Audiobooks by API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
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 »
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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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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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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A Different Pond
By: Bao Phi
Narrated by: Bao Phi
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A successful catch meant a fed family. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their... Read more »
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Love in the Library
By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Narrated by: Sura Siu
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they werenât humanâthat was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coastâelderly people, children, babiesânow live in... Read more »
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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 »
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 »
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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The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity
By: Amy Alznauer
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A mango...is just one thing. But if I chop it in two, then chop the half in two, and keep on chopping, I get more and more bits, on and on, endlessly, to an infinity I could never ever reach. In 1887 in India, a boy named Ramanujan is born with a passion for numbers. He sees numbers in the squares of light pricking his thatched roof and in the... 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 »
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 »
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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Wonderland
By: Jennifer Hillier
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of the hugely popular thrillers Things We Do in the Dark, Little Secrets, and Jar of Hearts comes Wonderland, a roller coaster of a listen. Now in audio for the first time!
After a personal tragedy and professional scandal forces homicide detective Vanessa Castro out of Seattle, she takes a new job in Seaside,... 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." âThe 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 »
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 »
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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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." â AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner
Maybe itâs the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial,... Read more »
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 »
Exhalation
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 storiesâtwo published for the very first timeâall from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others
Tackling some of humanityâs oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine,... Read more »
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