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 We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America (Unabridged) by Norah O'Donnell & Kate Andersen Brower.

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1

We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America (Unabridged) - Norah O'Donnell & Kate Andersen Brower Cover Art

We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America (Unabridged)

2

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

A People's History of the United States

3

Common Sense - Thomas Paine Cover Art

Common Sense

4

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

5

American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology (Unabridged) - Jon Meacham Cover Art

American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology (Unabridged)

6

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

7

Abandoned in Hell : The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate - Joseph L. Galloway, William Albracht & Marvin Wolf Cover Art

Abandoned in Hell : The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate

8

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

9

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)

10

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)

11

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

12

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

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

13

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)

14

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

Killing Jesus

15

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

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

16

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

Continental Reckoning : The American West in the Age of Expansion

17

The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding (Unabridged) - Joseph J. Ellis Cover Art

The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding (Unabridged)

18

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

Confronting the Presidents

19

The Hamilton Scheme : An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding - William Hogeland Cover Art

The Hamilton Scheme : An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding

20

The Cause : The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 - Joseph J. Ellis Cover Art

The Cause : The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

21

Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany - Donald L. Miller Cover Art

Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany

22

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots - David Fisher Cover Art

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

23

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

The Frontiersmen : A Narrative (Winning of America)

24

A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Unabridged) - G. J. Meyer Cover Art

A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Unabridged)

25

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Gad Saad Cover Art

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

26

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

27

1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated): The Year Civilization Collapsed (Unabridged) - Eric H. Cline Cover Art

1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated): The Year Civilization Collapsed (Unabridged)

28

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Unabridged) - Hampton Sides Cover Art

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Unabridged)

29

The Rediscovery of America : Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) - Ned Blackhawk Cover Art

The Rediscovery of America : Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

30

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

Killing Patton

31

How Rome Fell : Death of a Superpower - Adrian Goldsworthy Cover Art

How Rome Fell : Death of a Superpower

32

The British Are Coming - Rick Atkinson Cover Art

The British Are Coming

33

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

A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

34

War of the Flea - Robert Taber Cover Art

War of the Flea

35

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

36

The Earth is Weeping : The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West - Peter Cozzens Cover Art

The Earth is Weeping : The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

37

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

The Guns of August (The Great War Series)

38

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

39

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

Skunk Works

40

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

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

41

Let the People Rule : Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary - Geoffrey Cowan Cover Art

Let the People Rule : Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary

42

The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington across the Delaware - Patrick K. O'Donnell Cover Art

The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington across the Delaware

43

Mythos - Stephen Fry Cover Art

Mythos

44

Devil in the Grove - Gilbert King Cover Art

Devil in the Grove

45

Thunderstruck (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

Thunderstruck (Unabridged)

46

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Unabridged) - Hampton Sides Cover Art

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Unabridged)

47

Surprise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

48

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Unabridged) - Isabel Wilkerson Cover Art

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Unabridged)

49

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Unabridged) - Yuval Noah Harari Cover Art

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Unabridged)

50

The Lessons of History - Will Durant & Ariel Durant Cover Art

The Lessons of History

51

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)

52

American Civil Wars : A Continental History, 1850–1873 - Alan Taylor Cover Art

American Civil Wars : A Continental History, 1850–1873

53

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

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

54

The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli Cover Art

The Prince

55

These Truths : A History of the United States - Jill Lepore Cover Art

These Truths : A History of the United States

56

Vietnam: A War Lost and Won - Nigel Cawthorne Cover Art

Vietnam: A War Lost and Won

57

Adams vs. Jefferson : The Tumultuous Election of 1800 - John Ferling Cover Art

Adams vs. Jefferson : The Tumultuous Election of 1800

58

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)

59

Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell Cover Art

Lone Survivor

60

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)

61

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

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

62

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)

63

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)

64

Mein Kampf - Jacob Nielsen Cover Art

Mein Kampf

65

A History of USOs: Unidentified Submerged Objects: Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1969 (Unabridged) - Richard Dolan Cover Art

A History of USOs: Unidentified Submerged Objects: Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1969 (Unabridged)

66

Common Sense (Unabridged) - Thomas Paine Cover Art

Common Sense (Unabridged)

67

Strategy: A History (Unabridged) - Lawrence Freedman Cover Art

Strategy: A History (Unabridged)

68

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

69

The Night Stalkers : Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment - Robert L. Johnson, Michael J. Durant & Steven Hartov Cover Art

The Night Stalkers : Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment

70

First In : An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan - Gary C. Schroen Cover Art

First In : An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan

71

The Histories: The Persian Wars (Unabridged) - Herodotus & A. D. Godley, Translator Cover Art

The Histories: The Persian Wars (Unabridged)

72

A Brief History of Italy - Jeremy Black Cover Art

A Brief History of Italy

73

"The Rest of Us": The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews (Unabridged) - Stephen Birmingham Cover Art

"The Rest of Us": The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews (Unabridged)

74

Medieval People - Eileen Power Cover Art

Medieval People

75

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

Confronting Evil

76

American Legend : The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett - Buddy Levy Cover Art

American Legend : The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett

77

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

To Rescue the Republic

78

The Art of War (Unabridged) - Sun Tzu Cover Art

The Art of War (Unabridged)

79

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

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

80

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Unabridged) - David Grann Cover Art

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Unabridged)

81

Motherland - Julia Ioffe Cover Art

Motherland

82

Humankind - Rutger Bregman Cover Art

Humankind

83

The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild (Unabridged) - Bryan Burrough Cover Art

The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild (Unabridged)

84

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

85

Medical Apartheid : The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A. Washington Cover Art

Medical Apartheid : The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

86

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

87

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 (Unabridged) - Joseph J. Ellis Cover Art

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 (Unabridged)

88

The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 - 1066 (Unabridged) - Marc Morris Cover Art

The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 - 1066 (Unabridged)

89

The Antiquities of the Jews - Flavius Josephus Cover Art

The Antiquities of the Jews

90

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam - Barbara W. Tuchman Cover Art

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

91

Nature Knows No Color-Line - J.A. Rogers & Will Stauff Cover Art

Nature Knows No Color-Line

92

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

93

Rubicon - Tom Holland Cover Art

Rubicon

94

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Unabridged) - Sharon McMahon Cover Art

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Unabridged)

95

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean (Abridged) - Les Standiford Cover Art

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean (Abridged)

96

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (Unabridged) - Nathaniel Philbrick Cover Art

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (Unabridged)

97

Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man's Life - Fred Minnick Cover Art

Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man's Life

98

The Sleepwalkers - Christopher Clark Cover Art

The Sleepwalkers

99

In Danger's Path: The Corps, Book 8 (Unabridged) - W. E. B. Griffin Cover Art

In Danger's Path: The Corps, Book 8 (Unabridged)

100

To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision (Unabridged) - Admiral James Stavridis, USN Cover Art

To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision (Unabridged)

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