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The Most-Rated History Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 7,526 unabridged History audiobooks in our catalog carry store ratings. These are the 25 with the most ratings.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari15.3 hrs
2A Promised LandBarack Obama29.2 hrs
3The Art of WarSun Tzu1.4 hrs
4Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't KnowMalcolm Gladwell9 hrs
5Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: The multi-million copy bestsellerYuval Noah Harari15.3 hrs
6The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed AmericaErik Larson15 hrs
7Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and RedemptionLaura Hillenbrand14 hrs
8Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceMargot Lee Shetterly10.8 hrs
9The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsDaniel James Brown14.4 hrs
10American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military HistoryScott McEwen10.3 hrs
11Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIDavid Grann9.1 hrs
12Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson15.2 hrs
13In Cold BloodTruman Capote14.5 hrs
14Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistoryS. C. Gwynne15.2 hrs
15Homo Deus: A Brief History of TomorrowYuval Noah Harari14.9 hrs
16A People's History of the United StatesHoward Zinn34.2 hrs
17The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota HistoryJoseph Marshall11 hrs
18Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared Diamond16.4 hrs
19Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for JusticeBill Browder14.2 hrs
20Night: New translation by Marion WieselElie Wiesel3.5 hrs
21The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi GermanyWilliam L. Shirer57.2 hrs
22The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team WarriorRobert O'Neill9.7 hrs
23The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the BlitzErik Larson17.8 hrs
24Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II JapanMartin Dugard9.4 hrs
25Homo Deus: The million-copy bestseller from the author of NexusYuval Noah Harari14.9 hrs

Ordered by the number of store ratings, most first; the counts are used only for ordering and never shown. A rating count measures popularity, never quality. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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