iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
The First Conspiracy
Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
Taking place during the most critical period of our nation’s birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American hi...
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...
The River of Doubt
Candice Millard
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait—the bestselling author of River of the Gods br...
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
Jason Fagone
National Bestseller NPR Best Book of the Year “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wo...
The Gales of November
John U. Bacon
NEW YORK TIMES BOOKSELLER "A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classic. Readers of Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm, Erik Larsen’s Dead Wak...
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 Radium Girls
Kate Moore
A New York Times , USA Today , Wall Street Journal , and Amazon Charts Bestseller! "The glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." — NPR Book...
Ghosts of Honolulu
Mark Harmon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval cou...
Germany 1923
Volker Ullrich & Jefferson Chase
From the New York Times best-selling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis of the Weimar Republic, when hyperinflation and political upheav...
Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography • From the author of King of Ki...
Bunker Hill
Nathaniel Philbrick
The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower , and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignite...
White Trash
Nancy Isenberg
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfictio...
Unfamiliar Fishes
Sarah Vowell
From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Of all the ...
Outlaw Platoon
Sean Parnell & John Bruning
A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell’s stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army’s 10th Mou...
The Great Fire of Rome
Stephen Dando-Collins
On the night of July 19, AD 64, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus Maximus. For more than a week the fire spread, eng...
Franklin and Winston
Jon Meacham
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ), Pulitzer Priz...
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 ...
The Zorg
Siddharth Kara
From Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red : A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in t...
The Fifteen
William Geroux
The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the sec...
Fishing
Brian Fagan
An archaeologist examines humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization. In this histor...