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History Bestsellers

The top 50 History books on Amazon — with recorded rankings, chart movement, and tracking history. Check the snapshot date to see when these books were collected.

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History — 2026-09-1750 booksAvg 4.59★716,702 total reviewsLatest collected snapshot

Movement compared with 2026-09-16

CoverRankMoveBookRatingReviewsShare

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One Man In: The Explosive Firsthand Account of the Lone Special-Ops Commando Who Fought Off a Major Terrorist Attack in Kenya

Christian Craighead

6 days tracked

520 reviews

228

Swan Song: Diana, my sister

Charles Spencer

30 days tracked

4.42,274 reviews

Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era

Jacob Weisberg

2 days tracked · peak #2

4.63 reviews

The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement

Victor Davis Hanson

13 days tracked · peak #1 · −3 this week

4.864 reviews

510

Confronting America: What Has to Change (Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series)

Bill O'Reilly

25 days tracked · +43 this week

51 review

6New

New

The Steal: Four Right-Wing Hard-Liners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid on America's Courts

Alex Wagner

3 days tracked

—— reviews

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

50 days tracked · peak #3 · −2 this week

4.717,556 reviews

American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump

Kai Bird

13 days tracked · peak #1 · −6 this week

4.653 reviews

Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

2 days tracked

4.88 reviews

103

The Only Plane in the Sky (Revised and Expanded Edition for the 25th Anniversary): An Oral History of September 11, 2001

Garrett M. Graff

13 days tracked · peak #2 · −2 this week

4.85,838 reviews

112

Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy

Ben Macintyre

3 days tracked

2.94 reviews

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48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

50 days tracked · peak #2 · −6 this week

4.790,197 reviews

133

Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945

Ian Buruma

2 days tracked · peak #10

4.5712 reviews

145

Grant

Ron Chernow

8 days tracked · peak #7

4.814,964 reviews

15New

New

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – The #1 New York Times Bestseller Exploring How We Became Ruler of the Planet

Yuval Noah Harari

10 days tracked · peak #6 · −6 this week

4.6133,695 reviews

162

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

50 days tracked · peak #2 · −9 this week

4.7100,330 reviews

175

Night

Elie Wiesel

50 days tracked · peak #1 · −7 this week

4.723,722 reviews

187

The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland ― An Inspiring Social History of Stranded Passengers

Jim DeFede

13 days tracked · peak #8

4.515,342 reviews

19New

New

The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East

Simon Sebag Montefiore

25 days tracked · peak #9 · +12 this week

4.424 reviews

203

The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There

Owen Zidar

13 days tracked

57 reviews

2113

Slaves in the Family (FSG Classics)

Edward Ball

3 days tracked · peak #7

4.6460 reviews

22New

New

The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

William Strauss

8 days tracked · peak #8 · −7 this week

4.56,187 reviews

234

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Jocko Willink

50 days tracked · peak #8 · −6 this week

4.739,455 reviews

243

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

50 days tracked · peak #11 · −4 this week

4.85,768 reviews

2524

How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America

David Corn

2 days tracked

—— reviews

266

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Andrew Roberts

8 days tracked · peak #13 · +15 this week

4.85,797 reviews

27New

New

Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Eric Foner

4.71,045 reviews

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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

Andrew Ross Sorkin

50 days tracked · peak #4 · −17 this week

4.611,533 reviews

294

Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

Timothy Egan

2 days tracked · peak #25

4.62,168 reviews

302

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

50 days tracked · peak #9 · −9 this week

4.442,712 reviews

318

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

John U. Bacon

50 days tracked · peak #19 · −7 this week

4.72,925 reviews

325

The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament

Sandra L. Richter

2 days tracked

4.8— reviews

33New

New

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

7 days tracked · peak #5

4.64,544 reviews

346

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

45 days tracked · peak #11 · −9 this week

4.827,394 reviews

356

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

Sophie Elmhirst

4 days tracked · peak #12

4.311,505 reviews

365

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

Ben Macintyre

7 days tracked · peak #19

4.611,593 reviews

3719

A Train Near Magdeburg: A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust, and the reuniting of the survivors and liberators, 70 years on (The Train Near Magdeburg Series)

Matthew A. Rozell

4 days tracked · peak #4

4.62,150 reviews

385

The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living

Dara Horn

13 days tracked · peak #12 · −25 this week

4.533 reviews

393

Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World

Eric Metaxas

50 days tracked · peak #6 · −13 this week

4.9894 reviews

40New

New

The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000–2000 B.C.

Hans J. Nissen

4.2— reviews

411

Art of Seduction: An Indispensible Primer on the Ultimate Form of Power

Robert Greene

50 days tracked · peak #17 · −11 this week

4.711,949 reviews

423

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

50 days tracked · peak #20 · −14 this week

4.620,748 reviews

435

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

50 days tracked · peak #17 · −20 this week

4.613,285 reviews

4427

Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923–1941

Susan Ronald

3 days tracked · peak #13

4.584 reviews

4510

Love, Daddy: The True Story of Accused Con Man and Family-Killer Christian Longo (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

Carlton Smith

2 days tracked · peak #35

4.1239 reviews

46New

New

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

50 days tracked · peak #4 · −17 this week

4.612,753 reviews

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson

50 days tracked · peak #17 · −9 this week

4.331,333 reviews

485

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

49 days tracked · peak #3 · −45 this week

4.825,176 reviews

493

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

50 days tracked · peak #1 · −15 this week

4.34,474 reviews

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

Stephen E. Ambrose

6 days tracked · peak #41

4.815,684 reviews

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