API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
The Bride Test
By: Helen Hoang
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny—but not important emotions, like love. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands... Read more
View audiobookThe Emperor and the Endless Palace
By: Justinian Huang
Narrated by: Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao & Telly Leung
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
"A sweeping triumph in queer romance." –Booklist
“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?”
In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor—but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex... Read more
Joan Is Okay
By: Weike Wang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “A deeply felt portrait . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang... Read more
Frankly in Love
By: David Yoon
Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller!
A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist
An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book
Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?
Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses... Read more
House of Sticks
By: Ly Tran
Narrated by: Ly Tran
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner
One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year
This beautifully written “masterclass in memoir” (Elle) recounts a young girl’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Queens, New York, “showcas[ing] the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others, step into their lives and shift the odds in... Read more
Of Curses and Kisses
By: Sandhya Menon
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio & Jason Carpenter
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“Fans of Menon’s frothy, contemporary rom-coms will be excited for this venture into new territory.” —Booklist
“[A] dreamy, sassy confection of a romance…Funny, extravagant, and satisfying.” —Shelf Awareness
From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the first novel in a brand-new series set at an elite boarding... Read more
The Tree Doctor
By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Narrated by: June Angela
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her... Read more
View audiobookThe Fetishist
By: Katherine Min
Narrated by: Eunice Wong & Kayla Min Andrews
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
An Indie Next Pick
In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings.
On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who... Read more
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Brian Nishii & June Angela
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. "The Return to Monsterland" opens Where We Go... Read more
View audiobookAfterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
Narrated by: Jason Sean
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Library * Chicago Public Library * Harper’s Bazaar * TIME *... Read more
View audiobookTokyo Ever After
By: Emiko Jean
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Ali Ahn gives this young adult rom-com fun doses of personality and sass...Ahn's accents and Japanese pronunciations ring true as she clearly differentiates characters of different ages and nationalities." -- AudioFile Magazine
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK!
The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko... Read more
Gold Diggers
By: Sanjena Sathian
Narrated by: Rama Vallury
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
“Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
“Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of... Read more
First Comes Like
By: Alisha Rai
Narrated by: Saira Ayers & Neil Shah
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of The Right Swipe and Girl Gone Viral returns with a story about finding love in all the wrong inboxes...Beauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire makeup industry tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her big opinionated family. She has little time for love,... Read more
View audiobookLand Of Big Numbers
By: Te-Ping Chen
Narrated by: Eddy Lee, Fiona Rene, Matt Yang King, Christine...
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric Literature Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati
""Dazzling...Riveting."" —New York Times Book Review
“Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen’s... Read more
I'll Be the One
By: Lyla Lee
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Diverse book recommended by The Today Show * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * Bank Street Best Book of the Year * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA’s Rainbow Book List Top 10 for Teen ReadersThe world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating... Read more
View audiobookThe Right Swipe
By: Alisha Rai
Narrated by: Summer Morton & Brian Pallino
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Alisha Rai returns with the first book in her sizzling new Modern Love series, in which two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom.Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world, but in real life she only swipes right on her career—and the occasional hookup. The cynical... Read more
View audiobookThe Widows of Malabar Hill
By: Sujata Massey
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history... Read more
View audiobookChemistry
By: Weike Wang
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Named by The Washington Post as a Notable Work of Fiction in 2017 and by Entertainment Weekly as a Best Debut Novel of 2017
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Ann Patchett on PBS NewsHour, Minnesota Public Radio, Maris Kreizman, and The Morning News
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
A luminous... Read more
Women! In! Peril!
By: Jessie Ren Marshall
Narrated by: Rachel Noe Nishizawa
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Full of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.
In this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife’s mysterious... Read more
Here After
By: Amy Lin
Narrated by: Amy Lin
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
An ELLE Best (and Most Anticipated) Nonfiction Book of 2024 (“This book is a little wonder—a clear, utterly courageous act of love.”)A SheReads Most Anticipated Book of 2024Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Booklist
Here After is a poetic, raw depiction of an unlikely love followed by a dizzying loss. A stunning, taut memoir from debut... Read more
Women of Good Fortune
By: Sophie Wan
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A reluctant bride and her two best friends plot to steal all the gift money from her glitzy high-society wedding in this dazzling, heartfelt, funny novel for fans of Crazy Rich Asians
“A glittering debut. Delightful.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After
Bride-to-be Lulu is about to marry Shanghai’s most... Read more
The Apology
By: Jimin Han
Narrated by: Kathleen Kim
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This “sweeping intergenerational saga" tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriarch thrust into the afterlife from which she seeks a second chance to make amends (Kirstin Chen)—and fights off a tragic curse that could devastate generations to come. In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she... Read more
View audiobookThe Surviving Sky
By: Kritika H. Rao
Narrated by: Sharmila Devar & Pranshu Mishra
Length: 18 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity’s survival reliant on a privileged few.
If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below.
Charismatic... Read more
Hurt You
By: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Narrated by: Jolene Kim
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
With echoes of Marieke Nijkamp and Jason Reynolds, acclaimed author Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s stunning YA homage to Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men tells the tragic story of a Korean American teen who fights to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile community.Moving beyond the quasi-fraternal bond of the unforgettable George... Read more
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