API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
It's Not Just Cookies
By: Tiffany Chen & Leon Chen
Narrated by: Tiffany Chen & Leon Chen
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook is read by the authors and includes an exclusive, fan-sourced Q&A with the authors! Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. And, on one fateful December day, girl stands up boy and then bakes him a batch of apology cookies. The rest is history.Building Tiff's Treats has been a love story unlike any other for these... Read more
View audiobookFighting Dirty
By: Poh-Gek Forkert
Narrated by: Vivian Hisey
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a massive landfill. As one of the experts brought in to assess the impact the toxic waste would have on the community, Poh-Gek... Read more
View audiobookUncommon Measure
By: Natalie Hodges
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time? Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance... Read more
View audiobookThe Partner Track
By: Helen Wan
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Helen Wan's "engaging and suspenseful" (Wall Street Journal) debut novel, The Partner Track, is now a Netflix series!
Ingrid Yung's life is full of firsts. A first-generation Chinese American, the first lawyer in her family, she's about to collect the holy grail of "firsts" and become the first minority woman to make partner at the venerable old... Read more
She's Unlikeable
By: Aparna Shewakramani
Narrated by: Aparna Shewakramani
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
When Aparna Shewakramani appeared on Netflix’s hit series Indian Matchmaking, it soon became clear that Aparna knew what she wanted. But all stories are told through certain lenses—and her story is no exception. Being on a reality show made Aparna feel like a character. Her decisiveness and sense of self-worth led viewers to see her as a very... Read more
View audiobookPeach Blossom Spring
By: Melissa Fu
Narrated by: Eugenia Low
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In this "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, three generations of a Chinese family search for a place to call home (Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author)."Within every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so it goes, until the end... Read more
View audiobookThe Healing Power of Singing
By: Emm Gryner
Narrated by: Emm Gryner
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Vocal health tips, stories from the tour bus, and action items to improve your voice and boost your self-confidence from an award-winning musician and life coach Performing with David Bowie, surviving the murky depths of the music business, enduring a painful divorce, and making the first music video in outer space, award-winning... Read more
View audiobookMy Life in China and America
By: Yung Wing
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic and integral memoir recounts the events in the life of the first Chinese student to graduate from a major American university, Yale College. An avid advocate for education, Yung Wing convinced the Qing Dynasty government to create a program that would send Chinese students to American schools in order to study science and... Read more
View audiobookKamila Knows Best
By: Farah Heron
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Jane Austen's Emma goes Bollywoood in this delightful retelling from the highly acclaimed author of Accidentally Engaged, perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory.Kamila Hussain’s life might not be perfect, but, whew, it’s close. She lives a life of comfort, filled with her elaborate Bollywood movie parties, a dog with more... Read more
View audiobookWork Pray Code
By: Carolyn Chen
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Lim explores how tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional... Read more
View audiobookThe Wok
By: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 19 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The obsessive mastermind behind one of the decade's bestselling cookbooks returns with the definitive English-language guide to the science and technique of cooking in a wok.
J. Kenji López-Alt's debut cookbook, The Food Lab, revolutionized home cooking, selling more than half a million copies with its science-based approach to everyday foods.... Read more
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
View audiobookDream of the Divided Field
By: Yanyi
Narrated by: Yanyi
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity.
FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • “Written with great tenderness and intimacy, Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do (and do not) owe to others, and what we owe to ourselves.”—Poets & Writers
The... Read more
A Thousand Steps into Night
By: Traci Chee
Narrated by: Grace Rolek
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the National Book AwardFrom bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a fantasy perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli. When a girl who’s never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is... Read more
View audiobookNew from Here
By: Kelly Yang
Narrated by: Justin Chien
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
This “timely and compelling” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade novel about courage, hope, and resilience follows an Asian American boy fighting to keep his family together and stand up to racism during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans’s... Read more
Rise
By: Jeff Yang, Phil Yu & Philip Wang
Narrated by: Brittany Ishibashi, Fiona Rene, Nick Martineau,...
Length: 19 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
""Hip, entertaining...imaginative.""—Kirkus, starred review *""Essential."" —Min Jin Lee * ""A Herculean effort.""—Lisa Ling * ""A must-read.""—Ijeoma Oluo * ""Get two copies.""—Shea Serrano * ""A book we've needed for ages."" —Celeste Ng * ""Accessible, informative, and fun."" —Cathy Park Hong * ""This book has serious substance...Also, I'm in... Read more
View audiobookOnly a Monster
By: Vanessa Len
Narrated by: Vera Chok
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The sweeping romance of Passenger meets the dark fantasy edge of This Savage Song in this stunning contemporary fantasy debut from Vanessa Len, where the line between monster and hero is razor thin.Don’t forget the rule. No one can know what you are. What we are. You must never tell anyone about monsters. Joan has just learned the truth: her... Read more
View audiobookThe Cryptopians
By: Laura Shin
Narrated by: Laura Shin
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses.
In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures—vast fortunes made from... Read more
The Verifiers
By: Jane Pek
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST MYSTERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people's online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing....
“The world of social... Read more
Eyes That Speak to the Stars
By: Joanna Ho
Narrated by: Justin Chien
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling team Joanna Ho and Dung Ho present Eyes That Speak to the Stars, companion to the acclaimed Eyes That Kiss in the Corners.“A brilliant treatise to love of self and heritage.” —School Library Journal (starred review)“A beautifully validating book that builds on the necessary work of its predecessor.” —Kirkus“Affirmative... Read more
View audiobookSo Simple a Beginning
By: Raghuveer Parthasarathy
Narrated by: Anand Jagatia
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexityThe form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes... Read more
View audiobookDream, Annie, Dream
By: Waka T. Brown
Narrated by: Sophie Oda
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams.As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the... Read more
View audiobookThank You, Mr. Nixon
By: Gish Jen
Narrated by: Justin Chien, Catherine Ho, Annie Q & Eunice Wong
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work that Cynthia Ozick has called “an art beyond art. It is... Read more
View audiobookMy Baby First Birthday
By: Jenny Zhang
Narrated by: Jenny Zhang
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born—without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce... Read more
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