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Spirits Abroad

By: Zen Cho

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A new expanded edition of Zen Cho’s award-winning debut collection. Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Cho’s Crawford Award–winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try,... Read more

Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost

By: David Hoon Kim

Narrated by: Joji Otani-Hansen

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When Fumiko emerges after one month of being locked in her dorm room, she’s already dead, leaving behind a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food. For her boyfriend, Henrik Blatand, an aspiring translator, these remnants are clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her... Read more

Tastes Like War

By: Grace M. Cho

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother... Read more

Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty

By: Hana Shafi

Narrated by: Tunchai Redvers

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Let's get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You're not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those things are all good for you, but that's not what Hana Shafi wants to talk about.Instead,... Read more

Better to Have Gone

By: Akash Kapur

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

*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

Black Box

By: Shiori Itō

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an award-winning documentary film by Shiori ItōBlack Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman’s struggle for justice, calling for changes to an industry—and in society at large—to ensure that future victims of sexual assault can come forward without being silenced and humiliated.In 2015, an aspiring young journalist named... Read more

Midnight, Water City

By: Chris McKinney

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Water City: a world of seascrapers, floating prisons, organ farms, and murder. Year 2142: Earth is forty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sesshoseki. Akira Kimura, the scientist responsible for eliminating the threat, has reached heights of celebrity approaching deification. But now, Akira feels her safety is under... Read more

Incense and Sensibility

By: Sonali Dev

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

""Incense and Sensibility is a tender, well-crafted novel, as much about finding purpose as it is about falling in love. Dev writes with such rare empathy and humor that I often found myself holding my breath on one page only to be giggling by the next. This is the kind of book you finish with a whole-body, happy sigh and a warm ache in your... Read more

We Have Always Been Here

By: Lena Nguyen

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This “claustrophobic and dark” sci-fi thriller debut is “full of twisting ship corridors and unreliable characters” as it explores AI ethics and the effects of climate change (Kirkus Reviews).Aboard a ship manned by humans and androids, one doctor must discover the source of her crew’s madness—or risk succumbing to it herself.Misanthropic... Read more

The Chief Witness

By: Sayragul Sauytbay & Alexandra Cavelius

Narrated by: Xifeng Brooks

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities. The northwestern province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in... Read more

Phantompains

By: Therese Estacion

Narrated by: Therese Estacion

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism.Taking inspiration from Filipino horror... Read more

Of Princes and Promises

By: Sandhya Menon

Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Carlotta Brentan

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the second installment in a series set an elite boarding school that’s a contemporary spin on fairy tales, this one a delightful, romantic twist on The Frog Prince.

Caterina LaValle is determined to show she’s still the queen of St. Rosetta’s Academy. Sure, her crown may be... Read more

Central Asia

By: Adeeb Khalid

Narrated by: Aaqil Ahmed

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This engaging audiobook narrated by Aaqil Ahmed explores how Central Asia has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the... Read more

Reset

By: Sarina Dahlan

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Can you love someone you don’t remember?After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. In the utopia of the Four Cities, inspired by the lyrics of “Imagine” and Buddhist philosophy, everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather—and the... Read more

Impostor Syndrome

By: Kathy Wang

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp and prescient novel about women in the workplace, the power of Big Tech, and the looming threat of foreign espionage from Kathy Wang, “a skilled satirist of the northern California dream” (Harper’s Bazaar)In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she’s recruited by Russia’s largest... Read more

After the End of History

By: Mathilde Fasting

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In his 1992 bestselling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanity's political and ideological development. Thirty years later, with populism on the rise and the number of liberal democracies decreasing worldwide, Fukuyama... Read more

From Little Tokyo, with Love

By: Sarah Kuhn

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

One of PEOPLE Magazine's Best Books of Summer!
 
"I absolutely adored this funny, fierce, big-hearted book.”  
—Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Save the Date
 
Celebrated author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to... Read more

Black Water Sister

By: Zen Cho

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best NovelOne of BookPage’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021One of Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice Best Books of 2021One of Book Riot’s Best SFF Standalones of 2021A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Malaysian-set contemporary... Read more

The Parted Earth

By: Anjali Enjeti

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations.

The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority... Read more

Things We Lost to the Water

By: Eric Nguyen

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut is "vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting … in its intimacy” (The New York Times Book Review).

When Huong arrives in New Orleans with... Read more

Counting Down with You

By: Tashie Bhuiyan

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"A witty, romantic, deeply insightful debut." —Emma Lord, author of Tweet Cute

In this sparkling and romantic YA debut, a reserved Bangladeshi-American teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy.

How do you make one month last a lifetime?

Karina Ahmed has a plan.... Read more

Anna K Away

By: Jenny Lee

Narrated by: Jenna Ushkowitz

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrator Jenna Ushkowitz is an award-winning actress, singer, producer, and podcast host best known for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee.

The sequel to Anna K, set over the course of the next summer, as the characters come to terms with Vronsky’s tragic death

How the mighty have fallen. Anna K, once the golden girl of Greenwich, CT, and New... Read more

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry

By: Paula Yoo

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael... Read more

Heart of Fire

By: Mazie K. Hirono

Narrated by: Mazie K. Hirono

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Heart of Fire is a revelatory, evocative, deeply moving book.” —Washington Post

“Amazing . . . a memoir I really loved.” —Secretary Hillary Clinton, “You and Me Both” podcast

“A beautiful book.” —Trevor Noah, The Daily Show

The intimate and inspiring life story of Mazie Hirono, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the... Read more