Audiobooks by South Asian Authors

Advika and the Hollywood Wives

By: Kirthana Ramisetti
Narrated by: Rukhmani K Desai
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

From the author of Dava Shastri's Last Day comes a gripping tale of marriage, scandal, fame, and identity as a woman grapples with life as the new wife of a renowned Hollywood film producer—perfect for readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid.

At age 26, Advika Srinivasan considers herself a failed screenwriter. To pay the bills and keep her mind off of... Read more

The Museum of Failures

By: Thrity Umrigar
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

The bestselling author of The Space Between Us and Reese's Book Club pick Honor delivers a powerful story about family secrets, a mother's power, and the importance of forgiveness.

Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby from a young... Read more

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom

A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

By: Rabia Chaudry
Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!”
—Valerie Bertinelli

From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes... Read more

Riots I Have Known

By: Ryan Chapman
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman’s “gritty, bracing debut” (Esquire) set during a prison riot is “dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious…one of the smartest—and best—novels of the year” (NPR).

A largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate New York, incited by a poem in the house literary... Read more

Amnesty

A Novel

By: Aravind Adiga
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

An “urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times” (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation.

Danny—formerly Dhananjaya... Read more

Zara's Rules for Record-Breaking Fun

Zara's Rules

By: Hena Khan
Narrated by: Subhadra Newton
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

From the beloved author of Amina’s Voice comes an all-new middle grade series starring a young Muslim girl determined to break a Guinness World Record and prove she’s still the master of fun among the neighborhood kids.

Zara Saleem is the queen of the neighborhood.

Zara’s in charge of it all: she organizes the games, picks the teams, and always... Read more

The Storm

A Novel

By: Arif Anwar
Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Soneela Nankani
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

From an immensely talented new voice in international fiction, this “fascinating, ambitious” (The New York Times Book Review) and epic novel seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history—for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance.

Shahryar, a recent... Read more

Sari, Not Sari

By: Sonya Singh
Narrated by: Avita Jay
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

This delightful debut rom-com follows the adventures of a woman trying to connect with her South Asian roots and introduces readers to a memorable cast of characters in a veritable feast of food, family traditions, and fun.

Manny Dogra is the beautiful young CEO of Breakup, a highly successful company that helps people manage their relationship... Read more

The East Indian

A Novel

By: Brinda Charry
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

An exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian subcontinent to arrive in Colonial America, inspired by a historical figure—“marvelous…readers of Esi Edugyan and Yaa Gyasi will be enthralled” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he... Read more

The White Tiger

A Novel

By: Aravind Adiga
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions.

This is India now.

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in... Read more

Sister of My Heart

A Novel

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on which the two girls were born, the same day their fathers died—mysteriously and violently—Sudha and Anju have... Read more

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga

A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit

By: Deepak Chopra, MD & David Simon, MD
Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

The remarkable benefits of yoga, which include improved flexibility, balance, muscle tone, endurance, and vitality, only hint at the extraordinary power of this deeply spiritual practice. When adhered to and practiced mindfully, yoga can unlock your full creative potential, capacity for love and compassion, and ability to find success in all... Read more

Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh

By: Uma Krishnaswami
Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Nine-year-old Maria Singh longs to play softball in the first-ever girls' team forming in Yuba City, California. It's the spring of 1945, and World War II is dragging on. Miss Newman, Maria's teacher, is inspired by Babe Ruth and the All-American Girls' League to start a girls' softball team at their school.

Meanwhile, Maria's parents—Papi from... Read more

Hanoi’s War

An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam

By: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of US involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the listener from the marshy Mekong Delta swamps to the... Read more

Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict

The Wheat Fields Still Whisper

By: Mallika Kaur
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of postcolonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This audiobook makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence—or ignored altogether.Mallika Kaur... Read more

India: A Million Mutinies Now

By: V. S. Naipaul
Narrated by: Sam Dastor
Length: 24 hours 45 minutes

Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society—the contradictions and... Read more

Savi and the Memory Keeper

By: Bijal Vachharajani
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Funny, thoughtful, and deeply moving—with a unique blend of fantasy and actual science—this novel explores both personal grief in the face of family loss and collective grief in the face of climate crisis, and how the only way to move forward is through friendship of all kinds. In Shajarpur, everyone is always happy. The weather is always... Read more

My Seditious Heart

Collected Nonfiction

By: Arundhati Roy
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
Length: 36 hours 16 minutes

Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment.Radical... Read more

So Simple a Beginning

How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World

By: Raghuveer Parthasarathy
Narrated by: Anand Jagatia
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia reveals the hidden unity behind nature’s breathtaking complexity

The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes... Read more

Brown Boy

A Memoir

By: Omer Aziz
Narrated by: Omer Aziz
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that “cuts to the bone” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) told through Omer Aziz’s incisive and luminous prose.

In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation... Read more