iTunes Top 100 History Audiobooks

The top 100 most popular and best selling history audiobooks on iTunes offer powerful insights into past events and influential figures. These audiobooks, available on iTunes and Audible, cover ancient civilizations, world wars, political movements, U.S. history, and key historical moments. Acclaimed authors such as David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Howard Zinn, Erik Larson, Ron Chernow, and Yuval Noah Harari have written some of the most impactful books in the genre. Best sellers include groundbreaking works that continue to educate and inspire. Listen to top history audiobooks that bring the past to life through expert narration and storytelling and get a deeper understanding of the events that shaped the world.

The current best selling history audiobook on iTunes today is The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land (Unabridged) by Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon.

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1

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land (Unabridged) - Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon Cover Art

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land (Unabridged)

2

The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander - Pete Blaber Cover Art

The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

3

How to Hide an Empire : A History of the Greater United States - Daniel Immerwahr Cover Art

How to Hide an Empire : A History of the Greater United States

4

Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab (Unabridged) - Steve Inskeep Cover Art

Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab (Unabridged)

5

The Wars of the Roses : The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors - Dan Jones Cover Art

The Wars of the Roses : The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

6

The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy - Sean Kingsley & Rex Cowan Cover Art

The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

7

The Swerve : How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt Cover Art

The Swerve : How the World Became Modern

8

Emperor of Rome : Ruling the Ancient World - Mary Beard Cover Art

Emperor of Rome : Ruling the Ancient World

9

Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs (Unabridged) - Antony Beevor Cover Art

Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs (Unabridged)

10

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged) - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

11

The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight - Winston Groom Cover Art

The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight

12

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War (Unabridged) - David Nasaw Cover Art

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War (Unabridged)

13

Alien Interview (Unabridged) - Lawrence R. Spencer Cover Art

Alien Interview (Unabridged)

14

The Crusades - Thomas Asbridge Cover Art

The Crusades

15

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa - E.B. Sledge Cover Art

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

16

Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell Cover Art

Lone Survivor

17

The Invisible Spy - Thomas Maier Cover Art

The Invisible Spy

18

Killing Jesus - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard Cover Art

Killing Jesus

19

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn Cover Art

A People's History of the United States

20

The First World War (Unabridged) - John Keegan Cover Art

The First World War (Unabridged)

21

Surprise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

22

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville - Shelby Foote Cover Art

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

23

Mein Kampf - Jacob Nielsen Cover Art

Mein Kampf

24

The Gales of November : The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald - John U. Bacon Cover Art

The Gales of November : The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

25

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Unabridged) - Anne Frank Cover Art

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Unabridged)

26

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies (Unabridged) - Ben Macintyre Cover Art

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies (Unabridged)

27

Common Sense - Thomas Paine Cover Art

Common Sense

28

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing Cover Art

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

29

Tequila Wars : Jose Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico - Ted Genoways Cover Art

Tequila Wars : Jose Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico

30

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Unabridged)

31

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Unabridged)

32

Skunk Works - Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos Cover Art

Skunk Works

33

Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II (Unabridged) - Alex Kershaw Cover Art

Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II (Unabridged)

34

Ghosts of Sicily - Mark Harmon & Leon Carroll Cover Art

Ghosts of Sicily

35

The Wealth of Nations (Unabridged) - Adam Smith Cover Art

The Wealth of Nations (Unabridged)

36

Home Fires: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War (Unabridged) - Julie Summers Cover Art

Home Fires: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War (Unabridged)

37

Fordlandia : The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City - Greg Grandin Cover Art

Fordlandia : The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

38

Taking Manhattan : The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America - Russell Shorto Cover Art

Taking Manhattan : The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

39

Rubicon - Tom Holland Cover Art

Rubicon

40

The Guns of August (The Great War Series) - Barbara W. Tuchman Cover Art

The Guns of August (The Great War Series)

41

Dominion - Tom Holland Cover Art

Dominion

42

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Unabridged) - Heather Cox Richardson Cover Art

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Unabridged)

43

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox - Shelby Foote Cover Art

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

44

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Unabridged)

45

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Unabridged) - Ronen Bergman Cover Art

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Unabridged)

46

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Unabridged) - Antony Beevor Cover Art

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Unabridged)

47

Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West - Raymond Ibrahim Cover Art

Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

48

War as I Knew It - George Patton Cover Art

War as I Knew It

49

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown Cover Art

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

50

World War 2: A Captivating Guide from Beginning to End (The Second World War and D Day Book 1) - Captivating History Cover Art

