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David Foster Wallace: Amazon KDP author data

David Foster Wallace has 39 books on Amazon, 36 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #2), mostly in Essays, Humor, Racket Sports.

39Books on Amazon
36Listed in 30 days
4.3Average rating
Median price$11.17
Price range (middle 50%)$9.99 – $17.73
Median reviews486
Total reviews60,038
New books (30 days)2
Breakout books (30 days)0

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What stands out

  • 92% of the catalog made a best-seller list in the last 30 days: the whole backlist sells, not one hit.
  • Median price $11.17, 60% above the median of their main category, Essays.

David Foster Wallace's best-ranked books

  1. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity book cover by David Foster Wallace

    Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$15.51
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews279
    • Published2010-10

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  2. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication book cover by David Foster Wallace

    String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$10.09
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews414

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  3. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity book cover by David Foster Wallace

    Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews279

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  4. On Tennis: Five Essays book cover by David Foster Wallace

    On Tennis: Five Essays

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews261

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  5. Girl With Curious Hair book cover by David Foster Wallace

    Girl With Curious Hair

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$10.91
    • Rating4.1
    • Reviews346

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  6. Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will book cover by David Foster Wallace

    Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews67

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  7. Signifying Rappers book cover by David Foster Wallace

    Signifying Rappers

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews51

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  8. Up, Simba! book cover by David Foster Wallace

    Up, Simba!

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews29

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  9. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories book cover by David Foster Wallace

    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews764

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  10. Infinite Jest (30th Anniversary Edition) book cover by David Foster Wallace

    Infinite Jest (30th Anniversary Edition)

    by David Foster Wallace

    • Price$82.59
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews6,473

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About this data

Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.