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• A General Theory of Love / Thomas Lewis et al.
• Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin / Gray Brechin
• A Short HIstory of Women / Kate Walbert
• Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives / John Palfrey
• Leaves of Grass
• Robinson Crusoe
• The Sportswriter / Richard Ford
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Carson McCullers
• The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher / Debby Applegate
• Mediated / Thomas de Zengotita
• Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience / Mihaly Csikszentmihali
• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life / Goffman
• The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Junot Diaz
• Mountains Beyond Mountains
• Friday Night Lights
• Computers as Theatre / Brenda Laurel
• Predictably irrational / Dan Ariely
• City of Thieves / David benioff (supposed to be quite good)
• The Mandarins / Simone de Beauvoir
• The New York Trilogy / Paul Auster
• The Wings of the Dove / Henry James
• The Infiltrator / Harmon Leon (funny political journalism)
• Noble House / James Clavell (like Bonfire of the Vanities, but set in Hong Kong)
• The Seducer / Jan Kjaestad (funny, Norwegian national character)
• Baroque Trilogy / Stevenson
• Paul Bowles
• The People's Act of Love / James Meek
• Gravity's Rainbow / Thomas Pynchon
• The Ghost at the Table / Suzanne Berne
• The Sky Changes / Gilbert Sorentino
• The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales / Bruno Bettelheim
• L'Assommoir / Emile Zola
• Nana / Emile Zola
• L'Arge / Emile Zola
• Nelson Algren (anything)
• The Secret History / Donna Tart
• e.e. cummings, anything
• Fields Notes From a Catastrophe / Elizabeth Kolbert (global warming primer)
• The Female Brain / Louann Brizendine
• Women, Fire and Dangerous Things / George Lakoff
• The Definitive Book of Body Language / Pease
• The Portable Jung, ed., J. Campbell
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball / Gordon MacKenzie *
• Our Man in Havana / Graham Greene
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Mr. Norris Changes Trains / Christopher Isherwood
• Without Apology / Leah Hager Cohen (why girls fight)
• The Myths of Innovation / Scott Berkun **

Notes to self:
* Available at Mechanics Institute
** Available in ebook at SFPL