onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Tristan_Colsons_List_of_Good_Books_Set_In_San_Francisco/The_City_Not_Long_After');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0553283707'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The City, Not Long After

by Pat Murphy

Post-apocalyptic novel about San Francisco, almost makes me wish I were there in those less crowded times. An interesting thought... as you'll see, this isn't going to be the only book on this list that takes place after a general disaster. Wonder what that means...?

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Tristan_Colsons_List_of_Good_Books_Set_In_San_Francisco/Vanishing_Point');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0812516729'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Vanishing Point

by Michaela Roessner

The other post-apocalypse novel... set in the South Bay. You'll never think the same way about the Winchester Mystery House... or the movie theaters next to it.

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Tristan_Colsons_List_of_Good_Books_Set_In_San_Francisco/Tea_with_the_Black_Dragon');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1585861979'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Tea with the Black Dragon

by R. A. MacAvoy

Computers and dragons... it doesn't get any better than that.

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Tristan_Colsons_List_of_Good_Books_Set_In_San_Francisco/The_Joy_Luck_Club');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0143038095'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan

Just to prove that I do read something other than science fiction... a story of four Chinese women and their American born daughters.

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Tristan_Colsons_List_of_Good_Books_Set_In_San_Francisco/Tales_of_the_City');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0061358304'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Tales of the City

by Armistead Maupin

It doesn't get any more quintessentially San Francisco than this.

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Tristan_Colsons_List_of_Good_Books_Set_In_San_Francisco/A_Grave_Talent');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0553573993'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">A Grave Talent

by Laurie R. King

First of a series of mysteries about Kate Martinelli, a San Francisco homicide cop. I don't actually read many mysteries, but I liked these. (I also liked her Mary Russell series, but that is based on Sherlock Holmes, and has no place in this list.)

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onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Tristan_Colsons_List_of_Good_Books_Set_In_San_Francisco/Special_Circumstances');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0553581929'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Special Circumstances

by Sheldon Siegel

Okay, so after saying I don't read mysteries often, here is another one. But I started reading these because they were written by my college roommate's husband, who used to be a mild-mannered lawyer and is now a fairly successful writer.

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