More San Francisco Novels

If you enjoyed reading about life in 1950s San Francisco in China Boy, you might also enjoy these historical and contemporary novels, all set primarily in San Francisco:

• Dorothy Bryant
  Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
  
  

• Michelle Cliff
  Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
  
  
  
  
  
• James Dalessandro
  1906: A Novel
  
• Stacey D'Erasmo
  The Seahorse Year
  
• James Fadiman
  The Other Side of Haight
  
• Tim Farrington
  The Monk Downstairs
  
• Karen Joy Fowler
  Sister Noon
  
• Andrew Sean Greer
  The Confessions of Max Tivoli
  
• Oakley Hall
  Ambrose Bierce and the Trey of Pearls
  
• Dashiell Hammett
  The Maltese Falcon
  
• Pamela Holm
  The Night Garden
  
• Kim Wong Keltner
  The Dim Sum of All Things
  
• Jack Kerouac
  The Subterraneans
  
• Jack London
  Martin Eden
  
  

• devorah major
  Brown Glass Windows: A Novel
  
  
  
  
  
• Eric B. Martin
  Winners
  
• Armistead Maupin
  Tales of the City
  
• Eddie Muller
  The Distance
  
• Fae Myenne Ng
  Bone
  
• Frank Norris
  McTeague
  
• Whitney Otto
  A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity
  
• Peter Plate
  Fogtown
  
• Joe Quirk
  The Ultimate Rush
  
  

• Vikram Seth
  The Golden Gate
  
  
  
  
  
• K.M. Soehnlein
  You Can Say You Knew Me When
  
• Ellen Sussman
  On a Night Like This
  
• Amy Tan
  The Joy Luck Club
  
• Michelle Tea
  Valencia
  
• Alfredo Vea
  The Silver Cloud Café
  
• Geling Yan
  The Lost Daughter of Happiness