API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
Heart of the Sun Warrior
By: Sue Lynn Tan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The stunning sequel to Daughter of the Moon Goddess delves deeper into beloved Chinese mythology, concluding the epic story of Xingyin—the daughter of Chang’e and the mortal archer, Houyi—as she battles a grave new threat to the realm, in this powerful tale of love, sacrifice, and hope. After winning her mother’s freedom from the Celestial... Read more
View audiobookThe Mountains Sing
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm... Read more
View audiobookKaikeyi
By: Vaishnavi Patel
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 17 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“With a graceful, measured elegance” (The New York Times), this lyrical novel reimagines the life of the infamous queen from the ancient epic the Ramayana, giving voice to an extraordinary woman determined to leave her mark in a world where gods and men dictate the shape of things to come.I was born on the full moon under an auspicious... Read more
View audiobookAnother Appalachia
By: Neema Avashia
Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves... Read more
View audiobookBite by Bite
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or... Read more
View audiobookMinor Feelings
By: Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER• ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE• A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness
“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen
In... Read more
Severance
By: Ling Ma
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Nancy Wu delivers an outstanding performance of this cheeky satirical novel...Listeners will be entertained by the world building; cast of amusing, eccentric characters; and bizarre charm of the aloof heroine." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner
Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial,... Read more
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
By: Michiko Aoyama
Narrated by: Hanako Footman, Susan Momoko Hingley, Kenichiro...
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers’ life.
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the... Read more
Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BOOKRIOT, THE MILLIONS, LITHUB AND MORE!
"A moving, strikingly evocative exploration of New York's art, tech, and activism scenes across the decades."–Vogue
The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is... Read more
The Widows of Malabar Hill
By: Sujata Massey
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history... Read more
View audiobookWelcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-reum
Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month
The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of AJ Fikry.
Yeongju is burned... Read more
The Storm We Made
By: Vanessa Chan
Narrated by: Samantha Tan
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
In this spellbinding novel, an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy—and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties.
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is... Read more
888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
By: Abraham Chang
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 13 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Eunice Wong breathes life into the diverse cast of characters with an energetic precision that gives this audiobook the feeling of a lively radio drama."—AudioFile
“Abraham Chang’s novel, packed with pop culture, is wonderfully alive. This is a beautifully tender and funny examination of love, of identity, of making your way in a world... Read more
The Surviving Sky
By: Kritika H. Rao
Narrated by: Sharmila Devar & Pranshu Mishra
Length: 18 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity’s survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below.Charismatic... Read more
View audiobookFathomfolk
By: Eliza Chan
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of revolution and magic set against the glittering, semi-submerged city of Tiankawi.
Welcome to Tiankawi – shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that’s how it first appears.
But in the... Read more
The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties
By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Narrated by: Risa Mei
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime foes crash the party in this hilariously entertaining novel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.
After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New... Read more
Counterfeit
By: Kirstin Chen
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . . . Chen is up to something innovative and... Read more
View audiobookThe Annual Migration of Clouds
By: Premee Mohamed
Narrated by: Eva Tavares
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“This packs a punch.” — Publishers Weekly “One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction.” — Booklist “In this rich and nuanced universe, Mohamed offers an emotionally fierce and human story that takes the time and space to personalize apocalypse.” — STARRED review, Quill & Quire A novella set in post–climate disaster... Read more
View audiobookA Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.But her... Read more
View audiobookDear Girls
By: Ali Wong
Narrated by: Ali Wong & Justin Hakuta
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Heartfelt and hilarious essays from the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning actress, star of the Netflix original series Beef, and two-time member of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year list
“A collection of letters to her baby girls that are barn-burning reflections on being a working mom, marriage, sex,... Read more
All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
Narrated by: Janet Song
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that... Read more
View audiobookExhalation
By: Ted Chiang
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon ...
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others
Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine,... Read more
Mott Street
By: Ava Chin
Narrated by: Ava Chin
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
* TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023... Read more
The Tennis Partner
By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend... Read more
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