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 Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged) by Annie Jacobsen.

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1

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

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

2

Area 51 - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Area 51

3

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

The Frontiersmen : A Narrative (Winning of America)

4

The Pentagon's Brain - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

The Pentagon's Brain

5

Operation Paperclip - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Operation Paperclip

6

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

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

7

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

8

Surprise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

9

Mythos - Stephen Fry Cover Art

Mythos

10

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

11

Divine Might - Natalie Haynes Cover Art

Divine Might

12

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

13

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)

14

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

Emperor of Rome : Ruling the Ancient World

15

Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World (Unabridged) - Eric Metaxas Cover Art

Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World (Unabridged)

16

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

A People's History of the United States

17

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

18

Empire of Ashes : Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War - James M. Scott Cover Art

Empire of Ashes : Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War

19

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

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War

20

Nothing to Envy : Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick Cover Art

Nothing to Envy : Ordinary Lives in North Korea

21

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

Killing England

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 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)

24

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

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

25

They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy (Unabridged) - Lauren Collins Cover Art

They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy (Unabridged)

26

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)

27

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

28

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)

29

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)

30

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

31

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

Killing the Mob

32

Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II (Unabridged) - Adam Makos Cover Art

Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II (Unabridged)

33

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Unabridged)

34

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)

35

The End of Everything - Victor Davis Hanson Cover Art

The End of Everything

36

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner) (Unabridged) - Nathaniel Philbrick Cover Art

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner) (Unabridged)

37

Common Sense - Thomas Paine Cover Art

Common Sense

38

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

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

39

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Unabridged) - Eric Schlosser Cover Art

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Unabridged)

40

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

Killing Kennedy

41

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)

42

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Unabridged) - David Hoffman Cover Art

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Unabridged)

43

Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (Unabridged) - Patrick J. Buchanan Cover Art

Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (Unabridged)

44

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

45

The British Are Coming - Rick Atkinson Cover Art

The British Are Coming

46

How the Democrats Won the Blacks: From Physical to Mental Slavery (Unabridged) - Robin G. Robinson, II Cover Art

How the Democrats Won the Blacks: From Physical to Mental Slavery (Unabridged)

47

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

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

48

Kill Bin Laden : A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man - Dalton Fury Cover Art

Kill Bin Laden : A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man

49

The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli Cover Art

The Prince

50

Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization) - Will Durant Cover Art

Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization)

51

Island of the Lost : Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World - Joan Druett Cover Art

Island of the Lost : Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

52

The Last Stand of Fox Company : A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat - Tom Clavin & Bob Drury Cover Art

The Last Stand of Fox Company : A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

53

Beyond the Call of Duty: The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green Beret (Unabridged) - Stephen L. Moore Cover Art

Beyond the Call of Duty: The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green Beret (Unabridged)

54

The Borgias : Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy - Paul Strathern Cover Art

The Borgias : Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy

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

A Patriot’s History of the United States, Updated Edition: From Columbus’ Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement - Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen Cover Art

A Patriot’s History of the United States, Updated Edition: From Columbus’ Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement

57

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

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

58

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

Blind Man's Bluff

59

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

60

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Unabridged) - Nathaniel Philbrick Cover Art

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Unabridged)

61

The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic (Unabridged) - Thomas Asbridge Cover Art

The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic (Unabridged)

62

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)

63

Blood and Treasure - Bob Drury & Tom Clavin Cover Art

Blood and Treasure

64

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

Confronting Evil

65

Gettysburg - Stephen W. Sears Cover Art

Gettysburg

66

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

The Art of War (Unabridged)

67

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Unabridged) - Ben Macintyre Cover Art

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Unabridged)

68

Hiroshima (Unabridged) - John Hersey Cover Art

Hiroshima (Unabridged)

69

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)

70

Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell Cover Art

Lone Survivor

71

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)

72

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

73

Code Over Country - Matthew Cole Cover Art

Code Over Country

74

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890–1914 - Barbara W. Tuchman Cover Art

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890–1914

75

Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream - H.G. Bissinger Cover Art

Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream

76

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

The Lessons of History

77

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

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Unabridged)

78

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (Unabridged) - Jon Meacham Cover Art

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (Unabridged)

79

Stalingrad (Abridged) - Antony Beevor Cover Art

Stalingrad (Abridged)

80

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)

81

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II - Iris Chang Cover Art

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

82

The Coming Storm - Odd Arne Westad Cover Art

The Coming Storm

83

Follow Me to Hell - Tom Clavin Cover Art

Follow Me to Hell

84

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (Unabridged) - Russell Shorto Cover Art

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (Unabridged)

85

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville Cover Art

Democracy in America

86

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Unabridged) - Nancy Isenberg Cover Art

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Unabridged)

87

Zero Footprint - Ralph Pezzullo & Simon Chase Cover Art

Zero Footprint

88

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Unabridged) - Max Hastings Cover Art

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Unabridged)

89

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)

90

Last Crusade: The Twentieth Century's War for the Sake of the Cross (Unabridged) - Warren H. Carroll Cover Art

Last Crusade: The Twentieth Century's War for the Sake of the Cross (Unabridged)

91

Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants (Unabridged) - H. W. Brands Cover Art

Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants (Unabridged)

92

The Things Our Fathers Saw, Vol. 2: The War In The Air: From the Depression to Combat - The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA (Unabridged) - Matthew A. Rozell Cover Art

The Things Our Fathers Saw, Vol. 2: The War In The Air: From the Depression to Combat - The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA (Unabridged)

93

We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah - Patrick K. O'Donnell Cover Art

We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

94

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures (Unabridged) - Bettany Hughes Cover Art

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures (Unabridged)

95

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)

96

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

Killing Lincoln

97

Outlaw Platoon - Sean Parnell & John Bruning Cover Art

Outlaw Platoon

98

A Resistance History of the United States (Unabridged) - Tad Stoermer Cover Art

A Resistance History of the United States (Unabridged)

99

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)

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