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 Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing.

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1

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

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

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)

4

Mythos - Stephen Fry Cover Art

Mythos

5

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

A People's History of the United States

6

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

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

7

Common Sense - Thomas Paine Cover Art

Common Sense

8

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

9

Firestorm - Jacob Soboroff Cover Art

Firestorm

10

Thunderstruck (Unabridged) - Erik Larson Cover Art

Thunderstruck (Unabridged)

11

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)

12

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)

13

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

14

Chariots of the Gods - Erich von Däniken Cover Art

Chariots of the Gods

15

Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Unabridged) - Clinton Romesha Cover Art

Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Unabridged)

16

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)

17

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)

18

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)

19

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

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

20

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)

21

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

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

22

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

Confronting Evil

23

The Anatomy of Fascism - Robert O. Paxton Cover Art

The Anatomy of Fascism

24

The Spy in the Archive : How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB - Gordon Corera Cover Art

The Spy in the Archive : How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB

25

Tomorrow Is Yesterday - Hussein Agha & Robert Malley Cover Art

Tomorrow Is Yesterday

26

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)

27

China : A History - John Keay Cover Art

China : A History

28

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Unabridged) - Stephen R. Platt Cover Art

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Unabridged)

29

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)

30

Sitting Bull's War : The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fight for Buffalo and Freedom on the Plains - Paul L. Hedren Cover Art

Sitting Bull's War : The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fight for Buffalo and Freedom on the Plains

31

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)

32

Vietnam - Max Hastings Cover Art

Vietnam

33

The Book : A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time - Keith Houston Cover Art

The Book : A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

34

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

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

35

Ordinary Men - Christopher R. Browning Cover Art

Ordinary Men

36

Vanderbilt - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe Cover Art

Vanderbilt

37

Beverly Hills Spy - Ronald Drabkin Cover Art

Beverly Hills Spy

38

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

Killing Patton

39

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

Killing Jesus

40

Gray Work - Jamie Smith Cover Art

Gray Work

41

Generation Kill - Evan Wright Cover Art

Generation Kill

42

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)

43

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

The American Revolution: An Intimate History (Unabridged)

44

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

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Unabridged)

45

Ghosts of Hiroshima - Charles Pellegrino Cover Art

Ghosts of Hiroshima

46

Freedom's Forge : How American Business Produced Victory in World War II - Arthur Herman Cover Art

Freedom's Forge : How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

47

Fighting Fifteen: The Navy's Top Ace and the Deadliest Hellcat Squadron of the Pacific War (Unabridged) - Stephen L. Moore Cover Art

Fighting Fifteen: The Navy's Top Ace and the Deadliest Hellcat Squadron of the Pacific War (Unabridged)

48

Conquistador : Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs - Buddy Levy Cover Art

Conquistador : Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

49

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

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

50

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance; Portrait of an Age - William Manchester Cover Art

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance; Portrait of an Age

51

Crusade in Europe : A Personal Account of World War II - Dwight D. Eisenhower Cover Art

Crusade in Europe : A Personal Account of World War II

52

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

The First World War (Unabridged)

53

Vikings: A Concise History of the Vikings (Unabridged) - Hourly History Cover Art

Vikings: A Concise History of the Vikings (Unabridged)

54

A Little History of the United States - James West Davidson Cover Art

A Little History of the United States

55

The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990 (Unabridged) - Jonathan Mahler Cover Art

The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990 (Unabridged)

56

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)

57

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)

58

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)

59

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s (Unabridged) - Jason Burke Cover Art

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s (Unabridged)

60

Running Deep - Tom Clavin Cover Art

Running Deep

61

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

Killing Lincoln

62

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)

63

The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 - 1066 (Unabridged) - Marc Morris Cover Art

The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 - 1066 (Unabridged)

64

Strategy: A History (Unabridged) - Lawrence Freedman Cover Art

Strategy: A History (Unabridged)

65

Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell Cover Art

Lone Survivor

66

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

67

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)

68

A Little History of the World - E. H. Gombrich Cover Art

A Little History of the World

69

A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History (Unabridged) - William Stevenson Cover Art

A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History (Unabridged)

70

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

Fateful Hours : The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

71

Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (Unabridged) - Gerald Posner Cover Art

Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (Unabridged)

72

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Unabridged) - Baltasar Gracián Cover Art

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Unabridged)

73

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

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

74

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

75

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)

76

Tombstone - Tom Clavin Cover Art

Tombstone

77

City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago (Unabridged) - Gary Krist Cover Art

City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago (Unabridged)

78

The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean (US Military History) (Unabridged) - Captivating History Cover Art

The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean (US Military History) (Unabridged)

79

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

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

80

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

Children of Ash and Elm : A History of the Vikings

81

Blood and Treasure - Bob Drury & Tom Clavin Cover Art

Blood and Treasure

82

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

Killing Reagan

83

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

84

Technology of the Gods : The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients - David Hatcher Childress Cover Art

Technology of the Gods : The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients

85

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

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

86

SAS Ghost Patrol : The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed as Nazi Stormtroopers - Damien Lewis Cover Art

SAS Ghost Patrol : The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed as Nazi Stormtroopers

87

The Night Stalkers : Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment - Robert L. Johnson, Michael J. Durant & Steven Hartov Cover Art

The Night Stalkers : Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment

88

The End is Always Near - Dan Carlin Cover Art

The End is Always Near

89

First Principles - Thomas E. Ricks Cover Art

First Principles

90

Code Over Country - Matthew Cole Cover Art

Code Over Country

91

World War 1: A History from Beginning to End (Unabridged) - Henry Freeman Cover Art

World War 1: A History from Beginning to End (Unabridged)

92

Roman Empire: Rise & the Fall. Explore the History, Mythology, Legends, Epic Battles & Lives of the Emperors, Legions, Heroes, Gladiators & More (Unabridged) - History Brought Alive Cover Art

Roman Empire: Rise & the Fall. Explore the History, Mythology, Legends, Epic Battles & Lives of the Emperors, Legions, Heroes, Gladiators & More (Unabridged)

93

Marine! : The Life of Chesty Puller - Burke Davis Cover Art

Marine! : The Life of Chesty Puller

94

London : The Biography - Peter Ackroyd Cover Art

London : The Biography

95

The Dawn of Language - Sverker Johansson Cover Art

The Dawn of Language

96

Jerusalem: The Biography (Unabridged) - Simon Sebag Montefiore Cover Art

Jerusalem: The Biography (Unabridged)

97

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts (Unabridged) - Scott Anderson Cover Art

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts (Unabridged)

98

Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson Cover Art

Self-Reliance

99

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)

100

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

Killing the Rising Sun

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