Mission District
description: neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA
121 results
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
by Irvin D. Yalom · 24 Feb 2015
and fanning herself with a folded newspaper, were “Water, please!” She had raced to catch a bus at the corner near her apartment in the Mission district and then climbed two steep blocks to my office at the top of Russian Hill. Aging and small in stature, about five foot two, apparently
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
by Kamal Ravikant · 7 Jan 2020
’re so pretty,” I say. She walks alongside my friend, Gabe, holding his hand. Her dark hair freshly cut, layers. Cool February night in the Mission District in San Francisco. We’re heading for tacos. “I’m in love,” she says. We pause to cross the street. “It’s true,” she says
For the Love of Money: A Memoir
by Sam Polk · 18 Jul 2016 · 247pp · 74,612 words
a forty-ounce Bud Light, and my shoulders would relax as warmth spread through my body. Sometimes at lunch, I hustled a mile into the Mission District and through the door of a squat, dingy building, an underground kickboxing gym filled with the sounds of knees hitting bags and fists hitting heads
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
by Kevin Roose · 9 Mar 2021 · 208pp · 57,602 words
kept Heath’s manufacturing local, rather than sending it abroad. They moved their main production facility to a more expensive building in San Francisco’s Mission District, and began offering factory tours, so that customers could see their bowls and mugs and tiles being made. They started the Heath Clay Studio, a
The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
by Randall Stross · 4 Sep 2013 · 332pp · 97,325 words
the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco and their front room serves as the company’s office. Ted Suzman has his own apartment in the Mission district, so the three are not housed as compactly as the Ridejoy trio. But to an observer watching them work, the Graffiti Lab’s threesome is
The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies
by Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini · 31 May 2012 · 314pp · 86,795 words
a double bill of Out of the Past and Murder, My Sweet at the York Theater in San Francisco. The York stood down in the Mission District and was a remnant from the days when it was an Irish neighborhood. The St. Francis ice cream parlor was nearby, with its red vinyl
My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture
by Guy Branum · 29 Jul 2018 · 301pp · 100,597 words
. One night in the latter part of 2001, after 9/11 but before my twenty-sixth birthday, I went to an open mic in the Mission District of San Francisco with a word-for-word printout of my set in hand.9 I got up, the room responded, and I felt alive
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
by E. Gabriella Coleman · 25 Nov 2012 · 398pp · 107,788 words
jokes, I quickly found myself enjoying the endless stream of jokes they made in all sorts of contexts. During a dinner in San Francisco’s Mission district, at the office while interning at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or at the monthly gatherings of the Bay Area Linux User Group held in a
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
by Eric Klinenberg · 1 Jan 2012 · 291pp · 88,879 words
always been open to the possibility of finding the right guy and getting married,” she tells me as we share lunch in San Francisco’s Mission District. “And Quirkyalone was never about being alone—it was about being connected, to yourself and to other people too. Now I’m ready for a
How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
by Cat Marnell · 30 Jan 2017 · 416pp · 121,024 words
. * * * Someday I will write at length about the surreal half-year that I lived with Alex, SAME, the Fat Jew, Alden, and Sebastian in a Mission District minimansion—but we have a lot of life-murdering to get to. So for now, all you need to know is that after my Adderall
The Push: A Climber's Search for the Path
by Tommy Caldwell · 15 May 2017
Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History
by Nellie Bowles · 13 May 2024 · 207pp · 62,397 words
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
by Michael Pollan · 22 Apr 2013 · 476pp · 148,895 words
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
Microserfs
by Douglas Coupland · 14 Feb 1995
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
by Edward Tenner · 1 Sep 1997
We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True
by Gabrielle Union · 16 Oct 2017 · 235pp · 74,200 words
Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime
by Julian Guthrie · 15 Nov 2019
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
