API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
Heaven
By: Mieko Kawakami
Narrated by: Scott Keiji Takeda
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity in our contemporary societies.Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a fourteen-year-old student... Read more
View audiobookHow (Not) to Save the World
By: Hosanna Wong
Narrated by: Hosanna Wong
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A Publisher’s Weekly and ECPA bestsellerRead by the author.A practical, straightforward guide for Christ-followers who want to talk about Jesus without feeling weird or pushy. Ten years ago, Hosanna Wong packed her life into suitcases and started traveling the country to talk to people about Jesus. She quickly discovered lies she had believed... Read more
View audiobookSpirits Abroad
By: Zen Cho
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A new expanded edition of Zen Cho’s award-winning debut collection.
Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Cho’s Crawford Award–winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award
winner “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try,... Read more
Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost
By: David Hoon Kim
Narrated by: Joji Otani-Hansen
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
When Fumiko emerges after one month of being locked in her dorm room, she’s already dead, leaving behind a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food. For her boyfriend, Henrik Blatand, an aspiring translator, these
remnants are clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her... Read more
Tastes Like War
By: Grace M. Cho
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother... Read more
View audiobookSmall, Broke, and Kind of Dirty
By: Hana Shafi
Narrated by: Tunchai Redvers
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Let's get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You're not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those things are all good for you, but that's not what Hana Shafi wants to talk about.Instead,... Read more
View audiobookBetter to Have Gone
By: Akash Kapur
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more * Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize * Recipient of a Whiting Grant*
A “haunting and elegant” (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism.
It’s the late 1960s,... Read more
Gearbreakers
By: Zoe Hana Mikuta
Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Cindy Kay
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead.
The shadow of Godolia’s tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords.
Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a... Read more
Black Box
By: Shiori Ito
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Black Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman’s struggle for justice, calling for changes to an industry—and in society at large—to ensure that future victims of sexual assault can come forward without being silenced and humiliated.In 2015, an aspiring young journalist named Shiori Ito charged prominent reporter Noriyuki... Read more
View audiobookMidnight, Water City
By: Chris McKinney
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to Water City: a world of seascrapers, floating prisons, organ farms, and murder.
Year 2142: Earth is forty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sesshoseki. Akira Kimura, the scientist responsible for eliminating the threat, has reached heights of celebrity approaching deification. But now, Akira feels her safety is
under... Read more
Incense and Sensibility
By: Sonali Dev
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
""Incense and Sensibility is a tender, well-crafted novel, as much about finding purpose as it is about falling in love. Dev writes with such rare empathy and humor that I often found myself holding my breath on one page only to be giggling by the next. This is the kind of book you finish with a whole-body, happy sigh and a warm ache in your... Read more
View audiobookWe Have Always Been Here
By: Lena Nguyen
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 18 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This “claustrophobic and dark” sci-fi thriller debut is “full of twisting ship corridors and unreliable characters” as it explores AI ethics and the effects of climate change (Kirkus Reviews).
Aboard a ship manned by humans and androids, one doctor must discover the source of her crew’s madness—or risk succumbing to it herself.
Misanthropic... Read more
The Chief Witness
By: Sayragul Sauytbay & Alexandra Cavelius
Narrated by: Xifeng Brooks
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities. The northwestern province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in... Read more
View audiobookPhantompains
By: Therese Estacion
Narrated by: Therese Estacion
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism.Taking inspiration from Filipino horror... Read more
View audiobookOf Princes and Promises
By: Sandhya Menon
Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Carlotta Brentan
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the second installment in a series set an elite boarding school that’s a contemporary spin on fairy tales, this one a delightful, romantic twist on The Frog Prince.
Caterina LaValle is determined to show she’s still the queen of St. Rosetta’s Academy. Sure, her crown may be... Read more
Impostor Syndrome
By: Kathy Wang
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp and prescient novel about women in the workplace, the power of Big Tech, and the looming threat of foreign espionage from Kathy Wang, “a skilled satirist of the northern California dream” (Harper’s Bazaar)In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she’s recruited by Russia’s largest... Read more
View audiobookReset
By: Sarina Dahlan
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Can you love someone you don’t remember?After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. In the utopia of the Four Cities, inspired by the lyrics of “Imagine” and Buddhist philosophy, everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather—and the... Read more
View audiobookAfter the End of History
By: Mathilde Fasting
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In his 1992 bestselling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanity's political and ideological development. Thirty years later, with populism on the rise and the number of liberal democracies decreasing worldwide, Fukuyama... Read more
View audiobookBlack Water Sister
By: Zen Cho
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
One of BookPage’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021
One of Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice Best Books of 2021
One of Book Riot’s Best SFF Standalones of 2021
A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Malaysian-set contemporary... Read more
From Little Tokyo, with Love
By: Sarah Kuhn
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
One of PEOPLE Magazine's Best Books of Summer!
"I absolutely adored this funny, fierce, big-hearted book.”
—Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Save the Date
Celebrated author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to... Read more
The Parted Earth
By: Anjali Enjeti
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations.
The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority... Read more
Counting Down with You
By: Tashie Bhuiyan
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"A witty, romantic, deeply insightful debut." —Emma Lord, author of Tweet Cute
In this sparkling and romantic YA debut, a reserved Bangladeshi-American teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy.
How do you make one month last a lifetime?
Karina Ahmed has a plan.... Read more
Things We Lost to the Water
By: Eric Nguyen
Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut is "vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting … in its intimacy” (The New York Times Book Review).
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with... Read more
Anna K Away
By: Jenny Lee
Narrated by: Jenna Ushkowitz
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrator Jenna Ushkowitz is an award-winning actress, singer, producer, and podcast host best known for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee.
The sequel to Anna K, set over the course of the next summer, as the characters come to terms with Vronsky’s tragic death
How the mighty have fallen. Anna K, once the golden girl of Greenwich, CT, and New... Read more
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