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Ancient & Classical (Movements & Periods, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Ancient & Classical (Movements & Periods, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.84, median 45 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 30/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.49 – $14.69 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 5% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 16% of the parent category Movements & Periods (278), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.49 to $14.69, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Ancient & Classical best sellers
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The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics)
by Anicius Boethius
- List rank#1
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews737
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The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews3,738
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
by Emily Wilson
- List rank#3
- Price$9.50
- Rating4.5
- Reviews193
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Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition): Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (BLACK DOG & LEV)
by Edith Hamilton
- List rank#4
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews10,526
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Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
by Epictetus
- List rank#5
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews3,723
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Selected Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics)
by C. D. N. Costa
- List rank#6
- Price$12.83
- Rating4.7
- Reviews35
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The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Modern Library Classics)
by Sophocles
- List rank#7
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews669
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Meditaciones (Nueva Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 5) (Spanish Edition)
by Marco Aurelio
- List rank#8
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews452
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The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature: Enriched edition. All 71 Volumes - The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction
by George Gordon Byron
- List rank#9
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.1
- Reviews24
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Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes: A Great Books Library of Western Thought, Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History
- List rank#10
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews2
FAQ
Is Ancient & Classical a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 30/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 45 reviews and sells for $9.84.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Ancient & Classical?
The median best seller has 45 reviews, and 62% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Ancient & Classical best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.84; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.49 and $14.69.
Can new books break into Ancient & Classical?
5% 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.