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


We Are Not Free
By: Traci Chee
Narrated by: Scott Keiji Takeda, Dan Woren, Ryan Potter, Ali...
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK * ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK *From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are... Read more
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Breasts and Eggs
By: Mieko Kawakami
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Jeena Yi
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist. Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and bestselling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a... Read more
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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


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
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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


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


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


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


Foundations
By: Ruth Chou Simons & Troy Simons
Narrated by: Ruth Chou Simons & Troy Simons
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Christian Book Award - Finalist 2021!!
Families are shaped one day at a time through the Word of God
You want your children to become Christ followers, obedient to His commands, and fruitful in their faith, but where do you begin? Though there isn’t a formula or prescription for raising godly kids, what you desire for your family begins with... Read more


The Three Pleasures
By: Terry Watada
Narrated by: Yuta Takenaka
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1940s Vancouver the Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbour and racial tension is building. The RCMP are rounding up “suspicious” young men, fishing boats and property are being seized, and internment camps are only months away. Daniel Sugiura, a young reporter for the New Canadian, the only Japanese-Canadian newspaper allowed to keep... Read more
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God Loves Hair
By: Vivek Shraya
Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity. In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; since then, Vivek has published six more titles, including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children's picture book, while... Read more
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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


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


How (Not) to Save the World
By: Hosanna Wong
Narrated by: Hosanna Wong
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A Publisher’s Weekly and ECPA bestsellerRead by the author.A practical, straightforward guide for Christ-followers who want to talk about Jesus without feeling weird or pushy. Ten years ago, Hosanna Wong packed her life into suitcases and started traveling the country to talk to people about Jesus. She quickly discovered lies she had believed... Read more
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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


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 Lee
Seventeen-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


Seeing Ghosts
By: Kat Chow
Narrated by: Kat Chow
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
This "graceful, captivating" (New York Times Book Review) story from a singular new talent paints a portrait of grief and the search for meaning as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American family—perfect for readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander.
Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She... 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


Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds
By: Samira Ahmed
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From bestselling author Samira Ahmed comes a thrilling fantasy adventure intertwining Islamic legend and history, perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the Land of Stories.
On the day of a rare super blue blood moon eclipse, twelve-year-old Amira and her little brother, Hamza, can’t stop their bickering while attending a special exhibit on medieval... Read more


First Steps into the Night
By: Tao Wong
Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Step Carefully For The Night Is Dark Kylie Porter needs a break. Novacore VR's Eternal Night is it - the VR vampire game that her editor wants her to write about. But she's not a gamer, so she's going to have to learn to fake it for her article. With a little help. Johnathan Masters is that help. An old friend who is doing her a favour, he's a... Read more
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Daily Jobs, Coffee and an Awfully Big Adventure
By: Tao Wong
Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
Length: 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Some Adventures Begin and End Small Life after the Apocalypse is one daily grind after another. It's a good thing for Wendy that she's got friends. A lot of friends as a fairy summoner. But life in Exeter is not easy, even for a summoner and the grind of daily jobs and never-ending quests is getting to her. She's got one shot at getting a... Read more
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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


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


Bright
By: Jessica Jung
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The “glitzy sequel filled with drama and self-discovery” (Kirkus Reviews) to the instant New York Times bestseller Shine! Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl in this knockout series from Jessica Jung, K-pop legend, fashion icon, and founder of the international luxury brand, Blanc & Eclare.
Couture gowns, press parties, international travel.... Read more
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