Books Set in San Francisco

Beat poets in North Beach, the Tales of the City crowd on Russian Hill, Vertigo's Mission Dolores, Jack Kerouac's pavements — San Francisco is a quintessentially literary city.

9 novels mapped, with every real-world location, the history of each place, and what's there today.

All 9 maps set in San Francisco

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick locations map
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu locations map
• Jack London: An American Life by Earle Labor locations map
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir locations map
• The Bohemians: A Novel by Jasmin Darznik locations map
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan locations map
• The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan locations map
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett locations map
• The Sea-Wolf by Jack London locations map

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