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Bestsellers Club

Literary Angel
$10,000+
Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne
Margaret and Will Hearst
Scott James and Gerald Cain
Nion McEvoy
Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson
Craig Newmark

Benefactor
$5,000–$9,999
Letetia and James Callinan
​Elizabeth Koch
Greg Sarris
Ellen Ullman Charitable Fund

Pillar
$2,500–$4,999
Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
Nancy Calef and Jody Weiner
Karyn DiGiorgio and Steven Sattler
Barbara and Andy Fremder
Hellman Family Fund
Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau
Lise Quintana and Stephen Beitzel
​Swinerton Family Fund
​Jill Tonkin-Finegold

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Patron
$1,000–$2,499
Betsy S. Aubrey and Steve Lichtenburg
​Daryl Austern and Carl Bass
Natalie Baszile and Warrington S. Parker III
​Jared Bhatti
Lisa Church
Suzanne LaFetra Collier
Marilee Engle and George Frost
Terry Gamble and Peter Boyer
​Deidre Greene, Roaring Forties Press
​Michelle Jeffers
​Tina and John Keker
​The Richard J. Kruger Foundation
Susan Moldaw
​Eddie Muller
Sara Newmann and Doug Sovern
Julie Flynn Siler and Charlie Siler
Anne Schukat
Frances Stroh
Amy Tan and Louis De Mattei
​​Donna Williamson
Barbara and Charlie Winton
​James Wright

Visionary
$500–$999
Valerie Barth and Peter Wiley
Joachim Bechtle
Diane Carr
​Angie Chau
​Nancy Chirinos
Tom Collins, Taketomo Foundation
Pamela and Steven Dinkelspiel
Will Evers
​Mark Finnemore
​​Jordan Gill
Diana Hardy
Mady Jones
Amy Kaminer
Ruth Kaminer
Peggy and Lew Katcher
​Arline Klatte
​Janine and Matt Kovac
​Deborah Krant and Tamim Ansary
​Marianne Lonsdale
​Susan Mattmann
​Don Novello
​Teresa and Mike Olson
Anne and Michael Parish
Lisa Park
​Lisa Poulson
Gregg and Greta Schoenberg
Gabrielle Selz
Susan Shors and Brian Connors
Ellen Sussman and Neal Rothman
Vendela Vida and Dave Eggers
Cora Yang and Myron Marx 

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Icon
$250–$499
Aaron Metals
​Anneliese Agren
Eddy Starr Ancinas
Julie and Greg Barton
Kimberly Bender
Judith Bernhard and Byron Spooner
Jack Boulware
​Vickie Bowen
Michele and Po Bronson
Bridget Collins
Louise Carroll Conner and Arthur Conner
​Evette Davis
Dale Djerassi
Carolyn Ferris
​Laura Fraser
Gravity Goldberg
​Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller
Stephanie Harrell and Adam Johnson
Lynda Heideman
Sharon and Alex Henthorn-Iwane
​Earl James
Kristen Kadner
Suzanne Klein 
Mary Ladd and Oscar Villalon
Lila LaHood
Summer Dawn Laurie and David Linsmayer
Nina Lesowitz and Martin Eggenberger
JiaJing Liu
​Heather Mackey and Grant Faulkner
Deborah Marcus and Tom Cross
​Loretta Matty
James McElwee
​Judy Miner
Davyd Morris
​Lori Narlock
​Marta Osterloh and Tony Curtiss
Isabel Duffy Pinner​
Elise Proulx
​Bora Reed
Marcia and Murray Schneider
​Olivia Sears
Kathy Scott and Melanie Sherk
Cass Calder Smith
Sports Basement
​Pamela Squyres
​​​Pam Student
​Ianthe Brautigan Swensen
Mary Taugher
Kim Teevan
​Catherine Thorpe
​Alia Volz and Kevin Hunsanger
Malena Watrous
​Ted Weinstein
Leonid Zilberburg

