Strange Girls
Sarvat Hasin
Stories help us form our voice, discover our place in the world and define our identity in the continuum of time. Generation after generation, we connect and pass along information through the bonds of oral history. We hope some of these titles will resonate with you, move you, inspire you and bring you into the fascinating universe of Asian storytelling. —The Audible Editors
British Creators
Stories from British Asian creators.
Kitten
Stacey Yu
Summer Rolls
Tuyen Do
What Happens in the Dark
Kia Abdullah
The Last of Earth
Deepa Anappara
The Matcha Maker Café
Lily Chen
Minbak
Ela Lee
The Right Sort of Girl
Anita Rani
This is Vital Information
Dr Karan Rajan
Once Upon a Time in the East
Xialou Guo
We, the Survivors
Tash Aw
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Asian/Other
Vidyan Ravinthiran
Empireland
Sathnam Sanghera
Mrs. Bibi
Waleed Akhtar
The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
Wild Swans
Jung Chang
Love Marriage
Monica Ali
The Promise
Xinran Xue
Black Water Sister
Zen Cho
Flèche
Mary Jean Chan
Shattered
Hanif Kureishi
Dispersals
Jessica J. Lee
Ponti
Sharlene Teo
Bone Talk
Candy Gourlay
The Rainshadow Orphans
Naomi Ishiguro
Fiction
Fictional tales from Asian storytellers.
Fieldwork as a Sex Object
Meena Kandasamy
Wimmy Road Boyz
Sufiyaan Salam
This is Where the Serpent Lives
Daniyal Mueenuddin
Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Lisa See
Hooked
Asako Yuzuki and Polly Barton - translator
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
Taipei Story
Rebecca F. Kuang
And the Ancestors Sing
Radha Lin Chaddah
A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
New Skin
Sarah Wang
Minbak
Ela Lee
Molka
Monika Kim
The Library of Flowers
L. C. Chu
Pick a Colour
Souvankham Thammavongsa
A Splintering
Dur e Aziz Amna
The Typing Lady and Other Fictions
Ruth Ozeki
Little Wonder
Sophie Chen Keller
Sisters in Yellow
Mieko Kawakami and Laurel Taylor - translator and Hitomi Yoshio - translator
Holy Boy
Lee Heejoo and Joheun Lee - translator
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami
Yellow Face
David Henry Hwang
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Saving Face
Mansi Shah
Memoirs
Powerful and immersive first-hand accounts, as they happened.
Never Say Die
Ke Huy Quan
Abandoning a Cat
Haruki Murakami and Philip Gabriel - translator
Brown Girl Like Me
Jaspreet Kaur
The Right Sort of Girl
Anita Rani
Memoirs of a Gay Shah
Reza Farahan
Eat Bitter
Lydia Pang
Foreign Fruit
Katie Goh
Beyond Life and Death
Jet Li
The Manicurist's Daughter
Susan Lieu
Viewfinder
Jon M. Chu and Jeremy McCarter
Slow Noodles
Chantha Nguon
I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
Youngmi Mayer
Saving Five
Amanda Nguyen
Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Shoji Morimoto and Don Knotting - translator
Stay True
Hua Hsu
Live Learn Love Well
Emma Lovewell
Secret Harvests
David Mas Masumoto
The Way of Ronin
Tu Lam
Horse Barbie
Geena Rocero
One Jump at a Time
Nathan Chen
We Were Dreamers
Simu Liu
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Dear Girls
Ali Wong
Eat a Peach
David Chang
Know My Name
Chanel Miller
Sigh, Gone
Phuc Tran
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
T Kira Madden
Mysteries and Thrillers
Twists, turns and thrills—these listens have it all.
The Spoiled Heart
Sunjeev Sahota
Good People
Patmeena Sabit
Japanese Gothic
Kylie Lee Baker
The Star at Dawn
Kanae Minato
Murder at the Patel Motel
Maulik Pancholy and Zackary Grady and Achilles Stamatelaky
You Will Never Be Me
Jesse Sutanto
The Spy Coast
Tess Gerritsen
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
I Did Something Bad
Pyae Moe Thet War
Death in the Air
Ram Murali
The Murder of Mr. Ma
SJ Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee
Now You See Us
Balli Kaur Jaswal
She Is a Haunting
Trang Thanh Tran
The Family Chao
Lan Samantha Chang
Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Sutanto
White Ivy
Susie Yang
IQ
Joe Ide
The Committed
Viet Thanh Nguyen
What Happens in the Dark
Kia Abdullah
Non-fiction
Educate yourself with true tales, essays and histories.
