Green Apple Books

We are an independent bookseller serving the San Francisco community since 1967. We welcome you to peruse our recommendations below, curated by the staff of our flagship store on Clement Street, Books on the Park in the Sunset, and Browser Books in the Fillmore. Every purchase made from this affiliate page supports us, though we benefit most when you order on our website: www.greenapplebooks.com!

Never Say You Can't Survive
Once There Were Wolves
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
This Is Your Mind on Plants
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick
Billy Summers
Afterparties: Stories
The Madness of Crowds
Velvet Was the Night
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
One Last Stop
The Other Black Girl
Project Hail Mary
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City
Build Your House Around My Body
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
The Night Always Comes
Edie Richter Is Not Alone
Fake Accounts
Homeland Elegies
What Makes the Monkey Dance: The Life and Music of Chuck Prophet and Green on Red
Luster
Unearth [The Flowers]
Interior Chinatown
How to Be an Antiracist
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
The Wall
Mouthful of Birds: Stories
Homegoing
We Need New Names
Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol Volume 29
The Redshirt
The Leopard
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Freshwater
The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
The God of Small Things
Tent of Miracles
Oblivion: A Memoir
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Straight from the Horse's Mouth
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Mister Jiu's in Chinatown: Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food [A Cookbook]
We Are La Cocina: Recipes in Pursuit of the American Dream (Global Cooking, International Cookbook, Immigrant Cookbook)
Tartine All Day: Modern Recipes for the Home Cook [A Cookbook]
The Boba Book: Bubble Tea and Beyond
Flour + Water: Pasta [A Cookbook]
Eat Something: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews
Tartine Bread
Nopalito: A Mexican Kitchen [A Cookbook]
Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki
Bar Tartine: Techniques & Recipes
Making Chocolate: From Bean to Bar to s'More: A Cookbook
The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisa
Burma Superstar: Addictive Recipes from the Crossroads of Southeast Asia [A Cookbook]
The Foreign Cinema Cookbook: Recipes and Stories Under the Stars
State Bird Provisions: A Cookbook
Why We Swim
Waves and Beaches: The Powerful Dynamics of Sea and Coast
Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain
The Seas
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
The Sea Forager's Guide to the Northern California Coast
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
Between Pacific Tides: Fifth Edition
Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast
The Sea Around Us
Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion
The Curious World of Seaweed
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
In the Distance
Belly Up
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Ghosts
Mars: Stories
Sphinx
Echo on the Bay
Bright
Lizard
The Seas
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue Big Girl, Small Town Ninth House
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Staff Picks

The Fifth Season Black Sun The City We Became
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Sci-Fi and Fantasy Favorites

Gustavo, the Shy Ghost Saturday Pokko and the Drum
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Casey and Sara's Kids and Teen Recs

Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Interior Chinatown
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Poems 1962-2012
The Nickel Boys
Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)
Hamnet
The Discomfort of Evening
A Memory Called Empire
DMZ Colony
Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)
King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
When You Trap a Tiger: (Newbery Medal Winner)
We Are Water Protectors