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An alphabetical listing by author of five-star bestsellers dealing with the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Arts and Entertainment
- Boas, Nancy. The Society of Six: California Colorists.
- Caen, Herb, Barbara Ninde Byfield. The Cable Car and the Dragon.
- Chang, Leonard. Fade to Clear : An Allen Choice Novel.
- Cliff, Michelle. Free Enterprise : A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant.
- Dalessandro, James. 1906: A Novel
- Fox, Laurie. The Lost Girls : A Novel.
- Frantz, Douglas. From the Ground Up: The Business of Building in the Age of Money.
- Gregory, Kristiana, Mary Exa Atkins Campbell. Earthquake at Dawn (Great Episodes).
- Jones, Caroline A. Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965.
- Kraft, Jeff, Aaron Leventhal, Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell. Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco.
- Lowell, Susan, Paul Mirocha (Illustrator). I Am Lavina Cumming.
- Maupin, Armistead. Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 1).
- Maupin, Armistead. 28 Barbary Lane : A "Tales of the City" Omnibus.
- Mulligan, John. Shopping Cart Soldiers.
- Nash, Steven A. et. al. Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective.
- Nickel, Douglas R., Carleton E. Watkins, Maria Morris Hambourg. Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception.
- Norris, Frank, Alfred Kazin. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Modern Library Classics).
- Osborne, Mary Pope and Sal Murdocca. Earthquake In The Early Morning (Magic Tree House 24, paper).
- Robles, Anthony D. Lakas and the Manilatown Fish/Si Lakas at ang Isdang Manilatown.
- Sternfeld, Joel, Douglas R. Nickel, Ian Frazier. Stranger Passing.
- Szarkowski, John, Ansel Adams, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ansel Adams at 100.
- Tallman, Shirley. Murder on Nob Hill.
- Tolleson, Steven. Soak Wash Rinse Spin: Tolleson Design.
- Wenger, Michael (Editor), Gretel Erlich. Wind Bell: Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center - 1968-2001. .
- Dining and Recipies
- Briscoe, John and Michael Buich. Tadich Grill: The Story of San Francisco's Oldest Restaurant, With Recipes.
- Junior League of San Francisco. San Francisco Flavors: Favorite Recipes from the Junior League of San Francisco.
- Junior League of San Francisco Staff. San Francisco a LA Carte: A Cookbook.
- Roos-Collins, Margit, Rose Craig. The Flavors of Home: A Guide to Wild Edible Plants of the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Williams, Chuck. Williams-Sonoma Simple Classics Cookbook: The Best of Simple Italian, French and American Cooking (Complete Series (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Zagat. Zagat 2003 San Francisco Bay (Zagatsurvey: San Francisco/Bay Area Restaurants, 2003).
- Family and Travel
- Bakalinsky, Adah. Stairway Walks in San Francisco.
- Beebe, Morton. San Francisco: City by the Bay (3rd Edition).
- Black, Tresa. Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area (Regional Rock Climbing Series).
- Bower, Michael and Ruth Rayle. Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to San Francisco and the Bay Area: Including San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, and Palo Alto.
- Brown, Tricia. The City by the Bay: A Magical Journey Around San Francisco.
- Browning, Peter, Carol Holleuffer. Day Trips: Roaming the Backroads of Northern California.
- Fodors. Fodor's San Francisco: Citypack (Citypacks).
- Gans, Liz, Rick Newby. Walking San Francisco (FalconGuide).
- Garchik, Leah. San Francisco: The City's Sights and Secrets.
- Hart, John and David Sanger. San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary.
- Joseph, Jennifer. The Underground Guide to San Francisco, 2 Ed.
- Lamarre, Stephanie S. and Michelle L. Keene. Babies by the Bay: The Insider's Guide to Everything from Doctors and Diapers to Playgrounds and Preschools in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Norton, Clark. Fodor's Around San Francisco With Kids: 68 Great Things to Do Together (Fodors Around San Francisco With Kids).
- Martin, Bobi. Kidding Around San Francisco.
- Richards, Rand. Historic Walks in San Francisco: 18 Trails Through the City's Past.
- Rusmore, Jean, Frances Spangle, Betsy Crowder. Peninsula Trails: Outdoor Adventures on the San Francisco Peninsula.
- Sprout, Jerry, Janine Sprout. Golden Gate Trailblazer: Where to Hike, Stroll, Bike, Jog, Roll in San Francisco and Marin.
- Surkiewicz, Joe, Richard Sterling, and Michelle Fama. The Unofficial GuideTM to San Francisco.
- Wach, Bonnie. San Francisco As You Like It: 20 Tailor-Made Tours for Culture Vultures, Shopaholics, Non-Bohemians, Fitness Freaks, Savvy Natives, and Everyone Else.
- History and Social Issues
- Benton, Lisa M. The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park.
- Boessenecker, John. Gold Dust and Gunsmoke : Tales of Gold Rush Outlaws, Gunfighters, Lawmen, and Vigilantes.
- Brechin, Gray A. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography).
- Briscoe, John and Michael Buich. Tadich Grill: The Story of San Francisco's Oldest Restaurant, With Recipes.
- Browning, Peter. San Francisco: Yerba Buena : From the Beginning to the Gold Rush 1769-1849.
- Cameron, Robert (Photographer), Arthur Watterson Hoppe. Above San Francisco: A New Collection of Historical and Original Aerial Photographs.
- Deleon, Richard Edward. Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991.
- Forbes, Kathryn. Mama's Bank Account.
- Genthe, Arnold, John Tchen. Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown.
- Hansen, Gladys. San Francisco Almanac: Everything You Want to Know About Everyone's Favorite City (San Francisco Almanac).
- Hansen, Gladys, Emmet Condon, David Fowler. Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire or 1906.
- Kiyama, Henry. The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924.
- Lauer, Teresa. Hours of Torture, Years of Silence : My Soul Was the Scene of the Crime.
- Menjivar, Cecilia. Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America.
- Pollock, Chris and Erica Katz. San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories.
- Pomada, Elizabeth, Michael Larsen, Douglas Keister. The Painted Ladies Revisited: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians Inside and Out.
- Roos-Collins, Margit, Rose Craig. The Flavors of Home: A Guide to Wild Edible Plants of the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Rowell, Galen A. Bay Area Wild: A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Selvin, Joel. Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock and Roll, Free Love and High Times in the Wild West.
- Shavelson, Lonny. Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Rehab System.
- Soennichsen, John. Miwoks to Missiles: A History of Angel Island.
- Snyder, John. San Francisco Secrets: Fascinating Facts About the City by the Bay.
- Starr, Kevin. The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (Americans and the California Dream S.).
- Yenne, Bill. San Francisco Then and Now.