore G. Wurm
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 99. 
Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock 3.98 avg rating — 94 ratings
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A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area (A People's Guide Series - volume 3)
by:
Rachel Brahinsky
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings