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Australia & Oceania (History, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Australia & Oceania (History, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $15.40, median 259 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $12.09 – $21.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 5% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 21% of the parent category History (1,243), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 75% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 Australia & Oceania best sellers
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- List rank#1
- Price$10.59
- Rating4.5
- Reviews11,086
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Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
by Joan Druett
- List rank#2
- Price$12.09
- Rating4.4
- Reviews7,993
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
by Christina Thompson
- List rank#3
- Price$18.37
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,012
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
- List rank#4
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,318
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A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic (Holt Paperback)
by Walter Lord
- List rank#5
- Price$9.92
- Rating4.4
- Reviews5,461
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Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
- List rank#6
- Price$25.59
- Rating4.6
- Reviews963
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The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding
by Robert Hughes
- List rank#7
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews1,570
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
by Timothy Egan
- List rank#8
- Price$11.01
- Rating4.6
- Reviews4,502
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by Mike Dash
- List rank#9
- Price$14.95
- Rating4.4
- Reviews962
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The Race to the Top of the World
- List rank#10
- Price-
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
Subcategories
Same niche in Kindle eBooks: Australia & Oceania
FAQ
Is Australia & Oceania a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 259 reviews and sells for $15.40.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Australia & Oceania?
The median best seller has 259 reviews, and 33% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Australia & Oceania best sellers cost?
The median price is $15.40; half of the best sellers are priced between $12.09 and $21.99.
Can new books break into Australia & Oceania?
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.