API Authors

Heaven

By: Mieko Kawakami

Narrated by: Scott Keiji Takeda

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity in our contemporary societies.Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a fourteen-year-old student... Read more

Golden Girl

By: Reem Faruqi

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning, ALA Notable author of Unsettled and Lailah’s Lunchbox, this is a captivating coming-of-age middle grade novel in verse about seventh grader Aafiyah Qamar, a Pakistani American girl who hatches a special plan to help her family but finds that doing what’s right isn’t always easy.For fans of The Thing About... Read more

Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

Narrated by: Jane Lui

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An IndieNext Pick! A Best Book of 2022 in Harper’s Bazaar, Daily Mail, Glamour, and Thrillist!Most Anticipated of 2022 in The Millions, Ms. Magazine, LitHubA young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.Lydia is... Read more

It's Not Just You

By: Tori Tsui

Narrated by: Tori Tsui

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The world is in desperate need of this book’ - Greta Thunberg

'It's Not Just You is a galvanising breath of fresh air' - Mikaela Loach

'Tori Tsui is changing the conversation around mental health and the climate crisis' - Vogue

‘A must-read for anyone who would love to understand the intersections of mental health and the climate crisis’ -... Read more

The Passenger

By: Chaney Kwak

Narrated by: Keong Sim

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by fifty-foot swells and forty-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated... Read more

Kapaemahu

By: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson

Narrated by: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An Indigenous legend about how four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit, or Mahu, brought healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, based on the Academy Award–contending short film.

In the 15th century, four Mahu sail from Tahiti to Hawaii and share their gifts of science and healing with the people of Waikiki. The islanders return... Read more

Love in the Library

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Narrated by: Sura Siu

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human—that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in... Read more

Where Three Oceans Meet

By: Rajani LaRocca

Narrated by: Subhadra Newton

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sejal, Mommy, and Pati travel together to the southern tip of India. Along the way, they share meals, visit markets, and catch up with old friends. For Pati, the trip retraces spaces she knows well. For Mommy, it’s a return to the place she grew up. For Sejal, it’s a discovery of new sights and sounds. The family finds their way to Kanyakumari,... Read more

Permission to Come Home

By: Jenny Wang

Narrated by: Jenny Wang

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Strengthen your sense of well-being and embrace empowering new approaches with this invaluable investigation into mental health in the Asian American community.

Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American... Read more

Sweet Like Jasmine

By: Bonnie Gray

Narrated by: Bonnie Gray

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Christian Book Award - Finalist 2022 (print)!!​

This is the story of God whispering, “What no one wants, I cherish.”

The daughter of a mail-order bride and a busboy from San Francisco’s Chinatown, Bonnie Gray grew up never truly feeling beautiful or beloved. As an adult, she built her life to look pleasant and ordinary, with a wonderful husband,... Read more

Looking Like the Enemy

By: Mary Matsuda Gruenewald

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The author at 16 years old was evacuated with her family to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, along with 110,000 other people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. She faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire in crowded, primitive camps. She struggled for survival and dignity, and endured psychological scarring that has... Read more

Aloha Betrayed

By: Noenoe K. Silva

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the US Senate.



This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva... Read more

Our Violent Ends

By: Chloe Gong

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang's heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the... Read more

Imperial March

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: Travis Baldree

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The march to the throne is littered with the bodies of the great and small in equal measure Born an Imperial Prince, Qu Yuan always knew his options were to strive for the throne or escape. When he’s forced to put his escape plan into action too early, he’s forced out of the imperial palace into the countryside where the war for the throne... Read more

Blue Screens of Death

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Morning in Whitehorse, and everything is the normal. All too normal. A girlfriend who loves him, an evening at the farmer’s market in Shipyard’s Park. Idyllic, relaxing, peaceful. What more could a man want?   John Lee isn’t sure, but stray thoughts intrude, and memories of a different time, a different place, a different world keep intruding.... Read more

Donde me encuentro

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrated by: Elsa Veiga

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

La nueva novela de la gran autora revelación de los últimos años, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, y su mayor desafío literario: las estaciones de una mujer de hoy. Una mujer camina por una ciudad contemplando su soledad y la de quienes la rodean. A medida que se desarrolla su día a día -de una librería a la consulta de su terapeuta o a un... Read more

Liberalism and Its Discontents

By: Francis Fukuyama

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An audiobook about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order.

Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental... Read more

The Partner Track

By: Helen Wan

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Wan's "engaging and suspenseful" (Wall Street Journal) debut novel, The Partner Track, is now a Netflix series!

Ingrid Yung's life is full of firsts. A first-generation Chinese American, the first lawyer in her family, she's about to collect the holy grail of "firsts" and become the first minority woman to make partner at the venerable old... Read more

Dream, Annie, Dream

By: Waka T. Brown

Narrated by: Sophie Oda

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams.As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the... Read more

Only a Monster

By: Vanessa Len

Narrated by: Vera Chok

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The sweeping romance of Passenger meets the dark fantasy edge of This Savage Song in this stunning contemporary fantasy debut from Vanessa Len, where the line between monster and hero is razor thin.Don’t forget the rule. No one can know what you are. What we are. You must never tell anyone about monsters. Joan has just learned the truth: her... Read more

This Place Is Still Beautiful

By: XiXi Tian

Narrated by: Katharine Chin & Cindy Kay

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

With five starred reviews, this is an acclaimed novel about sisterhood, family, and the pernicious legacy of racism. Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi, Jandy Nelson, and Emily X.R. Pan, with crossover appeal for readers of Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly,... Read more

In the Beautiful Country

By: Jane Kuo

Narrated by: Sura Siu

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Jasmine Warga and Thanhhà Lại, this is a stunning novel in verse about a young Taiwanese immigrant to America who is confronted by the stark difference between dreams and reality.Anna can’t wait to move to the beautiful country—the Chinese name for America. Although she’s only ever known life in Taiwan, she can’t help but brag about... Read more

Self-Portrait with Ghost

By: Meng Jin

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“A knockout short story collection...Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up a heady and visceral portrait of what ails us, from isolation and self-doubt, to unrequited love and regret over what might have been, to what it means to be (and to be considered) an American."" -- San Francisco ChronicleMeng Jin’s critically... Read more

Hundred Years of Happiness

By: Thanhhà Lai

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning debut, showcasing the love between grandparents and grandchildren, the challenges of memory loss, and the joy that sweet reminders of a faraway home can bring, from award-winning, bestselling author Thanhhà Lại.This sweet and emotional picture book will resonate with readers who love A Big Mooncake for Little Star, Ladder to the Moon,... Read more