Top 100 Nonfiction Audiobooks

The top 100 most popular and best selling nonfiction audiobooks on iTunes provide insightful storytelling and expert knowledge. These titles cover history, science, self-improvement, and true stories that inspire and inform. Acclaimed authors such as Malcolm Gladwell, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking, and Brené Brown have written some of the most influential books in the genre. Best sellers include groundbreaking works that continue to shape perspectives and spark conversations. Listen to top nonfiction audiobooks, available on iTunes or Audible, that offer knowledge, inspiration, and powerful storytelling.

The current number one best selling nonfiction audiobook on iTunes today is The American Way of Killing : The Invention of an Epidemic by Malcolm Gladwell.

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1

The American Way of Killing : The Invention of an Epidemic - Malcolm Gladwell Cover Art

The American Way of Killing : The Invention of an Epidemic

2

Protocols (Unabridged) - Andrew D. Huberman Cover Art

Protocols (Unabridged)

3

The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery: Connecting Neuroscience and Faith to Radically Transform Your Life - W. Lee Warren, MD Cover Art

The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery: Connecting Neuroscience and Faith to Radically Transform Your Life

4

The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene Cover Art

The 48 Laws of Power

5

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Unabridged) - John Berendt Cover Art

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Unabridged)

6

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

Biological War: A Scenario (Unabridged)

7

The AGI Chronicles - Kevin Roose Cover Art

The AGI Chronicles

8

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep-- Love (Unabridged) - Amir Levine, M.D. & Rachel Heller Cover Art

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep-- Love (Unabridged)

9

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Unabridged) - Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Cover Art

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Unabridged)

10

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Unabridged) - Patrick Radden Keefe Cover Art

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Unabridged)

11

Brink: Inside the Race to Free the October 7th Hostages (Unabridged) - Brett McGurk Cover Art

Brink: Inside the Race to Free the October 7th Hostages (Unabridged)

12

The Untethered Soul : The Journey Beyond Yourself - Michael A. Singer Cover Art

The Untethered Soul : The Journey Beyond Yourself

13

The Way of the Superior Man - David Deida Cover Art

The Way of the Superior Man

14

The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt (Unabridged) - Russ Harris & Steven Hayes PhD (foreword) Cover Art

The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt (Unabridged)

15

Regime Change (Unabridged) - Maggie Haberman Cover Art

Regime Change (Unabridged)

16

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Cover Art

Meditations

17

Leadership (Unabridged) - Doris Kearns Goodwin Cover Art

Leadership (Unabridged)

18

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work : A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert, Revised and Updated - Nan Silver & John M. Gottman Ph.D. Cover Art

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work : A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert, Revised and Updated

19

All About Love - bell hooks Cover Art

All About Love

20

End Times Fascism - Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor Cover Art

End Times Fascism

21

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Unabridged) - John Green Cover Art

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Unabridged)

22

Not Today, Fascists - Jennifer Welch Cover Art

Not Today, Fascists

23

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Unabridged) - David Grann Cover Art

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Unabridged)

24

The Way of the Superior Man (Unabridged) - David Deida Cover Art

The Way of the Superior Man (Unabridged)

25

Thinking, Fast and Slow (Unabridged) - Daniel Kahneman Cover Art

Thinking, Fast and Slow (Unabridged)

26

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity (Unabridged) - Peter Attia, MD Cover Art

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity (Unabridged)

27

Empire of the Summer Moon (Unabridged) - S. C. Gwynne Cover Art

Empire of the Summer Moon (Unabridged)

28

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Unabridged) - Jonathan Haidt Cover Art

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Unabridged)

29

Sea Change: America's New Great Game in the Arctic Circle (Unabridged) - Rana Foroohar Cover Art

Sea Change: America's New Great Game in the Arctic Circle (Unabridged)

30

Good Inside - Becky Kennedy Cover Art

Good Inside

31

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Unabridged) - Patrick Radden Keefe Cover Art

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Unabridged)

32

The Final Solution to The Jewish Question (Unabridged) - Dara Horn Cover Art

The Final Solution to The Jewish Question (Unabridged)

