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The Henna Artist

By: Alka Joshi

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK

"Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."—Reese Witherspoon

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at... Read more

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie—about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself—a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence—until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man... Read more

Bite by Bite

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or... Read more

888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers

By: Abraham Chang

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Eunice Wong breathes life into the diverse cast of characters with an energetic precision that gives this audiobook the feeling of a lively radio drama."—AudioFile

“Abraham Chang’s novel, packed with pop culture, is wonderfully alive. This is a beautifully tender and funny examination of love, of identity, of making your way in a world... Read more

He Who Drowned the World

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 18 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Natalie Naudus is an admirable guide through a complicated plot with multiple points of view...She illuminates the few tender moments amid the overall violence and sets a quick, smooth pace that never lags." —AudioFile

The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping... Read more

The Old Woman with the Knife

By: Gu Byeong-mo

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Editors' Choice* Pick
*A Most Anticipated Read in LitHub, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and Popsugar*

The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her career—this is an international bestseller and the English language debut from an award-winning South Korean author 

At... Read more

Smoke and Ashes

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most... Read more

Joan Is Okay

By: Weike Wang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “A deeply felt portrait . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang... Read more

The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Narrated by: Balvinder Sopal

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly comic, speculative debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of “great works of literature,” but instead mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies,... Read more

We Were Dreamers

By: Simu Liu

Narrated by: Simu Liu

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime.In this honest, inspiring and relatable memoir, newly-minted superhero Simu Liu... Read more

Convenience Store Woman

By: Sayaka Murata

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world. So when she takes a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part, she finds a predictable world in the convenience store, mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the... Read more

Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 

Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award
Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE,... Read more

The Leftover Woman

By: Jean Kwok

Narrated by: Sura Siu & Caroline Hewitt

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Recommended by The New York Times • Elle • Good Morning America • TIME • People • New York Post • Real Simple • Goodreads • LibraryReads • and many more! An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women—from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie... Read more

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

By: C Pam Zhang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Joel de la Fuente

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES  NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND... Read more

A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki

Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki

“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before... Read more

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

By: Lili‘uokalani

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States.



Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in... Read more

The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

Narrated by: Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao & Telly Leung

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"A sweeping triumph in queer romance." –Booklist

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?”

In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor—but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex... Read more

Patron Saints of Nothing

By: Randy Ribay

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

"Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT

"A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason... Read more

Beautiful Country

By: Qian Julie Wang

Narrated by: Qian Julie Wang

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world.
 
"Extraordinary…Consider this remarkable memoir a new classic."—Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review*

In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to... Read more

Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

Narrated by: Carolyn Kang

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.

Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory... Read more

The Mountains Sing

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm... Read more

Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious employers have inadvertently discovered time travel—and are using it to cover up a string of violent crimes . . .



Four days before Christmas, eight-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, twenty-eight-year-old Brandon... Read more

The Summer I Turned Pretty

By: Jenny Han

Narrated by: Lola Tung

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Some summers are just destined to be pretty.Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are... Read more

Gay the Pray Away

By: Natalie Naudus

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn’t know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the library and smuggles it home, her conservative Christian homeschooling world begins to crack. And when the cutest girl she’s ever met shows up to Bible class, she starts to question everything.Riley is so confident and kind, and she and Valerie bond... Read more