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Biographies (Professionals & Academics, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Biographies (Professionals & Academics, Books), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $16.94, median 282 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 27/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $12 – $20 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 9% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 7% of the parent category Professionals & Academics (4,236), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 Biographies best sellers
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Elon Musk
- List rank#1
- Price$19.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews23,917
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews909
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Steve Jobs
- List rank#3
- Price$10.48
- Rating4.7
- Reviews26,941
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
- List rank#4
- Price$16.76
- Rating4.4
- Reviews14,832
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The Scaling Curve: Dario Amodei, Anthropic, and the Race to Build and Survive Superintelligence
by Claude St. John
- List rank#5
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews533
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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein
- List rank#6
- Price$19.95
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,983
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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
by Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- List rank#7
- Price$14.27
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,526
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
by Kevin Mitnick
- List rank#8
- Price$14.95
- Rating4.5
- Reviews4,542
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by Andy Greenberg
- List rank#9
- Price$17.69
- Rating4.6
- Reviews3,246
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Smarter Than Us: Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity
by Geoffrey Hinton
- List rank#10
- Price$15.69
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FAQ
Is Biographies a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 27/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 282 reviews and sells for $16.94.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Biographies?
The median best seller has 282 reviews, and 23% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Biographies best sellers cost?
The median price is $16.94; half of the best sellers are priced between $12 and $20.
Can new books break into Biographies?
9% 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.