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Matt Ridley: Amazon KDP author data

Matt Ridley has 28 books on Amazon, 27 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #4), mostly in Research, Patents & Inventions, Evolutionary Psychology.

28Books on Amazon
27Listed in 30 days
4.5Average rating
Median price$12.89
Price range (middle 50%)$10.29 – $18.37
Median reviews1,181
Total reviews40,895
New books (30 days)0
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 $12.89, 17% below the median of their main category, Research.

Matt Ridley's best-ranked books

  1. Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 book cover by Matt Ridley

    Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews1,181

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  2. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters book cover by Matt Ridley

    Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews1,941

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  3. Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 book cover by Matt Ridley

    Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price$18
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews1,181

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  4. Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 book cover by Matt Ridley

    Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price$18.37
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews1,181

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  5. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) book cover by Matt Ridley

    The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews3,352

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  6. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters book cover by Matt Ridley

    Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price$9.49
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews1,941

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  7. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves ― An Astute History of Innovation and the Co book cover by Matt Ridley

    The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves ― An Astute History of Innovation and the Collective Brain (P.s.)

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price$10.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews3,352

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  8. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves book cover by Matt Ridley

    The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price-
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews3,352

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  9. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature book cover by Matt Ridley

    The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews1,118

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  10. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature book cover by Matt Ridley

    The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    by Matt Ridley

    • Price$12.01
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews1,118

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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.