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Philip Ball: Amazon KDP author data
Philip Ball has 30 books on Amazon, 28 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #5), mostly in System Theory, Chaos & Systems, Hydrology.
30Books on Amazon
28Listed in 30 days
4.4Average rating
| Median price | $12.99 |
|---|---|
| Price range (middle 50%) | $11.07 – $24 |
| Median reviews | 85 |
| Total reviews | 3,630 |
| New books (30 days) | 2 |
| Breakout books (30 days) | 2 |
What stands out
- 93% of the catalog made a best-seller list in the last 30 days: the whole backlist sells, not one hit.
- Median price $12.99, 58% below the median of their main category, System Theory.
Philip Ball's best-ranked books
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Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic
by Philip Ball
- Price$11.07
- Rating4.3
- Reviews85
- Published2009-03
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Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
by Philip Ball
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews845
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Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
by Philip Ball
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.1
- Reviews91
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Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does
by Philip Ball
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews352
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The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
by Philip Ball
- Price$30
- Rating5.0
- Reviews3
- Published2026-12
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Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does
by Philip Ball
- Price$30.67
- Rating4.5
- Reviews352
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Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
by Philip Ball
- Price$29.49
- Rating4.8
- Reviews21
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The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
by Philip Ball
- Price$13.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews3
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The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China
by Philip Ball
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews92
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The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
by Philip Ball
- Price$20.90
- Rating4.3
- Reviews29
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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.