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 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

3

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

4

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

5

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

6

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)

7

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

A People's History of the United States

8

Rubicon - Tom Holland Cover Art

Rubicon

9

The Coming Storm - Odd Arne Westad Cover Art

The Coming Storm

10

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)

11

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)

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

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

14

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)

15

The Seventh Sense : The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military - Lyn Buchanan Cover Art

The Seventh Sense : The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military

16

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)

17

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

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

18

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

Killing Patton

19

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)

20

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

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa

21

The Warrior Ethos (Unabridged) - Steven Pressfield Cover Art

The Warrior Ethos (Unabridged)

22

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

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

23

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)

24

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

The Art of War (Unabridged)

25

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

The Lessons of History

26

Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs (Unabridged) - Antony Beevor Cover Art

Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs (Unabridged)

27

Stalingrad (Abridged) - Antony Beevor Cover Art

Stalingrad (Abridged)

28

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

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Unabridged)

29

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)

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

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

32

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

33

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

The Swerve : How the World Became Modern

34

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters - Abigail Shrier Cover Art

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

35

The Gathering Storm - Winston Churchill Cover Art

The Gathering Storm

36

A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman Cover Art

A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century

37

Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker : A Life of Thomas Arundel - Chris Given-Wilson Cover Art

Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker : A Life of Thomas Arundel

38

Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell Cover Art

Lone Survivor

39

El hombre en busca de sentido - Viktor Frankl Cover Art

El hombre en busca de sentido

40

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)

41

Mythos - Stephen Fry Cover Art

Mythos

42

Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts - James Nally Cover Art

Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts

43

Dark Renaissance : The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival - Stephen Greenblatt Cover Art

Dark Renaissance : The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

44

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

45

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)

46

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Unabridged) - Edward Gibbon Cover Art

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Unabridged)

47

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)

48

Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America (Abridged) - Les Standiford Cover Art

Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America (Abridged)

49

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Unabridged) - Yamamoto Tsunetomo & William Scott Wilson (translator) Cover Art

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Unabridged)

50

Armageddon : The Battle for Germany 1944-45 - Max Hastings Cover Art

Armageddon : The Battle for Germany 1944-45

51

Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism (Unabridged) - Bhu Srinivasan Cover Art

Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism (Unabridged)

52

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)

53

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

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

54

The Immortality Key - Brian C. Muraresku Cover Art

The Immortality Key

55

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)

56

Running Deep - Tom Clavin Cover Art

Running Deep

57

The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It (Unabridged) - Gerald Astor Cover Art

The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It (Unabridged)

58

Remember Us - Robert M. Edsel Cover Art

Remember Us

59

Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The US Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam - Gregg Jones Cover Art

Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The US Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam

60

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

61

Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror (Unabridged) - Erik Prince Cover Art

Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror (Unabridged)

62

Gettysburg - Stephen W. Sears Cover Art

Gettysburg

63

Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (Unabridged) - William Craig Cover Art

Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (Unabridged)

64

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)

65

The Only Thing Worth Dying For - Eric Blehm Cover Art

The Only Thing Worth Dying For

66

Dreams of El Dorado - H. W. Brands Cover Art

Dreams of El Dorado

67

Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin (Unabridged) - Hampton Sides Cover Art

Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin (Unabridged)

68

The Grand Alliance - Winston Churchill Cover Art

The Grand Alliance

69

The Hinge of Fate - Winston Churchill Cover Art

The Hinge of Fate

70

Triumph & Tragedy - Winston Churchill Cover Art

Triumph & Tragedy

71

Closing the Ring - Winston Churchill Cover Art

Closing the Ring

72

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

73

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Unabridged) - Francis Fukuyama Cover Art

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Unabridged)

74

Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign (Unabridged) - Stephan Talty Cover Art

Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign (Unabridged)

75

Their Finest Hour - Winston Churchill Cover Art

Their Finest Hour

76

The Lost Voices of Pompeii - Dr. Jess Venner Cover Art

The Lost Voices of Pompeii

77

Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937 (Unabridged) - Durwood Dunn Cover Art

Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937 (Unabridged)

78

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II (Unabridged) - Daniel James Brown Cover Art

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II (Unabridged)

79

Topgun - Dan Pedersen Cover Art

Topgun

80

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Unabridged) - Jonathan Kennedy Cover Art

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Unabridged)

81

Nixon's Secrets (Unabridged) - Roger Stone & Mike Colapietro Cover Art

Nixon's Secrets (Unabridged)

82

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Unabridged) - Russell Shorto Cover Art

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Unabridged)

83

A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau (Unabridged) - Carolyn Morrow Long Cover Art

A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau (Unabridged)

84

The Story of Human Language - John McWhorter & The Great Courses Cover Art

The Story of Human Language

85

The Invisible Spy - Thomas Maier Cover Art

The Invisible Spy

86

The American Civil War: 1861-1865 (Unabridged) - Go Entertain Cover Art

The American Civil War: 1861-1865 (Unabridged)

87

The Traitors Circle - Jonathan Freedland Cover Art

The Traitors Circle

88

The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life - Sun Tzu Cover Art

The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life

89

Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling - Ross King Cover Art

Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling

90

Sink ‘Em All : Submarine Warfare in the Pacific - Charles A. Lockwood Cover Art

Sink ‘Em All : Submarine Warfare in the Pacific

91

Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West (Unabridged) - Victor Sebestyen Cover Art

Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West (Unabridged)

92

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

Fateful Hours : The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

93

The History of Costa Rica: A Fascinating Guide to This Beautiful Country in Central America (Unabridged) - Alex Hutchens Cover Art

The History of Costa Rica: A Fascinating Guide to This Beautiful Country in Central America (Unabridged)

94

Two Years Before the Mast : A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea - Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Cover Art

Two Years Before the Mast : A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

95

The Catholic and the War (Unabridged) - Hilaire Belloc Cover Art

The Catholic and the War (Unabridged)

96

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior : Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped - Paul Strathern Cover Art

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior : Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

97

The Great Trials of World History and the Lessons They Teach Us - Douglas O. Linder & The Great Courses Cover Art

The Great Trials of World History and the Lessons They Teach Us

98

Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg (Abridged) - James M. McPherson Cover Art

Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg (Abridged)

99

The Battle of New Orleans - Robert V. Remini Cover Art

The Battle of New Orleans

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