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1800s (Children's Books › History › United States, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for 1800s (Children's Books › History › United States, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $8.80, median 305 reviews, average rating 4.7 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 19/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $6.43 – $11.17 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.7 |
| New releases (90 days) | 2% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Only 2% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 93% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.
- At $8.80 its median price is below 94% of Books categories, so it is a volume game.
- Its median reviews are 33% of the parent category United States (911), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 1800s best sellers
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Who Was Theodore Roosevelt?
- List rank#1
- Price$4.30
- Rating4.8
- Reviews924
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Donner Dinner Party (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #3): A Pioneer Tale (Volume 3)
by Nathan Hale
- List rank#2
- Price$8.90
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,208
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Big Bad Ironclad! (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #2): A Civil War Tale (Volume 2)
by Nathan Hale
- List rank#3
- Price$8.24
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,541
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Alamo All-Stars (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #6): A Texas Tale (Volume 6)
by Nathan Hale
- List rank#4
- Price$8.75
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,290
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Major Impossible (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9): A Grand Canyon Tale
by Nathan Hale
- List rank#5
- Price$8.96
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,268
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Who Was Harriet Tubman?
by Yona Zeldis McDonough
- List rank#6
- Price$4.45
- Rating4.8
- Reviews2,188
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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century
by Sarah Miller
- List rank#7
- Price$9.97
- Rating4.5
- Reviews761
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Unboring American History for Kids: Funny, Interesting, Concise Guide to A Time of Artists, Inventions, and Wild Ideas You Won’t Believe Are True (A ... History for Kids with Full Colored Pictures)
- List rank#8
- Price$9.95
- Rating3.8
- Reviews49
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What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
by Judith St. George
- List rank#10
- Price$4.75
- Rating4.8
- Reviews994
Same niche in Kindle eBooks: 1800s
FAQ
Is 1800s a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 19/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 305 reviews and sells for $8.80.
How many reviews do you need to rank in 1800s?
The median best seller has 305 reviews, and 23% of them have fewer than 100.
What do 1800s best sellers cost?
The median price is $8.80; half of the best sellers are priced between $6.43 and $11.17.
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.