Audiobooks by API Authors

Kiyo's Story

A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream: A Memoir

By: Kiyo Sato
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored in the fields together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp. This memoir tells the story of... Read more

Run Me to Earth

By: Paul Yoon
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 6 hours

“This is Paul Yoon’s best work yet. While this is also his most chaotic book, the power of his writing can still be found in the quiet moments, in gestures toward reconciliation, forgiveness, or at least resolution. This novel is stunning in its rendering of our capacity for both savagery and tenderness. Yoon is one of our great masters, and Run... Read more

Once Upon a Sunset

By: Tif Marcelo
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

The author of The Key to Happily Ever After—“a true gem filled with heart, laughs, and a cast of delightful characters” (Nina Bocci, USA TODAY bestselling author)—returns with a heartwarming and charming novel about a woman who travels to the Philippines to reconnect with her long-lost family…and manages to find herself along the way.

Diana... Read more

Yolk

By: Mary H. K. Choi
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” —Entertainment Weekly

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives—even if it means swapping identities.

Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. June’s three years older, a... Read more

A History of Scars

A Memoir

By: Laura Lee
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

From a writer whose work has been called “breathtaking and dazzling” by Roxane Gay, this moving, illuminating, and multifaceted memoir explores, in a series of essays, the emotional scars we carry when dealing with mental and physical illnesses—reminiscent of The Collected Schizophrenias and An Unquiet Mind.

In this stunning debut, Laura Lee... Read more

Kink

Stories

By: R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell
Narrated by: Corey Brill, Ashton Grooms, Aden Hakimi, Lameece Issaq, Joy Osmanski, Kaipo Schwab & Aven Shore
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

A New York Times Notable Book

Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.

A... Read more

Better to Have Gone

Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

By: Akash Kapur
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

*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

The Food Lab

Better Home Cooking Through Science

By: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac 'n' cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey (forget about brining!)—and use a... Read more

The Satapur Moonstone

Perveen Mistry Mysteries: Book #2

By: Sujata Massey
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
Length: 12 hours 1 minute

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the... Read more

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Book #1

By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

To All the Boys I've Loved Before is now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix! What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them.all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written.... Read more

Always and Forever, Lara Jean

To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Book #3

By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Now a Netflix original movie starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo and the inspiration behind the Netflix spin-off series XO, Kitty, now streaming!

Lara Jean’s letter-writing days aren’t over in this follow-up to the bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You.

Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever... Read more

P.S. I Still Love You

To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Book #2

By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Now a Netflix original movie starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo and the inspiration behind the Netflix spin-off series XO, Kitty, now streaming!

In this highly anticipated sequel to the “lovely, lighthearted” (School Library Journal) New York Times bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Lara Jean still has letters to write and even... Read more

The Leader You Want to Be

Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self--Every Day

By: Amy Jen Su
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

You can be the leader you want to be--today and every day. Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel you just can't add another thing to your plate without being overwhelmed by stress or compromising your health, relationships, and integrity? No doubt, as a leader, there are some days when you... Read more

America Is in the Heart

By: Carlos Bulosan
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)... Read more

Exhalation

Stories

By: Ted Chiang
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon & Ted Chiang
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

“WOW. My first experience with Ted Chiang absolutely blew me out of the water. Each story left me with wide eyes and a racing mind, running to my husband to read a passage so we could both be knocked over with wonder. Exhalation filled me with so many questions about our collective past, present, and future, I’ll be coming back to this book again... Read more

Front Desk

By: Kelly Yang
Narrated by: Sunny Lu
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

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

Blood Heir

Blood Heir: Book #1

By: Amélie Wen Zhao
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

The first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the con man she must trust to clear her name for her father's murder. 
 
In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are unnatural—dangerous. And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a terrifying secret.... Read more

Patron Saints of Nothing

By: Randy Ribay
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

“Don't mind me, I just discovered Randy Ribay and am in pieces. A story of family and toxic masculinity and learning more about the country and cultures of your roots. Ramón de Ocampo, as always, voices the tenderest of main characters and pulls at all your heartstrings. Read more

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

A Novel

By: Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

“Written as a letter from son to mother, Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is desolately beautiful. Each carefully crafted sentence builds upon the last, a momentum that carries you through a hundred pages before you remember to take a breath. Bleak, brilliant, it is the book other books will be compared to for years. Honestly, I... Read more

Games without Rules

The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan

By: Tamim Ansary
Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan—a tribal universe of village republics... Read more