API Authors

Mèo and Bé

By: Doan Phuong Nguyen

Narrated by: VyVy Nguyen

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Just before the United States enters the Vietnam War, eleven-year-old Bé and her three-footed kitten Mèo must rise above the injustices of war to find the comfort, safety, and love of a found family.



Eleven-year-old Bé hasn't spoken a word since her mother left. She hangs on to the hope that one day they will be reunited, but after two years of... Read more

Of Light and Shadow

By: Tanaz Bhathena

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When they don't give us our birthright, we steal it.Roshan Chaya is out for justice. Abandoned by her parents at birth and adopted by the kingdom of Jwala’s most notorious outlaw before his brutal murder, she is now leader of the Shadow Clan, a gang of farmers turned bandits impoverished by the provincial governor’s atrocities and corruption.... Read more

The Rachel Experiment

By: Lisa Lin

Narrated by: Kat Riley

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

As a financial analyst, Rachel Bai is more comfortable with numbers than people. When her boss promotes her to head a team in San Francisco, his message is clear—she has one year to build a successful team and become an effective leader. Rachel sets out to discover how to be more comfortable interacting with people, but a drunken night meant for... Read more

The Anxiety Opportunity

By: Curtis Chang

Narrated by: Curtis Chang

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What if instead of battling anxiety, you saw your worries as a doorway to spiritual transformation? Challenging the assumption that anxiety is the enemy, theologian, popular podcaster, and fellow sufferer of chronic anxiety Curtis Chang gives you a different framework for approaching fears. You will discover profound new ways of relating to... Read more

The Girl Who Lost a Leopard

By: Nizrana Farook

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Selvi is a free spirit who loves exploring the beautiful mountains behind her home. There, she has befriended Lokka, a leopard with a gorgeous coat and huge golden eyes. Together they roam the wilderness as they please. But when hunters come with bows and arrows, Selvi knows she must stop them before they hurt Lokka. But what can she do against... Read more

Sugar, Spice, and Can't Play Nice

By: Annika Sharma

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Payal Mehra's detached parents insist she marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra in order to save their own company, she has a choice: get disowned from the luxurious life they've funded and put her dreams on hold while she works a soul-sucking day job...or get engaged to save her family's fortune and maybe rescue her own... Read more

Dear Chrysanthemums

By: Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, a startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile—set in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, and New York.

Composed of several interconnected... Read more

The Rope Artist

By: Fuminori Nakamura

Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa & Brian Nishii

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher reveals the darkest corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery from the master of Japanese literary noir.

Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body—then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears... Read more

Spirit Voices

By: David Shi

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to authentic North Asian Shamanism, past and present



The word shamanism is frequently bandied about but rarely used accurately. Shamanologist Nicholas Breeze Wood coined the following definition: "A shaman is someone chose by the spirits [typically at/before birth] and who can go into a controlled and repeatable deliberate trance state,... Read more

Hit Parade of Tears

By: Izumi Suzuki

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom



Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy.



A... Read more

The Power of the Pearl Earrings

By: Linda Trinh

Narrated by: Linda Trinh

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming early chapter book series that explores Vietnamese culture and identity through the eyes of the Nguyen siblings, with elements of the supernatural, spirituality, and social justice woven in. I touch my earrings and feel a rush of wind. I can almost hear Grandma Nội’s laughter through them. Spontaneous and energetic Liz, the... Read more

The Secret of the Jade Bangle

By: Linda Trinh

Narrated by: Linda Trinh

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

“Engaging and empowering.” —STARRED review, Nonstop Reader A charming early chapter book series that explores Vietnamese culture and identity through the eyes of the Nguyen siblings, with elements of the supernatural, spirituality, and social justice woven in. Organized and introspective nine-year-old Anne Nguyen misses her Grandma Nội,... Read more

The Mystery of the Painted Fan

By: Linda Trinh

Narrated by: Linda Trinh

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The third book in the early chapter book series The Nguyen Kids features the youngest sibling, Jacob, and continues the series’ exploration of social justice themes, specifically gender expression and identity, with a supernatural twist. Read more

Biting the Hand

By: Julia Lee

Narrated by: Julia Lee

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lee's narration of her brilliant memoir is penetrating with insight, raw with confessions, radiant with fury. Her meticulous writing is already stupendous, but the unguarded emotions that flow through her candid voice are a remarkable enhancement. Her tears of frustration and gratitude will surely prove contagious." - Booklist (starred... Read more

Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious employers have inadvertently discovered time travel—and are using it to cover up a string of violent crimes . . .



Four days before Christmas, eight-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, twenty-eight-year-old Brandon... Read more

I Went to See My Father

By: Kyung-Sook Shin

Narrated by: Megan Affonso

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“The bus began to pull away before I had a chance to shout goodbye to Father. I think about that moment from time to time. About how long he must’ve stood there after the bus had left. About what he must’ve felt staring down that dark road, long after the bus had disappeared.
About how long he must’ve waited before going back inside the store.”... Read more

Tell Me the Dream Again

By: Tasha Jun

Narrated by: Tasha Jun

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’ve always felt unfit as a Korean but somehow too Korean everywhere else.”

Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling to find a voice to speak and a firm place for her feet to... Read more

Murder on Bamboo Lane

By: Naomi Hirahara

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of the Japantown Mysteries, trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle . . .



Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it's still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate.



At... Read more

Dust Child

By: Que Mai Phan Nguyen

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Việt Nam. 
 
In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become... Read more

She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

Narrated by: Emi Ray

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist
Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller

This house eats and is eaten . . .

"A riveting debut from a remarkable new voice! Trang Thanh Tran weaves an impressive gothic mystery in which Jade's father is determined to restore a decrepit home to its former glory and Jade is the only person who feels the... Read more

Unbounded

By: Maria Thattil

Narrated by: Maria Thattil

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you change in your life if you could silence the voice that tells you: you're not enough, keep quiet, you can't do it, or there is no space for you?

As we grow and move through the world, it shrinks us and puts us in boxes - tells us who we should be, what we're capable of, and who to love.

As a queer child of immigrants, Maria Thattil... Read more

The Year of Cecily

By: Lisa Lin

Narrated by: Kat Riley

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

San Francisco attorney Cecily Chang is ready to tackle the New Year head on, so she creates a list of resolutions guaranteed to reboot her life—right after her dutiful visit home to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, for the Lunar New Year. Cecily prepares to face her critical, meddling mother, nosy relatives, and the chaos and drama family togetherness... Read more

Brotherless Night

By: V. V. Ganeshananthan

Narrated by: Nirmala Rajasingam

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this “heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war” (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half).

“This book, a careful, vivid exploration of what’s lost within a... Read more

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

Narrated by: Jen Sookfong Lee

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read

This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity, belonging, grief, and the power of... Read more