Luminary
$150–$249
Michele Anderson
​Carol Berluti
Medea and Bruce Bern
Nora Blay
Jessica Broitman
Vickie Bowen and Bill Haish
Helena Brantley
​Darcy Brown
​Dane Copeland
​Cathy Delneo
​Debra Dout
​Kevin Dublin
Sarah Elovich
​​Maureen Fan
​Joanne Fox
Jane Ganahl
Harriet Garfinkle
Andrea and Rick Goldman
​Barbara Grob
Haas Moran Family Fund 
Lewis Hurwitz
Deborah Kirshman
Emma Kollak
Lynn Eve Komaromi
​Katie Korotzer
Flicka McGurrin
​Beatrice Moe
​Lyssa Paul
Keith Raffel
Judith Rich
​Barbara Schmidt
Jane Swinerton
Barbara Alexander Szerlip
Marilyn and Murray Waldman
Pamela and John Walker
Marilyn and Irving Yalom
​Paul Yamazaki

Contributor
$75–$149
Claudette Allison
Kim Bancroft
Debby and Marc Barach
​Doug Beeferman
​Donna and David Bero
Lucy Bledsoe
​William Bonham
MJ Brodie
Katie Butler
​​Judy Cardiff
Louise Carroll
Zoe Carter
Quang Chau & Minh Doan
Jane Ciabattari
City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
​Karen Clayton
Diana Cohn
Melissa Congdon
Laurie Danier
​Debi Durst
Melissa Eizenberg and Adam Diamant
Jonathan Evans
Peggy Forbes
Cecile Forman
​Zoe Francis
​Stephanie Galinson
Jacqueline Garrett
Karen Garrison and David Edelson
Dayna Goldfine
Susan Helmrich and Richard Levine
Pauline Jue
​Lynne Kaminer and Daniel Ray
​Micah Kaplan
Mary Kelly and Larry Miller
Jackie Krentzman
Devi Laskar
Janet Loduca
​Judith Lubman
Christina Lu and Matt Lee
Christine Mahimainathan
​Maudie McCormick
Eliska Meyers
Kate Mitchell and David Cooper
​Gerda Mueller
Evelyn Nussenbaum
Mark Peterson
​Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen
Robert Quattlebaum
​Alice Ranahan
Jason Roberts
Joan Ryan
Deborah and Paul Sagues
Barbara Schmidt
Herbert Schoenberg
​Kathy Scott
Gabrielle Selz
Dana and Mike Serleth
Keith Skinner
Amal and Rick Smith
​Karen Stern
Neil Stollman
Patrick Taffe
Joseph Talmadge
Cameron Tuttle
Robert Weston

Booster
$50–$74
Anita Amirrezvani
Joni Anderson
Robin Brasso
Kellen Brenner
Gabriel Brown
John Caperton
Meg Waite Clayton
Pamela Corson
​Lucille Lang Day
​Deborah Dinerman and Eddie Maxwell
​Suzy Drell
Andrew Dugas
Robin Ekiss
Michael French
Marilee and George Frost
​John Gourhan
Lucy Gray
John Guerra
Katie Hafner
Susan Harloe
​Baruch Porras Hernandez
Colleen Irwin
​Brett Hall Jones
Stephanie Kawachi
Nancy Davis Kho
​Jennifer Landig
Rachel Levin
Helen Loh
​Robert Mandel
Ellen Mann
​Deborah Marcus
Tina Martin
Justin McCarthy
Maryanne McGlothlin
​Barbara McMahan
​David Mealy
​Lindsey and Ken Meyersieck
​Julia Mitric
Allison Muir
Patricia Ottesen
Miriam Pawel
​Silvia Poloto
​Karen Racanelli
Dean Rader
Louise Rice
​Virginia Rogers
Karen Roorda
Suzanne Russo
​Erin Schweng
Jamie Shaw
Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg
Julie Sims
Jen Siraganian
Cindy Snow
Margaret Stevenson
Robert Stricker
Andrew Tonkovich
​William Torphy
Monika Trobits
Prathima Vadiraja
Angela Wagner
Jessica Wheeler
Douglas Wilkins
​Ann Wu
​Olga Zilberbourg

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