iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
Philip T. Hoffman
The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. ...
The Heart of Everything That Is
Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
This acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is “ a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the nar...
The Bookseller of Kabul
Åsne Seierstad
This phenomenal international bestseller is " an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but...
This Land is Your Land
Beverly Gage
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past. Ride along with Pulit...
Surprise, Kill, Vanish
Annie Jacobsen
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target...
Bloody Spring
Joseph Wheelan
An action-packed account of forty crucial days in Virgina during the spring of 1864—the turning point in America's Civil War. "[Wheelan's] prose fairl...
American Struggle
Jon Meacham
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates...
The Last Slave Ship
Ben Raines
An NPR Best Book of the Year The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded...
No One’s Coming
Kevin Hazzard
From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical...
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION ...
Black in Blues
Imani Perry
A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, f...
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 History of the World in 12 Maps
Jerry Brotton
A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his ...
Here Where We Live Is Our Country
Molly Crabapple
The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. “Moll...
Race of Aces
John R. Bruning
The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot. "A heart-pounding ...
The Age of Revolution
Winston S. Churchill
The third volume of the prime minister's history of Britain follows the nation's ascent as a world power and its response to the threat of Napoleon. &...
Stay Alive
Ian Buruma
An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Ber...
The Gales of November
John U. Bacon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Smithsonian • 10 Best History Books of 2025 Bookpage • Best Books of 2025 "A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classi...
An American Genocide
Benjamin Madley
The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule—Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book ...
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 ...