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The Athletic: Amazon KDP author data

The Athletic has 13 books on Amazon, 12 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #1), mostly in History of Sports, Essays, Sports.

13Books on Amazon
12Listed in 30 days
4.7Average rating
Median price$22.87
Price range (middle 50%)$15.49 – $29.95
Median reviews94
Total reviews1,019
New books (30 days)2
Breakout books (30 days)2

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What stands out

  • 92% of the catalog made a best-seller list in the last 30 days: the whole backlist sells, not one hit.
  • Median price $22.87, 56% above the median of their main category, History of Sports.

The Athletic's best-ranked books

  1. The Hockey 100: The Definitive Ranking of Ice Hockey's Greatest Players by The Athletic's  book cover by The Athletic

    The Hockey 100: The Definitive Ranking of Ice Hockey's Greatest Players by The Athletic's Journalists (Sports series, 4)

    by The Athletic

    • Price$36.79
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews1
    • Published2026-10

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  2. The Hockey 100: The Definitive Ranking of Ice Hockey's Greatest Players by The Athletic's  book cover by The Athletic

    The Hockey 100: The Definitive Ranking of Ice Hockey's Greatest Players by The Athletic's Journalists (Sports series Book 4)

    by The Athletic

    • Price$22.99
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews1
    • Published2026-10

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  3. The Basketball 100 book cover by The Athletic

    The Basketball 100

    by The Athletic

    • Price$36.19
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews131

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  4. The Football 100: The Athletic's Definitive Rankings of NFL History's 100 Greatest Players book cover by The Athletic

    The Football 100: The Athletic's Definitive Rankings of NFL History's 100 Greatest Players and Their Untold Stories (Sports series, 1)

    by The Athletic

    • Price$29.43
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews156

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  5. The Soccer 100: Vivid Portraits and Stories of the Beautiful Game's Greatest from The Athl book cover by The Athletic

    The Soccer 100: Vivid Portraits and Stories of the Beautiful Game's Greatest from The Athletic (Sports series, 3)

    by The Athletic

    • Price$25.50
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews72

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  6. The Basketball 100: An Epic Basketball History with In-Depth Player Profiles, Celebrate th book cover by The Athletic

    The Basketball 100: An Epic Basketball History with In-Depth Player Profiles, Celebrate the Game's Greatest Players (Sports series, 2)

    by The Athletic

    • Price$22.75
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews131

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  7. The Football 100 book cover by The Athletic

    The Football 100

    by The Athletic

    • Price$31.49
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews155

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  8. Undeniable: The Kansas City Chiefs' Remarkable 2023 Championship Season book cover by The Athletic

    Undeniable: The Kansas City Chiefs' Remarkable 2023 Championship Season

    by The Athletic

    • Price$9.98
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews8

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  9. The Basketball 100: An Epic Basketball History with In-Depth Player Profiles, Celebrate th book cover by The Athletic

    The Basketball 100: An Epic Basketball History with In-Depth Player Profiles, Celebrate the Game's Greatest Players (Sports series Book 2)

    by The Athletic

    • Price$16.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews131

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  10. The Soccer 100: Vivid Portraits and Stories of the Beautiful Game's Greatest from The Athl book cover by The Athletic

    The Soccer 100: Vivid Portraits and Stories of the Beautiful Game's Greatest from The Athletic (Sports series Book 3)

    by The Athletic

    • Price$20.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews72

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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.