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No-No Boy

By: John Okada

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian... Read more

Cult X

By: Fuminori Nakamura

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The magnum opus by Akutagawa Prize-winner Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection. When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, Ryoko, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of a private detective he's hired to find her. Ryoko's past is shrouded in... Read more

From Twinkle, with Love

By: Sandhya Menon

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Utterly charming.” —NPR
“Cinematic.” —Teen Vogue
“Funny and sweet.” —Buzzfeed
“Dazzling.” —Bustle

Three starred reviews for this charming romantic comedy about an aspiring teen filmmaker who finds her voice and falls in love, from the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi.

Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has... Read more

America Is Not the Heart

By: Elaine Castillo

Narrated by: Donnabella Mortel

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Public Library 

"A saga rich with origin myths, national and personal . . . Castillo is part of a younger generation of American writers instilling literature with a layered sense of... Read more

Emergency Contact

By: Mary H. K. Choi

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Jacques Roy

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow Rowell

From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.

For Penny Lee, high... Read more

Blood Letters

By: Lian Xi

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime

Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution.... Read more

The Astonishing Color of After

By: Emily X.R. Pan

Narrated by: Stephanie Hsu

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng.

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.

Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time.... Read more

How to American

By: Jimmy O. Yang

Narrated by: Jimmy O. Yang & Mike Judge

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.

"I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I figured it was better to disappoint my parents for... Read more

A World of Three Zeros

By: Muhammad Yunus

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social... Read more

Marriage of a Thousand Lies

By: SJ Sindu

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky's husband, Krishna, is an editor for a... Read more

No One Can Pronounce My Name

By: Rakesh Satyal

Narrated by: Amol Shah

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A HUMOROUS AND TENDER MULTIGENERATIONAL NOVEL ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND OUTSIDERS—THOSE TRYING TO FIND THEIR PLACE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND WITHIN THEIR OWN FAMILIES

In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. For some, America is a bewildering and... Read more

The Leavers

By: Lisa Ko

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a... Read more

The Boy in the Earth

By: Fuminori Nakamura

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Fuminori Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winner plunges us into the depths of a young man's winding, troubled psyche. An unnamed taxi driver in Tokyo has experienced a rupture in his everyday life. He cannot stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in what soon become terrifying blackout episodes. His live-in... Read more

Penance

By: Kanae Minato

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling Japanese psychological thriller and Edgar Award finalist about four women, forever connected by one horrible day in their childhood -- fifteen years later, someone wants to make sure they never forget.

When they were girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into leaving their friend Emily with a mysterious stranger. Then the... Read more

Goodbye, Things

By: Fumio Sasaki

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling phenomenon from Japan, with irresistible appeal to fans of Marie Kondo, that argues there is happiness in a minimalist lifeFumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo―he’s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to... Read more

The Conjoined

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

Narrated by: Sabryn Rock

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery — two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng — troubled,... Read more

Beyond Infinity

By: Eugenia Cheng

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

How one powerful concept reveals the biggest (and smallest) mathematical truths

How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a... Read more

The Bone Witch

By: Rin Chupeco

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the captivating start to a new, darkly lyrical fantasy series, Tea can raise the dead, but resurrection comes at a price.When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and... Read more

Lotus

By: Lijia Zhang

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the secret life of the author’s grandmother, Lotus follows a young woman torn between past traditions and modern desires as she carves out a life for herself in China’s “City of Sins.”Reserved, at times defiant, Lotus is different from the other streetwalkers. Her striking eyes glow under Shenzhen’s neon lights, capturing the... Read more

The Borrowed

By: Chan Ho-Kei

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 18 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A deductive powerhouse, detective Kwan Chun-dok becomes a legend in the Hong Kong Police Force, nicknamed “the Eye of Heaven” by his awe-struck colleagues. Divided into six sections told in reverse chronological order—each of which covers an important case in Kwan’s career and takes place at a pivotal moment in Hong Kong history—The Borrowed... Read more

The Magnolia Story

By: Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines

Narrated by: Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

An exclusive look at America's first family of renovation! Taking you behind the scenes, Chip and Joanna Gaines share the story of how they met, the ups and downs of being an entrepreneurial couple, and how they built a life they love.The Magnolia Story is the first book from dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV’s... Read more

Incensed

By: Ed Lin

Narrated by: Ewan Chung

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Taiwan, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for prioritizing family. When 25-year-old Jing-nan's gangster uncle, Big Eye, asks a favor, Jing-nan can't exactly say no, especially because two goons are going to follow him around to make sure he gets it done right. The favor is this: Big Eye's 16-year-old daughter, Mei-ling, has a biker boyfriend... Read more

The Kingdom

By: Fuminori Nakamura

Narrated by: Lucie Kondo

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential Johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organization she's working for, and is perfectly... Read more

Ninefox Gambit

By: Yoon Ha Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestselling Author—Nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Series—Winner of the 2016 Locus Award—Nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke AwardsWhen Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for her unconventional tactics, Kel Command gives her a chance to redeem herself, by retaking the Fortress of Scattered... Read more