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

Ghosts of Hiroshima - Charles Pellegrino Cover Art

Ghosts of Hiroshima

3

Project Mind Control - John Lisle Cover Art

Project Mind Control

4

The Eastern Front : A History of the Great War 1914-1918 - Nick Lloyd Cover Art

The Eastern Front : A History of the Great War 1914-1918

5

1861 - Jay Winik Cover Art

1861

6

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

7

Behind the Mirror : Inside the World of Big Brother - Taran Armstrong Cover Art

Behind the Mirror : Inside the World of Big Brother

8

The Dirty Tricks Department - John Lisle Cover Art

The Dirty Tricks Department

9

Common Sense - Thomas Paine Cover Art

Common Sense

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

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

Confronting the Presidents

12

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

A People's History of the United States

13

The Last Dynasty : Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra - Toby Wilkinson Cover Art

The Last Dynasty : Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra

14

Astoria - Peter Stark Cover Art

Astoria

15

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich - Norman Ohler Cover Art

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

16

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

Confronting Evil

17

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)

18

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

19

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

20

The American Revolution: An Intimate History (Unabridged) - Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns Cover Art

The American Revolution: An Intimate History (Unabridged)

21

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

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

22

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)

23

Captain Kidd : A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal - Samuel Marquis Cover Art

Captain Kidd : A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal

24

Phantom Fleet - Alexander Rose Cover Art

Phantom Fleet

25

Profiles in Courage (Abridged) - John F. Kennedy Cover Art

Profiles in Courage (Abridged)

26

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

27

The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Unabridged) - Rick Atkinson Cover Art

The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Unabridged)

28

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

Killing the Mob

29

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

We Survived the Night (Unabridged)

30

The British Are Coming - Rick Atkinson Cover Art

The British Are Coming

31

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

32

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

Killing Jesus

33

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)

34

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

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Abridged)

35

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)

36

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

Killing the Witches

37

Book and Dagger - Elyse Graham Cover Art

Book and Dagger

38

Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and His Band of Brothers - Jared Frederick & Erik Dorr Cover Art

Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and His Band of Brothers

39

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

40

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

41

Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation (Unabridged) - Tim McGrath Cover Art

Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation (Unabridged)

42

The Pity of War - Niall Ferguson Cover Art

The Pity of War

43

A Short History of Ancient Rome - Pascal Hughes Cover Art

A Short History of Ancient Rome

44

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

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

45

Israel - Daniel Gordis Cover Art

Israel

46

Rogue Agent : From Secret Plots to Psychological Warfare: The Untold Story of Robert Bruce Lockhart - James Crossland Cover Art

Rogue Agent : From Secret Plots to Psychological Warfare: The Untold Story of Robert Bruce Lockhart

47

The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus - Matthew Restall Cover Art

The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

48

First Principles - Thomas E. Ricks Cover Art

First Principles

49

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

Killing Crazy Horse

50

Vanderbilt - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe Cover Art

Vanderbilt

51

We Were Soldiers Once… and Young : Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam - Joseph L. Galloway & Harold G. Moore Cover Art

We Were Soldiers Once… and Young : Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

52

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

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

53

Saving Aziz - Chad Robichaux Cover Art

Saving Aziz

54

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)

55

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

Killing Kennedy

56

Fateful Hours : The Collapse of the Weimar Republic - Volker Ullrich Cover Art

Fateful Hours : The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

57

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

Killing Reagan

58

Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age - Eleanor Barraclough Cover Art

Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

59

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

Killing the Killers

60

Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence (Unabridged) - Sam Kelly Cover Art

Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence (Unabridged)

61

Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West (Unabridged) - Peter Cozzens Cover Art

Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West (Unabridged)

62

The White Darkness (Unabridged) - David Grann Cover Art

The White Darkness (Unabridged)

63

History of the Caribbean: A Captivating Guide to Caribbean History, Starting from Christopher Columbus Through the Wars of Religion, Slavery, and Colonial ... (European Exploration and Settlement) (Unabridged) - Captivating History Cover Art

History of the Caribbean: A Captivating Guide to Caribbean History, Starting from Christopher Columbus Through the Wars of Religion, Slavery, and Colonial ... (European Exploration and Settlement) (Unabridged)

