API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
Age of Vice
By: Deepti Kapoor
Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
Length: 19 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Oprah Daily and NPR!
“Dazzling...Finally free from the book’s grip, now all I want to do is get others hooked.”— The Washington Post
“A page-turning social novel…It stirs the pulse while digging into the entrenched and... Read more
Gay the Pray Away
By: Natalie Naudus
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn’t know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the library and smuggles it home, her conservative Christian homeschooling world begins to crack. And when the cutest girl she’s ever met shows up to Bible class, she starts to question everything.Riley is so confident and kind, and she and Valerie bond... Read more
View audiobookAll 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
View audiobookThe Bride Test
By: Helen Hoang
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny—but not important emotions, like love. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands... Read more
View audiobookA Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.But her... Read more
View audiobookFrankly in Love
By: David Yoon
Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist • An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book
“Extraordinary . . . a beautifully layered novel about first love, tribalism and that brief, magical period when kids have one foot in high school, one foot out the door. . . Yoon explores themes of... Read more
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
By: Tom Lin
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime... Read more
View audiobookHouse of Sticks
By: Ly Tran
Narrated by: Ly Tran
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner
One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year
This beautifully written “masterclass in memoir” (Elle) recounts a young girl’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Queens, New York, “showcas[ing] the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others, step into their lives and shift the odds in... Read more
Of Curses and Kisses
By: Sandhya Menon
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio & Jason Carpenter
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“Fans of Menon’s frothy, contemporary rom-coms will be excited for this venture into new territory.” —Booklist
“[A] dreamy, sassy confection of a romance…Funny, extravagant, and satisfying.” —Shelf Awareness
From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the first novel in a brand-new series set at an elite boarding... Read more
Everything We Never Had
By: Randy Ribay
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo, Jesse Inocalla, Manny Jacinto ...
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.
Watsonville, 1930. Francisco Maghabol barely ekes out a... Read more
The Tree Doctor
By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Narrated by: June Angela
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her... Read more
View audiobookThe Fetishist
By: Katherine Min
Narrated by: Eunice Wong & Kayla Min Andrews
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
An Indie Next Pick
In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings.
On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who... 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
View audiobookFour Treasures of the Sky
By: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Narrated by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang & Katharine Chin
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“Narrator Katharine Chin’s outstanding performance will have listeners weeping as they hear Zhang’s debut novel, based on actual events.” – Library Journal (Starred Review)
"Reader Katharine Chin has a young, clear voice that captures Daiyu’s determination and spirit. Chinese names and phrases flow easily, and Chin voices the cast of characters... Read more
Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
Narrated by: Jason Sean
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Library * Chicago Public Library * Harper’s Bazaar * TIME *... Read more
View audiobookTokyo Ever After
By: Emiko Jean
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Ali Ahn gives this young adult rom-com fun doses of personality and sass...Ahn's accents and Japanese pronunciations ring true as she clearly differentiates characters of different ages and nationalities." -- AudioFile Magazine
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK!
The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko... Read more
Gold Diggers
By: Sanjena Sathian
Narrated by: Rama Vallury
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
“Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
“Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of... Read more
First Comes Like
By: Alisha Rai
Narrated by: Saira Ayers & Neil Shah
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of The Right Swipe and Girl Gone Viral returns with a story about finding love in all the wrong inboxes...Beauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire makeup industry tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her big opinionated family. She has little time for love,... Read more
View audiobookLand Of Big Numbers
By: Te-Ping Chen
Narrated by: Eddy Lee, Fiona Rene, Matt Yang King, Christine...
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric Literature Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati
""Dazzling...Riveting."" —New York Times Book Review
“Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen’s... Read more
I'll Be the One
By: Lyla Lee
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Diverse book recommended by The Today Show * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * Bank Street Best Book of the Year * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA’s Rainbow Book List Top 10 for Teen ReadersThe world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating... Read more
View audiobookThe Right Swipe
By: Alisha Rai
Narrated by: Summer Morton & Brian Pallino
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Alisha Rai returns with the first book in her sizzling new Modern Love series, in which two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom.Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world, but in real life she only swipes right on her career—and the occasional hookup. The cynical... Read more
View audiobookThe Widows of Malabar Hill
By: Sujata Massey
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history... Read more
View audiobookChemistry
By: Weike Wang
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Named by The Washington Post as a Notable Work of Fiction in 2017 and by Entertainment Weekly as a Best Debut Novel of 2017
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Ann Patchett on PBS NewsHour, Minnesota Public Radio, Maris Kreizman, and The Morning News
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
A luminous... Read more
IQ
By: Joe Ide
Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores.
East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police... Read more
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