Partition Voices
Kavita Puri
Seasonal Happiness
Kim Shinji
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han and Erik Butler(Translated by)
The Courage to be Ordinary
Ichiro Kishimi and Haydn Trowell - translator
This is Vital Information
Dr Karan Rajan
Big Trust
Shadé Zahrai and Philip Faysal Sekkouah
The Monk’s Mindset
Sam Yo
Empireland
Sathnam Sanghera
Big Asian Energy
John Wang
The Visibility Mindset
Bernice Chao and Jessalin Lam
Self-Conscious With Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy Teigen
Empireworld
Sathnam Sanghera
Change the Wallpaper
Nilanjana Dasgupta
Laozi's Dao De Jing
Ken Liu
Live Your Best Life with Karan Johar
Ashwini Samant
Spirited
Candice Kumai
Smoke and Ashes
Amitav Ghosh
Saving Time
Jenny Odell
Rise
Jeff Yang and Philip Wang and Phil Yu
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong
Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus)
Lawrence Goldstone
Bite by Bite
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
We Gon' Be Alright
Jeff Chang
The Power of Nunchi
Euny Hong
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
Haemin Sunim and Chi-Young Kim - translator
A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki
The Reality Bubble
Ziya Tong
For Teens and Young Adults
Coming-of-age stories from Asian creators.
This Book Kills
Ravena Guron
The Silver Kingdom
Radiya Hafiza
Love, Gods and Sinners
Camille Chong
Young World
Soman Chainani
The Secret World of Briar Rose
Cindy Pham
The Celestial Seas
T. A. Chan
I Am Not Jessica Chen
Ann Liang
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom
Amélie Wen Zhao
Foul Lady Fortune
Chloe Gong
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh
A Magic Steeped in Poison
Judy I. Lin
Wish upon a K-Star
Kat Cho
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
Loveboat, Taipei
Abigail Hing Wen
This Is Not a Personal Statement
Tracy Badua
This Place Is Still Beautiful
XiXi Tian
When Can We Go Back to America?
Susan H. Kamei
K-pop Confidential
Stephan Lee
Kindling
Traci Chee
Rules for Rule Breaking
Talia Tucker
Listen as a Family
Inspiring and enthralling stories for the next generation.
The Neverland Thieves
Katie Tsang and Kevin Tsang
See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng
Attack of the Dragon King
Maisie Chan
Song of the Yellow Dragon
Ying Ping Low
Myths of Japan
Masako Carey and Katie Ponder
The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class: Poppy Song Bakes a Way
Karina Yan Glaser and Kat Fajardo - illustrator
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
Disney Princess: Raya and the Ancient Dragon Spice
Disney Press and Cynthea Liu
Piper Chen Sings
Phillipa Soo and Maris Pasquale Doran
My Lost Freedom
George Takei
When You Trap a Tiger
Tae Keller
Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm
Siobhan McDermott and Yuzhen Cai
Explore Your World: Mulan: The Dragon Boat Race
Disney Books
Gigi Shin Is Not a Nerd
Lyla Lee
Sona and the Golden Beasts
Rajani LaRocca
Front Desk
Kelly Yang
Yes We Will
Kelly Yang
Raya and the Last Dragon: The Fight for Kumandra
Disney Books
I Am Golden
Eva Chen and Sophie Diao - cover illustrator
Myths of China
Xiaobing Wang
New from Here
Kelly Yang
Troublemaker
John Cho
The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei
Christina Matula
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Karina Glaser
The Golden Orchard
Flora Ahn
See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng
When the Sea Turned to Silver
Grace Lin
The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island #1)
Christina Soontornvat and Kevin Hong
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Get swept up in the imaginations of these storytellers.
