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Queen of the Tiles

By: Hanna Alkaf

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in this “stunning…unforgettable” (Publishers Weekly) thriller set in the world of competitive Scrabble, where a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.

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Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

Narrated by: Jane Lui

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An IndieNext Pick! A Best Book of 2022 in Harper’s Bazaar, Daily Mail, Glamour, and Thrillist!Most Anticipated of 2022 in The Millions, Ms. Magazine, LitHubA young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.Lydia is... Read more

Activities of Daily Living

By: Lisa Hsiao Chen

Narrated by: Tina Huang

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

How do we take stock of a life—by what means and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, she struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental yearlong 1980s performance pieces. As she... Read more

Looking Like the Enemy

By: Mary Matsuda Gruenewald

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The author at 16 years old was evacuated with her family to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, along with 110,000 other people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. She faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire in crowded, primitive camps. She struggled for survival and dignity, and endured psychological scarring that has... Read more

An Arrow to the Moon

By: Emily X.R. Pan

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Shawn K. Jain & David Shih

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Romeo and Juliet meets Chinese mythology in this magical novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After.

Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of being haunted by his family’s past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little... Read more

The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei

By: Christina Matula

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"I can't wait for readers to explore Hong Kong with Holly-Mei. I have no doubt they will love both as much as I did." —Erin Entrada Kelly, 2018 Newbery Medalist and 2021 Newbery Honoree

Packed with humor and heart, this debut middle grade series follows a girl finding her place in a brand-new world of private school and frenemies when her family... Read more

A Duet for Home

By: Karina Yan Glaser

Narrated by: Sura Siu & Preston Butler III

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times best-selling creator of the Vanderbeekers series comes a triumphant tale of friendship, healing, and the power of believing in ourselves told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homeless shelter. As their friendship grows over a shared love of classical music, June and... Read more

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

Hundred Years of Happiness

By: Thanhhà Lai

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning debut, showcasing the love between grandparents and grandchildren, the challenges of memory loss, and the joy that sweet reminders of a faraway home can bring, from award-winning, bestselling author Thanhhà Lại.This sweet and emotional picture book will resonate with readers who love A Big Mooncake for Little Star, Ladder to the Moon,... Read more

Fighting 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

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

The 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

Uncommon 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

The 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

Peach 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

My 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

Work 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 productivity

Silicon 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

The Old Woman with the Knife

By: Gu Byeong-mo

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Editors' Choice* Pick
*A Most Anticipated Read in LitHub, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and Popsugar*

The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her career—this is an international bestseller and the English language debut from an award-winning South Korean author 

At... Read more

The 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

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

New 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

Dream 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

Only 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