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David Sedaris: Amazon KDP author data

David Sedaris has 53 books on Amazon, 40 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #1), mostly in Essays, Essays & Correspondence, Biographies & Memoirs.

53Books on Amazon
40Listed in 30 days
4.4Average rating
Median price$12.99
Price range (middle 50%)$11.49 – $21.18
Median reviews3,467
Total reviews218,579
New books (30 days)0
Breakout books (30 days)0

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What stands out

  • 75% of the catalog made a best-seller list in the last 30 days: the whole backlist sells, not one hit.

David Sedaris's best-ranked books

  1. Me Talk Pretty One Day book cover by David Sedaris

    Me Talk Pretty One Day

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews9,959

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  2. Me Talk Pretty One Day book cover by David Sedaris

    Me Talk Pretty One Day

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$14.95
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews9,959

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  3. Themes and Variations: An Essay book cover by David Sedaris

    Themes and Variations: An Essay

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews4,709
    • Published2020-04

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  4. The Land and Its People: Essays book cover by David Sedaris

    The Land and Its People: Essays

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews3,241
    • Published2026-05

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  5. The Land and Its People: Essays book cover by David Sedaris

    The Land and Its People: Essays

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$16.95
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews3,241
    • Published2026-05

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  6. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) book cover by David Sedaris

    A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews4,148

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  7. When You Are Engulfed in Flames book cover by David Sedaris

    When You Are Engulfed in Flames

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews3,965

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  8. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (A Meditation on Short Fiction) book cover by David Sedaris

    Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (A Meditation on Short Fiction)

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews621

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  9. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary book cover by David Sedaris

    Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.0
    • Reviews1,303

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  10. The Best of Me book cover by David Sedaris

    The Best of Me

    by David Sedaris

    • Price$23.95
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews5,945

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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.