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 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

The history audiobook bestseller chart was last updated on Eastern Time.

Related chart: History ebooks

Audiobook Chart: Top History Audiobooks 2025

1

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

A People's History of the United States

2

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

3

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

Confronting Evil

4

The Crusades - Thomas Asbridge Cover Art

The Crusades

5

Mythos - Stephen Fry Cover Art

Mythos

6

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War - Malcolm Gladwell Cover Art

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

7

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich - Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside & Claire Bloom Cover Art

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

8

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

These Truths : A History of the United States

9

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)

10

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)

11

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

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

12

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

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

13

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

14

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Unabridged) - Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper, Ilena SIlverman & Jake Silverstein Cover Art

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Unabridged)

15

We the People : A History of the U.S. Constitution - Jill Lepore Cover Art

We the People : A History of the U.S. Constitution

16

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)

17

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Unabridged) - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Cover Art

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Unabridged)

18

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)

19

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi (Unabridged) - Wright Thompson Cover Art

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi (Unabridged)

20

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

SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome

21

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

The Swerve : How the World Became Modern

22

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)

23

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

The Guns of August (The Great War Series)

24

Surprise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

25

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

26

Children of Ash and Elm : A History of the Vikings - Neil Price Cover Art

Children of Ash and Elm : A History of the Vikings

27

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

American Civil Wars : A Continental History, 1850–1873

28

The British Are Coming - Rick Atkinson Cover Art

The British Are Coming

29

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

30

Killing the Mob - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard Cover Art

Killing the Mob

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

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

33

American Midnight - Adam Hochschild Cover Art

American Midnight

34

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

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

35

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Unabridged) - Charles C. Mann Cover Art

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Unabridged)

36

Twilight of the Gods : War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 - Ian W. Toll Cover Art

Twilight of the Gods : War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

37

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

38

Jesus and John Wayne : How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - Kristin Kobes Du Mez Cover Art

Jesus and John Wayne : How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

39

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

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Unabridged)

40

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)

41

The Art of War - Sun Tzu Cover Art

The Art of War

42

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)

43

Follow Me to Hell - Tom Clavin Cover Art

Follow Me to Hell

44

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)

45

Outlaw Platoon - Sean Parnell & John Bruning Cover Art

Outlaw Platoon

46

Journal of the First Voyage of Columbus (Unabridged) - Christopher Columbus Cover Art

Journal of the First Voyage of Columbus (Unabridged)

47

Common Sense - Thomas Paine Cover Art

Common Sense

48

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Abridged) - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Cover Art

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Abridged)

49

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

50

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

Killing Kennedy

51

We Survived the Night (Unabridged) - Julian Brave NoiseCat Cover Art

We Survived the Night (Unabridged)

52

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

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

53

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)

54

Thunderstruck (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

Thunderstruck (Unabridged)

55

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

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

56

The Origins of Totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt Cover Art

The Origins of Totalitarianism

57

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

Killing Patton

58

Killing the Killers - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard Cover Art

Killing the Killers

59

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Unabridged) - Peter Frankopan Cover Art

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Unabridged)

60

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)

61

What Is Free Speech? : The History of a Dangerous Idea - Fara Dabhoiwala Cover Art

What Is Free Speech? : The History of a Dangerous Idea

62

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)

63

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

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

64

Harvest of Empire : A History of Latinos in America - Juan Gonzalez Cover Art

Harvest of Empire : A History of Latinos in America

65

The Great Halifax Explosion - John U. Bacon Cover Art

The Great Halifax Explosion

66

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

67

The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II (Unabridged) - David Nasaw Cover Art

The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II (Unabridged)

68

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)

69

Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell Cover Art

Lone Survivor

70

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

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

71

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

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

72

Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me - Wilfred Reilly Cover Art

Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me

73

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (Unabridged) - Robert Kurson Cover Art

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (Unabridged)

74

Killing Crazy Horse - Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard Cover Art

Killing Crazy Horse

75

On Killing - Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman Cover Art

On Killing

76

To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth - Tom Clavin & Phil Keith Cover Art

To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth

77

Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis (Unabridged) - Martin J. Sherwin Cover Art

Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis (Unabridged)

78

Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era - James MacPherson Cover Art

Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

79

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

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

80

The Greatest Generation (Abridged) - Tom Brokaw Cover Art

The Greatest Generation (Abridged)

81

Vanderbilt - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe Cover Art

Vanderbilt

82

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

83

Gettysburg - Stephen W. Sears Cover Art

Gettysburg

84

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (Unabridged) - James D. Hornfischer Cover Art

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (Unabridged)

85

Leave No Man Behind: The Untold Story of the Rangers’ Unrelenting Search for Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL Lone Survivor in Afghanistan - Dr. Tony Brooks & Bob Welch Cover Art

Leave No Man Behind: The Untold Story of the Rangers’ Unrelenting Search for Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL Lone Survivor in Afghanistan

86

El hombre en busca de sentido - Viktor Frankl Cover Art

El hombre en busca de sentido

87

The Gospel of Thomas (Unabridged) - Joseph B. Lumpkin Cover Art

The Gospel of Thomas (Unabridged)

88

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

89

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

90

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

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

91

Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution - Patrick K. O'Donnell Cover Art

Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

92

Sgt. Reckless: America’s War Horse - Robin Hutton Cover Art

Sgt. Reckless: America’s War Horse

93

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

Confronting the Presidents

94

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War (Unabridged) - Ben Macintyre Cover Art

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War (Unabridged)

95

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook - Mark Bray Cover Art

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

96

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)

97

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)

98

The Founding Myth : Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American - Andrew L Seidel Cover Art

The Founding Myth : Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

99

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (Unabridged) - Caroline Fraser Cover Art

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (Unabridged)

Books

iTunes Audiobook Charts

Audiobook Best Sellers

Fiction Audiobooks

Nonfiction Audiobooks

Apple Books eBook Charts

Best Selling eBooks

iTunes Halloween Related Charts

iTunes Music Charts

Most Popular Music Charts

Movie Charts

Top Movies

iTunes TV Charts

Top Television Shows

iTunes iOS App Charts

Top iPhone Apps

Top iPad & iPad Mini Apps

International iTunes Charts