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David Quammen: Amazon KDP author data

David Quammen has 25 books on Amazon, 24 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #1), mostly in Virology, Genetics, Epidemiology.

25Books on Amazon
24Listed in 30 days
4.6Average rating
Median price$14.12
Price range (middle 50%)$11.45 – $18.87
Median reviews536
Total reviews26,225
New books (30 days)2
Breakout books (30 days)0

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What stands out

  • 96% of the catalog made a best-seller list in the last 30 days: the whole backlist sells, not one hit.
  • Median price $14.12, 28% below the median of their main category, Virology.

David Quammen's best-ranked books

  1. Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest book cover by David Quammen

    Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

    by David Quammen

    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews441
    • Published2015-02

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  2. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic book cover by David Quammen

    Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    by David Quammen

    • Price$11.48
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews4,924

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  3. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic book cover by David Quammen

    Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    by David Quammen

    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews4,924

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  4. Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest book cover by David Quammen

    Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

    by David Quammen

    • Price$11.48
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews441

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  5. Spillover book cover by David Quammen

    Spillover

    by David Quammen

    • Price$26.95
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews4,924

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  6. Contágio: Infecções de origem animal e a evolução das pandemias (Portuguese Edition) book cover by David Quammen

    Contágio: Infecções de origem animal e a evolução das pandemias (Portuguese Edition)

    by David Quammen

    • Price$6.15
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews294

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  7. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction book cover by David Quammen

    The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction

    by David Quammen

    • Price$12.91
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews537

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  8. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions book cover by David Quammen

    The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

    by David Quammen

    • Price$26.19
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews536

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  9. Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus book cover by David Quammen

    Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus

    by David Quammen

    • Price$14.25
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews677

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  10. Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus book cover by David Quammen

    Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus

    by David Quammen

    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews677

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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.