Audiobooks for Asian Heritage Month
At Audiobook Accomplice, we’re not celebrating just Asian Pacific American Heritage Month this May, we’re celebrating it ALL: the American experience, the Homelands, the writers, the stories.
Every week this month we’ll be adding an audiobook or two to our APAHM Library for you to peruse, and we’ll tack audiobooks on as we travel through the year.
I ask that you feel free to suggest audiobooks for review to add, especially by Asian American writers. Just shoot me an email at Gillian@AudiobookAccomplice.com, and I’ll happily give it a go!
Don’t forget to like the reviews that feed your addiction.

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Asian Heritage Fiction:
A Novel
By: Seishu Hase / Translated By: Alison Watts / Narrated By: Akie Kotabe
Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
Okaaaay… What. The. HECK! did I just listen to…?
Series: A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, Book 1
By: Vaseem Khan / Narrated By: Sartaj Garewal
Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
Oh what a charming start to a series! Now? When to listen to Book Twoooooo…!!!
A Novel
By: Quan Barry / Narrated By: David Lee Huynh
Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
Reading pals LOVED it; those who Listened to it? >A MIGHTY MEH<
By: Randy Ribay / Narrated By: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
Kinda a surprise, but wholly delighted!
By: Emily X.R. Pan / Narrated By: Natalie Naudus, Shawn K. Jain, David Shih
Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
The most unbearably HOT MESS I’ve had the misfortune to have screeched in m’ ears…
A Novel
By: Hiromi Kawakami / Translated By: Allison Markin Powell / Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
Refreshingly engaging… -BUT- …
A Novel
By: Gail Tsukiyama / Narrated By: David Shih
Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
P’raps it has its flaws, but I dunno—a gentle, quiet unfolding… PHEW!!!
A Novel
By: Gail Tsukiyama / Narrated By: Brian Nishii, Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
Maybe…? Had this been m’ First Gail Tsukiyama novel…?
A Novel
By: Jamie Ford / Foreword and Afterword By: Jamie Ford / Narrated By: Jennifer Lim, Mirai, Cindy Kay, Natalie Naudus, Sura Siu, Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu
Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
5-stars for Stunning Imagery… but… the “Jamie Ford 2-by-4” of sublimely-written agony is just too much here
By: Genzaburo Yoshino / Afterword and Translation By: Bruno Navasky / Foreword By: Neil Gaiman / Narrated By: Brian Nishii
Length: 6 hrs and 13 min
Ya know what? Didn’t like it until I started talking about it…
Nine Adventures from the Lost Years
Series: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By: Ted Riccardi / Narrated By: Simon Prebble
Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
Oh gosh, I LOVED the premise, the writing, Simon Prebble… -But-
A Novel
By: Amulya Malladi / Narrated By: Deepa Samuel
Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
Nothing says Asian American Heritage like: AY, CARAMBA!!!
And Other Tales
By: Zen Cho / Narrated By: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
Somewhat shallow and then WHAM! A most satisfying conclusion
A Novel
By: Sosuke Natsukawa / Narrated By: Kevin Shen
Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
Oh jeez… I think I’m missing something, like, HUGE, cuz I wanted to LOVE this story…
Stories
By: Te-Ping Chen / Narrated By: Chris Naoki Lee, Eddy Lee, Fiona Rene, Matt Yang Kim, Christine Lakin, Katie Tang, Lynn Chen
Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
Wow… Did the negative reviewers and I listen to the same book?!
A Novel
Series: The Rajes Series, Book 1
By: Sonali Dev / Narrated By: Soneela Nankani
Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
Yikes! Like, 8 hours of wanting to throttle our heroine, but SAVED by remaining portion of book. Do I wanna continue with series…?
By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi / Narrated By: Arina Ii
Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
DEFinitely feeling torn on this one… translation? obvious writing? disappointing character development? was weeping into m’ hankie SEVeral times making my husband wonder what the deal was…?
A Novel
By: Jamie Ford / Narrated By: Ryan Gesell
Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
Abandon Hope all ye who enter here… until…
A Novel
By: Jamie Ford / Narrated By: Emily Woo Zeller / Afterword By: Jamie Ford
Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
Truly lovely! Mr. Ford, sir? Pleeeeze tell me the Muse will have ya coming out with a new one soon?
By: Flora Ahn / Narrated By: Kathleen Choe
Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
Kinda geared for a much younger audience, but I dunno that it has enough action to engage them. Made me soooo hungry though!
By: Helen Hoang / Narrated By: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hrs
Oh, the challenges of listening to Romances—even if I DID find it utterly charming
A Novel
By: Jamie Ford / Narrated By: Feodor Chin / Afterword By: Jamie Ford
Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
Has a bit of a “Author’s first book” feel (Since it is!), but it’s oh so lovely!
By: Khanh Ha / Narrated By: Feodor Chin, Andrew Eiden
Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
Three words only? Mesmerizing, Gritty, Redemptive
By: Takashi Hiraide / Narrated By: David Shih
Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
Abrupt ending doesn’t mar the elegance and sensitivity of this story
By: Gloria Chao / Narrated By: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
Well, wow… I was expecting light Chick-lit with a side o’ teen angst, and I got something with a bit of depth instead!
By: Sayaka Murata / Translated By: Ginny Tapley Takemori / Narrated By: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
Didn’t feel it so much through the first listen, but really picked up on the humor and depth during the second listen
By: Grace Lin / Narrated By: Janet Song
Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
Ignore the wandering mind and stick with this little gem!
By: Hiro Arikawa / Translated By: Philip Gabriel / Narrated By: George Blagden
Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
Best book I’ve listened to in a long time; it’s just THAT good!
Asian Heritage Nonfiction:
By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, John Slattery
Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
“Caustic rhetoric”?!? Yesssss!!!
The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
By: Jonathan Kaufman / Narrated By: Joel Richards
Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
Engaging, a real treat!
Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Written and Narrated By: Jose Antonio Vargas
Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
Good enough but by no MEANS is this the experience of most Undocumented individuals…
My Year of Domestic Mayhem
Written and Narrated By: Sandra Tsing Loh
Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
Started off haaaating it, full-expected to continue haaaating it, but danged if I didn’t wind up laughing so hard I cried, like, SEVERAL times!
The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
By: Ben Montgomery / Narrated By: Joe Barrett
Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
Wait, I know there’s a story in here SOMEwhere…!
Life After Nuclear War
By: Susan Southard / Narrated By: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
75 years later, and I’m devastated, and I’m a tad confused (I do admit it…!)
The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
By: Michihiko Hachiya MD / Narrated By: Robertson Dean
Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
Boooooo, Robertson DEAN! …but at least he didn’t ruin this one…! Verrrry touching, soul-stirring
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson / Narrated By: Derek Perkins
Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
A HIGHly respectful look at what we don’t know about North Korea
What China's Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains
Written and Narrated By: Jenny Bowen
Length 8 hrs and 24 mins
Jenny is the mother of all Hope!
The Epic World War II Story of the Japanese American GIs Who Rescued the Lost Battalion
By: Scott McGaugh / Narrated By: Traber Burns
Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
Riveting Military History of Heroes, but oh! Traber Burns :(
The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
By: Lisa See / Narrated By: Kate Reading
Length: 18 hours and 6 mins
An unconventional family, ESPECIALLY considering the times!
By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston / Narrated By: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
A young girl’s account of Internment—very good, tho’ a trifle sad…
The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
By Joan Criddle and Teeda Butt Mam / Narrated by Christina Moore
Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
Brutal, with hit after hit, yet hopeful when all is said and done