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Aviation (History › Transportation, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Aviation (History › Transportation, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $8.99, median 118 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $12.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 15% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 50% of the parent category Transportation (237), one of the easier corners under it.
- 15% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $12.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Aviation best sellers
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Unlimited: The True Story of Kenneth Burnstine
by Greg Born
- List rank#1
- Price$9.99
- Reviews-
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Saving Columbia: Lost Opportunity to Save Seven Astronauts
by Marshall H. Kaplan
- List rank#2
- Price$9.99
- Rating3.5
- Reviews2
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Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War
- List rank#3
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews23
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Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story
by Carol Shaben
- List rank#4
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews8,720
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Bird Men: The Rise of American Airpower and the Machine That Ended World War II – A WWII History of American Airpower and the Superfortress That Changed the Course of the War
by A. J. Baime
- List rank#5
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews8
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The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated Profile of Every Aircraft, Crew, and Breakthrough of the World's Fastest Stealth Jet
by Richard H. Graham
- List rank#6
- Price$23.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,039
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Three-Eight Charlie: 1st Woman to Fly Solo Around the World
by Jerrie Mock
- List rank#7
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews252
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F-14 Tomcat Pilot: A Naval Aviation Memoir of Flying Fighters from Phantoms to Hornets
by Phil Grandfield
- List rank#8
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews157
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Mosquito at War: The RAF’s Most Versatile Aircraft in World War II (The At War Aviation Series Book 1)
by Chaz Bowyer
- List rank#9
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews83
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The Wright Brothers
- List rank#10
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews21,450
FAQ
Is Aviation a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 118 reviews and sells for $8.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Aviation?
The median best seller has 118 reviews, and 45% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Aviation best sellers cost?
The median price is $8.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $12.99.
Can new books break into Aviation?
15% 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.