API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
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 theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Astonishing Color of After.
Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. Heās sick of being haunted by his familyās past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little... 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 lifeāby 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
View audiobookThe 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." āErin 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
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 audiobookA 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
View audiobookHundred Years of Happiness
By: ThanhhĆ 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 ThanhhĆ Lįŗ”i.This sweet and emotional picture book will resonate with readers who love A Big Mooncake for Little Star, Ladder to the Moon,... 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 worldās 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 Netflixās hit series Indian Matchmaking, it soon became clear that Aparna knew what she wanted. But all stories are told through certain lensesāand 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 aboutĀ 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 inĀ this delightful retelling from the highly acclaimed author of Accidentally Engaged, perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory.Kamila Hussainās life might not be perfect, but, whew, itās close. She lives a life of comfort, filled with her elaborate Bollywood movie parties, a dog with more... 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 LĆ³pez-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 audiobookThe 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 ofĀ a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her careerāthis is an international bestseller and the English language debut from an award-winning South Korean authorĀ
At... 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 whoās 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 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.Ā
FINALISTĀ FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY ā¢ āWritten 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.āāPoets & Writers
The... 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 ātimely and compellingā (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-Evansās... 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.""āKirkus,Ā starred review *""Essential.""Ā āMin Jin Lee *Ā ""AĀ Herculean effort.""āLisa Ling * ""A must-read.""āIjeoma Oluo * ""Get two copies.""āShea Serrano * ""A book we've needed for ages.""Ā āCeleste Ng * ""Accessible, informative, and fun.""Ā āCathy 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 ofĀ PassengerĀ meets the dark fantasy edge ofĀ This Savage Song in this stunning contemporary fantasy debut from Vanessa Len, where the line between monster and hero is razor thin.Donāt 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 enduresāvast 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 ā¢ Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-wittedĀ amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people'sĀ online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City.Ā Until a client with an unusual request goes missing....
āThe world of social... Read more
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