API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN AND MORE!
“One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year… fiendishly, deliciously fun."—San Francisco Chronicle
"A profound exploration of human... Read more
The Last Story of Mina Lee
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter
Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA,... Read more
The Henna Artist
By: Alka Joshi
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK
"Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."—Reese Witherspoon
Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at... Read more
We'll Always Have Summer
By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Lola Tung & Christopher Briney
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Belly has only loved two boys her entire life, Conrad Fisher and his younger brother Jeremiah. She’s always known she’d marry one of them, although it’s never been clear which one. Then Jeremiah proposes during Belly’s first year at college.Against her mother’s protests, Belly impulsively accepts. But the expected bliss of engagement is tempered... Read more
View audiobookIt's Not Summer Without You
By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Lola Tung & Gavin Casalegno
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Is it really summer without Cousins Beach?For the first time in her life, Belly isn’t going back to Cousins Beach this summer. Nothing is the same as it was. Her best friend Taylor has lots of plans for them—boat parties and tanning by the pool and new boys to obsess over. But when Jeremiah calls and says that Conrad has disappeared, all roads... Read more
View audiobookThe Bone Witch
By: Rin Chupeco
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Will Damron
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In the captivating start to a new, darkly lyrical fantasy series, Tea can raise the dead, but resurrection comes at a price.When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and... Read more
View audiobookGirls Like Girls
By: Hayley Kiyoko
Narrated by: Brandon Flynn, Hayley Kiyoko, Katie Gavin, Mali...
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by an all-queer cast: the author, Hayley Kiyoko; Natalie Naudus; Malia Pyles; Katie Gavin; and Brandon Flynn.
"This quaint performance by a five-narrator ensemble will tug at the heartstrings."- AudioFile
Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her... Read more
Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
Narrated by: Joel de la Fuente
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
"One of the funniest books of the year ... a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced... Read more
Where Rivers Part
By: Kao Kalia Yang
Narrated by: Pamela Xiong & Kao Kalia Yang
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
An Esquire Best Memoir of 2024
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told from the perspective of the author’s incredible mother who survived, and helped her family escape, against all odds.
Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood was marked by the violence of America’s Secret War and... Read more
Convenience Store Woman
By: Sayaka Murata
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world. So when she takes a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part, she finds a predictable world in the convenience store, mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the... Read more
View audiobookLove, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words
By: Annika Sharma
Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Kiran Mathur knows firsthand how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself?by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, that was her plan right up until she met her new neighbor, Nash Hawthorne. Nash is a dedicated... Read more
View audiobookWe Were Dreamers
By: Simu Liu
Narrated by: Simu Liu
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime.In this honest, inspiring and relatable memoir, newly-minted superhero Simu Liu... Read more
View audiobookHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
By: Jamie Ford
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel,... Read more
Permission to Come Home
By: Jenny Wang
Narrated by: Jenny Wang
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
Strengthen your sense of well-being and embrace empowering new approaches with this invaluable investigation into mental health in the Asian American community.
Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American... Read more
Red String Theory
By: Lauren Kung Jessen
Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen & Andrew Grace
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In this charming rom-com about two star-crossed lovers, a woman whose life is guided by her belief in the red-string of fate finds her perfect match—but his skepticism about true love puts a knot in their chances.
Just a date . . . or a twist of fate?
When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes in the... Read more
Revenant Gun
By: Yoon Ha Lee
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion! When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a seventeen-year-old cadet--but his body belongs to a man decades older. Hexarch Nirai Kujen orders Jedao to reconquer the... Read more
View audiobookThe Anxiety Opportunity
By: Curtis Chang
Narrated by: Curtis Chang
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
What if instead of battling anxiety, you saw your worries as a doorway to spiritual transformation? Challenging the assumption that anxiety is the enemy, theologian, popular podcaster, and fellow sufferer of chronic anxiety Curtis Chang gives you a different framework for approaching fears. You will discover profound new ways of relating to... Read more
View audiobookCentral Asia
By: Adeeb Khalid
Narrated by: Aaqil Ahmed
Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This engaging audiobook narrated by Aaqil Ahmed explores how Central Asia has been shaped by modern world events
Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the... Read more
Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
Narrated by: Qian Julie Wang
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world.
"Extraordinary…Consider this remarkable memoir a new classic."—Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review*
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to... Read more
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
By: C Pam Zhang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Joel de la Fuente
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND... Read more
You Are Life
By: Bao Phi
Narrated by: Bao Phi
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This joyful poem celebrates the wonderful and complex identity of children of immigrants and refugees, embracing all that they are—a dancer, a shining light, a K-pop song—and promising what they will never be: invisible. Read more
View audiobookThe Summer I Turned Pretty
By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Lola Tung
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Some summers are just destined to be pretty.Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are... Read more
View audiobookNatural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
Narrated by: Carolyn Kang
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.
Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory... Read more
Here After
By: Amy Lin
Narrated by: Amy Lin
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
An ELLE Best (and Most Anticipated) Nonfiction Book of 2024 (“This book is a little wonder—a clear, utterly courageous act of love.”)A SheReads Most Anticipated Book of 2024Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Booklist
Here After is a poetic, raw depiction of an unlikely love followed by a dizzying loss. A stunning, taut memoir from debut... Read more
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