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 Cat 5: The 2033 War by Bing West.

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1

Cat 5: The 2033 War - Bing West Cover Art

Cat 5: The 2033 War

2

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (Unabridged) - Caroline Fraser Cover Art

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (Unabridged)

3

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)

4

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)

5

Mythos - Stephen Fry Cover Art

Mythos

6

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

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

7

Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World (Unabridged) - Eric Metaxas Cover Art

Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World (Unabridged)

8

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)

9

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)

10

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

11

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

12

Black Hearts : One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death - Jim Frederick Cover Art

Black Hearts : One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

13

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Unabridged) - Isabel Wilkerson Cover Art

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Unabridged)

14

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

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

15

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

A People's History of the United States

16

Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution - Patrick K. O'Donnell Cover Art

Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

17

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

The Lessons of History

18

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)

19

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)

20

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

21

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)

22

Camelot's Court - Robert Dallek Cover Art

Camelot's Court

23

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)

24

Sitting Bull : The Life and Times of an American Patriot - Robert M. Utley Cover Art

Sitting Bull : The Life and Times of an American Patriot

25

War: How Conflict Shaped Us (Unabridged) - Margaret MacMillan Cover Art

War: How Conflict Shaped Us (Unabridged)

26

Common Sense - Thomas Paine Cover Art

Common Sense

27

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

Nuclear War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

28

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Unabridged) - Dan Jones Cover Art

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Unabridged)

29

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

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Unabridged)

30

The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine (Unabridged) - Josh Dean Cover Art

The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine (Unabridged)

31

These Truths : A History of the United States (Jubilee Edition) - Jill Lepore Cover Art

These Truths : A History of the United States (Jubilee Edition)

32

Nothing to Envy : Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick Cover Art

Nothing to Envy : Ordinary Lives in North Korea

33

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Unabridged) - Ronen Bergman Cover Art

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Unabridged)

34

The Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. - Chancellor Williams Cover Art

The Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

35

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)

36

World War 2: A Captivating Guide from Beginning to End (The Second World War and D Day Book 1) - Captivating History Cover Art

World War 2: A Captivating Guide from Beginning to End (The Second World War and D Day Book 1)

37

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian - Shelby Foote Cover Art

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

38

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)

39

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

The Guns of August (The Great War Series)

40

The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914 - Christopher Clark Cover Art

The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914

41

Vanderbilt - Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe Cover Art

Vanderbilt

42

Sicily : An Island at the Crossroads of History - John Julius Norwich Cover Art

Sicily : An Island at the Crossroads of History

43

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 (Unabridged) - Ian Kershaw Cover Art

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 (Unabridged)

44

Rubicon - Tom Holland Cover Art

Rubicon

45

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

Confronting the Presidents

46

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown Cover Art

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

47

Dodge City - Tom Clavin Cover Art

Dodge City

48

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)

49

This Kind of War : The Classic Korean War History - T. R. Fehrenbach Cover Art

This Kind of War : The Classic Korean War History

50

Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom (Unabridged) - Jack Weatherford Cover Art

Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom (Unabridged)

51

Dinner with King Tut - Sam Kean Cover Art

Dinner with King Tut

52

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)

53

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal (Unabridged) - James D. Hornfischer Cover Art

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal (Unabridged)

54

Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (Unabridged) - Patrick J. Buchanan Cover Art

Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (Unabridged)

55

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)

56

Ghosts of Honolulu - Mark Harmon Cover Art

Ghosts of Honolulu

57

Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Unabridged) - Jim Corbett Cover Art

Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Unabridged)

58

Surprise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen Cover Art

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

59

The Federalist Papers (Unabridged) - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay Cover Art

The Federalist Papers (Unabridged)

60

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Unabridged) - Heather Cox Richardson Cover Art

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Unabridged)

61

Strategic Thinking Trilogy: The Book of 5 Rings, The Art of War & The Prince (Unabridged) - Miyamoto Musashi, Niccolò Machiavelli & Sun Tzu Cover Art

Strategic Thinking Trilogy: The Book of 5 Rings, The Art of War & The Prince (Unabridged)

62

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (Unabridged) - Molly Crabapple Cover Art

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (Unabridged)

63

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist - Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington Cover Art

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

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The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi Cover Art

The Book of Five Rings

65

Indigenous Continent : The Epic Contest for North America - Pekka Hämäläinen Cover Art

Indigenous Continent : The Epic Contest for North America

66

They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy (Unabridged) - Lauren Collins Cover Art

They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy (Unabridged)

67

The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History) (Unabridged) - Craig L. Symonds Cover Art

The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History) (Unabridged)

68

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (Unabridged) - Heather Cox Richardson Cover Art

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (Unabridged)

69

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Cover Art

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1

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Family Secrets : The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob - Jeff Coen Cover Art

Family Secrets : The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

71

Apology - Plato Cover Art

Apology

72

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

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

73

The Adam and Eve Story (Unabridged) - Chan Thomas Cover Art

The Adam and Eve Story (Unabridged)

74

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Unabridged) - Colin Woodard Cover Art

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Unabridged)

75

Israel - Omer Bartov Cover Art

Israel

76

Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency - Dan Abrams & David Fisher Cover Art

Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency

77

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)

78

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)

79

The French and Indian War : Deciding the Fate of North America - Walter R. Borneman Cover Art

The French and Indian War : Deciding the Fate of North America

80

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

81

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History (Unabridged) - Kurt Andersen Cover Art

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History (Unabridged)

82

Labor's Story in the United States (Unabridged) - Philip Nicholson Cover Art

Labor's Story in the United States (Unabridged)

83

American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (Unabridged) - H. W. Brands Cover Art

American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (Unabridged)

84

Miracle at Midway - Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein & Katherine V. Dillon Cover Art

Miracle at Midway

85

Valor - Dan Hampton Cover Art

Valor

86

Ordinary Men - Christopher R. Browning Cover Art

Ordinary Men

87

One Summer: America, 1927 (Unabridged) - Bill Bryson Cover Art

One Summer: America, 1927 (Unabridged)

88

A History of Britain: Volume 3 (Unabridged) - Simon Schama Cover Art

A History of Britain: Volume 3 (Unabridged)

89

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

The Lost Voices of Pompeii

90

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (Unabridged) - Dan Jones Cover Art

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (Unabridged)

91

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (Unabridged) - Peter Baker & Susan Glasser Cover Art

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (Unabridged)

92

Hiroshima (Unabridged) - John Hersey Cover Art

Hiroshima (Unabridged)

93

Chernobyl - Serhii Plokhy Cover Art

Chernobyl

94

The Men Who United the States - Simon Winchester Cover Art

The Men Who United the States

95

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

96

Books That Matter: The Federalist Papers (Original Recording) - Joseph Hoffmann & The Great Courses Cover Art

Books That Matter: The Federalist Papers (Original Recording)

97

Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla (Unabridged) - David Kilcullen Cover Art

Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla (Unabridged)

98

Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Unabridged) - Gordon S. Wood Cover Art

Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Unabridged)

99

Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Unabridged) - Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley & Glen M. Leonard Cover Art

Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Unabridged)

100

The Donner Party: The Tragic Story of the Wild West's Most Notorious Journey (Unabridged) - Charles River Editors Cover Art

The Donner Party: The Tragic Story of the Wild West's Most Notorious Journey (Unabridged)

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