Awards search:San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
fantasy, @attic12, victorian england, magic, alternate history, historical fiction, fiction, faerie world, napoleonic wars, london, gaslamp fantasy
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (3 Vol. Collector's Edition Box Set)

by Susanna Clarke
Paperback, 2005
Tags
fantasy, victorian england, magic, alternate history, historical fiction, fiction, faerie world, napoleonic wars, london, gaslamp fantasy
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke
Hardcover, 2024
Tags
boxed set, fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, alternate history, magic, magicians, folio society
Collections
Fantasy & Science Fiction, Folio Society books
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
fiction, science fiction, dystopia, @endpapers
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Zorro

by Isabel Allende
Paperback, 2005
Tags
fiction, adventure, historical fiction, magical realism, zorro
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
863.64

Case Histories

by Kate Atkinson
Paperback, 2004
Tags
@ctm, mystery and detective, fiction, literary mystery, abduction
Collection
Mystery, Detective & Crime
Series
Jackson Brodie (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: v. 1, 2, 3 (Calvin & Hobbes)

by Bill Watterson
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
humour, comics, favourite, parenting
Collection
Comics & Graphic Novels
Series
Calvin and Hobbes (Complete)
Status
Available
Call number
741.5973

The Yiddish Policemen's Union [limited edition]

by Michael Chabon
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
@signed, fiction, @limited, @attic11, alternate history, alaska, mystery, noir
Collection
Mystery, Detective & Crime
Status
Available
Call number
813

The Savage Detectives: A Novel

by Roberto Bolano
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
fiction, latin america, realistic fiction, historical fiction
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
863.64

Black Swan Green

by David Mitchell
Paperback, 2006
Tags
fiction, war, peer pressure, bildungsroman, british fiction
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2009
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, kitchen science, philosophy, cooking
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
394.12

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tus

by Bill Buford
Paperback, 2007
Tags
cookbook, biography, memoir, recipes, restaurants
Collections
Cookbooks, Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
920

Talk Talk

by T.C. Boyle
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
@signed, fiction, deafness, identity theft, contemporary fiction
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Then We Came to the End: A Novel

by Joshua Ferris
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, @attic02
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

American Born Chinese

by Gene Luen Yang
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
fiction, graphic novel, china, america, young adult
Collections
Middle Grade & Teens, Comics & Graphic Novels
Status
Available
Call number
741.5973

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

by Umberto Eco
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
@signed, books on books, fiction, italy, amnesia
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813

Persepolis: The Story of an Iranian Childhood

by Marjane Satrapi
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
biography, memoir, history, graphic novel
Collections
Comics & Graphic Novels, Biography & Memoir
Series
Persepolis (Omnibus 1-2)
Status
Available
Call number
741.5944

The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion
Paperback, 2007
Tags
biography, memoir, loss, death
Collection
Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Millennium Trilogy, Book 3: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
fiction, mystery and detective, swedish, thriller, eurocrime
Collection
Mystery, Detective & Crime
Series
Millennium (3)
Status
Available
Call number
813

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini
Paperback, 2008
Tags
@ebook, fiction, middle east, war, friendship, islam
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

by Oliver Sacks
Paperback, 2008
Tags
non-fiction, science, popular science, music, essays
Collection
Popular Science
Status
Available
Call number
781.11

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2009
Tags
science, gender, sex, non-fiction
Collections
Popular Science, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
570

Ibis Trilogy, Book 1: Sea of Poppies

by Amitav Ghosh
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
fiction, adventure, historical fiction, china, nautical fiction, gorgeous cover art
Collection
General Fiction
Series
The Ibis Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Annie Barrows
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
fiction, england, epistolary, war, historical fiction, romance
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini
Paperback, 2004
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, @attic02, migration, friendship, betrayal, historical fiction, middle east, war, bildungsroman
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813

The Good Thief

by Hannah Tinti
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
fiction, adventure, historical fiction, thieves and rogues, orphans, children, middle grade
Collection
Middle Grade & Teens
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell
Paperback, 2008
Tags
education, homeschool, non-fiction, science, genius and talent
Collection
Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
302

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese
Paperback, 2010
Tags
@ebook, fiction, contemporary fiction, india, ethiopia, africa, history, medicine, family & relationships, twins
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Piano Teacher: A Novel

by Janice Y. K. Lee
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
@ebook, fiction
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Nobody Move: A Novel

by Denis Johnson
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
fiction, crime fiction, mystery and detective, noir, @undercovers
Collection
Mystery, Detective & Crime
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Children's Book

by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
@ctm, fiction
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Year of the Flood [Special limited edition]

by Margaret Atwood
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
fiction, canadian literature, science fiction, post-apocalyptic, dystopia, genetic engineering
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
MaddAddam Trilogy (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis
Paperback, 2009
Tags
non-fiction, biography, philosophy, graphic novel, mathematics, logic
Collections
Comics & Graphic Novels, Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
192

The Lacuna: A Novel

by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
fiction, historical fiction, mexico, communism, @undercovers
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
science, biography, medicine, biology, popular science, non-fiction, cloning
Collection
Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
616.02774092

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
science, biography, medicine, biology, popular science, non-fiction, cloning
Collection
Biography & Memoir
Status
Available
Call number
616.02774092

Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
fiction, historical fiction, england, tudor
Collection
General Fiction
Series
Wolf Hall Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
@signed, fiction, historical fiction, folio society
Collection
General Fiction
Series
Wolf Hall Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Imperfectionists

by Tom Rachman
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
@storage20, fiction, books on books, humour
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Skippy Dies

by Paul Murray
Paperback, 2010
Tags
fiction, ireland, bildungsroman, school days, boxed set, child genius
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813

Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

by Gary Shteyngart
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
@ebook, fiction, dystopia, satire
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

HHhH: A Novel

by Laurent Binet
Ebook, 2012
Tags
@ebook, fiction, war
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
843.92

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

by John Vaillant
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, environment, tigers
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
599.75609577

The Tiger's Wife

by Tea Obreht
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
@ebook, fiction, eastern europe, magical realism, family & relationships
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Turn of Mind

by Alice LaPlante
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
@ebook, fiction, mystery, thriller, memory, murder mystery, dementia
Collections
Digital Library, Mystery, Detective & Crime
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Habibi

by Craig Thompson
Hardcover, ?
Tags
@signed, fiction, graphic novel, religion, christianity, islam
Collection
Comics & Graphic Novels
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

The Language of Flowers

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
fiction, family, contemporary fiction, foster care, san francisco
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn
Ebook, 2012
Tags
@ebook, fiction, mystery, crime, @bookclub
Collections
Digital Library, Mystery, Detective & Crime
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt
Ebook, 2011
Tags
non-fiction, renaissance, history, philosophy, mediaeval
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
940.21

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
fiction, friendship, italian, coming of age
Collection
General Fiction
Series
Neapolitan Novels (1)
Status
Available
Call number
853.92
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