Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
Narrated by: Joel de la Fuente
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
"One of the funniest books of the year ... a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced... Read more »
Homeland Elegies
By: Ayad Akhtar
Narrated by: Ayad Akhtar
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020
Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an... Read more »
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
By: Min Jin Lee
Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle).
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS... Read more »
Little Fires Everywhere
By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
The runaway New York Times bestseller!
Named a Best Book of the Year by:
People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis... Read more »
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
By: C Pam Zhang
Narrated by: Joel de la Fuente & Catherine Ho
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Belongs on a shelf... Read more »
White Ivy
By: Susie Yang
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
**A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick**
A young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending.
Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her.
Raised outside of... Read more »
The Last Story of Mina Lee
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter
Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA,... Read more »
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Sex and Vanity
By: Kevin Kwan
Narrated by: Lydia Look
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick!
"Kevin Kwan's new book is his most decadent yet." --Entertainment Weekly
The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the WASPY fiancé of her family's dreams and George Zao, the man she is... Read more »
The Island of Sea Women
By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island.
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from... 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 »
Days of Distraction
By: Alexandra Chang
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“Startlingly original and deeply moving.... Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers.” — George Saunders
A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, and The Millions
A wry, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if... Read more »
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Front Desk
By: Kelly Yang
Narrated by: Sunny Lu
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!
* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.
Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the... Read more »
Severance
By: Ling Ma
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Nancy Wu delivers an outstanding performance of this cheeky satirical novel...Listeners will be entertained by the world building; cast of amusing, eccentric characters; and bizarre charm of the aloof heroine." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner
Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial,... Read more »
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
Narrated by: Meera Syal
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women’s lives at all ages—a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls.
Every woman has a secret life . . .
Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of... Read more »
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On Such a Full Sea
By: Chang-rae Lee
Narrated by: BD Wong
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea, [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lonely human heart.”—Andrew Sean Greer, The New York Times Book... Read more »
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Fifty Words for Rain
By: Asha Lemmie
Narrated by: Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Katharine Lee McEwan, Jeena Yi, Sarah Skaer & Louis Ozawa
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller!
From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.”—Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale
Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do... Read more »
Miracle Creek
By: Angie Kim
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a bonus interview with the author and original music composed and performed by Steve Draughn.
A thrilling debut about how far we’ll go to protect our families—and our deepest secrets.
My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first...
In rural Virginia, Young... Read more »
The Ghost Bride
By: Yangsze Choo
Narrated by: Yangsze Choo
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists
One evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride. . . .
Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling... Read more »
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
By: Lisa See, Alexandra Allwine, Gabra Zackman, Jeremy Bobb, Joy Osmanski, Emily Walton & Erin Wilhelmi
Narrated by: Ruthie Ann Miles, Kimiko Glenn, Alex Allwine, Gabra Zackman, Jeremy Bobb, Joy Osmanski, Emily Walton & Erin Wilhelmi
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.
In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and... Read more »
Crazy Rich Asians
By: Kevin Kwan
Narrated by: Lynn Chen
Length: 13 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.
When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in... Read more »
Almond
By: Won-pyung Sohn
Narrated by: Greg Chun
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster.
One of the monsters is me.
Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that—but his devoted mother and... Read more »
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American Panda
By: Gloria Chao
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“Weepingly funny.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Delightful.” —Buzzfeed
“Charmed my socks off.” —David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Kids of Appetite and Mosquitoland
Four starred reviews for this incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy... Read more »
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
By: Peter Ho Davies
Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend A... Read more »
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Chemistry
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 »