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Barbados: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Barbados, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $26.73, median 4 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 25/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $18.48 – $36.23 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 4% |
| Books on the list | 98 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 2% of the parent category Caribbean & West Indies (183), one of the easier corners under it.
- Its review barrier is lower than in 92% of Books categories: the median best seller has only 4 reviews, so new books can chart with few.
- At $26.73 its median price beats 86% of Books categories, leaving more margin per copy.
Top 10 Barbados best sellers
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Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
by Andrea Stuart
- List rank#1
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews481
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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies)
by Marisa J. Fuentes
- List rank#2
- Price$29.95
- Rating4.7
- Reviews91
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A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (Hackett Classics)
by Richard Ligon
- List rank#3
- Price$16.50
- Rating4.2
- Reviews73
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City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York (Caribbean Studies Series)
by Tammy L. Brown
- List rank#4
- Price$36.39
- Rating4.5
- Reviews20
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Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados
by Jerome S. Handler
- List rank#5
- Price$25.49
- Rating5.0
- Reviews2
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An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Early American Studies)
by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
- List rank#6
- Price$26.70
- Rating4.6
- Reviews36
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The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet
by Jeremy R Moss
- List rank#7
- Price$9.80
- Rating4.4
- Reviews128
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Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
by Imaobong Umoren
- List rank#8
- Price$12.32
- Rating4.5
- Reviews8
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A History of Barbados (Caribbean)
by Hilary McD. Beckles
- List rank#9
- Price$41.95
- Rating4.6
- Reviews48
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Island People: The Caribbean and the World
by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- List rank#10
- Price$20
- Rating4.0
- Reviews56
FAQ
Is Barbados a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 25/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 4 reviews and sells for $26.73.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Barbados?
The median best seller has 4 reviews, and 96% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Barbados best sellers cost?
The median price is $26.73; half of the best sellers are priced between $18.48 and $36.23.
Can new books break into Barbados?
4% 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.