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Simon Winchester: Amazon KDP author data

Simon Winchester has 66 books on Amazon, 64 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #1), mostly in Historic, Geology, Historical Geography.

66Books on Amazon
64Listed in 30 days
4.3Average rating
Median price$12.30
Price range (middle 50%)$9.91 – $18.09
Median reviews618
Total reviews58,399
New books (30 days)0
Breakout books (30 days)0

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What stands out

  • 97% of the catalog made a best-seller list in the last 30 days: the whole backlist sells, not one hit.
  • Median price $12.30, 22% below the median of their main category, Historic.

Simon Winchester's best-ranked books

  1. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford Eng book cover by Simon Winchester

    The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary — An OED History

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews3,898

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  2. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World — A History of Techno book cover by Simon Winchester

    The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World — A History of Technology and Precision

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$15.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews2,334

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  3. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 book cover by Simon Winchester

    Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$10.98
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews1,976

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  4. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 book cover by Simon Winchester

    Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews1,976

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  5. Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire – The Last Account of the book cover by Simon Winchester

    Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire – The Last Account of the Vanishing Empire

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews283

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  6. The End of the River book cover by Simon Winchester

    The End of the River

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews191

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  7. The End of the River book cover by Simon Winchester

    The End of the River

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$7.69
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews190

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  8. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology — A Biograph book cover by Simon Winchester

    The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology — A Biography of the Founder of Geology

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews1,035

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  9. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford Eng book cover by Simon Winchester

    The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$15.06
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews223

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  10. Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fadin book cover by Simon Winchester

    Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers – An Acclaimed Natural Wonder

    by Simon Winchester

    • Price$10.49
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews791

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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.