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...?

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.

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

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

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

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.)

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.