Audiobooks by Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors

Little Gods

A Novel

by Jin, Meng

Downloadable Audiobook - 2020

On the night of June 4, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment...Show more On the night of June 4, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. Powerful book that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers. Show less

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Minor Feelings

An Asian American Reckoning

by Hong, Cathy Park

Streaming Audiobook - 2020

Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor Black enough, and unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the p...Show more Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor Black enough, and unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition—if such a thing exists? Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Show less

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We Were Dreamers

An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

by Liu, Simu

Downloadable Audiobook - 2022

Simu Liu, star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, tells his own origin story chronicling his family's journey from China to the bright lights of Hollywood in this candid, inspiring and relatable memoir. Simu Liu, star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, tells his own origin story chronicling his family's journey from China to the bright lights of Hollywood in this candid, inspiring and relatable memoir. Show less

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Gold Diggers

A Novel

by Sathian, Sanjena

Downloadable Audiobook - 2021

An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area. An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area. Show less

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Crying in H Mart

A Memoir

by Zauner, Michelle

Downloadable Audiobook - 2021

This unflinching, powerful memoir from Michelle Zauner discusses growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exqu...Show more This unflinching, powerful memoir from Michelle Zauner discusses growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up as the only Asian American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. Show less

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

A Novel

by Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

Downloadable Audiobook - 2020

If you could go back in time to meet someone who would it be? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffe...Show more If you could go back in time to meet someone who would it be? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Show less

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Lo, Malinda

Downloadable Audiobook - 2021

When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known. When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known. Show less

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Everything I Never Told You

by Ng, Celeste

Downloadable Audiobook - 2014

Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the L...Show more Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. Show less

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Interior Chinatown

A Novel

by Yu, Charles

Downloadable Audiobook - 2020

From the infinitely inventive author of "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. From the infinitely inventive author of "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Show less

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The Leavers

by Ko, Lisa

Streaming Audiobook - 2017

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find a...Show more One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, 11-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an 'all-American boy.' Show less

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Searching for Sylvie Lee

A Novel

by Kwok, Jean

Downloadable Audiobook - 2019

It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with...Show more It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother—and then vanishes. Sylvie's younger sister Amy and her parents are distraught and desperate for answers. Sylvie has always looked out for them. Now, it’s Amy’s turn to help. Terrified yet determined, Amy retraces her sister’s movements, flying to the last place Sylvie was seen. But instead of simple answers, she discovers something much more valuable: the truth. Sylvie, the golden girl, kept painful secrets... secrets that will reveal more about Amy’s complicated family—and herself—than she ever could have imagined. Show less

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Pachinko

by Lee, Min Jin

Downloadable Audiobook - 2017

"Pachinko" follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud...Show more "Pachinko" follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity. Show less

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The Last Story of Mina Lee

by Kim, Nancy Jooyoun

Downloadable Audiobook - 2020

Suspecting foul play in the wake of her mother's accidental death, Margot Lee investigates her mother's past as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant before uncovering profound secrets. Suspecting foul play in the wake of her mother's accidental death, Margot Lee investigates her mother's past as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant before uncovering profound secrets. Show less

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Severance

A Novel

by Ma, Ling

Downloadable Audiobook - 2018

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant par...Show more Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: she goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So, Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? Show less

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