World War 2: A Captivating Guide from Beginning to End (The Second World War and D Day Book 1)

51

The Chosen Few - Gregg Zoroya Cover Art

The Chosen Few

52

Land of Hope - Wilfred M. McClay Cover Art

Land of Hope

53

The Black History Book (Unabridged) - DK Cover Art

The Black History Book (Unabridged)

54

Mythos - Stephen Fry Cover Art

Mythos

55

Left for Dead : Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World - Eric Jay Dolin Cover Art

Left for Dead : Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

56

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East  (Unabridged) - Scott Anderson Cover Art

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East  (Unabridged)

57

The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny (Unabridged) - William Strauss & Neil Howe Cover Art

The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny (Unabridged)

58

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged) - Bill Bryson Cover Art

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

59

Vanderbilt - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe Cover Art

Vanderbilt

60

A History of Iran - Michael Axworthy Cover Art

A History of Iran

61

Music Is History - Ben Greenman & Questlove Cover Art

Music Is History

62

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist - Jack El-Hai Cover Art

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

63

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (Unabridged) - Dan Jones Cover Art

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (Unabridged)

64

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Unabridged)

65

The End of Everything - Victor Davis Hanson Cover Art

The End of Everything

66

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Unabridged) - Blaine Harden Cover Art

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Unabridged)

67

The End is Always Near - Dan Carlin Cover Art

The End is Always Near

68

To Rescue the Republic - Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney Cover Art

To Rescue the Republic

69

A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Unabridged) - Daniel A. Sjursen Cover Art

A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Unabridged)

70

Bloodlands - Timothy Snyder Cover Art

Bloodlands

71

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Unabridged) - David Mitchell Cover Art

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Unabridged)

72

Black Hearts : One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death - Jim Frederick Cover Art

Black Hearts : One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

73

Terrible Swift Sword (Centennial History of the Civil War) - Bruce Catton Cover Art

Terrible Swift Sword (Centennial History of the Civil War)

74

The Second World War - Antony Beevor Cover Art

The Second World War

75

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (Unabridged) - James D. Hornfischer Cover Art

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (Unabridged)

76

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Abridged) - Hampton Sides Cover Art

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Abridged)

77

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Unabridged) - Charles C. Mann Cover Art

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Unabridged)

78

The Revolutionary Center : The Lost Genius of Liberalism - Adrian Wooldridge Cover Art

The Revolutionary Center : The Lost Genius of Liberalism

79

Topgun - Dan Pedersen Cover Art

Topgun

80

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Abridged) - Thomas Cahill Cover Art

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Abridged)

81

Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921 (Unabridged) - Antony Beevor Cover Art

Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921 (Unabridged)

82

Easy Company Soldier - Don Malarkey & Bob Welch Cover Art

Easy Company Soldier

83

A History of Japan : Revised Edition - J. G. Caiger & R. H. P. Mason Cover Art

A History of Japan : Revised Edition

84

DOOM 34: A Firsthand Account of the Top-Secret Mission That Launched Operation Desert Storm (Unabridged) - Trey Morriss & Gen. Thomas A. Bussiere - foreword Cover Art

DOOM 34: A Firsthand Account of the Top-Secret Mission That Launched Operation Desert Storm (Unabridged)

85

Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard Cover Art

Killing Lincoln

86

Thunderstruck (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

Thunderstruck (Unabridged)

87

Jerusalem: The Biography (Unabridged) - Simon Sebag Montefiore Cover Art

Jerusalem: The Biography (Unabridged)

88

The World: A Family History of Humanity (Unabridged) - Simon Sebag Montefiore Cover Art

The World: A Family History of Humanity (Unabridged)

89

Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes - Jacques Ellul Cover Art

Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes

90

The Kebra Nagast : The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith - Gerald Hausman Cover Art

The Kebra Nagast : The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith

91

The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home - William D. Hartung Cover Art

The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home

92

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Unabridged) - Tom Wolfe Cover Art

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Unabridged)

93

A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict - Ilan Pappe Cover Art

A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

94

The Feminine Mystique (Unabridged) - Betty Friedan Cover Art

The Feminine Mystique (Unabridged)

95

They Were Her Property : White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Cover Art

They Were Her Property : White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

96

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power - Niall Ferguson Cover Art

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

97

The Advisor Playbook - Duncan MacPherson Cover Art

The Advisor Playbook

98

Tombstone - Tom Clavin Cover Art

Tombstone

99

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Unabridged) - Samuel P. Huntington Cover Art

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Unabridged)

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