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Monstress

By: Lysley Tenorio

Narrated by: Reuben Uy & Chelsea Javier

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino communities of California and the Philippines—now with a new preface by the author  Monstress stands as a landmark of American multicultural short fiction. Lysley Tenorio’s tales are framed by tense, fascinating dichotomies: tenderness and... Read more

Block Seventeen

By: Kimiko Guthrie

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Akiko “Jane” Thompson, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman in her midthirties, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fiancé, Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident, things begin to unravel. An intruder ransacks their apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only cryptic traces of his or her presence. Shiro,... Read more

Deceit and Other Possibilities

By: Vanessa Hua

Narrated by: Cindy Kay & David Shih

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters straddle both worlds but belong to none.



From a Hong Kong movie idol fleeing a... Read more

Night in the American Village

By: Akemi Johnson

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the US bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed thereAt the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of US military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for... 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

We Have Been Harmonized

By: Kai Strittmatter

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington PostAs heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look, based on decades of research, at how China created the most terrifying surveillance state in history. China’s new drive for repression is being... Read more

Girl Gone Viral

By: Alisha Rai

Narrated by: Summer Morton & Brian Pallino

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Alisha Rai’s second novel in her Modern Love series, a reclusive investor goes viral, shoving her into the world's spotlight—and into the arms of the bodyguard she’s been pining for…
OMG! Wouldn’t it be adorable if he’s her soulmate???I don’t see any wedding rings Breaking: #CafeBae and #CuteCafeGirl went to the bathroom AT THE SAME TIME!!!One... Read more

Quotients

By: Tracy O'Neill

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror.



Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their personal secrets. For Jeremy, this means leaving behind his former... Read more

Always and Forever, Lara Jean

By: Jenny Han

Narrated by: Ali Ahn

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix original movie starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo and the inspiration behind the Netflix spin-off series XO, Kitty, now streaming!

Lara Jean’s letter-writing days aren’t over in this follow-up to the bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You.

Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever... Read more

P.S. I Still Love You

By: Jenny Han

Narrated by: Ali Ahn

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix original movie starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo and the inspiration behind the Netflix spin-off series XO, Kitty, now streaming!

In this highly anticipated sequel to the “lovely, lighthearted” (School Library Journal) New York Times bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Lara Jean still has letters to write and even... 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 Secret Talker

By: Geling Yan

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

""The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment."" -- THE NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND ""GLOBETROTTING"" PICK!A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary... Read more

She of the Mountains

By: Vivek Shraya

Narrated by: Vivek Shraya

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail) Lambda Literary Award finalist In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We are the period to a sentence, the effect to a cause, always belonging to someone. We... Read more

Fatboy Fall Down

By: Rabindranath Maharaj

Narrated by: Errol Sitahal

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartrending novel about one man’s search for meaning in a difficult life A child ridiculed for his weight, a son overshadowed by a favored brother, a husband who falls short of his wife’s ambitions, an old man with a broken heart… As Orbits’s life passes, he doggedly pursues a simple dream — a little place in the country where a family... 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

Shine

By: Jessica Jung

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller

Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl by way of Jenny Han in this knockout debut about a Korean American teen who is thrust into the competitive, technicolor world of K-pop, from Jessica Jung, K-pop legend and former lead singer of one of the most influential K-pop girl groups of all time, Girls’... Read more

The Ninja Daughter

By: Tori Eldridge

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An action-packed thriller about a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja with family issues who fights the Los Angeles Ukrainian mob, sex traffickers, and her own family to save two desperate women and an innocent child.After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. But her mission... Read more

First, They Erased Our Name

By: Habiburahman

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

“I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old, and I don’t yet know that I am stateless.”Habiburahman was born in 1979 and raised in a small village in western Burma. When he was three years old, the country’s military leader... Read more

The Tale of Genji, Volume 1

By: Murasaki Shikibu

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 35 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794–1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji―widely considered the world’s first novel―during the early years of the eleventh century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki’s tale came to... Read more

When Morning Comes

By: Arushi Raina

Narrated by: Jamie Bloch, John Fleming, Patience Mpumlwana &...

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1976 in South Africa, and four young people are living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto: Zanele, a black female student organizer; Meena, a South Asian girl working at her father's shop; Jack, an Oxford-bound white student; and Thabo, a teen-gang member, or tsotsi. From each of their points of view, this book explores the... Read more

My Baby First Birthday

By: Jenny Zhang

Narrated by: Jenny Zhang

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born—without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce... Read more

Sex and Vanity: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Kevin Kwan

Narrated by: Lydia Look

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

"Kevin Kwan's new book is his most decadent yet." --Entertainment Weekly

The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the WASPY fiancé of her family's dreams and George... Read more

Has China Won?

By: Kishore Mahbubani

Narrated by: Aaron Abano

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?
China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive... Read more

Parenting Without Borders

By: Christine Gross-Loh

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening guide to the world's best parenting strategies



Research reveals that American kids lag behind in academic achievement, happiness, and wellness. Christine Gross-Loh exposes culturally determined norms we have about "good parenting," and asks, Are there parenting strategies other countries are getting right that we are not? This book... Read more