Favorite Books of the Year: DIESEL BOOKS

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DIESEL BOOKS (BAY AREA AND LOS ANGELES)

Brentwood (LA) location

Mo Figuls: Chronicles of Old Los Angeles, James Roman · Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life, Alastair Brotche ·  Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz · Imaginary Fred, Eoin Colfer · Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson

Mia Wigmore: West of Sunset, Stuart O’Nan · Outline, Rachel Cusk · Small Victories, Annie Lamott

Cheryl Ryan: Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf · Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg · Kitchens of the Great Midwest, Ryan Stradal · The Hand of the Mirror, Janis Heaphy Durham · Sous Chef, Michael Gibney

Lynn Weingarten: The Cartel, Don Winslow · Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff · Thirsty, Marc Weingarten · Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf · A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay

Anna Kaufman: The Sculptor, Scott McCloud · The Nest, Kenneth Oppel · Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli · The Odd Woman and the City, Vivian Gornick · Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Alex Melnick: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Sarah Vowell · Smek for President, Adam Rex · Snowden, Ted Rall · Otter in Space, Sam Garton · Lord of the Wings, Donna Andrews

Diane Leslie: Keeping an Eye Open, Julian Barnes · Refund, Karen Bender · Summer House With Pool, Herman Koch · Ruby, Cynthia Bond) · Preparations for the Next Life, Atticus Lish

Oakland location

Chris Phipps: Physics of Sorrow, Georgi Gospodinov · A Planet for Rent, Yoss · The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn, Boris and Arkady Strutgatsky · The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli · Eyes Full of Empty, Jérémie Guez

Brad Johnson: Counternarratives, John Keene · The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli · The Visiting Privilege, Joy Williams · The Complete Stories, Clarice Lispector · Garments Against Women, Anne Boyer

Katherine Assef: The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson · Suite for Barbara Loden, Nathalie Leger · Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates · Vertigo, Joanna Walsh · The Musical Brain, Cesar Aira

Katherine Duckworth: Red Epic, Joshua Clover · Portrait of Doom, Marie Buck · (guns & butter), Montana Ray · The Pink Trace Notebooks, Wayne Koestenbaum · Times Beach, John Shoptaw

John Evans (owner): Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg ·  Eternity’s Sunrise, Leo Damrosch · Wages of Revolt, Chris Hedges · Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese · On Art and Mindfulness, Enrique Martinez Celaya

Larkspur location

Clare Doornbos: The Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood · The Tsar of Love and Techno, Anthony Marra · The Truth According to Us, Annie Barrows · Symphony for the City of the Dead, M T Anderson · Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson)

Alan Dishman: A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara · Hold Still, Sally Mann · M Train, Patti Smith · Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg · My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rodman Froke: The Martian, Andy Weir · Year of Lear, James Shapiro · Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson · Seveneves, Neal Stephenson · Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, Rinker Buck