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 Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander by Pete Blaber.

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1

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

2

The Crusades - Thomas Asbridge Cover Art

The Crusades

3

The Invisible Spy - Thomas Maier Cover Art

The Invisible Spy

4

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

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

5

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)

6

Confronting Evil - Bill O'Reilly & Josh Hammer Cover Art

Confronting Evil

7

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Unabridged) - Candice Millard Cover Art

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Unabridged)

8

Confronting the Presidents - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard Cover Art

Confronting the Presidents

9

Common Sense - Thomas Paine Cover Art

Common Sense

10

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian - Shelby Foote Cover Art

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

11

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

Killing Lincoln

12

Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Unabridged) - Clinton Romesha Cover Art

Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Unabridged)

13

The Second World Wars : How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won - Victor Davis Hanson Cover Art

The Second World Wars : How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won

14

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (Unabridged) - Molly Crabapple Cover Art

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (Unabridged)

15

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

Killing Jesus

16

Thunderstruck (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

Thunderstruck (Unabridged)

17

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

Alien Interview (Unabridged)

18

Conquistador : Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs - Buddy Levy Cover Art

Conquistador : Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

19

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar - Tom Holland Cover Art

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

20

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Unabridged)

21

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Unabridged) - Hampton Sides Cover Art

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Unabridged)

22

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

23

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Unabridged) - Timothy Egan Cover Art

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Unabridged)

24

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)

25

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave - Willie Lynch Cover Art

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave

26

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

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

27

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

A People's History of the United States

28

On Killing - Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman Cover Art

On Killing

29

We Are the Bad Guys: The Global Cost of American Power (Unabridged) - Michael Lester Cover Art

We Are the Bad Guys: The Global Cost of American Power (Unabridged)

30

War Is A Racket - General Smedley Darlington Butler Cover Art

War Is A Racket

31

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II - Adam Makos Cover Art

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

32

Rubicon - Tom Holland Cover Art

Rubicon

33

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

34

SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard Cover Art

SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome

35

Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 (Unabridged) - Ian Buruma Cover Art

Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 (Unabridged)

36

A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman Cover Art

A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century

37

The Sea Wolves : A History of the Vikings - Lars Brownworth Cover Art

The Sea Wolves : A History of the Vikings

38

War Before Civilization (Unabridged) - Lawrence H. Keeley Cover Art

War Before Civilization (Unabridged)

39

Area 51 - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Area 51

40

Firestorm - Jacob Soboroff Cover Art

Firestorm

41

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Unabridged) - Yuval Noah Harari Cover Art

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Unabridged)

42

Orientalism (Unabridged) - Edward Said Cover Art

Orientalism (Unabridged)

43

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (Unabridged) - Stephen R. Bown Cover Art

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (Unabridged)

44

Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War - Arthur Quinn Cover Art

Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War

45

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

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

46

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany - William L. Shirer Cover Art

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

47

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)

48

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (Unabridged) - Carroll Quigley Cover Art

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (Unabridged)

49

King Leopold's Ghost (Unabridged) - Adam Hochschild Cover Art

King Leopold's Ghost (Unabridged)

50

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

The Wealth of Nations (Unabridged)

51

Outlaw Platoon - Sean Parnell & John Bruning Cover Art

Outlaw Platoon

52

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA - Tim Weiner Cover Art

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

53

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)

54

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Unabridged) - Jared Diamond Cover Art

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Unabridged)

55

Texas: A Captivating Guide to the History of Texas and Texas Rangers (Unabridged) - Captivating History Cover Art

Texas: A Captivating Guide to the History of Texas and Texas Rangers (Unabridged)

56

Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution (Unabridged) - Dan Jones Cover Art

Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution (Unabridged)

57

The Irony of American History (Unabridged) - Reinhold Niebuhr Cover Art

The Irony of American History (Unabridged)

58

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

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

59

Persians - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Cover Art

Persians

60

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

61

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

62

Blood and Treasure - Bob Drury & Tom Clavin Cover Art

Blood and Treasure

63

Bloodlands - Timothy Snyder Cover Art

Bloodlands

64

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney Cover Art

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

65

The Hidden History of the Knights Templar: The Church's Oldest Conspiracy (Unabridged) - Conrad Bauer Cover Art

