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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
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
​Greg Sarris
​Swinerton Family Fund
​Jill Tonkin-Finegold
​Donna Williamson

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
Suzanne LaFetra Collier
Tom Collins, Taketomo Foundation
Karen Galatz and Jon Wellinghoff
Terry Gamble and Peter Boyer
Deborah Krant and Tamim Ansary
​The Richard J. Kruger Foundation
Susan Moldaw
​Eddie Muller
Sara Newmann and Doug Sovern
Anne Schukat
Julie Flynn Siler and Charlie Siler
Frances Stroh
Amy Tan and Louis De Mattei
Barbara and Charlie Winton

Visionary
$500–$999
Valerie Barth and Peter Wiley
Joachim Bechtle
Diane Carr
​Angie Chau
​Nancy Chirinos
Lisa Church
Pamela and Steven Dinkelspiel
Will Evers
​Mark Finnemore
Diana Hardy
Michelle Jeffers
Mady Jones
Amy Kaminer
Ruth Kaminer
Peggy and Lew Katcher
​Marianne Lonsdale
​Susan Mattmann
​Teresa and Mike Olson
Anne and Michael Parish
Lisa Park
Gregg and Greta Schoenberg
Susan Shors and Brian Connors
Ellen Sussman and Neal Rothman
Vendela Vida and Dave Eggers
James Wright
Cora Yang and Myron Marx 

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$250–$499
Aaron Metals
​Anneliese Agren
Julie and Greg Barton
Kimberly Bender
Judith Bernhard and Byron Spooner
Donna and David Bero
Jack Boulware
​Vickie Bowen
Michele and Po Bronson
Bridget Collins
Dale Djerassi
Jordan Gill
Gravity Goldberg
Stephanie Harrell and Adam Johnson
Lynda Heideman
Suzanne Klein 
Janine and Matt Kovac
Lila LaHood
​Loretta Matty
Judy Miner
Davyd Morris
Isabel Duffy Pinner
​Lisa Poulson
Elise Proulx
Marcia and Murray Schneider
Kathy Scott and Melanie Sherk
Cass Calder Smith
Sports Basement
Mary Taugher
​Alia Volz and Kevin Hunsanger
Malena Watrous
​Ted Weinstein
Leonid Zilberburg

Luminary
$150–$249
Carol Berluti
Medea and Bruce Bern
Nora Blay
Jessica Broitman
Vickie Bowen and Bill Haish
​Debra Dout
​Kevin Dublin
​Maureen Fan
Jane Ganahl
Andrea and Rick Goldman
Haas Moran Family Fund 
Lewis Hurwitz
Deborah Kirshman
Emma Kollak
Lynn Eve Komaromi
Keith Raffel
​Barbara Schmidt
​​Pam Student
Marilyn and Murray Waldman
Pamela and John Walker
Marilyn and Irving Yalom

Contributor
$75–$149
Claudette Allison
Debby and Marc Barach
​Doug Beeferman
Lucy Bledsoe
​William Bonham
MJ Brodie
Katie Butler
Louise Carroll
Zoe Carter
Quang Chau & Minh Doan
Jane Ciabattari
City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
​Karen Clayton
Diana Cohn
Melissa Congdon
Laurie Danier
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
​Mary Ladd and Oscar Villalon
Devi Laskar
Janet Loduca
​Judith Lubman
Christina Lu and Matt Lee
Eliska Meyers
Evelyn Nussenbaum
Marta Osterloh and Tony Curtiss
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
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
​Judy Cardiff
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
Nina Lesowitz
Rachel Levin
Helen Loh
​Robert Mandel
Ellen Mann
​Deborah Marcus
Tina Martin
Justin McCarthy
Maryanne McGlothlin
​Barbara McMahan
​David Mealy
​Lindsey and Ken Meyersieck
Allison Muir
Lori Narlock
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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