Babylon, South Dakota
Tom Lin
The Rainshadow Orphans
Naomi Ishiguro
Dominion
Jean Kwok
Sublimation
Isabel J. Kim
The Subtle Art of Folding Space
John Chu
The Winged Game
Sophie Kim
The Grace of Kings
Ken Liu
Your Utopia
Bora Chung and Anton Hur - translator
Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao
The Serpent Called Mercy
Roanne Lau
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
Immortal Longings
Chloe Gong
A View from the Stars
Cixin Liu
The Fox Wife
Yangsze Choo
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
Nine Tailed
Jayci Lee
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh
The Stardust Grail
Yume Kitasei
The God and the Gumiho
Sophie Kim
Moonstorm
Yoon Ha Lee
Five Broken Blades
Mai Corland
The Last Bloodcarver
Vanessa Le
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods
Molly X. Chang
DallerGut Dream Department Store
Miye Lee and Sandy Joosun Lee - translator
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night
Amélie Wen Zhao
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Sue Lynn Tan
Romance
Fall head over heels for these spellbinding romance listens.
Leave and Come Back
Lavanya Lakshmi
Bad Words
Rioghnach Robinson
Just Kiss Already
Lily Chu
The Matcha Maker Café
Lily Chen
Lies and Weddings
Kevin Kwan
Like We Were in Paris
Stephan Lee
Time Loops & Meet Cutes
Jackie Lau
ASAP
Axie Oh
The Heart Principle
Helen Hoang
Gods & Comics
Kat Cho
Behind Five Willows
June Hur
A Pho Love Story
Loan Le
You've Found Oliver
Dustin Thao
Frankly in Love
David Yoon
The Red Palace
June Hur
A Banh Mi for Two
Trinity Nguyen
Rich Girl Summer
Lily Chu
Historical Fiction
Stories that reflect on Asian histories.
Taiwan Travelogue
Yang Shuang-Zi and Lin King - translator
The Henna Artist
Alka Joshi
Fishbone Cinderella
Elizabeth Lim
The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Sunyi Dean
4 Janes
Marian Yee
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Lisa See
A Song to Drown Rivers
Ann Liang
Mina's Matchbox
Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder - translator
White Mulberry
Rosa Kwon Easton
The Funeral Cryer
Wenyan Lu
Daughter of Calamity
Rosalie M. Lin
The Monstrous Misses Mai
Van Hoang
The Storm We Made
Vanessa Chan
House of Many Gods
Kiana Davenport
Can't I Go Instead
Lee Geum-yi and An Seonjae - translator
Four Treasures of the Sky
Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Peach Blossom Spring
Melissa Fu
Three Wishes in Bardo
Feng Chi-Shun
The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo
Editorial Highlights
17 August 2026
For this masterful storyteller, human complexities told well are a must
Vikas Swarup is not just entertained but greatly inspired when a story captures the souls of its characters.
2 July 2026
Sarah Wang’s debut explores the good and the ugly in mother-daughter dynamics
Combining body horror, incisively dark humor, and a vivid portrayal of family bonds, "New Skin" is a delicious fever dream of a novel.
8 June 2026
“Sublimation” explores the seductive allure of “what might have been”
Debut novelist Isabel J. Kim drew on her own experiences as an immigrant to craft this speculative thriller.
27 January 2026
How Japanese and Korean cozy lit took over the world
Cats, coffee, and cakes, oh my! The coziest fiction on the planet is here to soothe, snuggle, and melt away the winter blues.
24 October 2025
Can women have it all? Maybe not, but they can join a cannibalistic sorority
Olivie Blake’s “Girl Dinner” is a satirical take on feminism’s perennial quandaries.
10 September 2025
From shamanic warfare to shady shadows: A complete guide to R.F. Kuang's work
Listening to R.F. Kuang for the first time? Coming back for a refresher? Here’s what you need to know before hitting play.
27 January 2025
Sssssssay hello to the Year of the Snake
Usher in the Lunar New Year with the best snake listens to slither into audio.
23 January 2025
The best Lunar New Year audiobooks
On 29 January, we wave farewell to the Year of the Dragon by celebrating Lunar New Year, one of the most important and widely celebrated Asian holidays. Welcome to the Year of the Snake!
29 July 2024
Lily Chu strikes the perfect balance of bitter and sweet in “Drop Dead”
Drawing from a love of obituaries, mysteries, and cats, Chu takes listeners on a roller-coaster journey through intrigue, humor, and unexpected romance.