33

Band of Brothers (Unabridged) - Stephen E. Ambrose Cover Art

Band of Brothers (Unabridged)

34

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Unabridged) - Jordan B. Peterson Cover Art

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Unabridged)

35

The Collapse of Parenting - Leonard Sax Cover Art

The Collapse of Parenting

36

Eros the Bittersweet : An Essay - Anne Carson Cover Art

Eros the Bittersweet : An Essay

37

How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents - Thom Tillis Cover Art

How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents

38

The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a new foreword (Unabridged) - Brené Brown Cover Art

The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a new foreword (Unabridged)

39

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Unabridged) - David Brooks Cover Art

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Unabridged)

40

Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés Ph.D. PhD Cover Art

Women Who Run With the Wolves

41

If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late - James J. Sexton Cover Art

If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late

42

The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande Cover Art

The Checklist Manifesto

43

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents : How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD Cover Art

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents : How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

44

How to Eat an Elephant - Sarah Longwell Cover Art

How to Eat an Elephant

45

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated (Unabridged) - Emily Nagoski Cover Art

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated (Unabridged)

46

The Law of Success (Abridged) - Napoleon Hill Cover Art

The Law of Success (Abridged)

47

The Beauty of the Husband : A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos - Anne Carson Cover Art

The Beauty of the Husband : A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

48

Path Between the Seas (Unabridged) - David McCullough Cover Art

Path Between the Seas (Unabridged)

49

Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up (Unabridged) - David Byrne Cover Art

Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up (Unabridged)

50

Reminders of Him: A Novel (Unabridged) - Colleen Hoover Cover Art

Reminders of Him: A Novel (Unabridged)

51

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Unabridged) - Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson Cover Art

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Unabridged)

52

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (Unabridged) - Lundy Bancroft Cover Art

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (Unabridged)

53

Unleash Your Inner Femme Fatale: Activate Your Dark Feminine Energy and Transform into a Magnetic, Unstoppable Woman - Anna Milton Cover Art

Unleash Your Inner Femme Fatale: Activate Your Dark Feminine Energy and Transform into a Magnetic, Unstoppable Woman

54

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Unabridged) - Gregg Olsen Cover Art

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Unabridged)

55

The Nerd Reich (Unabridged) - Gil Duran Cover Art

The Nerd Reich (Unabridged)

56

Indianapolis (Unabridged) - Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic Cover Art

Indianapolis (Unabridged)

57

The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts (Unabridged) - Janet Reitman Cover Art

The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts (Unabridged)

58

The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces (Unabridged) - Seth Harp Cover Art

The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces (Unabridged)

59

Encyclopedia of Counseling - Howard Rosenthal Cover Art

Encyclopedia of Counseling

60

Breakneck : China's Quest to Engineer the Future - Dan Wang Cover Art

Breakneck : China's Quest to Engineer the Future

61

Not the End of the World - Hannah Ritchie Cover Art

Not the End of the World

62

How to Test Negative for Stupid - John Kennedy Cover Art

How to Test Negative for Stupid

63

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Marcus Aurelius Cover Art

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

64

It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand (Unabridged) - Megan Devine, LPC & Mark Nepo Cover Art

It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand (Unabridged)

65

Targeted: Beirut (Unabridged) - Jack Carr Cover Art

Targeted: Beirut (Unabridged)

66

Why We Sleep (Unabridged) - Matthew Walker Cover Art

Why We Sleep (Unabridged)

67

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender (Unabridged) - David R. Hawkins, MD/PHD Cover Art

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender (Unabridged)

68

No Bad Parts - Richard C. Schwartz Ph.D. Cover Art

No Bad Parts

69

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Unabridged) - Katherine May Cover Art

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Unabridged)

70

Meditations: A New Translation (Unabridged) - Marcus Aurelius & Gregory Hays Cover Art

Meditations: A New Translation (Unabridged)

71

SOG (Unabridged) - John L. Plaster Cover Art

SOG (Unabridged)

