API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.


The Monsoon Diaries
By: Calvin D. Sun
Narrated by: Calvin D. Sun, MD & Lisa Ling
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.The Monsoon Diaries is the firsthand account of Dr. Calvin Sun, an emergency room doctor who worked tirelessly on the front lines in multiple hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drawing upon the lessons he learned from his adventures traveling to more than 190 countries in ten years, as well as from the grief he experienced... Read more
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Hearts of Fire
By: The Voice of the Martyrs
Narrated by: Nancy Wu, Soneela Nankani, Natasha Soudek & Cor...
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Christian Book Award Finalist - Audio - 2023!
Eight women from eight different countries shared similar experiences of hardship and persecution, all for their faith in Christ. Yet they all emerged from adversity as heroines. From the young Vietnamese girl who turned down freedom in order to share the gospel in her Communist homeland, to the... Read more


The Picture Bride
By: Lee Geum-yi
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"With the mellifluous tones of shakuhachi music setting the story, listeners are taken to a time and place far from the current era. Aurally illustrating the young bride’s quietly independent nature, Osmanski’s performance draws listeners into Willow’s story." - Library Journal
“Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history... Read more


Uncommon Measure
By: Natalie Hodges
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time? Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance... Read more
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Activities of Daily Living
By: Lisa Hsiao Chen
Narrated by: Tina Huang
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
How do we take stock of a life—by what means and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, she struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental yearlong 1980s performance pieces. As she... Read more
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Morning Sun in Wuhan
By: Ying Chang Compestine
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
What was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together. Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan’s comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the listener... Read more
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Freddie Vs. The Family Curse
By: Tracy Badua
Narrated by: Edward A. Mendoza
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE 2023 SID FLEISCHMAN HUMOR AWARDIn this thrilling and hilarious middle grade adventure, a young Filipino-American boy must team up with his ancestor to break the curse that’s haunted their family for generations . . . or be trapped in an amulet forever.Freddie Ruiz is cursed.While other people may have bad days, Freddie and his... Read more
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Work Pray Code
By: Carolyn Chen
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Lim explores how tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing... Read more
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The Divine Peak
By: Tao Wong
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“When living in peace, one must think of danger.”
These were the words Protector Chan’s Master had left him. Now, the greedy eye of a king has landed on their sect once more. In the search to reach the Divine Peak, all too many will fall by the wayside, ground under the bitter dust of desire. Between craving and enlightenment, between the... Read more


Queen of the Tiles
By: Hanna Alkaf
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in this “stunning…unforgettable” (Publishers Weekly) thriller set in the world of competitive Scrabble, where a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.
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Constellations of Eve
By: Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Eve is a reluctant mother; Eve is a famous phenomenon; Eve is a quiet country teacher. Liam is a successful artist; Liam is a scheming husband; Liam is a gentle partner. Pari is a leading scientific researcher; Pari is a recognized model; Pari is a picture of declining mental states.
Constellations of Eve weaves together three deviations of one... Read more


Sari, Not Sari
By: Sonya Singh
Narrated by: Avita Jay
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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... Read more


My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
By: CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainm...
Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino, Ramón de Ocampo, Deepti Gupta,...
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces “that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), for fans of Minor Feelings.
There are 23 million people, representing more than twenty countries, each with unique languages, histories, and cultures, clumped under one banner:... Read more


Death Doesn't Forget
By: Ed Lin
Narrated by: Ewan Chung
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Taipei is rocked by the back-to-back murders of a recent lottery winner and a police captain just as the city is preparing to host the big Austronesian Cultural Festival, which has brought in indigenous performers from all around the Pacific
Rim to the island nation of Taiwan. Jing-nan, the proprietor of Unknown Pleasures, a popular food stand... Read more


Idol, Burning
By: Rin Usami
Narrated by: Mirai
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
""Akari’s obsession is fatalistic and intense, and Usami’s prose (translated by Asa Yoneda) renders it and the hold it has on her tenuous life ably and affectingly. . . . it will especially resonate with readers familiar with real-life superfandoms such as One Direction’s at the height of its fame, down to details such as sought-after exclusive... Read more
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The Best American Essays 2022
By: Alexander Chee & Robert Atwan
Narrated by: Ewan Chung, William DeMeritt, Tyla Collier, Rai...
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Read more
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Seoulmates
By: Susan Lee
Narrated by: Hannah Choi & Raymond Lee
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
"The perfect childhood friends-to-lovers story—full stop." —Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners and The Soulmate Equation
Her ex-boyfriend wants her back. Her former best friend is in town. When did Hannah’s life become a K-drama?
Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out—the perfect summer with her... Read more


The Empress of Time
By: Kylie Lee Baker
Narrated by: Rebecca Yeo
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Ren Scarborough is no longer the girl who was chased out of England—she is the Goddess of Death ruling Japan’s underworld. But Reapers have recently been spotted in Japan, and it’s only a matter of time before Ivy, now Britain’s Death Goddess, comes to claim her revenge. Ren’s last hope is to appeal to the god of storms and seas, who can turn... Read more
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We'll Always Have Summer
By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Lola Tung & Christopher Briney
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Belly has only loved two boys her entire life, Conrad Fisher and his younger
brother Jeremiah. She’s always known she’d marry one of them, although it’s
never been clear which one. Then Jeremiah proposes during Belly’s first year at
college.
Against her mother’s protests, Belly impulsively accepts. But the expected bliss of
engagement is tempered... Read more


Direwood
By: Catherine Yu
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In this velvet-clad 1990s gothic horror, Aja encounters a charming vampire who wants to lure her into the woods—just like her missing sister.
No one ever pays attention to sixteen-year-old Aja until her perfect older sister Fiona goes missing. In the days leading up to Fiona's disappearance, Aja notices some extraordinary things: a strange fog... Read more


Sho-Time
By: Jeff Fletcher
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is playing baseball like no other since the legendary Babe Ruth. Ohtani’s dominance as a two-way player, one that pitches and bats effectively, has taken the Major League by storm. Since entering the league, he won the 2018 AL Rookie of the Year, competed in the 2021 Home Run Derby, started in the 2021 All... Read more
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The Tatami Galaxy
By: Tomihiko Morimi
Narrated by: Andrew Grace
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque novel from one of Japan’s most popular authors.Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After... Read more
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Fighting Dirty
By: Poh-Gek Forkert
Narrated by: Vivian Hisey
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a massive landfill. As one of the experts brought in to assess the impact the toxic waste would have on the community, Poh-Gek... Read more
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The Healing Power of Singing
By: Emm Gryner
Narrated by: Emm Gryner
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Vocal health tips, stories from the tour bus, and action items to improve your voice and boost your self-confidence from an award-winning musician and life coach Performing with David Bowie, surviving the murky depths of the music business, enduring a painful divorce, and making the first music video in outer space, award-winning... Read more
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