California Golden in Historical Fiction — the list

This week’s list includes California Golden, from Melanie Benjamin. Press play and stay for every chapter.

Two sisters navigate the high-tempo, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ambition, sacrifice, and the tangled ties between mothers and daughters from the New York Times widely followed novelist of The Aviator’s Wife. “A shimmering rendering . . . pairs the surf culture of the Beach Boys with the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll of Daisy Jones & The Six.”—Entertainment Weekly (“Best Books of the Summer”)

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