The best 43 History Audiobooks on Spotify, Napster and Deezer

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Welcome to the current History audiobook bestseller list 2026! Here we present the outstanding audiobooks that you can stream, download, and listen to for free this week. Our list is based on a thorough analysis of the English audiobook market. We determine from tens of thousands of titles those with the best ratings as well as the most fans and listeners. In our ranking, both audiobook series and individual titles are sorted by popularity. The following 43 popular titles are among the currently most beloved audiobooks in the 'History' category:

107 Days

12 Years a Slave (Unabridged)

1942: Crux of War

40 Thieves on Saipan (Unabridged)

The Book of Five Rings (Unabridged)

A History of the Philippines (Unabridged)

A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

A People's History of the United States

A Thousand Places Left Behind (One Soldier's Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII Burma)

A viagem do descobrimento

An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln

The Art of War - Audiobook

Backtalker: A Memoir

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Been There, Done That

Before the Mayflower [A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 (Unabridged)]

Betrayal: Power, Deceit and the Fight for the Future of the Royal Family - The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Power to the People - The Black Panther Speeches

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

The Man Who Inspired a Nation: Sir Winston Churchill Wartime Speeches

Common Sense

Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground

Darkhorse: Harnessing Hidden Potential in War and Life

Democracy in America Vol. I By Alexis de Tocqueville (YonaBooks)

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

The Essays (Unabridged)

Facing the Lion (Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe)

Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds - Ebola and the Ravages of History (Unabridged)

God, Family, Country

The Great Fire of London (History Revealed, Episode 5)

Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined

Historic Voices VIII - The Voices Of World War II

Homage to Catalonia (Unabridged)

Hospital Sketches (Unabridged)

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

I Have a Dream - The Complete Speech

In Cold Blood

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Unabridged)

Israel: What Went Wrong?

Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy

Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes - Cultural Studies in the Gospels (Unabridged)

JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

Leviathan

Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom (Original Score)

Love, Me: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship

Malcolm X: The Last Speeches

Mark Twain

Meditations

Meghan - A Hollywood Princess (Unabridged)

Murphy's Law

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Unabridged)

No More Secrets [My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon (Unabridged)]

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Old Times on the Mississippi (Unabridged)

Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Unabridged)

Profiles In Courage by John F. Kennedy

The Revelations of Divine Love - Read by Sister Wendy Beckett (Abridged)

Richard III

Rome Is Burning (Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty)

George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company & Conversation (Unabridged)

Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero

Speeches By Malcom X - The Ultimate Collection

Speeches by Martin Luther King: The Ultimate Collection

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Stamped from the Beginning (Unabridged)

Stamped from the Beginning - The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Unabridged)

Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

Ten Days in a Mad-House (Unabridged)

The Art of War - Audiobook

The Art of War (Unabridged)

The Art of War - Audiobook

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Unabridged)

The Book of Enoch in E Minor

The Book of Five Rings (Unabridged)

The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible

The Crowd: a Study of the Popular Mind (By Gustave Le Bon)

The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

Edward Gibbon : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Part I (Abridged)

Edward Gibbon : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Part II (Abridged)

Summary of Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest

Happy Readers - 35. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

The Faithful Executioner - Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (Unabridged)

Alexander Hamilton:The Federalist Papers (YonaBooks)

Summary of Seth Harp's The Fort Bragg Cartel

The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose

The Iliad

The Last Madam - A Life in the New Orleans Underworld (Unabridged)

The Law

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Unabridged)

The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World

Appearance and Reality from the Problems of Philosophy

The Putin Interviews - Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin (Unabridged)

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

Winston S Churchill's History Of The Second World War - Volume 6 - Triumph & Tragedy

Winston S Churchill's History Of The Second World War - Volume 3 - The Grand Alliance

The Secret Door To Success

The Souls of Black Folk (Unabridged)

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave

Twelve Years A Slave

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

Walden

War Is a Racket (Unabridged)

We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young (Unabridged)

When Christians Disagree (Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter)

When They Call You a Terrorist - A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Unabridged)

Why We Are Restless - New Forum Books, Book 65 (Unabridged)

Zelensky (A Biography of Ukraine's War Leader)

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