You might think that all SFist reads is the internet, but we are here to tell you that it's just not so! We all love not just our local bookstores but our local libraries, and visit them often. We especially love how easy it is to reserve books from the San Francisco Public Library for pickup at whichever branch is most convenient for you, so pull out your library card and give it a shot!

SFist Emily is reading The 9/11 Commission report : final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Although she started reading it because her father said it was one of the best written things he'd ever read, she has continued to read it not out of familial or civic duty, but rather because it's an amazing look at all the factors that contributed to the tragedy.

SFist Dahlia just finished Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire - the background story of The Wizard of Oz, and definitely not a kids' story, but great fun nonetheless. Has the elements of any great novel - romance, intrigue, philosophical debates. A great summer read.

SFist Eve is just finishing up The Eyre Affair, fantasy/detective novel that makes us former English majors feel clever for getting the references. It's 1985, but an alternate 1985 of time-travel and blimp travel. An archvillian is kidnapping literary figures (like Jane Eyre, hence the title), and it's up to Thursday Next, the heroine, to stop him. It's kind of one-joke and full of puns, but a good time.