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YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST, RIGHT? No, not that. First audiobookl I'm a later-in-life disciple, formerly adamant that only the printed page held the pure experience until two audiobooks converted [...]

July marks Disability Pride Month which first began as a single day of celebration in 1990, the year the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. The first Disability Pride Month [...]

Diverse stories on the page deserve authentic voices in the ears. For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we gathered five women of Asian descent to talk about their aurally literary [...]

No doubt, books and empathy go hand-in-hand or, in this case, ear-to-ear. In a climate of contagious divisiveness, acknowledging and accepting all manner of differences is paramount to being good [...]

More than ever, we need all sorts of diverse books. As we approach what will be another contentious presidential election year, books can provide powerful antidotes to inevitably hateful rhetoric, [...]

When the Hibiscus Falls. By M. Evelina Galang. Read by the author. 2024. 7.5hr. Recorded Books, DD (9798890592439). In her second self-narrated collection, Galang voices 17 stories populated by extended [...]

* New Nigeria County. By Clare Brown. Read by a full cast. 2024. 3.5hr. Simon & Schuster Audio, DD (9781797170626). In exclusive Malcolm X Estates in New Nigeria, Caren suddenly [...]

The Murder of Mr. Ma. By John Shen Yen Nee and S. J. Rozan. Read by Daniel York Loh. 2024. 8.5hr. Recorded Books, DD (9798891783126). Rozan is a readily recognized […]

* The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn, v.i. By Tri Vuong. Art by the author. Sept. 2024. 240p. Ten Speed, $26.99 (9781984863270); paper, $19.99 (9781984863287). 741.5. What began as a [...]

* Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel. By Yoko Tawada. Tr. by Susan Bernofsky. July 2024. 144p. New Directions, paper, $14.95 (9780811234870). National Book Award--winning polyglot Tawada--Tokyo-born, Berlin-domiciled-presents another succinct [...]

The Dallergut Dream Department Store. By Miye Lee. Tr. by Sandy Joosun Lee. July 2024. 300p. Hanover Square, $21.99 (9781335081179); e-book (9780369749352). Lee's million-copy Korean best-seller is about to charm [...]

The National Commemoration of Asian/Pacific American heritage became public law with President Jimmy Carter's proclamation on March 28, 1979, designating the first 10 days of May to be 'Asian/Pacific American [...]

The numbers don't lie: according to the 2020 Census, more than 33 million Americans--that's about 1 in 10!--identified as being of two or more races. Multiracial Americans are also the [...]

Brat. By Gabriel Smith. Read by the author. 2024. 5hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593864630). Smith double-debuts as writer and reader with a hybrid novel that could be shelved in [...]

* The Ministry of Time. By Kaliane Bradley. Read by George Weightman and Katie Leung. 2024. 10.5hr. Simon & Schuster Audio, DD (9781797176888). Weightman narrates the minute prologue ever so [...]

Swift River. By Essie Chambers. Read by a full cast. 2024. 10.5ht Simon & Schuster Audio, DD (9781797174563). Three seasoned narrators distinctly inhabit Chambers' empowering debut, already a "Read with [...]

* One of Our Kind. By Nicola Yoon. Read by Nicole Lewis. 2024. 8.5hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593869161). Liberty, California, might be a "small" L.A. suburb, but its very [...]

* Lies and Weddings. By Kevin Kwan. Read by Jing Lusi. 2024. 15hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593293584). Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians) debuted his Cities trilogy with Sex and Vanity [...]

* Whale Fall. By Elizabeth O'Connor. Read by a full 2024. 4hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593829981). On a remote coastal island off Wales live "girls married at sixteen, with [...]

* Daughters of Shandong. By Eve J. Chung. Read by Yu-Li Alice Shen. 2024. 11hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593826164). Shen impressively enlivens three generations of Chinese women with such [...]

* The Guncle Abroad. By Steven Rowley. Read by the author. 2024. 10hr. Books on Tape, DD, $22.50 (9780593826867). Relishing Rowley's fabulously self-narrated The Guncle (2021) isn't absolutely necessary, but [...]

The Bump. By Sidney Karger. Read by Ryan Spahn and Michael Urie. 2024. 9.5hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593825624). Whaaaaat??!! A who-read-who at book's end with just two narrators? Individual [...]

We'll Prescribe You a Cat. By Syou Ishida. Tr. by E. Madison Shimoda. Sept. 2024. 336p. Berkley, $25 (9780593818749); e-book (9780593818756). Natsume Soseki, arguably Japan's greatest novelist, was also the [...]

Under the Eye of the Big Bird. By Hiromi Kawakami. Tr. by Asa Yoneda. Sept. 2024. 288p. Soft Skull, $27 (9781593766115); e-book (9781593766207). Kawakami's prize-winning novel examines the disturbing fate [...]

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority. By Anne Anlin Cheng. Sept. 2024. 304p. Pantheon, $27 (9780593316825); e-book (9780593316832). 973.0495. "I was going through cancer when the world [...]

