Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Authors

A Little Life

By:

Hanya Yanagihara

Narrated by:

Matt Bomer

Length:

28 hours 38 minutes

Abridged:

No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE

A Little Life follows four college... Read more about A Little Life

Hammajang Luck

By:

Makana Yamamoto

Narrated by:

Jolene Kim

Length:

11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged:

No

Ocean’s 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai’i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build a better one—unmissable for fans of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a... Read more about Hammajang Luck

Aloha Betrayed

By:

Noenoe K. Silva

Narrated by:

Kaipo Schwab

Length:

8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged:

No

In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the US Senate.



This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva... Read more about Aloha Betrayed

Hula

By:

Jasmin Iolani Hakes

Narrated by:

Mapuana Makia

Length:

10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged:

No

Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award Winner • Named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper's Bazaar and ELLE“Stunning…an intricately built novel that spans decades, moving in and out of a collective voice, while also telling Hi’i’s deeply personal and devastating story of trying to find her way.” –Los Angeles Times“A full-throated chant for... Read more about Hula

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

By:

Lili‘uokalani

Narrated by:

Emily Woo Zeller

Length:

9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged:

No

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States.



Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in... Read more about Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

Loud

By:

Drew Afualo

Narrated by:

Drew Afualo

Length:

6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged:

No

This program is read by the author.

The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first audiobook by podcast star Drew Afualo. With a new afterword from the author!

Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s “Crusader for Women” and is at the head of a new generation of entertainment’s rising stars. Loud is part manual, part manifesto, and part... Read more about Loud

The Bone People

By:

Keri Hulme

Length:

19 hours 30 minutes

Abridged:

No

Available in audio for the first time is Aotearoa New Zealand's first Booker Prize-winning novel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme.

With narration and original taonga puoro music by Ruby Solly, this powerful and mesmerising book tracks the complicated relationships between three outcasts: Kerewin, an artist estranged from her family and art; a mute... Read more about The Bone People

Hammajang Luck

By:

Makana Yamamoto

Narrated by:

Jolene Kim

Length:

11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged:

No

One last job could buy them their freedom - or cost them everything . . . Discover the high-octane space heist adventure from Makana Yamamoto - unmissable for fans of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.

HAMMAJANG | adjective. Definition: In a disorderly or chaotic state; messed up. Chiefly in predicative use, esp. in... Read more about Hammajang Luck

Aloha Everything

By:

Kaylin Melia George

Narrated by:

Barrie Kealoha

Length:

8 minutes

Abridged:

No

★ ""A stunning tribute to Hawaiian culture and identity.""—Kirkus Reviews
A Center for the Study of Multicultural Literature Best Book of 2024
A 2025 Asian Pacific American Award Book
A 2025 Notable Book for a Global Society - International Literacy Association Aloha Everything is a magical story that will take you on a thrilling journey... Read more about Aloha Everything

Dragonfruit

By:

Makiia Lucier

Narrated by:

Mapuana Makia

Length:

8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged:

No

An Asian/Pacific American Award Honor Book A USA TODAY bestseller One of NPR's 2024 ""Books We Love"" A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2024 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2024 From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythology. In the old tales, it is... Read more about Dragonfruit

The People in the Trees

By:

Hanya Yanagihara

Narrated by:

Mark Bramhall & BD Wong

Length:

17 hours 37 minutes

Abridged:

No

Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction—including admirers of Norman Rush's Mating, Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and Peter Matthiessen's At Play in the Fields of the Lord—will be drawn to this astonishingly gripping and accomplished first novel. A decade in the writing, this... Read more about The People in the Trees

Kapaemahu

By:

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson

Narrated by:

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Length:

23 minutes

Abridged:

No

An Indigenous legend about how four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit, or Mahu, brought healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, based on the Academy Award–contending short film.

In the 15th century, four Mahu sail from Tahiti to Hawaii and share their gifts of science and healing with the people of Waikiki. The islanders... Read more about Kapaemahu

Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

By:

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Narrated by:

Michelle Sekine

Length:

6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged:

No

Bloomsbury presents Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, read by Michelle Sekine.