The Hidden History of the Knights Templar: The Church's Oldest Conspiracy (Unabridged)

66

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Unabridged) - Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace Cover Art

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Unabridged)

67

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Unabridged) - Ben Macintyre Cover Art

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Unabridged)

68

The Art of War - Sun Tzu Cover Art

The Art of War

69

The Frontiersmen : A Narrative (Winning of America) - Allan W. Eckert Cover Art

The Frontiersmen : A Narrative (Winning of America)

70

Tripped - Norman Ohler Cover Art

Tripped

71

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (Unabridged) - Walter Isaacson & E. Thomas Cover Art

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (Unabridged)

72

House of Lilies : The Dynasty That Made Medieval France - Justine Firnhaber-Baker Cover Art

House of Lilies : The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

73

Blind Man's Bluff - Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew Cover Art

Blind Man's Bluff

74

Titanic: The Story of the Unsinkable Ship (Unabridged) - Hourly History Cover Art

Titanic: The Story of the Unsinkable Ship (Unabridged)

75

Ain't I a Woman : Black Women and Feminism 2nd Edition - bell hooks Cover Art

Ain't I a Woman : Black Women and Feminism 2nd Edition

76

Project Gemini: The History and Legacy of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Missions Before the Apollo Program - Charles River Editors Cover Art

Project Gemini: The History and Legacy of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Missions Before the Apollo Program

77

The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome : A History of the Ptolemies - Guy de la Bedoyere Cover Art

The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome : A History of the Ptolemies

78

Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror (Unabridged) - Erik Prince Cover Art

Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror (Unabridged)

79

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Unabridged) - David E. Hoffman Cover Art

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Unabridged)

80

In the Enemy's House - Howard Blum Cover Art

In the Enemy's House

81

Taking Midway: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II (Unabridged) - Martin Dugard Cover Art

Taking Midway: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II (Unabridged)

82

Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship (Unabridged) - Robert Kurson Cover Art

Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship (Unabridged)

83

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

The World: A Family History of Humanity (Unabridged)

84

Continental Reckoning : The American West in the Age of Expansion - Elliott West Cover Art

Continental Reckoning : The American West in the Age of Expansion

85

Gods of War: History's Greatest Military Rivals (Unabridged) - James Lacey & Williamson Murray Cover Art

Gods of War: History's Greatest Military Rivals (Unabridged)

86

WW2: Spies, Snipers and Tales of the World at War - Daniel Wrinn & War History Journals Cover Art

WW2: Spies, Snipers and Tales of the World at War

87

Nine Years Among the Indians (Expanded, Annotated) (Unabridged) - Herman Lehmann Cover Art

Nine Years Among the Indians (Expanded, Annotated) (Unabridged)

88

Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam (Abridged) - John Leppelman Cover Art

Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam (Abridged)

89

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Unabridged) - Michael Dobbs Cover Art

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Unabridged)

90

Between Two Rivers : Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History - Moudhy Al-Rashid Cover Art

Between Two Rivers : Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

91

The Patriots : Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America - Winston Groom Cover Art

The Patriots : Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America

92

Next War: Reimagining How We Fight (Unabridged) - John Antal Cover Art

Next War: Reimagining How We Fight (Unabridged)

93

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Unabridged) - Roger Lowenstein Cover Art

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Unabridged)

94

The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya - David Stuart Cover Art

The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya

95

American Dialogue: The Founders and Us (Unabridged) - Joseph J. Ellis Cover Art

American Dialogue: The Founders and Us (Unabridged)

96

Citizens of London : The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour - Lynne Olson Cover Art

Citizens of London : The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour

97

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies - M. Stanton Evans Cover Art

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies

98

1066: The Year That Changed Everything - Jennifer Paxton & The Great Courses Cover Art

1066: The Year That Changed Everything

99

The Waiting Game : The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens - Nicola Clark Cover Art

The Waiting Game : The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

100

One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa (Unabridged) - John Wukovits Cover Art

One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa (Unabridged)

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