- Alice Adams: Almost Perfect
- Alice Adams: Caroline's Daughters
- Alice Adams: Listening to Billie
- Chris Adrian: The Great Night
- Daniel Alef: Pale Truth: The California Chronicles Book 1
- Isabel Allende: Hija de fortuna (Daughter of Fortune)
- Don Asher: Don't the Moon Look Lonesome
- Don Asher: The Electric Cotillion
- Don Asher: The Piano Sport
- Gina Berriault: The Lights of Earth
- Alvah Bessie: One for My Baby
- Gwen Bristow: Calico Palace
- Kenneth R. Brown: A Tiger in Haight-Ashbury
- Dorothy Bryant: Confessions of Madame Psyche
- Dorothy Bryant: A Day in San Francisco
- Dorothy Bryant: Miss Giardino
- Dorothy Bryant: Test
- Ivan Bunin: Господин из Сан-Франциско
- Gelett Burgess: The Heart Line
- Gelett Burgess and Will Irwin: The Reign of Queen Isyl
- Gelett Burgess and Will Irwin: The Picarroons
- Bruno Buti: Rumbling Wine Barrels
- John Butler: The Tenderloin
- Simon Caley: William's Way
- Don Carpenter: Hard Rain Falling
- Lenore Carroll: One Hundred Girls' Mother
- John Cech: A Rush of Dreamers
- Karen Cobb: Theatre Of The Absurd
- Evan S Connell: Diary of a Rapist
- John Byrne Cooke: The Committee of Vigilance
- Tom De Haven: Dugan Under Ground
- Eric Jerome Dickey: Between Lovers
- Assia Djebar: Blanc de l'Algérie (Algerian White)
- Harriet Doerr: Stones for Ibarra
- John Dos Passos: USA
- Jennifer Egan: The Invisible Circus
- Stephen Englehart: The Point Man
- James Fadiman: The Other Side of Haight
- Tim Farrington: The California Book of the Dead
- Howard Fast: The Immigrants
- Howard Fast: An Independent Woman
- Howard Fast: Second Generation
- M F K Fisher: Not Now But Now
- Kathryn Forbes: Mama's Bank Account
- Marjorie Leet Ford: People In The Park
- Lynn Freed: Friends of the Family (originally: Heart Change)
- Ernest K Gann: Fiddler's Green
- Herbert Gold: Daughter Mine
- Herbert Gold: Dreaming
- Herbert Gold: Fathers
- Herbert Gold: She Took My Arm As If She Loved me
- Herbert Gold: The Great American Jackpot
- Herbert Gold: Waiting for Cordelia
- Emmett Grogan: Ringolevio
- Daniel Handler: The Basic Eight
- Brett Harte: Under the Redwoods
- Kief Hillsbery: War Boy
- Cecelia Holland: Pacific Street
- David Hunt: The Magician's Tale
- T.C. Huo: A Thousand Wings
- Arturo Islas: LA Mollie and the King of Tears
- Arturo Islas: The Rain God
- Stephan Jaramillo: Going Postal
- Stephan Jaramillo: The Scoundrel
- Diane Johnson: Health and Happiness
- Proctor Jones: Ransom of the Golden Bridge
- Jerry Kamstra: The Frisco Kid
- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- Jan Kerouac: Baby Driver
- Nanci Kincaid: Eat, Drink, And Be From Mississippi
- Bharti Kirchner: Shiva Dancing
- Gus Lee: China Boy
- Fred Leebrob: Out West
- JoAnn Levy: Daughter of Joy A Novel of Gold Rush San Francisco
- Marc Levy: Et si c'était vrai (It Only It were True)
- Oscar Lewis: I Remember Christine
- David Lodge: Changing Places
- Jack London: The Assassination Bureau Ltd.