72

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Unabridged) - Maureen Callahan Cover Art

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Unabridged)

73

No Ordinary Time (Unabridged) - Doris Kearns Goodwin Cover Art

No Ordinary Time (Unabridged)

74

The Storyteller: Expanded - Dave Grohl Cover Art

The Storyteller: Expanded

75

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Unabridged) - Jared Diamond Cover Art

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Unabridged)

76

Let's F*cking Date: Become the Prize, Enjoy the Ride, and Never Settle Again (Unabridged) - Serena Kerrigan Cover Art

Let's F*cking Date: Become the Prize, Enjoy the Ride, and Never Settle Again (Unabridged)

77

Traumatized : The New Politics of Public Suffering - Catherine Liu Cover Art

Traumatized : The New Politics of Public Suffering

78

The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene Cover Art

The 33 Strategies of War

79

Come Closer (Unabridged) - Galit Atlas Cover Art

Come Closer (Unabridged)

80

Raising Conscious Sons - Dr Shefali Tsabary Cover Art

Raising Conscious Sons

81

Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe (Unabridged) - Laura Lynne Jackson Cover Art

Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe (Unabridged)

82

The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage (Unabridged) - Mel Robbins Cover Art

The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage (Unabridged)

83

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (Unabridged) - Thích Nhất Hạnh Cover Art

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (Unabridged)

84

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus - John Gray Cover Art

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

85

New You, New Life: Reprogram Your Mind and Body to Create the Future You Want (Unabridged) - Dr. Joe Dispenza Cover Art

New You, New Life: Reprogram Your Mind and Body to Create the Future You Want (Unabridged)

86

The Anatomy of Awakening: The 5 Hidden Codes to Activate Self-Healing, Unlock Your Higher Consciousness, and Live Your Divine Destiny (Unabridged) - Dr. Sue Morter Cover Art

The Anatomy of Awakening: The 5 Hidden Codes to Activate Self-Healing, Unlock Your Higher Consciousness, and Live Your Divine Destiny (Unabridged)

87

Psicología Oscura: El arte de la seducción, manipulación y persuasión en español: Las 1000 técnicas más efectivas y peligrosas - Aprenderás a como conversar con cualquier persona -2 libros en 1 - Dr. Sender Blangh Cover Art

Psicología Oscura: El arte de la seducción, manipulación y persuasión en español: Las 1000 técnicas más efectivas y peligrosas - Aprenderás a como conversar con cualquier persona -2 libros en 1

88

How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen (Unabridged) - Joanna Faber Cover Art

How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen (Unabridged)

89

The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley Cover Art

The Doors of Perception

90

Many Lives, Many Masters (Unabridged) - Brian L. Weiss Cover Art

Many Lives, Many Masters (Unabridged)

91

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire Cover Art

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

92

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Unabridged) - Carol S. Dweck Cover Art

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Unabridged)

93

Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love (Unabridged) - Jessica Baum, LMHC Cover Art

Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love (Unabridged)

94

Tempting Venom: An Enemies to Lovers MM Hockey Romance (Vipers, Book 3) (Unabridged) - Rina Kent Cover Art

Tempting Venom: An Enemies to Lovers MM Hockey Romance (Vipers, Book 3) (Unabridged)

95

Only Love is Real - Brian Weiss MD Cover Art

Only Love is Real

96

When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us : Letting Go of Their Problems, Loving Them Anyway, and Getting on with Our Lives - J. Todd Adams Cover Art

When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us : Letting Go of Their Problems, Loving Them Anyway, and Getting on with Our Lives

97

Capital - Karl Marx Cover Art

Capital

98

Radical Acceptance : Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha - Tara Brach PhD Cover Art

Radical Acceptance : Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

99

Weightless: A Doctor's Guide to GLP-1 Medications, Sustainable Weight Loss, and the Health You Deserve (Unabridged) - Rocio Salas-Whalen, MD Cover Art

Weightless: A Doctor's Guide to GLP-1 Medications, Sustainable Weight Loss, and the Health You Deserve (Unabridged)

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