Bookshop Santa Cruz

Brown Girls

By: Daphne Palasi Andreades

Narrated by: Tashi Thomas

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.
 
“An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance,... Read more

Ophelia After All

By: Racquel Marie

Narrated by: Maria Liatis

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Ophelia After All, a hilarious and heartfelt contemporary YA debut by author Racquel Marie.

Ophelia Rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, Cuban food, rose-gardening, and boys—way too many boys. Her friends and parents make fun of her endless... Read more

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

By: Shauna Robinson

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books.
If only, I, Maggie Banks, cared about following the rules.
When Maggie Banks arrives to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to the small-town clientele. But with the town on the map as a top literary destination and the tourist... Read more

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By: Stephen Hawking

Narrated by: Ben Whishaw, Garrick Hagon & Lucy Hawking

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.

“Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should read.”—NPR

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Forbes •... Read more

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

By: Laird Hunt

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense.

"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has... Read more

Why Religion?

By: Elaine Pagels

Narrated by: Lynde Houck

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions.These questions took on a new... Read more

Loathe at First Sight

By: Suzanne Park

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bursts with humor, heart, and great energy. I loved it! Park is a hilarious new voice in women’s fiction.”—Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient “[A] punchy adult debut set in the world of video game design. Park makes tough topics go down easy by couching them in wry humor and lighthearted romance, and her fierce, snarky heroine is... Read more

The Turquoise Ledge

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Leslie Marmon Silko established herself as "the finest prose writer of her generation" (Larry McMurtry) with her debut novel Ceremony, one of the most acclaimed works of the 20th century. Of mixed Laguna Pueblo, Cherokee, Mexican, and white heritage, Silko brings a unique perspective to her powerful works. In this deeply personal and spiritual... Read more

The Book of Joan

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book • BuzzFeed 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read this Year • New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • National Bestseller“Brilliant and incendiary.” — Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review""Stunning. . . . Yuknavitch understands that our collective narrative can either destroy or redeem us, and the outcome... Read more

Wannabe

By: Aisha Harris

Narrated by: Aisha Harris

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

BEST READS OF 2023: New York Times Book Review • USA Today • The Skimm • Bookpage • St Louis Post-Dispatch / BEST HOLIDAY GIFTS 2023: Publishers Weekly / MOST ANTICIPATED READS OF 2023: ELLE • The Millions • Essence “Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics (…) which might as well be parlance for, “Read me... Read more

Good Prose

By: Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of the Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him,... Read more

Never Met a Duke Like You

By: Amalie Howard

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Clueless meets Bridgerton in this spicy opposites-attract Regency romance told with “self-assured style, wit, and energy” (Lisa Kleypas, New York Times bestselling author). Lady Vesper Lyndhurst is beautiful, clever, and popular. Afforded every luxury as a duke’s daughter, she fills her days with friends, intrigues, and a self-professed knack... Read more

Killing Commendatore

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 28 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84

In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally... Read more

The Marriage Pact

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The women of Bliss County are ready to meet the men of their dreams! See how it all begins in this enthralling new series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller Ten years ago, Hadleigh Stevens was eighteen and this close to saying "I do," when Tripp Galloway interrupted her walk down the aisle. Now that she's recovered from... Read more

Believing

By: Anita Hill

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors… It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together.”—NPR

Winner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books 

From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against... Read more

The Orchardist

By: Amanda Coplin

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] mysterious, compelling, elemental novel….In The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin shows us what’s unknowable.”
—Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of National Book Award finalist, American Salvage“Within this world are compelling characters and their equally compelling stories. The Orchardist is an outstanding debut.”
—Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling... Read more

Gmorning, Gnight!

By: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Narrated by: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator and star of Hamilton comes an audiobook of affirmations to inspire listeners at the beginning and end of each day.

“When the world is bringing you down, Gmorning, Gnight! will remind you that you are awesome.”—Booklist

Good morning. Do NOT get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, do, create the things. Let others... Read more

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

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

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

Arcadia

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A staggering portrait of a crumbling utopia, this “timeless and vast” novel filled with the “raw beauty” beautifully depicts an idyllic commune in New York State—and charts its eventual yet inevitable downfall (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Timeless and vast … The raw beauty of Ms. Groff’s prose is one of the best... Read more