- Jack London: Martin Eden
- Jack London: Tales of the Fish Patrol
- Mary London: Look Fatter in Jeans: An Adventure in Growing Older & Wiser
- Erika Lopez: Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat
- Anne Marino: The Collapsible World
- Al Martinez: The Last City Room
- Ken McGoogan: Kerouac's Ghost
- Ken McGoogan: Visions of Kerouac
- Marcos McPeek Villatoro: The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones
- N Scott Momaday: Ancient Child
- Christopher Moore: Bloodsucking Fiends: a Love Story
- Seth Morgan: Homeboy
- Eddie Muller: The Distance
- John Mulligan: Shopping Cart Soldiers
- Fayenne Mae Ng: Bone
- Frank Norris: Blix
- Frank Norris: McTeague
- Frank Norris: Moran of the Lady Letty
- Sam North: Diamonds
- Alvin Orloff: I Married An Earthling
- Julie Otsuka: The Buddha in the Attic
- Whitney Otto: A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity
- C D Payne: Frisco Pigeon Mambo
- Michael Perkins: Dark Matter
- C. E. Poverman: On the Edge
- Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
- Michelle Richmond: The Year Of Fog
- Marjorie Roberts: Webs in the Sky
- Louie Garcia Robinson: The Devil, Delfina Varela and the Used Chevy
- Lois Ruby: This Old Man: Lao Jen
- Floyd Salas: Lay My Body on the Line
- Stephen Schneck: The Nightclerk
- Bart Schneider: Blue Bossa
- Leslie Schwartz: Jumping The Green
- Vikram Seth: Golden Gate
- Matthew Stadler: Landscape: Memory
- John S Simon: The Sign Of The Fool
- Elizabeth Stark: Shy Girl
- Kevin Starr: Land's End
- Darcy Steinke: Suicide Blonde
- Robert Louis (with Lloyd Osbourne) Stevenson: The Wrecker
- Bram Stoker: The Shoulder of Shasta
- Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers
- Lawrence Swaim: Waiting for the Earthquake
- John Franklin Swift: Robert Greathouse
- Amy Tan: The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
- Amy Tan: The Kitchen God's Wife
- Mark Twain: Roughing It
- Alfredo Vea: The Silver Cloud Café
- Alfredo Vea: Gods Go Begging
- Jules Verne: Le tour du monde en 80 jours (Around the World in Eighty Days)
- William T. Vollmann: The Royal Family
- Jess Wells: Aftershocks
- Geling Yan: The Lost Daughter of Happiness
- Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge): Joaquin Murieta
- Marina Zolotarevskaia: Кто её зовёт?
Science Fiction
- Jerry Jay Carroll: Inhuman Beings
- Alfred Coppel: Dark December
- Hank Deadwood: Dynamo
- Stephen Dedman: Foreign Bodies
- Philip K Dick: The Man in the High Castle
- Karen Joy Fowler: Sister Noon
- William Gibson All Tomorrow's Parties
- William Gibson: Virtual Light
- Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint: The Blind Spot
- Mercedes Lackey: The Fire Rose
- R. A. MacAvoy: Tea with the Black Dragon
- David Mason: Devil's Food
- Lisa Mason: Summer of Love
- Walter Mosley: Blue Light
- Pat Murphy: The City Not Long After
- Alvin Orloff: I Married an Earthling
- Frank M. Robinson: Waiting
- Michaela Roessner: Vanishing Point
- George R Stewart: Earth Abides!
Horror and occult
- Clive Barker: Sacrament
- Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Inheritor
- Cadnum,Michael: The Horses of the Night
- Fritz Leiber: Our Lady of Darkness
- Pat Montandon: The Intruders
- Graham Masterton: Master of Lies
Gay and lesbian novels
- Red Jordan Arobateau: Street Fighter
- Elaine Beale: Murder in the Castro
- Jim Brogan: A Time to Live
- N.A. Diaman: Castro Street Memories
- Nisa Donnelly: The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay
- Linnea Due: Life Savings
- Karin Kallmaker: Making Up for Lost Time
- Willyce Kim: Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid
- Jay B Laws: The Unfinished
- Jaye Maiman: I Left My Heart
- Armistead Maupin: 28 Barbary Lane
- Armistead Maupin: Babycakes