64

The Unit - Adam Gamal & Kelly Kennedy Cover Art

The Unit

65

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)

66

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Tim Marshall Cover Art

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

67

The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (Abridged) - Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns Cover Art

The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (Abridged)

68

Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone (Unabridged) - Mark Lee Gardner Cover Art

Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone (Unabridged)

69

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

The Gospel of Thomas (Unabridged)

70

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Abridged) - Thomas Cahill Cover Art

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Abridged)

71

Rain of Ruin : Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan - Richard Overy Cover Art

Rain of Ruin : Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan

72

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

King Leopold's Ghost (Unabridged)

73

Thunderstruck (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

Thunderstruck (Unabridged)

74

The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse - Paul Cartledge Cover Art

The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse

75

The First World War (Unabridged) - John Keegan Cover Art

The First World War (Unabridged)

76

Son of the Morning Star : Custer and The Little Bighorn - Evan S. Connell Cover Art

Son of the Morning Star : Custer and The Little Bighorn

77

Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company - Patrick K. O'Donnell Cover Art

Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company

78

It Wasn’t about Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War - Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. Cover Art

It Wasn’t about Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War

79

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

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

80

Secret KGB Manual: The Art of the Dangle (Unabridged) - Luis Ayala Cover Art

Secret KGB Manual: The Art of the Dangle (Unabridged)

81

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Unabridged) - Immanuel Kant Cover Art

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Unabridged)

82

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Unabridged) - Susan Wise Bauer Cover Art

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Unabridged)

83

Hell In A Very Small Place : The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu - Bernard B. Fall Cover Art

Hell In A Very Small Place : The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu

84

Korean War Stories: Tales from an Icy Hell of Fire and Blood - War History Journals Cover Art

Korean War Stories: Tales from an Icy Hell of Fire and Blood

85

Gray Work - Jamie Smith Cover Art

Gray Work

86

The Art of War and The Books of Five Rings: Two Book Bundle - Sun Tzu & Miyamoto Musashi Cover Art

The Art of War and The Books of Five Rings: Two Book Bundle

87

The Art of War - Sun Tzu Cover Art

The Art of War

88

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

89

Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of Special Forces (Unabridged) - Linda Robinson Cover Art

Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of Special Forces (Unabridged)

90

CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why US Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK (Unabridged) - Patrick Nolan & Dr. Henry C. Lee (foreword) Cover Art

CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why US Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK (Unabridged)

91

July 1914: Countdown to War (Unabridged) - Sean McMeekin Cover Art

July 1914: Countdown to War (Unabridged)

92

El arte de la guerra: Español neutro - Sun Tzu Cover Art

El arte de la guerra: Español neutro

93

21 Months, 24 Days: A Blue-Collar Kid's Journey to the Vietnam War and Back (Unabridged) - Richard Udden Cover Art

21 Months, 24 Days: A Blue-Collar Kid's Journey to the Vietnam War and Back (Unabridged)

94

A Train Near Magdeburg: A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust (Unabridged) - Matthew Rozell Cover Art

A Train Near Magdeburg: A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust (Unabridged)

95

Alexander, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar: Three Generals Who Conquered the Ancient World: History 1-Hour Reads (Unabridged) - Michael Rank Cover Art

Alexander, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar: Three Generals Who Conquered the Ancient World: History 1-Hour Reads (Unabridged)

96

Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report on the JFK Assassination (Unabridged) - Sylvia Meagher Cover Art

Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report on the JFK Assassination (Unabridged)

97

WW1: Tales from the Trenches (Unabridged) - War History Journals Cover Art

WW1: Tales from the Trenches (Unabridged)

98

Alexander the Great: A Life from Beginning to End (Unabridged) - Hourly History Cover Art

Alexander the Great: A Life from Beginning to End (Unabridged)

99

Egypt: Ancient Egyptian Mythology and the Secrets of the Gods (Unabridged) - Roy Jackson Cover Art

Egypt: Ancient Egyptian Mythology and the Secrets of the Gods (Unabridged)

100

JFK's War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated (Unabridged) - Douglas Horne Cover Art

JFK's War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated (Unabridged)

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