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.

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1

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

A People's History of the United States

2

The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Unabridged) - Dan Jones Cover Art

The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Unabridged)

3

The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (Unabridged) - Roger Stone Cover Art

The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (Unabridged)

4

Area 51 - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Area 51

5

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)

6

Outlaw Platoon - Sean Parnell & John Bruning Cover Art

Outlaw Platoon

7

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

The Guns of August (The Great War Series)

8

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

9

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

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

10

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)

11

The Cure for Women - Lydia Reeder Cover Art

The Cure for Women

12

Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell Cover Art

Lone Survivor

13

Antisemitism in America - Chuck Schumer Cover Art

Antisemitism in America

14

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Unabridged) - Jonathan Blitzer Cover Art

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Unabridged)

15

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

Killing the Rising Sun

16

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)

17

Mythos - Stephen Fry Cover Art

Mythos

18

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)

19

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

The Frontiersmen : A Narrative (Winning of America)

20

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

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

21

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

A People's History of the United States (Abridged)

22

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

23

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean (Unabridged) - M. Doreal Cover Art

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean (Unabridged)

24

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)

25

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Unabridged) - Steve Coll Cover Art

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Unabridged)

26

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

Confronting the Presidents

27

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)

28

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

29

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)

30

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)

31

Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War (Unabridged) - Michael Vorenberg Cover Art

Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War (Unabridged)

32

War Is A Racket - General Smedley Darlington Butler Cover Art

War Is A Racket

33

Manhunt (Abridged) - James L. Swanson Cover Art

Manhunt (Abridged)

34

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

Killing Jesus

35

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

Killing the Killers

36

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion (Unabridged) - Julie Satow Cover Art

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion (Unabridged)

37

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West - David Fisher & Bill O'Reilly Cover Art

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West

38

The End is Always Near - Dan Carlin Cover Art

The End is Always Near

39

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

Killing Kennedy

40

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins Cover Art

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

41

Israel - Daniel Gordis Cover Art

Israel

42

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)

43

They Thought They Were Free : The Germans, 1933-45 - Milton Mayer Cover Art

They Thought They Were Free : The Germans, 1933-45

44

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

45

Vanderbilt - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe Cover Art

Vanderbilt

46

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)

47

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

SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome

48

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)

49

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Unabridged) - Carol Anderson Cover Art

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Unabridged)

50

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

Killing Crazy Horse

51

The Big Rich : The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes - Bryan Burrough Cover Art

The Big Rich : The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

52

Dominion - Tom Holland Cover Art

Dominion

53

Vietnam: A History - Stanley Karnow Cover Art

Vietnam: A History

54

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

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

55

Surprise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

56

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

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

57

City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles - Mike Davis Cover Art

City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

58

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)

59

The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America (Unabridged) - H. W. Brands Cover Art

The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America (Unabridged)

60

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

King Leopold's Ghost (Unabridged)

61

The Situation Room - George Stephanopoulos Cover Art

The Situation Room

62

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)

63

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Unabridged) - Ben Macintyre Cover Art

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Unabridged)

64

The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II (Unabridged) - David Chrisinger Cover Art

The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II (Unabridged)

65

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

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

66

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

67

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

68

The Cross and the Lynching Tree - James H. Cone Cover Art

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

69

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)

70

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

The Swerve : How the World Became Modern

71

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)

72

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 (Unabridged) - Jonathan Healey Cover Art

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 (Unabridged)

73

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

Killing Lincoln

74

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

Killing England

75

The Watchmaker's Daughter - Larry Loftis Cover Art

The Watchmaker's Daughter

76

Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book) (Unabridged) - Raymond W. Thorp & Robert Bunker Cover Art

Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book) (Unabridged)

77

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Unabridged) - Candice Millard Cover Art

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Unabridged)

78

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

79

We Don't Know Ourselves : A Personal History of Modern Ireland - Fintan O'Toole Cover Art

We Don't Know Ourselves : A Personal History of Modern Ireland

80

Disunited Nations - Peter Zeihan Cover Art

Disunited Nations

81

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

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave

82

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Unabridged) - Ed Conway Cover Art

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Unabridged)

83

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

84

Gray Work - Jamie Smith Cover Art

Gray Work

85

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)

86

The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents (Unabridged) - Ronald Kessler Cover Art

The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents (Unabridged)

87

Thunderstruck (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

Thunderstruck (Unabridged)

88

Three Days at the Brink - Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney Cover Art

Three Days at the Brink

89

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

90

Once Upon a Town - Bob Greene Cover Art

Once Upon a Town

91

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

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

92

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

Skunk Works

93

Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly Cover Art

Hidden Figures

94

History of France: A Captivating Guide to French History (Unabridged) - Captivating History Cover Art

History of France: A Captivating Guide to French History (Unabridged)

95

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)

96

Sea Stories - Admiral William H. McRaven Cover Art

Sea Stories

97

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

98

War as I Knew It - George Patton Cover Art

War as I Knew It

99

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

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

100

Rubicon - Tom Holland Cover Art

Rubicon

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