- Armistead Maupin: Back to Barbary Lane
- Armistead Maupin: Michael Tolliver Lives
- Armistead Maupin: Sure of You
- Marian Michener: Dreaming under a Ton of Lizards
- Orland Outland: Doan McChandler and Binky Van de Kamp series
- Orland Outland: Every Man for Himself
- Carol Queen: The Leather Daddy and the Femme
- Paul Reed: Vertical Intercourse
- Paul Reidinger: City Kid
- Paul Reidinger: Good Boy
- Bart Schneider: Secret Love
- Jack Spicer: The Tower of Babel
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: So Many Ways To Sleep Badly
- Michelle Tea: Valencia
- Ronald Tierney: Eclipse of the Heart
- Karen X. Tulchinsky: Love Ruins Everything
- Chea Villanueva: The Chinagirls
- Richard Zimler: The Angelic Darkness
Mysteries and thrillers
- J L Abramo: Catching Water in a Net
- Cleve F. Adams: Up Jumped the Devil
- Elizabeth Adler: The Secret of the Villa Mimosa
- Charles Alverson: Joe Goodey series
- Poul Anderson: Trygve Yamamura trilogy (Perish by the Sword; Murder in Black Letter; Murder Bound)
- Brian Andrews: Knife Under Fire
- Betty Antoncich: The Mystery of the Chinatown Pearls
- Campbell Armstrong: A Concert of Ghosts
- Gertrude Atherton: The Avalanche
- Elizabeth Atwood Taylor: The Cable Car Murder
- William Babula: St. John series
- Wade Barker: Black Magician
- Wade Barker: Borderland of Hell
- Wade Barker: Death's Door
- Elaine Beale: Murder in the Castro
- Dorothy Bennett: Come and Be Killed
- Dorothy Bennett: Murder Unleashed
- David Berlinski: Aaron Asherfeld series
- Earl Derr Biggers: Behind That Curtain
- Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White): The Case of the Seven of Calvary
- Robert J Bowman: The House of Blue Lights
- Robert J Bowman: The Screaming Buddha
- Anthony Bruno: Hot Fudge
- Robert A Burton: Cellmates
- Niven Busch: California Street
- Robert Byrne: Thrill
- Bernice Carey: The Body on the Sidewalk
- Tim Champlin: King of the Highbinders
- Leonard Chang: Over the Shoulder
- Frank Chin: Donald Duk
- Verne Chute: Flight of an Angel
- Mark Coggins: The Immortal Game
- James Colbert: Profit and Sheen
- Mary Collins: Dead Center
- Mary Collins: Dog Eat Dog
- Mary Collins: The Sister of Cain
- Cahroul Cramer: Twisted
- Frances Crane: Pat and Jean Abbott series
- James Crumley: The Last Good Kiss
- James Dalessandro: Bohemian Heart
- Newton Dal Poggetto: Vintage of a Murder
- Dorothy Daniels: Circle of Guilt
- Kenn Davis: The Forza Trap
- Dianne Day: Fremont Jones series
- Gordon De Marco: Riley Kovachs series
- Frank Devlin: Love In All The Wrong Places
- Dean W. Dickensheet (ed.): Great Crimes of San Francisco
- Dean W. Dickensheet (ed.): Men and Malice; an Anthology of Mystery and Suspense by West Coast Authors
- H Vernor Dixon: The Killer in Silk
- David Dodge: Whit Whitney series, including Death and Taxes, It Ain't Hay
- Gaylord Dold: Schedule Two
- John E Douglas and Mark Olshaker: Broken Wings
- Joan M Drury: Closed in Silence
- Joan M Drury: The Other Side of Silence
- David Duncan: Worse Than Murder (originally: The Bramble Bush)
- Theo Durrant [Durrant is the combined talents of Terry Adler, Anthony Boucher, Eunice Mays Boyd, Florence Austern Faulkner, Allen Hymson, Cary Lucas, Dane Lyon, Lenore Glen Offord, Virginia Rath, Virginia Shattuck, Darwin L. Teilhet and William Worley]: The Marble Forest
- K R Dwyer [Dean Koontz]: Shattered
- George Dyer: The Catalyst Club
- George Dyer: The People Ask Death
- George Dyer: The Five Fragments
- Mignon G Eberhart: Casa Madrone
- James Ellroy: Silent Terror
- Guy Emery: Front for Murder
- Tim Farrington: The California Book Of The Dead
- Phillip Finch: F2F
- Robert Finnegan: The Bandaged Nude
- Robert Finnegan: Many a Monster
- Jack Finney: House of Numbers