I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist. By Baek Sehee. Tr. by Anton Hur. Aug. 2024. 224p. Bloomsbury, $26.99 (9781639732302).158.3. Back's [...]

* The Titanic Survivors Book Club. By Timothy Schaffert. Read by Max Meyers. 2024. 10.5hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593821275). 'I spotted my name, again and again, on the lists [...]

* The Spoiled Heart. By Sunjeev Sahota. Read by Esh Alladi. 2024. 9hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593827925). Careful attention is required--significant rewards await--as three narrative threads are twisted then […]

Shae. By Mesha Maren. Read by Kira Fixx. 2024. 6hr. Hachette Audio, DD (9781643755670). "From the moment I was born, I'd been given everything I could dream of and then [...]

* Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar. Read by Arian Moayed. 2024. 10.5hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593824566). Debut novelist and award-winning poet Akbar and narrator Moayed (in his first solo credit) [...]

* A Home for Friendless Women. By Kelly E. Hill. Read by a full cast. 2024. 8hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593821756). Nineteenth-century Kentucky--not unlike the rest of the country--isn't [...]

* Your Letter. By Hyeon A. Cho. Art by the author. July 2024. 270p. Yen/Ize, paper, $20 (9798400901119). Gr. 9-12. 741.5. Cho's gloriously magical manwha begins with a viscerally painful, […]

Dog Days. By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. Art by the author. Tr. by Janet Hong. Oct. 2024. 2i2p. Drawn & Quarterly, paper, $24.95 (9781770467316). 741.5. Gendry-Kim's fourth extraordinary title arrives, once [...]

* The AWL, v.1. By Choi Gyu-seok. Art by the author. Tr. by Lynn Eskow. Sept. 2024. 248p. Diamond/Ablaze, paper, $14.99 (9781684971909). 741.5. Labor injustice is globally ubiquitous and here, [...]

You Will Never Be Me. By Jesse Q. Sutanto. Aug. 2024. 336p. Berkley, $29 (9780593546949); e-book (9780593546956). Prolific Sutanto is made for Hollywood: Netflix optioned her rollicking, corpse-ridden Aunties trilogy; [...]

* Mina's Matchbox. By Yoko Ogawa. Tr. by Stephen B. Snyder. Aug. 2024. 288p. Pantheon, $28 (9780593316085); e-book (9780593316092). On March 16, 1972, 12-year-old Tomoko went to live with her [...]

* Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes. By Chantha Nguon and Kim Green. Read by Clara Kim. 2024. 11hr. Hachette Audio, DD (9781668637029). "We share [...]

* Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. By Salman Rushdie. Read by the author. 2024. 6.5hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593910696). At 10:45 a.m. on Friday, August 12, 2022, Rushdie, [...]

Jaded. By Ela Lee. Read by Rosa Escoda. 2024. 10hr. Simon & Schuster Audio, DD (9781797174327). Debut novelist Lee, a south London-raised daughter of Korean and Turkish immigrant parents and [...]

* Ash's Cabin. By Jen Wang. Art by the author. Aug. 2024. 320p. First Second, paper, $17.99 (9781250754066). Gr. 9-12. 741.5. Wang makes extraordinary magic again, this time exquisitely revealing [...]

* Toward Eternity. By Anton Hur. July 2024. 256p. HarperVia, $26.99 (9780063344488); e-book (9780063344501). National Book Award-finalist Hur is de servedly the Korean-to-English translator of choice. Language, unsurprisingly, drives his [...]

* The Road to the Country. By Chigozie Obioma. June 2024. 384p. Hogarth, $29 (9780593596975); e-book (9780593596999). "Shortly after the completion of his eight-hour vision in the early hours of [...]

Your Dark Secrets. By Elle Marr. July 2024. 400p. Hyperion Avenue, paper, $16.99 (9781368101585); e-book (9781368101592). Best-selling Marr's latest thriller spotlights the hush-hush escapades of the glamorous elite with the [...]

Becoming Marlow Fin. By Ellen Won Steil. July 2024. 315p. Amazon/Lake Union, paper, $16.99 (9781662512124); e-book (9781662512131). Dysfunctional family could well be an understatement in Steil's addictive sophomore thriller, intricately [...]

Below Luck Level. By Barbara Erasmus. June 2024. 290p. Catalyst, paper, $17.99 (9781960803030). South African writer Erasmus' haunting North American debut begins and ends with a mother's death. In between, [...]

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl. By Hyeseung Song. July 2024. 336p. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (9781668003664). 810. In 1996, Song was the only girl in her Houston graduating [...]

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp. By Leonie Swann. Tr. by Amy Bojang. Read by Moira Quirk. 2023. 12hr. Recorded Books, DD (9798889566564). Sunset Hall is both home and haven [...]

Welcome TO ONE OF THE MORE hope-filled, albeit cautious, Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Months in recent history. Plenty remains unsettled, challenging, and tragic, but a glass-half-full outlook extols the [...]