by Christopher Wylie · 8 Oct 2019
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
by Sarah Frier · 13 Apr 2020 · 484pp · 114,613 words
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed With Alcohol
by Holly Glenn Whitaker · 9 Jan 2020 · 334pp · 109,882 words
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
by Susan Fowler · 18 Feb 2020 · 205pp · 71,872 words
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
by Timothy Ferriss · 1 Dec 2010 · 836pp · 158,284 words
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
by Mark O'Connell · 28 Feb 2017 · 252pp · 79,452 words
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life
by Mark Synnott · 5 Mar 2019 · 389pp · 131,688 words
Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally
by Kelly Starrett · 20 Oct 2014
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
by Charles Montgomery · 12 Nov 2013 · 432pp · 124,635 words
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida · 9 May 2016 · 356pp · 91,157 words
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt · 8 Apr 2025 · 260pp · 82,629 words
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
by Eben Kirksey · 10 Nov 2020 · 599pp · 98,564 words
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality
by Jaron Lanier · 21 Nov 2017 · 480pp · 123,979 words
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
by Nathan Schneider · 10 Sep 2018 · 326pp · 91,559 words
The New Geography of Jobs
by Enrico Moretti · 21 May 2012 · 403pp · 87,035 words
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
by Andrew Blum · 28 May 2012 · 314pp · 83,631 words
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
by Parmy Olson · 284pp · 96,087 words
The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
by Timothy Ferriss · 1 Jan 2012 · 1,007pp · 181,911 words
Cuckoo's Egg
by Clifford Stoll · 2 Jan 1989 · 440pp · 117,978 words
Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
by Adam Fisher · 9 Jul 2018 · 611pp · 188,732 words
Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street
by Jeff John Roberts · 15 Dec 2020 · 226pp · 65,516 words
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Mar 2016 · 366pp · 94,209 words
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World
by Cade Metz · 15 Mar 2021 · 414pp · 109,622 words
Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire: My Unlikely Escape From Corporate America
by Dan Conway · 8 Sep 2019 · 218pp · 68,648 words
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · 1 Oct 2018
I Hate the Internet: A Novel
by Jarett Kobek · 3 Nov 2016 · 302pp · 74,350 words
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
by Nick Bilton · 15 Mar 2017 · 349pp · 109,304 words
Stacy Mitchell
by Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (2006)
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey · 27 Jan 2015 · 457pp · 128,838 words
The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
by Kevin Carey · 3 Mar 2015 · 319pp · 90,965 words
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
by Steven Levy · 18 May 2010 · 598pp · 183,531 words
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
by Michael Lewis · 3 May 2021 · 285pp · 98,832 words
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
by Arianna Huffington · 7 Sep 2010 · 300pp · 78,475 words
Food Trucks: Dispatches and Recipes From the Best Kitchens on Wheels
by Shouse, Heather · 19 Apr 2011
Little Failure: A Memoir
by Gary Shteyngart · 7 Jan 2014
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by John Carreyrou · 20 May 2018 · 359pp · 110,488 words
Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet
by Joseph Menn · 26 Jan 2010 · 362pp · 86,195 words
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson · 23 Oct 2011 · 915pp · 232,883 words
The Stolen Year
by Anya Kamenetz · 23 Aug 2022 · 347pp · 103,518 words
After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
by Tripp Mickle · 2 May 2022 · 535pp · 149,752 words
The Enlightened Capitalists
by James O'Toole · 29 Dec 2018 · 716pp · 192,143 words
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
by Vauhini Vara · 8 Apr 2025 · 301pp · 105,209 words
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen · 5 Sep 2022 · 642pp · 141,888 words
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
by Henry Grabar · 8 May 2023 · 413pp · 115,274 words
How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
by Parag Khanna · 11 Jan 2011 · 251pp · 76,868 words
This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers
by Andy Greenberg · 12 Sep 2012 · 461pp · 125,845 words
Stealth of Nations
by Robert Neuwirth · 18 Oct 2011 · 340pp · 91,387 words
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
by Janette Sadik-Khan · 8 Mar 2016 · 441pp · 96,534 words
