API Authors

Tell Me the Dream Again

By: Tasha Jun

Narrated by: Tasha Jun

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’ve always felt unfit as a Korean but somehow too Korean everywhere else.”

Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling to find a voice to speak and a firm place for her feet to... Read more

Murder on Bamboo Lane

By: Naomi Hirahara

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of the Japantown Mysteries, trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle . . .



Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it's still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate.



At... Read more

Dust Child

By: Que Mai Phan Nguyen

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Việt Nam. 
 
In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become... Read more

She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

Narrated by: Emi Ray

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran, read by Emi Ray.

William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist
Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller

This house eats and is eaten . . .

"A riveting debut from a remarkable new voice! Trang Thanh Tran weaves an impressive gothic mystery in which Jade's father is determined to restore a... Read more

The Woman Who Climbed Trees

By: Smriti Ravindra

Narrated by: Deepa Samuel

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman’s coming-of-age... This is electrifying.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Is this a ghost story?” Meena asked the barber’s wife who told the tale. “I don’t want to hear scary stories one night before I marry.” “Not all ghost stories are scary,” said the barber’s wife, laughing at Meena. “Besides, we... Read more

The Daughters of Madurai

By: Rajasree Variyar

Narrated by: Vaishnavi Suryaprakash

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Daughters of Madurai is both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the secrets we must keep to protect those we love.

Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can’t produce a son—or worse, if she bears daughters. They let her keep her first baby girl, but the rest are taken... Read more

Unbounded

By: Maria Thattil

Narrated by: Maria Thattil

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you change in your life if you could silence the voice that tells you: you're not enough, keep quiet, you can't do it, or there is no space for you?

As we grow and move through the world, it shrinks us and puts us in boxes - tells us who we should be, what we're capable of, and who to love.

As a queer child of immigrants, Maria Thattil... Read more

Victory City

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Sid Sagar

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year • “Victory City is... Read more

The Year of Cecily

By: Lisa Lin

Narrated by: Kat Riley

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

San Francisco attorney Cecily Chang is ready to tackle the New Year head on, so she creates a list of resolutions guaranteed to reboot her life—right after her dutiful visit home to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, for the Lunar New Year. Cecily prepares to face her critical, meddling mother, nosy relatives, and the chaos and drama family togetherness... Read more

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

Narrated by: Jen Sookfong Lee

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award.
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read

This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity,... Read more

The Dream Builders

By: Oindrila Mukherjee

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After living in the United States for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world.The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing―and... Read more

Have You Eaten Yet?

By: Cheuk Kwan

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brought delicious Chinese food across the globe. Unraveling a complex history of cultural migration and world politics, Cheuk Kwan describes a fascinating story of culture and place, ultimately revealing how an excellent meal always tells an even better... Read more

The Tatami Galaxy

By: Tomihiko Morimi

Narrated by: Andrew Grace

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque novel from one of Japan’s most popular authors.Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After... Read more

One Jump at a Time

By: Nathan Chen

Narrated by: Nathan Chen & Eunice Wong

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exhilarating memoir, three-time World Champion and Olympic gold-medalist Nathan Chen tells the story of his remarkable journey to success, reflecting on his life as a Chinese American figure skater and the joys and challenges he has experienced—including the tremendous sacrifices he and his family made, and the physical and emotional... Read more

Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

Narrated by: Mirai

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

""Akari’s obsession is fatalistic and intense, and Usami’s prose (translated by Asa Yoneda) renders it and the hold it has on her tenuous life ably and affectingly. . . . it will especially resonate with readers familiar with real-life superfandoms such as One Direction’s at the height of its fame, down to details such as sought-after exclusive... Read more

Morning Sun in Wuhan

By: Ying Chang Compestine

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together. Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan’s comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the listener... Read more

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom

By: Rabia Chaudry

Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!”
—Valerie Bertinelli

From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes... Read more

The Best American Essays 2022

By: Alexander Chee & Robert Atwan

Narrated by: Ewan Chung, William DeMeritt, Tyla Collier, Rai...

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Read more

The Picture Bride

By: Lee Geum-yi

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"With the mellifluous tones of shakuhachi music setting the story, listeners are taken to a time and place far from the current era. Aurally illustrating the young bride’s quietly independent nature, Osmanski’s performance draws listeners into Willow’s story." - Library Journal

“Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history... Read more

Making a Scene

By: Constance Wu

Narrated by: Constance Wu

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Illuminating.” —The Washington Post * “Candid and relatable.” —Time *“Riveting and personal.” —Mindy Kaling * “Captivatingly immediate.” —The Skimm *

A “poignant, frank, and intimate” (The New York Times) memoir by actress Constance Wu about family, love, sex, shame, trauma, and how she found her voice.

Growing up in the friendly suburbs of... Read more

The Monsoon Diaries

By: Calvin D. Sun

Narrated by: Calvin D. Sun, MD & Lisa Ling

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.The Monsoon Diaries is the firsthand account of Dr. Calvin Sun, an emergency room doctor who worked tirelessly on the front lines in multiple hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drawing upon the lessons he learned from his adventures traveling to more than 190 countries in ten years, as well as from the grief he experienced... Read more

You Are Life

By: Bao Phi

Narrated by: Bao Phi

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This joyful poem celebrates the wonderful and complex identity of children of immigrants and refugees, embracing all that they are—a dancer, a shining light, a K-pop song—and promising what they will never be: invisible. Read more

A Life of Service

By: Christina Soontornvat

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Given Tammy Duckworth’s personal heroism as an Army veteran, her stunning recovery from injuries sustained in the line of duty, and her subsequent career as an influential US senator, it’s easy to see why Joe Biden earmarked her as a possible running mate during his Democratic presidential campaign. Senator Duckworth has logged a long list of... Read more

Shapes, Lines, and Light

By: Katie Yamasaki

Narrated by: Katie Yamasaki

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as “serenity, surprise, and delight.” Here, his granddaughter Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattle’s Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through college working in Alaska’s notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural... Read more