Bookshop Santa Cruz

Bookshop Santa Cruz Your Independent Bookseller Since 1966! Bookshop Santa Cruz is located only 90 minutes from San Francisco, and 30 minutes from both San Jose and Monterey.
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To be the first to know about sales, programs, and events, sign up for Bookshop Santa Cruz's e-mail lists: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/email Bookshop Santa Cruz is a large, general independent bookstore located in the heart of downtown Santa Cruz, California since 1966. Owned by the Coonerty family since 1973, Bookshop Santa Cruz is a multi-generational family business currently under the car

e of Casey Coonerty Protti who grew up in her parent’s business. We take immense pride in being an independent bookstore, with the ability and desire to reflect the interests of local readers. Bookshop Santa Cruz fills over 20,000 square feet with a wide selection of new, used and sale books along with extensive magazine, card and gift sections. Bookshop is known for its comprehensive children’s and new release sections as well as strong sections in travel, politics, cooking, science, science fiction and fantasy, and fiction. Home to the University of California, Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz boasts a strong intellectual community dedicated to the written word. Bookshop Santa Cruz nurtures this environment with a comprehensive author event series featuring appearances by both national and local authors in our beautiful event space, the skylight room, or at partnered off-site locations for larger, ticketed events. We hope you have a chance to share our love of reading by visiting us soon!

🍁 Fall’s most anticipated books are just around the corner! 📚✨ Get ahead of the buzz in fiction, genre, and nonfiction b...
08/12/2026

🍁 Fall’s most anticipated books are just around the corner! 📚✨ Get ahead of the buzz in fiction, genre, and nonfiction by preordering your most anticipated picks now at Bookshop Santa Cruz! 📖

View our preorder page to see our full lists of upcoming titles (link in bio):
https://bookshopsantacruz.com/fall-preorder-2026

IN STORE EVENT NEXT WEEK 🏄📚Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Steve Hawk, former editor of Surfer, who will share his thrillin...
08/10/2026

IN STORE EVENT NEXT WEEK 🏄📚

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Steve Hawk, former editor of Surfer, who will share his thrilling new novel Nearshore, a mix of literary suspense and coastal noir which follows an unlikely trio on the California coast who investigate a nuclear terrorist act.

📅: Wednesday, August 19th
⏰: 7:00pm
📍: Bookshop Santa Cruz
RSVP: bookshopsantacruz.com/steve-hawk (link in bio)

Hawk will be in conversation with writer Charles Duhigg. This event is cosponsored by Save the Waves Coalition.

"This is an exceptionally thoughtful literary thriller, beautifully rendered against the backdrop of a world its author very clearly knows and loves. In the depth and breadth of its story, in the lyricism of its prose, Nearshore will surely establish Steve Hawk as a writer to be reckoned with." —Kem Nunn, author of Tapping the Source, Dogs of Winter, and Tijuana Straits

Bookstore Romance Day is officially one week away! 📚⛺💘Join us at Camp Daydream for a day full of camp-inspired activitie...
08/08/2026

Bookstore Romance Day is officially one week away! 📚⛺💘

Join us at Camp Daydream for a day full of camp-inspired activities! Bunk-up with fellow romance readers for campfire chats, cabin crafts, and book recs from your favorite counselor.

WHAT TO EXPECT ON AUGUST 15TH:
💘 Prize wheel from 9:00am–5:00pm
💘 Book and Romance Day swag giveaways
💘 Custom merch
💘 Romance trope bingo, book boyfriend guess who, merit badge collecting, and more!
💘9:00am–11:00am: Ticketed book bedazzling project (while supplies last)! Ticket price includes a copy of Emily Henry's Happy Place

For more details visit the link in our bio or
bookshopsantacruz.com/bookstore-romance-day-2026

August is international Women in Translation Month! Our staff is recommending their favorite books written by women in l...
08/07/2026

August is international Women in Translation Month! Our staff is recommending their favorite books written by women in languages other than English. Check out their recs ✍ 📚

MELINDA: Fury by Clyo Mendoza; Mornings Without Mii by Mayumi Inaba; What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama; Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor; Every Day I read by Hwang Bo-reum

SAYA: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata and Mornings Without Mii by Mayumi Inaba

KRISTINA: The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole by Cecilia Heikkilä and Croco by Azul López

TRINITY: Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin; The White Book by Han Kang; Água Viva, An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures, and The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

MAGNOLIA: The Danger to be Sane by Rosa Montero; Hunger by Choi Jin-Young; Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

RICO: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

NIKOLE: Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz and I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

NINA: the Moomin stories by Tove Jansson and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

HANNAH & CYREINE: The Wall By Marlen Haushofer

We want to give a HUGE shoutout to our newest Summer Reading Program sponsor, Freedom Bakery! 🍪Freedom Bakery is a new a...
08/06/2026

We want to give a HUGE shoutout to our newest Summer Reading Program sponsor, Freedom Bakery! 🍪

Freedom Bakery is a new addition to the Summer Reading Program this year, and we couldn't be more excited to have their support! Kids who read 6 books (3 from our lists, 3 of their choice) get a voucher for 1 free cookie from Freedom Bakery as part of their reward 🎉🎉

For more info visit bookshopsantacruz.com/summer-reading-program

There's nothing better than new books... 📚Here's just a few of the August new releases we're looking forward to ✨Which n...
08/02/2026

There's nothing better than new books... 📚

Here's just a few of the August new releases we're looking forward to ✨

Which new releases are you looking forward to most this month?

💗💘 AUGUST IS ROMANCE MONTH 💗💘Purchase any romance title during the month of August and enter our raffle to win books & o...
08/01/2026

💗💘 AUGUST IS ROMANCE MONTH 💗💘

Purchase any romance title during the month of August and enter our raffle to win books & other prizes! 📚🌹

PLUS don't miss Bookstore Romance Day August 15th for a day of camp-inspired activities and swoon-worthy fun ⛺

More details at bookshopsantacruz.com/bookstore-romance-day-2026

An incredible booklist curated entirely by YOU ✨These are our top ten bestsellers from the month of JULY—shop with us in...
07/31/2026

An incredible booklist curated entirely by YOU ✨

These are our top ten bestsellers from the month of JULY—shop with us in-store or online and help us build our next month's list 📚

Address

1520 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA
95060

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 8pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 9pm
Sunday 9am - 8pm

Telephone

+18314230900

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