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 The Gales of November : The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon.

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1

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

2

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)

3

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)

4

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

The American Revolution: An Intimate History (Unabridged)

5

Ghosts of Hiroshima - Charles Pellegrino Cover Art

Ghosts of Hiroshima

6

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

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

7

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

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

8

On Grand Strategy (Unabridged) - John Lewis Gaddis Cover Art

On Grand Strategy (Unabridged)

9

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

Captain Kidd : A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal

10

The Stuff of History - Steven Moore Cover Art

The Stuff of History

11

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

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

12

The Lives of the Caesars (Unabridged) - Suetonius & Tom Holland Cover Art

The Lives of the Caesars (Unabridged)

13

A Short History of Ancient Rome - Pascal Hughes Cover Art

A Short History of Ancient Rome

14

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

Confronting Evil

15

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)

16

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

Confronting the Presidents

17

The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood (Unabridged) - Nina Willner Cover Art

The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood (Unabridged)

18

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)

19

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

20

Speeches by Malcolm X - The Ultimate Collection - Malcolm X Cover Art

Speeches by Malcolm X - The Ultimate Collection

21

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)

22

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)

23

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

Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

24

Dark Brilliance : The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great - Paul Strathern Cover Art

Dark Brilliance : The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great

25

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

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

26

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

A People's History of the United States

27

Dinner with King Tut - Sam Kean Cover Art

Dinner with King Tut

28

Matisse at War : Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France - Christopher C. Gorham Cover Art

Matisse at War : Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France

29

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

30

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

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

31

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)

32

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)

33

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

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

34

The Complete Ethiopian Bible, 70 Book Apocrypha, Books of Enoch, Dead Sea Scrolls & Nag Hammadi Scriptures - Ancient Hebrew Cover Art

The Complete Ethiopian Bible, 70 Book Apocrypha, Books of Enoch, Dead Sea Scrolls & Nag Hammadi Scriptures

35

A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Unabridged) - Daniel A. Sjursen Cover Art

A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Unabridged)

36

The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden (Unabridged) - Mark Bowden Cover Art

The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden (Unabridged)

37

Outlaw Platoon - Sean Parnell & John Bruning Cover Art

Outlaw Platoon

38

The British Are Coming - Rick Atkinson Cover Art

The British Are Coming

39

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East  (Unabridged) - Scott Anderson Cover Art

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East  (Unabridged)

40

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

Killing Jesus

41

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

To Rescue the Republic

42

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

43

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles - Thomas Sowell Cover Art

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

44

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

The Art of War (Unabridged)

45

On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle (Unabridged) - Hampton Sides Cover Art

On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle (Unabridged)

46

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

47

Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell Cover Art

Lone Survivor

48

Tripped - Norman Ohler Cover Art

Tripped

49

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)

50

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

Killing the Mob

51

Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever (Unabridged) - Rachel Lance Cover Art

Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever (Unabridged)

52

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)

53

1861 - Jay Winik Cover Art

1861

54

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)

55

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

56

Area 51 - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Area 51

57

The Devil's Castle : Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today - Susanne Paola Antonetta Cover Art

The Devil's Castle : Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today

58

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

Killing Kennedy

59

Phantom Fleet - Alexander Rose Cover Art

Phantom Fleet

60

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Unabridged) - Scott Anderson Cover Art

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Unabridged)

61

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

Killing Patton

62

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

Killing Crazy Horse

63

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)

64

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

Skunk Works

65

The Nine - Gwen Strauss Cover Art

The Nine

66

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

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

67

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)

68

The Forgotten 500 : The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II - Gregory A. Freeman Cover Art

The Forgotten 500 : The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II

69

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)

70

Rubicon - Tom Holland Cover Art

Rubicon

71

A History of the Jews - Paul Johnson Cover Art

A History of the Jews

72

The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity (Unabridged) - Timothy C. Winegard Cover Art

The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity (Unabridged)

73

The Great Game : The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia - Peter Hopkirk Cover Art

The Great Game : The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

74

Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War - Rick Atkinson Cover Art

Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

75

The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies - John Kiriakou Cover Art

The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies

76

Comanches : The History of a People - T. R. Fehrenbach Cover Art

Comanches : The History of a People

77

Alexander at the End of the World - Rachel Kousser Cover Art

Alexander at the End of the World

78

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)

79

The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II (Unabridged) - Alex Kershaw Cover Art

The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II (Unabridged)

80

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Unabridged) - David E. Hoffman Cover Art

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Unabridged)

81

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)

82

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Unabridged) - Timothy Snyder Cover Art

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Unabridged)

83

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

84

Code Over Country - Matthew Cole Cover Art

Code Over Country

85

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

The Gospel of Thomas (Unabridged)

86

Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death (Unabridged) - Anthony Everitt Cover Art

Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death (Unabridged)

87

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

The Complete Art of War (Unabridged)

88

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

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

89

Dominion - Tom Holland Cover Art

Dominion

90

The Crusades - Thomas Asbridge Cover Art

The Crusades

91

The Korean War - Sir Max Hastings Cover Art

The Korean War

92

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar - Tom Holland Cover Art

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

93

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Unabridged) - Dan Jones Cover Art

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Unabridged)

94

Book and Dagger - Elyse Graham Cover Art

Book and Dagger

95

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi: Booktrack Edition - Mitchell Zuckoff Cover Art

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi: Booktrack Edition

96

Persian Fire : The First World Empire and the Battle for the West - Tom Holland Cover Art

Persian Fire : The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

97

Medieval Bodies : Life and Death in the Middle Ages - Jack Hartnell Cover Art

Medieval Bodies : Life and Death in the Middle Ages

98

The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli Cover Art

The Prince

99

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

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