Bookshop Santa Cruz

The Kingdom

By: Jo Nesbo

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“I read The Kingdom and couldn’t put it down ... Suspenseful ... Original ... This one is special in every way.” —Stephen King

Two brothers. One small town. A lifetime of dark secrets. A tense and atmospheric standalone thriller from best-selling author Jo Nesbø.

Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother... Read more

Magnificent Rebels

By: Andrea Wulf

Narrated by: Julie Teal

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of... Read more

Almost Everything

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives

"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of... Read more

Disappearing Earth

By: Julia Phillips

Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

National Book Award Finalist
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize
Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award 

National Best Seller

"Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester
"A... Read more

Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

Narrated by: Jesse Nobess

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be. These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team—even though he can’t help but be constantly gut-punched... Read more

Maplecroft

By: Cherie Priest

Narrated by: Johanna Parker & Roger Wayne

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny.




But it is not... Read more

We Are the Weather

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by: Jonathan Safran Foer

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the... Read more

Anne of Greenville

By: Mariko Tamaki

Narrated by: Alice Wen

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of how I became Anne of Greenville. It's also the story of how I found my true true, and how I needed to maybe come to Greenville, of all places, to make that happen. In this modern reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, Anne is an ABBA-loving singer/actor/writer of disco-operas, queer, Japanese-American who longs to be... Read more

This Side of Brightness

By: Colum McCann

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City.

In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to... Read more

The Strangest Fish

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Fareeda Pasha

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Daisy’s favorite month is October. She loves the woodsmoke, pumpkins, cider, and most importantly, the fair. This year, after winning a carnival game, she’s given a fish to take home as her prize.

Her fish has funny-looking scales and too many fins. But Daisy loves and cares for her fish unconditionally—even when it starts growing into something... Read more

The Feral Detective

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Zosia Mamet

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Lethem’s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn“One of America’s greatest storytellers.” —Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum... Read more

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

By: Deepa Anappara

Narrated by: Indira Varma, Himesh Patel & Antonio Aakeel

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” (The New York Times Book Review),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma).
 
WINNER OF THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S... Read more

The Gilly Salt Sisters

By: Tiffany Baker

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the New York Times bestselling The Little Giant of Aberdeen County returns with a magic-tinged tale of dreams, family secrets, and betrayals on a New England salt farm.

In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be. Jo, a fierce and quiet loner, is devoted to the mysteries of her... Read more

Silver Sparrow

By: Tayari Jones

Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman-Williams & Heather Alicia Simms

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families—the public one and the secret... Read more

Mine Till Midnight

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A revised and updated edition of the first book in legendary New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas’s beloved historical romance series featuring the unforgettable Hathaways: a family of misfits trying to navigate their way through the hazards of the British aristocracy Miss Amelia Hathaway, a beautiful and strong-willed spinster, has... Read more

Black Flags, Blue Waters

By: Eric Jay Dolin

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age"—spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s—when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Bestselling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists... Read more

CATCH-22

By: Joseph Heller

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Now a Hulu limited series starring... Read more

The Come Up

By: Jonathan Abrams

Narrated by: Dion Graham, Diontae Black, Torian Brackett, La...

Length: 18 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture—from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire
 
“The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most... Read more

The Sign for Home

By: Blair Fell

Narrated by: Blair Fell

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

When a young DeafBlind man learns the girl he thought was lost forever might still be out there, he embarks on a life-changing journey to find her—and his freedom.

Arlo Dilly is young, handsome, and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah’s Witness, and under... Read more

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

By: Dorthe Nors

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Sonja is ready to get on with her life. She's over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her sister, and is finally learning to drive. But under the overbearing gaze of her driving instructor, Sonja is unable to shift gears for herself. And her vertigo,... Read more

The End of the End of the Earth

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program has been updated with a new epilogue written and read by the author.

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.”... Read more

Take Me Apart

By: Sara Sligar

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer & Xe Sands

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"What a clever, visceral thriller. A raw, unfiltered twist on gaslighting that challenges how society treats women. It made me sad, angry, and fired up."
—Araminta Hall, author of Our Kind of Cruelty

"I loved this novel so much that I blew off all my responsibilities, turned off my phone, and blistered through the whole thing in one sitting.... Read more

Smile

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Roddy Doyle

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past.

"It's his bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best." -- npr.org

“The closest thing he’s written to a psychological thriller."– The New York Times Book Review

Just moved into a new... Read more

What If? 2

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask
 
The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire... Read more