- Jay Flynn: McHugh series
- Leslie Ford: Siren in the Night
- Jack Foxx (Bill Pronzini): Freebooty
- James N Frey: Odyssey Gallagher series
- Mickey Friedman: Paper Phoenix
- Geoffrey Gamble: Breakfast with a Cereal Killer
- Ernest K. Gann: Of Good and Evil
- Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Substitute Face; Murder Up My Sleeve
- Philip Garlington: Aces and Eights
- Myra Gay: Little Jade Lady
- Paul Gillette: The Chinese Godfather
- Bernard Girard: Cool Jade
- Glen David Gold: Carter Beats The Devil
- Gene Goldsmith: Layout for a Corpse
- David Goodis: Dark Passage
- Joe Gores: Daniel Kearney series
- Joe Gores: 32 Cadillacs
- Joe Gores: Hammett
- Paula Gosling: Fair Game
- Linda Grant: Catherine Sayler series
- Steven Greenleaf: John Marshall Tanner series
- Leonard Gross: Strangers at the Gate
- James Gunn: Deadlier than the Male
- Oakley M. Hall: Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades
- Dashiell Hammett: Most of his novels, including The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Thin Man
- Stuart Harrison: Better Than This
- Dane Hartman: Massacre at Russian River
- Dane Hartman: The Mexico Kill
- Blair Hoffman: Murder for the Prosecution
- Rupert Holmes: The Musician's Daughter
- David Hunt: The Magician's Tale
- David Hunt: Trick of Light
- Florence Hurd: The House on Russian Hill
- Jonnie Jacobs: Kali O'Brien series; Kate Austin series
- Breni James: Night of the Kill
- Breni James: The Shake-Up
- Frank Kane: The Lineup
- Jerry Kennealy: Nick Polo series
- Garry D Kilworth: Angel
- Laurie King: A Grave Talent
- Andrew Klavan: Damnation Street
- Clifford Knight: Death and Little Brother
- Henry Kuttner: Michael Gray series
- John J Lamb: The Clockwork Teddy
- Gus Lee: No Physical Evidence
- Fred Leebron: Out West
- John Lescroart: Dismas Hardy series
- Donna Levin: California Street
- Clayre and Michael Lipman: House of Evil
- Margaret Lucke: A Relative Stranger
- Richard A. Lupoff: The Classic Car Killer
- Richard A. Lupoff: The Cover Girl Killer
- Jack Lynch: Pieces of Death
- Dana Lyon: House on Telegraph Hill
- John D MacDonald: The Quick Red Fox
- Ross MacDonald: The Underground Man
- Alice MacGowan: The Seventh Passenger
- Alice MacGowan: The Million Dollar Suitcase
- Alice MacGowan and Perry Newberry: Shaken Down
- Alice MacGowan and Perry Newberry: The Mystery Woman
- Jane MacLean: Deadfall
- Malcolm MacPherson: Deadlock
- Jaye Maiman: I Left My Heart
- George Mair: The Jade Cat
- Tim Maleeny: Beating The Babushka
- Robert Mallory: Radcliff: San Francisco Vendetta
- Derek Marlowe: Somebody's Sister
- John S Martel: The Alternate
- John S Martel: Billy Strobe
- John S Martel: Conflicts of Interest
- Lia Matera: Willa Jansson series
- Charles Mathes: The Girl Who Remembered Snow
- Mabel Maney: The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse
- Nancy Barr Mavity: The Man Who Didn't Mind Hanging
- A.E. Maxwell: Just Another Day in Paradise
- B J Maylon: The Corpse with Knee Action
- David McDaniel: The Dagger Affair
- Joseph D. McNamara: Code 211 Blue
- Joseph D. McNamara: The First Directive
- Melisa C Michaels: Through the Eyes of the Dead
- John Mersereau: Murder Loves Company
- John Miller & Tim Smith (eds.): San Francisco Thrillers (short mysteries set in San Francisco)
- John A Miller: Claude McCutcheon series
- Paula Minton: Fog Hides the Fury
- Susan Morrow: Murder May Follow
- Marcia Muller: Sharon McCone series
- Michael Nava: The Little Death
- Hugh Lawrence Nelson: Steve Johnson series
- Jim Nisbet: Lethal Injection
- Jim Nisbet: Prelude to a Scream
- Jim Nisbet: The Gourmet
- Lenore Glen Offord: Todd McKinnon, Bill and Coco Hasting series
- Howard L. Oleck: A Singular Fury
