iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
The Gales of November
John U. Bacon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classic. Readers of Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm, Erik Larsen’s Dead Wak...
The Lewis and Clark Companion
Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs & Clay Straus Jenkinson
An indispensable guide to our nation's epic adventure The years 2003-2006 mark the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's famous transco...
The Brenner Assignment
Patrick K. O'Donnell
The true World War II story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reich's main supply artery—the Brenner Pass. Like a s...
Confronting Evil
Bill O'Reilly & Josh Hammer
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! By the #1 bestselling history author in the world, Bill O'Reilly: A dramatic confrontation with good, evil, and ...
Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR's Books We Love One of New...
Citizen Soldiers
Stephen E. Ambrose
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day , the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Euro...
The CIA Book Club
Charlie English
“A story as fascinating as it is undersung . . . a riveting account” ( The New York Times Book Review , Best Books of 2025 So Far) of the CIA’s secret...
The Great Contradiction
Joseph J. Ellis
A major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers and the National ...
Okinawa
Robert Leckie
Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries. Former Marine and Pacific War vet...
Autocrats vs. Democrats
Michael McFaul
"A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by C...
The Reader's Companion to American History
Eric Foner & John A. Garraty
An A-to-Z historical encyclopedia of US people, places, and events, with nearly 1,000 entries "all equally well written, crisp, and entertaining" ( Li...
Lotharingia
Simon Winder
Following Germania and Danubia , the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the gr...
Running Deep
Tom Clavin
The true story of the deadliest submarine in World War II and the courageous captain who survived torture and imprisonment at the hands of the enemy. ...
The Traitors Circle
Jonathan Freedland
"An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainm...
Black AF History
Michael Harriot
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST ...
The Demon of Unrest
Erik Larson
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln ...
A Fever in the Heartland
Timothy Egan
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A C...
We the People
Jill Lepore
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction "[Lepore's] 15th book, We the People, a history o...
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book’s thirty-five year history and dem...
Targeted: Beirut
Jack Carr
The first in a new “authoritative, shocking” (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) nonfiction series examining the devastating terroris...