Audiobooks by API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
Babel
By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi & Billie Fulford-Brown
Length: 21 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is... Read more »
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Crying in H Mart
By: Michelle Zauner
Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far... Read more »
How High We Go in the Dark
By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, Mac...
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE ⢠ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK ⢠FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE"Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits." â New York Times Book Review"Haunting and luminous . . . Beautiful... Read more »
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
By: Sue Lynn Tan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 15 hours
Abridged: No
The acclaimed national and international bestsellerâEpic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish.ââStephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval seriesâAn all-consuming work of literary fantasy that is breathtaking both for its beauty and its suspense."âBookPage, starred reviewA captivating and romantic debut epic... Read more »
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What My Bones Know
By: Stephanie Foo
Narrated by: Stephanie Foo
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life
âAchingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.ââLori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should... Read more »
Girls 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.
Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her breakthrough hit song and viral video, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS.
Itâs summertime and 17-year-old Coley has... Read more »
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
By: Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times Bestseller ⢠Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction
âA lyrical work of self-discovery thatâs shockingly intimate and insistently universalâŚNot so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.â âRon Charles, The Washington Post
Ocean Vuongâs debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love,... Read more »
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
By: Malinda Lo
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s.
"That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other." And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its... Read more »
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
By: Min Jin Lee
Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle).
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS... Read more »
The Cartographers
By: Peng Shepherd
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, Karen Chilton, Ron ...
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased fatherâs belongings holds an incredible, deadly secretâone that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her familyâs dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell... Read more »
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Flux
By: Jinwoo Chong
Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious employers have inadvertently discovered time travelâand are using it to cover up a string of violent crimes . . .
Four days before Christmas, eight-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, twenty-eight-year-old Brandon... Read more »
Another 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 »
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We Were Dreamers
By: Simu Liu
Narrated by: Simu Liu
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The star of Marvelâs 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 »
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Little Fires Everywhere
By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
The runaway New York Times bestseller!
Named a Best Book of the Year by:Â
People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis... Read more »
The Poppy War
By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 19 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An AudioFile Magazine Best Audiobook of 2018!A Library Journal, Paste Magazine, and ENTROPY Best Books of 2018 pick!Washington Post "5 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of 2018" pick!A Bustle "30 Best Fiction Books of 2018" pick!âI have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year [...] I have absolutely no doubt... Read more »
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Breasts and Eggs
By: Mieko Kawakami
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Jeena Yi
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japanâs most important contemporary novelist. Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japanâs most important and bestselling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a... Read more »
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Know My Name
By: Chanel Miller
Narrated by: Chanel Miller
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." (The Wrap).
"I... Read more »
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Brian Nishii & June Angela
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. "The Return to Monsterland" opens Where We Go... Read more »
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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 »
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The Surviving Sky
By: Kritika H. Rao
Narrated by: Sharmila Devar & Pranshu Mishra
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This Hindu philosophy-inspired debut science fantasy follows a husband and wife racing to save their living cityâand their troubled marriageâhigh above a jungle world besieged by cataclysmic storms.
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanityâplant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. In... Read more »
The Swimmers
By: Julie Otsuka
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER ⢠From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a motherâs dementia and her daughterâs love" (The... Read more »
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Minor Feelings
By: Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST â˘Â NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER ⢠ONE OF TIMEâS 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE â˘Â A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness
âBrilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.ââClaudia Rankine, author of Citizen
In... Read more »
Your House Will Pay
By: Steph Cha
Narrated by: Greta Jung & Glenn Davis
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
âWith Your House Will Pay, Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angelesâs violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understandingâof the pull of generational violence and its enduring devastation, but also of the power of human grace against all odds. Itâs a touching portrait of two families bound together by a... Read more »
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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."âReese Witherspoon
Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one womanâs 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 »
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