June 22, 2016, Wednesday evening -- Reading Benjamin Alire Sáenz

In the Mission District, walking to the BART station

He is reading Aristotle and Dante Discover the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. It's a young adult novel. He said he picked it up because he was looking for a distraction and young adult novels are the best for that. It won the Stonewall Book Award in 2013.

June 19, 2016, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Emmanuel Carrère and Siobhan Dowd

In Dolores Park on a warm and sunny day

They are visiting from France and brought their library books with them.
The reader on the left is reading Le Royaume, by Emmanuel Carrère, her favorite author. The book is about the early days of Christianity.
The reader on the right is reading Sans Un Cri, by the British author, Siobhan Dowd. It's a young adult novel about an Irish teenager.

June 10, 2016, Friday afternoon -- Reading Cormac McCarthy

In the Mission District, waiting for his bus

He is reading All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy. He picked it up because he liked the title.
Some of his favorite authors are Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck.

May 30, 2016, Monday afternoon -- Reading Siddhartha Mukherjee

In Times Square, New York City 

(I was there for a friend's wedding.)

She is reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. She's reading it because she is interested in biology and the author teaches at Columbia where she went to college. 

Her favorite author is Jon Krakauer, and her favorite book of his is Into Thin Air.