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iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale...

United States $1.99 2004-02-10

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 ...

History $16.99 2025-09-09

Hannibal

Patrick N Hunt

Hannibal is “an exciting biography of one of history’s greatest commanders…a thrilling page-turner” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) about the brill...

Ancient $1.99 2017-07-11

The Operator

Robert O'Neill

This instant New York Times bestseller—“a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account” ( New York Post ) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s incredible ...

Military $1.99 2017-04-25

Prisoners of the Castle

Ben Macintyre

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” ( The Wall Street Journal ) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly c...

History $2.99 2022-09-13

Escape from Camp 14

Blaine Harden

“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s Escape from Camp 14." — Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Los...

Asia $1.99 2012-03-29

The 1619 Project

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper, Ilena SIlverman & Jake Silverstein

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin ...

United States $13.99 2021-11-16

A Wing and a Prayer

Harry H. Crosby

"A compelling account of the air war against Germany" written by the navigator portrayed by Anthony Boyle in Apple TV's Masters of the Air ( Publisher...

History $1.99 2021-09-14

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 ...

United States $11.99 2024-04-30

Deadwood

Peter Cozzens

The true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as “the most diabolical town on earth” and of its most colorful cast of characte...

United States $14.99 2025-08-19

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver  "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." ...

Africa $1.99 1999-09-03

History Matters

David McCullough

In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays—many never published before—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and bestselling author David Mc...

United States $12.99 2025-09-16

The Wide Wide Sea

Hampton Sides

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Explorat...

History $13.99 2024-04-09

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...

United States $12.99 2015-11-17

Ghosts of Hiroshima

Charles Pellegrino

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ACADEMY AWARD–WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES CAMERON “Not since Titanic have I found a powerful, heartbreaking, and in...

History $9.99 2025-08-05

Operation Mincemeat

Ben Macintyre

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING COLIN FIRTH • The “brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New York...

History $2.99 2010-05-04

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal ...

Middle East $12.99 2020-01-28

Sailing the Graveyard Sea

Richard Snow

A “compelling” ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known but once notorious event...

Military $1.99 2023-11-21

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 ...

History $18.99 2023-09-19

The Nine

Gwen Strauss

THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] narrative of unfathomable courage" ― Wall Street Journal The Nine follows the true story of the author’s gr...

History $12.99 2021-05-04

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