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Passing On

by Penelope Lively

…. . . Lively has a gift for invention and control. . . . The slow unfolding of secrets gives the book tension without melodrama.” –Roz Spafford, San Francisco Chronicle…

Magnum

by Russell Miller

…the excitement of being a photojournalist at a time when world events were unfolding at a furious pace . . . a cracking good story.” –Sarah Coleman, San Francisco Chronicle…

How the Dead Live

by Will Self

…every paragraph, chiasmus turning clause after clause back on themselves like a hall of mirrors, page upon page enacting a giant oxymoron: loathing as glee.” –Carey Harrison, San Francisco Chronicle…

A Girl Could Stand Up

by Leslie Marshall

…. . . A Girl Could Stand Up is the kind of novel that one immediately takes to heart, a remarkable story–goofy and bittersweet.” –June Sawyers, The San Francisco Chronicle…

The Ends of Our Tethers

by Alasdair Gray

…life–marriage and relationships as well as the isolation, loss, and the failures which come from these interactions–and steadily dissect them with a mischievous eye.” –Michael Standaert, The San Francisco Chronicle…

The Divine Husband

by Francisco Goldman

“The Divine Husband presents the peculiar crossroads where love and imagination meet politics and history. . . . A great miscegenating carnival of ambition and desire.” —Lee Siegel, The New…

By the Shore

by Galaxy Craze

“Breathtaking. . . . Craze is note-perfect from beginning to end.” —San Francisco Chronicle…

The Journal Keeper

by Phyllis Theroux

“I loved this singularly honest and graceful book. The Journal Keeper reminds us that there is no such thing as an ordinary moment, and certainly no such thing as an…

Black Hawk Down

by Mark Bowden

“Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable. . . . The individual stories are woven together in such a compelling and expert fashion, the…

Grove at Home: July 12—18

San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club back in 2011, shortly after the publication of Worm, his account of 2008’s astonishing Conficker computer worm — which proliferated across systems with a speed that…