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1800s (Children's eBooks › History › United States, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for 1800s (Children's eBooks › History › United States, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $5.99, median 156 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 17/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $8.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 2% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Only 2% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 93% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $8.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 1800s best sellers
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Carrie Ingalls: The Forgotten Sister
by Clarissa Willis
- List rank#1
- Price$2.99
- Rating3.9
- Reviews80
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Big Bad Ironclad! (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #2): A Civil War Tale
by Nathan Hale
- List rank#2
- Price$7.83
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,541
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Can You Sing "The Star-Spangled Banner"? (Cloverleaf Books ™ — Our American Symbols)
by Martha E. H. Rustad
- List rank#3
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews16
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Donner Dinner Party (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #3): A Pioneer Tale
by Nathan Hale
- List rank#4
- Price$8.45
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,208
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Gross Facts About the U.S. Civil War (Gross History)
by Mira Vonne
- List rank#5
- Price$8.54
- Rating3.6
- Reviews10
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The Underground Abductor (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #5): An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman
by Nathan Hale
- List rank#6
- Price$8.43
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,243
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Major Impossible (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9): A Grand Canyon Tale
by Nathan Hale
- List rank#7
- Price$8.51
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,268
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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century
by Sarah Miller
- List rank#8
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews761
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The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
by Jim Murphy
- List rank#9
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews226
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Abraham Lincoln (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 2)
by Caroline Crosson Gilpin
- List rank#10
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews442
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FAQ
Is 1800s a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 17/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 156 reviews and sells for $5.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in 1800s?
The median best seller has 156 reviews, and 39% of them have fewer than 100.
What do 1800s best sellers cost?
The median price is $5.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $8.99.
Can new books break into 1800s?
2% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
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.