San Francisco has a rich and varied literary history. Dashiell Hammett defined the detective genre with his noir novels set in the city, while Mark Twain worked as a correspondent for thre San Francisco Examiner.
Fiction[]
- A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
- Angels in America by Tony Kushner
- Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
- Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
- Bone by Fae Ng
- Bridge Trilogy by William Gibson
- Virtual Light
- Idoru
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominion by Richard Kadrey
- The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
- The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
- Heartlight by Marion Zimmer bradley
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Love Aaj Kal by Imtiaz Ali
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- Martin Eden by Jack London
- McTeague by Frank Norris
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
- Postsingular by Rudy Rucker
- Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
- San Francisco by Amy Hempel
- SoMa by Kemble Scott
- Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
- The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
- Valencia by Michelle Tea
- You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Comic books[]
- The Uncanny X-Men
- Teen Titans
- Daredevil and Black Widow (1970s)
- The Invisibles
- All Over Coffee by Paul Madonna
- Everything Is It's Own Reward by Paul Madonna
Nonfiction[]
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts
- Infinite City by Rebecca Solnit
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