API Authors

Under the Tamarind Tree

By: Nigar Alam

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A compellingly heartbreaking debut novel about the echoes of Partition and four friends whose dark secrets lead to a life-changing night that comes back to haunt them decades later.

One night. Four friends. Countless secrets.

1964. Karachi, Pakistan. Rozeena is running out of time. She'll lose her home—her parents' safe haven since fleeing India... Read more

Evergreen

By: Naomi Hirahara

Narrated by: Allison Hiroto

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Los Angeles, 1946: It’s been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California—but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with... Read more

Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis & Octavia Nyombi

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM BOOKRIOT AND BOOKPAGE

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is... Read more

I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom

By: Shannon C. F. Rogers

Narrated by: Jensen Olaya

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with voice, I’d Rather Burn than Bloom is a powerful young adult novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother’s death.Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and... Read more

The Archive Undying

By: Emma Mieko Candon

Narrated by: Yung-I Chang

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction.

WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT
WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND
WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK

When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed... Read more

Perfectly Good Food

By: Margaret Li & Irene Li

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

You're standing in front of your refrigerator, a week after your last trip to the supermarket. You've got a bunch of random veggies, some wrinkly fruit, near-expired milk, and those pricey fresh herbs you bought for that one recipe. For a split second you picture yourself throwing everything away and ordering takeout.



But instead . . . you pick... Read more

Mr Kato Plays Family

By: Milena Michiko Flašar

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tokyo-born-and-raised multilingual Nishii makes an ideal cipher for the recently retired Mr Katō..."- Booklist

Milena Michiko Flašar's Mr Katō Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

Mr Katō—a curmudgeon and recent retiree—finds his only solace during his daily... Read more

Much Ado About Nada

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

Narrated by: Farah Kidwai

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion...
 
Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she’s still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother’s unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it’s a... Read more

A Disappearance in Fiji

By: Nilima Rao

Narrated by: Sid Sagar

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

1914, Fiji: Akal Singh, 25, would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise—or, as he calls it, “this godforsaken island.” After a promising start to his police career in Hong Kong, Akal has been sent to Fiji as punishment for a humiliating professional mistake. Lonely and grumpy, Akal plods
through his work and dreams of getting back to... Read more

Shanghai Immortal

By: A. Y. Chao

Narrated by: Mei Mei Macleod

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble.

Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King's ward, she has spent the past ninety years running errands, dodging the taunts of the spiteful hulijing courtiers, and trying to control her explosive temper - with... 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.

"This quaint performance by a five-narrator ensemble will tug at the heartstrings."- AudioFile

Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her... Read more

The Light at the End of the World

By: Siddhartha Deb

Narrated by: Neil Shah & Sneha Mathan

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Of Light and Shadow

By: Tanaz Bhathena

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When they don't give us our birthright, we steal it.Roshan Chaya is out for justice. Abandoned by her parents at birth and adopted by the kingdom of Jwala’s most notorious outlaw before his brutal murder, she is now leader of the Shadow Clan, a gang of farmers turned bandits impoverished by the provincial governor’s atrocities and corruption.... Read more

Mèo and Bé

By: Doan Phuong Nguyen

Narrated by: VyVy Nguyen

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Just before the United States enters the Vietnam War, eleven-year-old Bé and her three-footed kitten Mèo must rise above the injustices of war to find the comfort, safety, and love of a found family.



Eleven-year-old Bé hasn't spoken a word since her mother left. She hangs on to the hope that one day they will be reunited, but after two years of... Read more

The Anxiety Opportunity

By: Curtis Chang

Narrated by: Curtis Chang

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What if instead of battling anxiety, you saw your worries as a doorway to spiritual transformation? Challenging the assumption that anxiety is the enemy, theologian, popular podcaster, and fellow sufferer of chronic anxiety Curtis Chang gives you a different framework for approaching fears. You will discover profound new ways of relating to... Read more

The Rachel Experiment

By: Lisa Lin

Narrated by: Kat Riley

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

As a financial analyst, Rachel Bai is more comfortable with numbers than people. When her boss promotes her to head a team in San Francisco, his message is clear—she has one year to build a successful team and become an effective leader. Rachel sets out to discover how to be more comfortable interacting with people, but a drunken night meant for... Read more

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

By: Jane Wong

Narrated by: Jane Wong

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An Audible Best Memoir Audiobook of 2023An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry... Read more

The Girl Who Lost a Leopard

By: Nizrana Farook

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Selvi is a free spirit who loves exploring the beautiful mountains behind her home. There, she has befriended Lokka, a leopard with a gorgeous coat and huge golden eyes. Together they roam the wilderness as they please. But when hunters come with bows and arrows, Selvi knows she must stop them before they hurt Lokka. But what can she do against... Read more

Sugar, Spice, and Can't Play Nice

By: Annika Sharma

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Payal Mehra's detached parents insist she marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra in order to save their own company, she has a choice: get disowned from the luxurious life they've funded and put her dreams on hold while she works a soul-sucking day job...or get engaged to save her family's fortune and maybe rescue her own... Read more

Dear Chrysanthemums

By: Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, a startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile—set in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, and New York.

Composed of several interconnected... Read more

The Rope Artist

By: Fuminori Nakamura

Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa & Brian Nishii

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher reveals the darkest corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery from the master of Japanese literary noir.Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body—then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears... Read more

Spirit Voices

By: David Shi

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to authentic North Asian Shamanism, past and present



The word shamanism is frequently bandied about but rarely used accurately. Shamanologist Nicholas Breeze Wood coined the following definition: "A shaman is someone chose by the spirits [typically at/before birth] and who can go into a controlled and repeatable deliberate trance state,... Read more

The Power of the Pearl Earrings

By: Linda Trinh

Narrated by: Linda Trinh

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming early chapter book series that explores Vietnamese culture and identity through the eyes of the Nguyen siblings, with elements of the supernatural, spirituality, and social justice woven in. I touch my earrings and feel a rush of wind. I can almost hear Grandma Nội’s laughter through them. Spontaneous and energetic Liz, the... Read more

The Secret of the Jade Bangle

By: Linda Trinh

Narrated by: Linda Trinh

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

“Engaging and empowering.” —STARRED review, Nonstop Reader A charming early chapter book series that explores Vietnamese culture and identity through the eyes of the Nguyen siblings, with elements of the supernatural, spirituality, and social justice woven in. Organized and introspective nine-year-old Anne Nguyen misses her Grandma Nội,... Read more