Recommended Reading Countless books have been written about our City and the Bay Area. Here are some of my favorites… Artful Players, Artistic Life in Early San Francisco, Birgitta Hjalmarson Historic Houses of Presidio Terrace, Patrick McGrew Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail, Daniel Bacon The World Rushed In, J. S. Holliday The Ferry Building, Nancy Olmsted Stairway Walks in San Francisco, Ada Bakalinsky San Francisco Stories, Jack Kerouac, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Randy Shilts, Tom Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Ishmael Reed San Francisco Invites the World, Donna Ewald, Peter Clute San Francisco, The Ultimate Guide, Randolph Delehanty Splendid Survivors, San Francisco Architectural Heritage Landmarks of San Francisco, Patrick McGrew The Best of Herb Caen, 1969-1975 Imperial San Francisco, Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, Gray Brechin The Big Four, Oscar Lewis Yerba Buena San Francisco, From the Beginning to the Gold Rush 1769-1849, Peter Browning