- Carol Anne O'Marie: Sister Mary Helen series
- Orland Outland: Doan McChandler and Binky Van de Kamp series
- Stuart Palmer & Flora, Fletcher: Hildegarde Withers Makes the Scene
- Owen Park: The Chinatown Connection
- Robert B Parker: A Catskill Eagle
- James Patterson: 1st to Die
- James Patterson: 2nd Chance
- Richard North Patterson: Eyes of a Child
- John A Peak: Mortal Judgments
- John A Peak: Spare Change
- Howard Pease: Foghorns
- Howard Pease: The Mystery of Telegraph Hill
- Howard Pease: Thunderbolt House
- Joanne Pence: Angie Amalfi series
- Don Pendleton: California Hit
- Thomas Perry: Death Benefits
- Clyde Phillips: Fall from Grace
- Robert L. Pike: Reardon
- Elizabeth Pincus: Nell Fury series
- Peter Plate: Angels of Catastrophe
- Peter Plate: Police and Thieves
- Peter Plate: Snitch Factory
- Kin Platt: The Pushbutton Butterfly
- James Polster: Brown
- Jerry Allen Potter: A Talent for Dying
- Jerry Allen Potter: If I Should Die Before I Wake
- Bill Pronzini: Most of his novels, particularly those featuring the Nameless detective (see Thrilling Detective)
- Queen, Ellery: A Room to Die in
- Patrick Quentin: Puzzle for Puppets
- Thom Racina: Kojak in San Francisco
- Milton Raison: The Gay Mortician
- Virginia Rath: Michael Dundas series, including An Excellent Night for Murder, The Dark Cavalier, A Dirge For Her
- Joe Rayter: The Victim was Important
- Howard Rigsby: Kill and Tell
- Howard Rigsby: Murder for the Holidays
- Phillip Rock: Dirty Harry
- V J Santiago: San Francisco: Kill or Be Killed
- Schermerhorn. James: Night of the Cat
- Jenny Scholten: Day Stripper
- Jenny Scholten: Slay Me Tender
- Sidney Sheldon: Nothing Lasts Forever
- David Sherridane: The Heart of a Gangster
- Sheldon Siegel: Incriminating Evidence
- Sheldon Siegel: Special Circumstances
- George Sims: Hunters Point
- Julie Smith: Death Turns a Trick
- Julie Smith: Huckleberry Fiend
- Julie Smith: The Sourdough Wars
- Jack Spicer: The Tower of Babel
- Domenic Stansberry: The Last Days of Il Duce
- Kay Cleaver Strahan: Death Traps
- Lawrence Swaim: The Killing
- Jean Taylor: The Last of Her Lies
- Samuel W Taylor: The Grinning Gizmo
- Samuel W Taylor: The Man With My Face
- Darwin Teilhet and Hildegarde Tolman: Baron Franz Maximilian Karagoz and von Kaz series
- Lee Thayer: No Holiday for Death
- Ross Thomas: Backup Men
- Jim Thompson: Ironside
- Lloyd S. Thompson: Death Stops the Show
- David Thoreau: City at Bay
- Ronald Tierney: The Paladino/Lang series
- Elise Title: Romeo
- Robert Upton: Amos McGuffin series
- Mel Valley: Magnum Force
- Jack Vance: The View from Chickweed's Window
- Walter Walker: The Appearance of Impropriety
- Walter Walker: Rules of the Knife Fight
- Walter Walker: The Two Dude Defense
- Marilyn Wallace: A Case of Loyalties
- Mike Weiss: Ben Henry series
- Jerry Weissman: The Zodiac Killer
- Gloria White: Charged with Guilt
- Carter Wick: The Faceless Man
- Collin Wilcox: The Black Door
- Collin Wilcox: Lt. Frank Hastings Series
- Charles Willeford: High Priest of California
- Charles Willeford: Pick-Up
- Charles Willeford: Wild Wives
- Charles Willeford: Miami Blues
- Brad Williams and J. W. Ehrlich: A Conflict of Interest
- Brad Williams and J. W. Ehrlich: A Matter of Confidence
- Mary WingsShe Came To The Castro
- Mary Wings: She Came in Drag
- Cornell Woolrich: Rendezvous in Black
- William Worley: My Dead Wife
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: Charlie Moon series
- Laurence Yep: Child of the Owl
- Laurence Yep: The Mark Twain Murders
- Fred Zackel: Cinderella After Midnight
- Fred Zackel: Cocaine and Blue Eyes
- Bruce Zimmerman: Blood Under the Bridge
Other links
San Francisco in the cinema
See also
Sinclair, Mick: San Francisco: A Cultural and Literary History