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Here After

By: Amy Lin

Narrated by: Amy Lin

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA Today Bestseller • Starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Library Journal • Best Book of 2024 Pick by Esquire, ELLE, SheReads, and Kirkus • A 2024 NPR “Book We Love” Pick • A March 2024 Book of the Month Selection • An Apple Books Best Book of March • Finalist for the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • A Great... Read more

A Tempest of Tea

By: Hafsah Faizal

Narrated by: Maya Saroya

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

"Maya Saroya gives an expressive performance in this thrilling historical fantasy filled with vampires, action, romance, and tea."—AudioFile on A Tempest of Tea

From the New York Times–bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame comes the first book in a deliciously propulsive vampire-fantasy... 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

The Tangleroot Palace

By: Marjorie Liu

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Marjorie Liu (Monstress) leads you deep into the heart of the tangled woods. In her dark, romantic, and spellbinding short fiction you will find dangerous magic and even more dangerous women: a bodystealing sorceress, a bone-collecting apprentice-witch, a princess-turned-actress, and a warrior protecting China... Read more

Victory City

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Sid Sagar

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year • “Victory City is... Read more

Run Me to Earth

By: Paul Yoon

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a “spellbinding” (The Washington Post) novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.”

Alisak, Prany, and Noi—three orphans... Read more

Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

Narrated by: Jane Lui

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An IndieNext Pick! A Best Book of 2022 in Harper’s Bazaar, Daily Mail, Glamour, and Thrillist!Most Anticipated of 2022 in The Millions, Ms. Magazine, LitHubA young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.Lydia is... 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

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

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

The Tennis Partner

By: Abraham Verghese

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend... 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

Enemy Child

By: Andrea Warren

Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

One by one, things that Norm and his Japanese American family took for granted are taken away. In a matter of months they, along with everyone else of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, are forced by the government to move to internment camps, leaving everything they have known behind. At the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming,... Read more

The Mango Tree

By: Annabelle Tometich

Narrated by: Annabelle Tometich

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This “witty, humorous, and heartfelt“ (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich’s life, from growing up in Florida as the child of and a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic.

When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June... Read more

Our Violent Ends

By: Chloe Gong

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang's heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the... Read more

Fifty Words for Rain: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Asha Lemmie

Narrated by: Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Katharine Lee McEwa...

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller!
 
From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Nightingale

Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do... Read more

A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.But her... Read more

Frankly in Love

By: David Yoon

Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist • An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book

“Extraordinary . . . a beautifully layered novel about first love, tribalism and that brief, magical period when kids have one foot in high school, one foot out the door. . . Yoon explores themes of... 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

XOXO

By: Axie Oh

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenny’s never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk. A modern forbidden romance wrapped in the glamorous and exclusive world of K-pop, XOXO is perfect for fans of Jenny Han and... 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

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 Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By: Tom Lin

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime... Read more

Of Curses and Kisses

By: Sandhya Menon

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio & Jason Carpenter

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fans of Menon’s frothy, contemporary rom-coms will be excited for this venture into new territory.” —Booklist
“[A] dreamy, sassy confection of a romance…Funny, extravagant, and satisfying.” —Shelf Awareness

From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the first novel in a brand-new series set at an elite boarding... Read more