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Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

By: Kat Zhang

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the funny, fierce, and fearless Amy Wu, who is determined to make a perfect bao bun today. Can she rise to the occasion?Amy loves to make bao with her family. But it takes skill to make the bao taste and look delicious. And her bao keep coming out all wrong.Then she has an idea that may give her a second chance…Will Amy ever make the... Read more

The Last Exiles

By: Ann Shin

Narrated by: June Angela

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE TRILLIUM AWARD

An unforgettable saga inspired by true events, The Last Exiles is a searing portrait of a young couple in North Korea and their fight for love and freedom

Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of... Read more

Lurkers

By: Sandi Tan

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers.



In a suburban LA neighborhood, neighbors keep wary distance and at times collide, propelled by desire, fury, and mischief. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find... Read more

We Belong

By: Cookie Hiponia

Narrated by: Cookie Hiponia

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinarily beautiful novel-in-verse, this important debut weaves a dramatic immigrant story together with Pilipino mythology to create something wholly new.

Stella and Luna know that their mama, Elsie, came from the Philippines when she was a child, but they don't know much else. So one night they ask her to tell them her story. As they... Read more

A History of Scars

By: Laura Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Yolk

By: Mary H. K. Choi

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“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

Tales from the Bottom of My Sole

By: David K. Yeh

Narrated by: Neil Paterson

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When a long-lost sister shows up as a trans man named Luke, a series of precipitous events throws the lives of boyfriends Daniel and David into turmoil. While David attends an extravagant family reunion in Sicily, Daniel’s ex Marcus plans the world-premiere of his one-man show. The couple’s vertiginous exploration of sex, intimacy and love... Read more

The City of Good Death

By: Priyanka Champaneri

Narrated by: Manish Dongardive

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: India’s holy city on the banks... Read more

Kink

By: R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell

Narrated by: Corey Brill, Ashton Grooms, Aden Hakimi, Lameec...

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

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

My Year Abroad

By: Chang-rae Lee

Narrated by: Lawrence Kao

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire

“A manifesto to happiness—the one found when you stop running from who you are.” –New York Times Book Review

“An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements—and... Read more

We Could Be Heroes

By: Mike Chen

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood

The super hero book you need to read right now!

"An enjoyable, exciting, and action-packed read… at its core, just fun.” –Associated Press

An extraordinary and emotional adventure about unlikely friends and the power of choosing who you want to be.

Jamie woke up in an empty... Read more

Eyes that Kiss in the Corners

By: Joanna Ho

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus Bradner

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This lyrical and stunning book tells a story about learning to love and celebrate your Asian-shaped eyes, in the of spirit of Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry.
A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother’s, her grandmother's, and... Read more

A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself

By: Peter Ho Davies

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend

A... Read more

Remembering Shanghai

By: Isabel Sun Chao & Claire Chao

Narrated by: Rachel Yong, Claire Chao & Isabel Sun Chao

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Rubery Award BOOK OF THE YEAR

Writer’s Digest GRAND PRIZE

An Extraordinary Multigenerational Saga

Audiobook narrated by two-time Asian American Film Lab best actress winner Rachel Yong and authors Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao

“Jaw-dropping, touching, insightful.” Historic Shanghai

A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power... Read more

Finding My Voice

By: Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Narrated by: Jaine Ye

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking Own Voices classic by celebrated author Marie Myung-Ok LeeSeventeen-year-old Ellen Sung just wants to be like everyone else at her all-white school. But hers is the only Korean American family in town, and her classmates in Arkin, Minnesota, will never let her forget that she’s different. At the start of senior year, Ellen... Read more

The Mermaid from Jeju

By: Sumi Hahn

Narrated by: Cindy Kay & Raymond J. Lee

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of World War II, Goh Junja is a girl just coming into her own. She is the latest successful deep-sea diver in a family of strong haenyeo. Confident she is a woman now, she urges her mother to allow her to make their annual trip to Mt. Halla, where they trade sea delicacies for pork. A sea-village girl, Junja has never been to... Read more

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

By: Nghi Vo

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover—a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty—and discover how truth can survive becoming history.



Nghi Vo... Read more

Rent a Boyfriend

By: Gloria Chao

Narrated by: Feodor Chin & Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

SELECTED AS A YALSA 2022 AMAZING AUDIO FOR YOUNG ADULTS!

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets The Farewell in this “entertaining and nuanced” (Kirkus Reviews) romantic comedy about a college student who hires a fake boyfriend to appease her traditional Taiwanese parents, to disastrous results, from the acclaimed author of American Panda.

Chloe... Read more

The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

By: Joanna Gaines

Narrated by: Emmie Kay Gaines & Joanna Gaines

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the #1?New York Times?bestseller,?The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be, Joanna Gaines celebrates how creativity and acceptance can come together to make for a bright and beautiful adventure. The book, illustrated by Julianna Swaney, follows a group of children as they each build their very own hot-air balloons. As the kids work together,... Read more

Healing Resistance

By: Kazu Haga

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable.



Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change. And yet its basic truth, its restorative power, has been... Read more

My Heart Underwater

By: Laurel Flores Fantauzzo

Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Adib Khorram and Randy Ribay will love this coming-of-age debut about a Filipina American teen drowning under pressure and learning to trust her heart. Corazon Tagubio is an outcast at the Catholic school she attends on scholarship. Her crush on her teacher, Ms. Holden, doesn’t help. At home, Cory worries that less-than-perfect grades... Read more

The Dream Palace of the Arabs

By: Fouad Ajami

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving... Read more

Earthlings

By: Sayaka Murata

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. Each summer, Natsuki counts down the days until her family drives into the mountains of... Read more

Bestiary

By: K-Ming Chang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho, Nancy Wu & Ren Hanami

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.

“Gorgeous and gorgeously grotesque . . . Every line of this sensuous, magical-realist marvel is utterly... Read more