iTunes Store: Top Paid Books in History
Redwood
Ben Macintyre
From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: a “page-turning masterpiece” ( The Guardian ) a...
Stay Alive
Ian Buruma
Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker “Crisply told and uncomfortably relevant.” — The New York Times Book Review “Exquisite.” — Wall Str...
Confronting America
Bill O'Reilly & Josh Hammer
What has to change in America--and why. The new book in the #1 bestselling series. America remains the world’s greatest land of opportunity, but too m...
The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000–2000 B.C.
Hans J. Nissen & Kenneth J. Northcott
A much-needed overview of 7000 years of development in the ancient Near East from the beginning of settled life to formation of the first regional sta...
1491 (Second Edition)
Charles C. Mann
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the ar...
Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher
Timothy Egan
A New York Times Notable Book A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
Bible and Sword
Barbara W. Tuchman
From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Brit...
The Cauldron
Simon Sebag Montefiore
A #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential guide to the making of the modern Middle East from 1900 to the present: a spellbinding history by the New ...
The Fabric of Civilization
Virginia Postrel
“A journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself...[ The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Flo...
The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans -era tale of Oleg Gordievsky...
Four Red Sweaters
Lucy Adlington
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the true stories...
Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball
Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the...
Band of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen E. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became th...
Skunk Works
Leo Janos & Ben R. Rich
This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies. "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" — New Yo...
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 ...
The Thirty Years War
C. V. Wedgwood
Featured in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “My 10 Favorite Books” An epic, vivid account of the Thirty Years War—one of the most complex and destructive eras of Eu...
Among the Heroes
Jere Longman
The New York Times bestseller about Flight ninety-three's brave men and women on September eleven, 2001—the day that changed how Americans view the wo...
A History of Ancient Egypt
John Romer
From the renowned Egyptologist, the first volume in a two-book series on the history of Egypt that brings the ancient world to life. Famed archaeologi...
The Only Plane in the Sky
Garrett M. Graff
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civi...
The Last Free Women
Rebecca Blumenstein & Diana Kapp
The extraordinary account of The New York Times's effort to save hundreds of lives during the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation, highlighting four exce...