Audiobooks by API Authors

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

A Novel

By: Satoshi Yagisawa
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 5 hours

“This is a wonderful and mellow listen, with loads of emotion and tension that keeps you listening right to the end. Read more

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

A Novel

By: Satoshi Yagisawa
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how much books and bookstores mean to the people who love them.Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi... Read more

I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist

By: Baek Sehee
Narrated by: Jully Lee
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Bloomsbury presents I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, read by Jully Lee.

The sequel to the internationally bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by National Book Award finalist Anton Hur.

Whenever depression or emptiness came calling, I was all too eager to open the door of self-pity and go right inside.... Read more

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

A Memoir

By: Baek Sehee
Narrated by: Jully Lee
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

“I truly enjoyed reading this book! Baek Sehee's use of conversations with her psychiatrist made me feel as if I was there with her in the office, learning about her mental health. Each chapter is a recording of her and her psychiatrist's actual conversations as well as an analysis of what she learned from that session. I think this is a great... Read more

Mina's Matchbox

A Novel

By: Yoko Ogawa
Narrated by: Nanako Mizushima
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.

“A story of first enchantments and last... Read more

IQ

An IQ Novel: Book #1

By: Joe Ide
Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

“IQ is the nickname of Isaiah Quintabe, who, despite being a high-school dropout, is absolutely brilliant and has amazing deductive skills. Living on the rough side of Long Beach, California, he is an underground detective who takes on cases in the city's ghettoes that the LAPD refuses to handle. Beginning with a kidnapping and moving to a case... Read more

The Truth About Dragons

(Caldecott Honor Book)

By: Julie Leung
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 6 minutes

The Truth About Dragons features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the giggles from hobgoblins and the sounds of waterfalls!

A Caldecott Honor Winner

The Truth About Dragons follows a young child on a journey guided by his mother's bedtime storytelling. He quests into two very different forests,... Read more

When Haru Was Here

By: Dustin Thao
Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

“A sweet and heartbreaking story of friendship, love, and grief. Read more

A Song to Drown Rivers

A Novel

By: Ann Liang
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

“As enchanting as it is heartbreaking, A Song to Drown Rivers follows a young woman turned deadly spy, who uses her beauty and charm as a devastating weapon to topple kingdoms. This book will take your breath away! Read more

Knives, Seasoning, and a Dash of Love

By: Katrina Kwan
Narrated by: Alison Deon, Derek Kwan & Davin Babulal
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

In this spicy workplace romance, a hotheaded celebrity chef finds himself drawn to his inexperienced new hire. But when her bubbly attitude collides with his sharp edges, can they handle the heat, or will their love be a recipe for disaster?

Alexander Chen is one of the most talented chefs to ever grace the culinary world of French haute cuisine.... Read more

Bridge Across the Sky

By: Freeman Ng
Narrated by: Eric Yang
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

A “lyrical and introspective” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) historical novel in verse about a Chinese teen who immigrates to the United States with his family and endures mistreatment at the Angel Island Immigration Station while trying to navigate his own course in a new world.

Tai Go and his family have crossed an ocean wider than a... Read more

Motherlands

Poems

Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

By: Weijia Pan
Narrated by: Weijia Pan
Length: 47 minutes

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this engrossing debut interrogates history, identity, and the power of poetry to elucidate both.Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist... Read more

Everything We Never Had

By: Randy Ribay
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo, Jesse Inocalla, Manny Jacinto & JB Tadena
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

“Ribay does it again, this time with a stunning multi-generational look at trauma, male relationships and social movements. Spanning from the Farm Workers movements with César Chávez and Larry Itliong to the Covid lockdown of early 2020, each generation is voiced by a different performer with their own traumas and motivations influencing the... Read more

The Earthspinner

A Novel

By: Anuradha Roy
Narrated by: Maya Saroya
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political upheaval.One night, Elango has a dream that consumes him, driving him to give it shape. The potter... Read more

The Earthspinner

By: Anuradha Roy
Narrated by: Maya Saroya
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

'A writer of great subtlety and intelligence, who understands that emotional power comes from the steady accretion of detail' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian

'She writes elegantly and intelligently whatever the subject matter' Francesca Angelini, The Times

'A compulsively readable novel' Manil Suri, New York Times

'A horse was in flames. It roamed beneath... Read more

The Centre

A Novel

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Narrated by: Balvinder Sopal
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

A darkly comic, speculative debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of “great works of literature,” but instead mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies,... Read more

Age of Vice

A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Deepti Kapoor
Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

“Wow! The hype is real. Epic, unrelenting crime drama that pulls no punches. Ruthless, cinematic, totally captivating, the audiobook brings this dark, dangerous world to life. Read more

Victory City

A Novel

By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Sid Sagar
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year • “Victory City is... Read more

The Roof Beneath Their Feet

By: Geetanjali Shree
Narrated by: Anuj Datta & Mala Mangla
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

In this beautifully crafted novel, roofs have a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance and for play, they are places to dry pickles and grains while exchanging gossip about quiet caresses. But above all, they are realms of freedom. In The Roof Beneath their Feet, Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build a friendship that... Read more

The Light at the End of the World

By: Siddhartha Deb
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan & Neil Shah
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Delhi, the near future: Bibi, a low-ranking employee of a global consulting firm, is tasked with finding a man long thought to be dead but who now appears to be the source of a vast collection of documents. The trove purports to reveal the secrets of the Indian government, including
detention centers, mutated creatures, engineered viruses,... Read more