Awards search:San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke
Paperback, 2006
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell
Paperback, 2004
Tags
f
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

by Anthony Swofford
Paperback, 2005
Tags
military, gulf war, memoir
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
956.7044245

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2005
Tags
science, geology, volcanoes, disasters
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Status
Available
Call number
551.2109598

Shake Hands With the Devil

by Romeo Dallaire
Paperback, 2005
Tags
peacekeeping, memoir, canada
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Status
Available
Call number
967.5710431092

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

by Marion Meade
Paperback, 2005
Tags
writers, bios, women
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
810.9928709042

February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn

by Sherill Tippins
Paperback, 2006
Tags
literary history
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
973

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird
Paperback, 2006
Tags
bio
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
530.092

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

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2007
Tags
food, health, diet
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
394.12

Curzon: Imperial Statesman

by David Gilmour
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
history, great britain, bio
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
954.0355092

Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology

by Adam Gopnik
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
paris, talk, history
Collection
Read but unowned
Series
Library of America Special Anthologies (5)
Status
Available
Call number
810.8

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 2011
Tags
environment, sociology
Collection
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Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (2)
Status
Available
Call number
304.28

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

by Jessica Mitford
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
bio, letters, mitford
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
335.43092

How Doctors Think

by Jerome Groopman
Paperback, 2008
Tags
medicine
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
610

The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion
Paperback, 2005
Tags
bio, memoir
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
bio, memoir
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Day of Battle : the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

by Rick Atkinson
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
ww2
Collection
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Series
Liberation Trilogy (2)
Status
Available
Call number
940.54/2145

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

by Oliver Sacks
Paperback, 2008
Tags
music, talk
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
781.11

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2009
Tags
sex
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
612.6

Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell
Paperback, 2011
Tags
psychology, sociology
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
302

"Have You Seen . . . ?": A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films

by David Thomson
Paperback, 2008
Tags
movies, reference
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
791.4375

Saturday

by Ian McEwan
Paperback, 2006
Tags
f
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Open: An Autobiography

by Andre Agassi
Paperback, 2010
Tags
tennis, bio, memoir
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
796.342092

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
medicine, ethics, history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
616.02774092

War

by Sebastian Junger
Paperback, 2011
Tags
war, military history
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Status
Available
Call number
958.1047

Atlantic

by Simon Winchester
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
oceans, atlantic
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
551.4613

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

by Jennifer Homans
Paperback, 2011
Tags
dance, ballet, music, history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
792.8

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews

by Geoff Dyer
Paperback, 2011
Tags
culture, essays, talk
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
824.914

Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography

by Errol Morris
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
photography, perception, analysis
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
770.9

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

by Maria Semple
Paperback, 2013
Collection
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Status
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Call number
813.6

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed
Book, 2012
Tags
grief, hiking, bio
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Dog Stars

by Peter Heller
Paperback, 2013
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Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

by Ben Macintyre
Paperback, 2013
Tags
ww2, d-day, spying
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
940.54

Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

by Daniel Mendelsohn
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
culture, essays, talk
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
801.95

The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies

by David Thomson
Paperback, 2013
Tags
film, history
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
791.430973

The Richard Burton Diaries

by Richard Burton
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
bio, diaries
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
792.02

Robert Oppenheimer: His Life and Mind (A Life Inside the Center)

by Ray Monk
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
bio
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
530.092

A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley

by Neal Thompson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
bio
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
031.092

Deep Sea and Foreign Going

by Rose George
Paperback, 2013
Tags
transportation, shipping
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
388.044

My Life in Middlemarch

by Rebecca Mead
Paperback, 2015
Tags
memoir, bio
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
823.8

The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
aviation, bio
Collection
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Series
Great Achievements in American History
Status
Available
Call number
629.130092

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

by Sally Mann
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
memoir
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
770.92

Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot

by Mark Vanhoenacker
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
aviation, memoir
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
629.132

The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

by Tracy Daugherty
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
bio, didion
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Other Paris

by Lucy Sante
Paperback, 2016
Tags
paris, history
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
944.36106

At the Existentialist Café

by Sarah Bakewell
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
existentialism, bio
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
142.78

These Precious Days: Essays

by Ann Patchett
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
stories
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
814.54

The Terraformers

by Annalee Newitz
Paperback, 2023
Tags
sf
Collection
Read but unowned
Status
Available
Call number
813.6
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