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Experience our world: as it was, as it is, as it might become with these audiobooks about history, the arts, culture, education, and politics. Don't miss Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, or Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Writers, or Gwen Ifill's The Breakthrough.

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Digital Civil War

by Peter Daou; read by Jonathan Yen

A deep look into the raging social media battles between red and blue Americans and the growing threat to U.S. democracy from right-wing extremism. Learn More

Dinner in Camelot

by Joseph Esposito; read by Tom Perkins

Joseph A. Esposito recounts the famed White House dinner hosted by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in April 1962. Learn More

Dirty Dealing

by Gary Cartwright; read by J. Rodney Turner

A must-listen book from Gary Cartwright, the author of Blood Will Tell and Galveston. Learn More

Dirty Work

by Eyal Press; read by Neil Shah

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"—the work that society considers essential but morally compromised. Learn More

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic

by Kevin M. De Cock, Harold W. Jaffe, and James W. Curran; edited by Robin Moseley; read by Curtis Michael Holland

Authentic and insightful, Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic provides an authoritative account of an epidemic and its central role in the expansion of global public health. Learn More

Dispersals

by Jessica J. Lee; read by Jessica J. Lee

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available July

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future. Learn More

Divested

by Ken-Hou Lin & Megan Tobias Neely

Divested is a clear, comprehensive, and convincing account of the forces driving economic inequality in America. Learn More

The Divide

by Jason Hickel; read by Jonathan Cowley

A provocative and timely myth buster that exposes the hidden machinations behind five centuries of global poverty and inequality. Learn More

DNA Demystified

by Alan McHughen; read by Bob Souer

DNA Demystified offers an informal yet authoritative guide to the genetic marvel of DNA. Learn More

Do Everything

by Christopher H. Evans; read by Elizabeth Wiley

The first biography of Frances Willard to be published in over thirty-five years, Do Everything explores Willard's life, her contributions as a reformer, and her broader legacy as a women's rights activist in the United States. Learn More

Do No Harm

Henry Marsh; read by Jim Barclay

Shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book Award

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Learn More

Doctor Who Psychology

Edited by Travis Langley, Foreword by Katy Manning; read by Esther Wane and Matthew Lloyd Davies

With a foreword by Third Doctor Companion Katy Manning and interviews with actors who played Doctors new and old, Doctor Who Psychology travels through the how and why of Who. It's all timey-wimey. Learn More

The Doctors Blackwell

by Janice P. Nimura; read by Laural Merlington

2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
One of Apple's Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2021

From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. Learn More

The Dogs of Avalon

by Laura Schenone; read by Esther Wane

In this David versus Goliath story (including the rescue of her own dog, Lily), Laura Schenone takes us into a complex world of impassioned people who stood up for millions of animals. Learn More

Doing Time Like A Spy

by John Kiriakou; read by Jonathan Yen

Winner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment Award
Winner of the 2013 Peacemaker of the Year Award

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Learn More

A Dominant Character

by Samanth Subramanian; read by Jonathan Cowley

A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Learn More

Don't Believe a Word

by David Shariatmadari; read by Damian Lynch

An entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Learn More

Don't Call Us Dead

by Danez Smith; read by Danez Smith

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Don't Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America—"Dear White America"—where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle. Learn More

Don't Let Me Be Lonely

by Claudia Rankine; read by Janina Edwards

The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric and the essay in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is contemporary America. Learn More

Doomed to Fail

by J.J. Anselmi; foreword by Cat Jones; read by Adam Lofbomm

Doomed to Fail explores the heaviest music the world has ever heard, tracing doom, sludge, and post-metal as their own distinct (and incredibly loud) traditions. Learn More