USA Today Bestseller
A Debutiful “Best Debuts of the Year”
“Rich and wise, humming with confidence.” —New York Times Book Review
“A knockout. Eleven knockouts. One KO for every story.”—Elizabeth McCracken
“Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare is a... Read more about Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

Lei and the Fire Goddess

By:

Malia Maunakea

Narrated by:

Jennifer Robideau

Length:

7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged:

No

"Lei and the Fire Goddess blends preteen angst and beloved Hawaiian moʻolelo in a way that hasn't been done before." —Auliʻi Cravalho, actress and voice of Disney's Princess Moana

Curses aren't real.

At least, that's what twelve-year-old, part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kamaʻehu thinks when she listens to her grandmother's folktales about... Read more about Lei and the Fire Goddess

Lei and the Invisible Island

By:

Malia Maunakea

Narrated by:

Jennifer Robideau

Length:

8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged:

No

An exciting follow-up to Lei and the Fire Goddess features a mysterious, invisible island, dangerous spirits, and a newcomer who does not need Lei's help...or does she?

It turns out that curses are real.

After saving her best friend and ancestral guardian, Kaipo, from Pele the fire goddess’s traps and successfully preventing lava from destroying... Read more about Lei and the Invisible Island

Year of the Reaper

By:

Makiia Lucier

Narrated by:

Jonathan Myles

Length:

9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged:

No

“I love the magic Lucier weaves through this dark yet hopeful tale. I devoured it in one sitting!” —Kristin Cashore, author of the New York Times bestselling Graceling Realm books""A beautifully crafted novel containing everything I love in an epic fantasy: complex characters and relationships, excellent world building, and a compelling story... Read more about Year of the Reaper

Hine Toa: An extraordinary memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Māori liberation movements, WINNER of the 2025 Ockham General Non-Fiction Award

By:

Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku

Narrated by:

Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku

Length:

13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged:

No

An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Māori liberation movements***Winner of the general non-fiction award at the the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025***
'Remarkable. At once heartbreaking and triumphant' Patricia GraceIn the 1950s, a young Ngāhuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community.... Read more about Hine Toa: An extraordinary memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Māori liberation movements, WINNER of the 2025 Ockham General Non-Fiction Award

Clairboyance

By:

Kristiana Kahakauwila

Narrated by:

Jolene Kim

Length:

6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged:

No

Asian/Pacific American Honor for Children's LiteratureA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionPerfect for fans of Debbi Michiko Florence and Lisa Greenwald, Clairboyance’s heartfelt and sweet coming of age story with a touch of magic follows Clara as her life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has boy-specific ESP... Read more about Clairboyance

Poukahangatus

By:

Tayi Tibble

Narrated by:

Tayi Tibble

Length:

1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged:

No

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation.

Intimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in... Read more about Poukahangatus

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

By:

Julian Aguon

Narrated by:

Kevin Shen

Length:

2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged:

No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples.

Aguon beautifully weaves together stories from his childhood in the villages of Guam with searing political... Read more about No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

How to Loiter In a Turf War

By:

Coco Solid

Narrated by:

Coco Solid

Length:

2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged:

No

Like nothing you've heard before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of fiction from one of Aotearoa's most versatile artists, read by the author herself. It's a day in the life of three friends beefing with their own city, Tamaki Makaurau. With gentrification closing in and racial tensions sweltering, the... Read more about How to Loiter In a Turf War

Local

By:

Jessica Machado

Narrated by:

Mapuana Makia

Length:

6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged:

No

A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs.Born and raised in Hawai‘i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land and a mother from the American South, Jessica Machado wrestles with what it means to be “local.” Feeling separate from the history and tenets of... Read more about Local

Song of the Exile

By:

Kiana Davenport

Narrated by:

Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

Length:

16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged:

No

This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich... Read more about Song of the Exile

Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice

By:

Anna Lapera

Narrated by:

Allison Aguilar

Length:

8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged:

No

Life sucks when you’re twelve. You’re not a little kid, but you’re also not an adult, and all the grown-ups in your life talk about your body the minute it starts getting a shape. And what sucks even more than being a Chinese-Filipino-American-Guatemalan who can’t speak any ancestral language well? When almost every other girl in school has... Read more about Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice