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Americas (History, Books): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Americas (History, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $17.70, median 1,499 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 46/100 (fairly competitive).

46Opportunity / 100
$17.70Median price
1,499Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$11.76 – $25.48
Average rating4.6
New releases (90 days)26%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • 26% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 95% of Books categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 90% of Books categories: the median best seller has 1,499 reviews, so new books need time to build up.

Top 10 Americas best sellers

  1. The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic book cover by Malcolm Gladwell

    The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic

    by Malcolm Gladwell

    • List rank#1
    • Price$14.95
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews816

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  2. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald book cover by John U. Bacon

    The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

    by John U. Bacon

    • List rank#2
    • Price$20.47
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews3,096

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  3. Uniting the States: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle – Six Founders Wh book cover by Brian Kilmeade

    Uniting the States: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle – Six Founders Who Shaped America's Revolutionary Democracy

    by Brian Kilmeade

    • List rank#3
    • Price$20.80
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews114

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  4. The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World book cover by Nathaniel Philbrick

    The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Nathaniel Philbrick

    • List rank#4
    • Price$32
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews128

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  5. Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII book cover by Chester Nez

    Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

    by Chester Nez

    • List rank#5
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews4,850

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  6. Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life book cover by Jay Stratton

    Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life

    by Jay Stratton

    • List rank#6
    • Price$32
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews890

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  7. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party book cover by Daniel James Brown

    The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

    by Daniel James Brown

    • List rank#7
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews8,442

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  8. The Federalist book cover by John Jay

    The Federalist

    by John Jay

    • List rank#8
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews186

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  9. The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous wit book cover by William Strauss

    The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

    by William Strauss

    • List rank#9
    • Price$19.95
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews6,211

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  10. The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement book cover by Victor Davis Hanson

    The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement

    by Victor Davis Hanson

    • List rank#10
    • Price$26.90
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews531

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Subcategories

Same niche in Kindle eBooks: Americas

FAQ

Is Americas a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 46/100, which makes it fairly competitive. The median best seller has 1,499 reviews and sells for $17.70.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Americas?

The median best seller has 1,499 reviews, and 23% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Americas best sellers cost?

The median price is $17.70; half of the best sellers are priced between $11.76 and $25.48.

Can new books break into Americas?

26% 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.