KDP categories · Top KDP authors

Paul Theroux: Amazon KDP author data

Paul Theroux has 138 books on Amazon, 50 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #1), mostly in Literary & Religious, Travel Writing, Railroads.

138Books on Amazon
50Listed in 30 days
4.2Average rating
Median price$11.99
Price range (middle 50%)$8.98 – $25.85
Median reviews74
Total reviews53,214
New books (30 days)4
Breakout books (30 days)3

View on Amazon

What stands out

  • Median price $11.99, 20% below the median of their main category, Literary & Religious.
  • 4 new books in the last 30 days, 3 of them broke into a Best Sellers list.

Paul Theroux's best-ranked books

  1. Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads book cover by Paul Theroux

    Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$8.41
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews2,712

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

  2. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown book cover by Paul Theroux

    Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$11.47
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews1,701
    • Published2004-04

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

  3. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari book cover by Paul Theroux

    The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$9.02
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews1,401
    • Published2013-05

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

  4. The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific book cover by Paul Theroux

    The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews876

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

  5. True North: On the Road in Canada – An Acclaimed Memoir of Landscapes, Ancestral Connectio book cover by Paul Theroux

    True North: On the Road in Canada – An Acclaimed Memoir of Landscapes, Ancestral Connections, and Cultural Identity

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$25.60
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews76
    • Published2026-09

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

  6. True North: On the Road in Canada – An Acclaimed Memoir of Landscapes, Ancestral Connectio book cover by Paul Theroux

    True North: On the Road in Canada – An Acclaimed Memoir of Landscapes, Ancestral Connections, and Cultural Identity

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews76
    • Published2026-09

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

  7. The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas book cover by Paul Theroux

    The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$11.70
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews1,086
    • Published2014-11

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

  8. The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific book cover by Paul Theroux

    The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$14.57
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews876
    • Published2006-12

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

  9. Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express,  book cover by Paul Theroux

    Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews87

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

  10. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar book cover by Paul Theroux

    Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar

    by Paul Theroux

    • Price$10.37
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews1,023
    • Published2009-08

    View on Amazon · Full data on KDPTop

Main categories

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.