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Michael Shermer: Amazon KDP author data

Michael Shermer has 16 books on Amazon, 13 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #3), mostly in Creationism, History & Philosophy, Social Philosophy.

16Books on Amazon
13Listed in 30 days
4.3Average rating
Median price$9.09
Price range (middle 50%)$2.99 – $17.12
Median reviews154
Total reviews5,657
New books (30 days)2
Breakout books (30 days)2

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What stands out

  • 81% of the catalog made a best-seller list in the last 30 days: the whole backlist sells, not one hit.
  • Median price $9.09, 46% below the median of their main category, Creationism.

Michael Shermer's best-ranked books

  1. Virtuous Nonsense: Progressive America’s Epistemic Crisis book cover by Michael Shermer

    Virtuous Nonsense: Progressive America’s Epistemic Crisis

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$27.95
    • Reviews-
    • Published2026-10

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  2. Virtuous Nonsense: Progressive America’s Epistemic Crisis book cover by Michael Shermer

    Virtuous Nonsense: Progressive America’s Epistemic Crisis

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$8.69
    • Reviews-
    • Published2026-10

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  3. Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Mat book cover by Michael Shermer

    Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$11.78
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews2,404
    • Published2006-08

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  4. The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom book cover by Michael Shermer

    The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews338

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  5. Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design book cover by Michael Shermer

    Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews168

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  6. Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia book cover by Michael Shermer

    Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews228

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  7. The Case Against Miracles book cover by Michael Shermer

    The Case Against Miracles

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews82
    • Published2019-11

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  8. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our  book cover by Michael Shermer

    Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$9.49
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews623

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  9. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our  book cover by Michael Shermer

    Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews623

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  10. The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden book cover by Michael Shermer

    The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule (Holt Paperback)

    by Michael Shermer

    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews141
    • Published2005-01

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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.