The Participation Revolution: How to Ride the Waves of Change in a Terrifyingly Turbulent World
by Neil Gibb · 15 Feb 2018 · 217pp · 63,287 words
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 12 Nov 2019 · 470pp · 148,730 words
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by Kurt Wagner · 20 Feb 2024 · 332pp · 127,754 words
Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
by Zoë Schiffer · 13 Feb 2024 · 343pp · 92,693 words
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
by Yasha Levine · 6 Feb 2018 · 474pp · 130,575 words
A Crack in the Edge of the World
by Simon Winchester · 9 Oct 2006 · 482pp · 147,281 words
9Tail Fox
by Jon Courtenay Grimwood · 19 Oct 2005 · 404pp · 108,253 words
The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
by Lisa Servon · 10 Jan 2017 · 279pp · 76,796 words
Patricia Unterman's San Francisco Food Lover's Pocket Guide
by Patricia Unterman and Ed Anderson · 1 Mar 2007 · 263pp · 61,784 words
Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us
by Will Storr · 14 Jun 2017 · 431pp · 129,071 words
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
by Corey Pein · 23 Apr 2018 · 282pp · 81,873 words
Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow · 29 Apr 2008 · 398pp · 120,801 words
A Paradise Built in Hell: Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit · 31 Aug 2010
Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food
by Chase Purdy · 15 Jun 2020 · 232pp · 63,803 words
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
The Passenger
by AA.VV. · 23 May 2022 · 192pp · 59,615 words
Eastern USA
by Lonely Planet
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
by Michael Shellenberger · 11 Oct 2021 · 572pp · 124,222 words
The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future
by Noreena Hertz · 13 May 2020 · 506pp · 133,134 words
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
by Antonio Garcia Martinez · 27 Jun 2016 · 559pp · 155,372 words
Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
by Virginia Eubanks · 1 Feb 2011 · 289pp · 99,936 words
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
by Brad Stone · 30 Jan 2017 · 373pp · 112,822 words
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao · 19 May 2025 · 660pp · 179,531 words
Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--And of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco
by Robert Graysmith · 30 Oct 2012 · 314pp · 106,575 words
How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
by Peter Moskowitz · 7 Mar 2017 · 288pp · 83,690 words
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton · 19 Sep 2016 · 1,048pp · 187,324 words
Lonely Planet's Best of USA
by Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Pocket San Francisco
by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing · 31 Aug 2012
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 5 Oct 2015 · 424pp · 121,425 words
The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
by Keach Hagey · 19 May 2025 · 439pp · 125,379 words
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
by Conor Dougherty · 18 Feb 2020 · 331pp · 95,582 words
Coastal California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
Northern California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
San Francisco
by Lonely Planet
Coastal California
by Lonely Planet
Western USA
by Lonely Planet
1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.
by Patricia Schultz · 13 May 2007 · 2,323pp · 550,739 words
Hollow City
by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg · 1 Jan 2001
Frommer's Memorable Walks in San Francisco
by Erika Lenkert · 15 Mar 2003 · 188pp · 57,229 words
Frommer's San Francisco 2012
by Matthew Poole, Erika Lenkert and Kristin Luna · 4 Oct 2011
USA's Best Trips
by Sara Benson · 23 May 2010 · 941pp · 237,152 words
USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet
San Francisco
by Lonely Planet
San Francisco Like a Local
by DK Eyewitness · 4 Oct 2021 · 268pp · 35,416 words
San Francisco Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home
by Dk Eyewitness · 5 Apr 2023 · 168pp · 33,200 words
City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
by Chester W. Hartman and Sarah Carnochan · 15 Feb 2002 · 518pp · 170,126 words
Frommer's California 2009
by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert · 2 Jan 2009
California
by Sara Benson · 15 Oct 2010
Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood · 2 Jan 2009
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco
by Matthew Richard Poole · 17 Mar 2006 · 255pp · 90,456 words
Frommer's California 2007
by Harry Basch, Mark Hiss, Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole · 6 Dec 2006 · 769pp · 397,677 words
Fodor's California 2014
by Fodor's · 5 Nov 2013 · 1,540pp · 400,759 words