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Biographies & Memoirs (Nonfiction, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Biographies & Memoirs (Nonfiction, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 1,668 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 23/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $1.99 – $14.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 22% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 92% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 1,668 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- The same niche in Books scores 37, 14 points higher than here; worth checking both.
- 22% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 89% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
Top 10 Biographies & Memoirs best sellers
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In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood
- List rank#1
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews5,567
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Making It So: A Memoir
by Patrick Stewart
- List rank#2
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,760
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
- List rank#3
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews63,333
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The Back Bedroom: A True Story of Exorcism and Murder
by Gregg Olsen
- List rank#4
- Price$1.99
- Rating3.6
- Reviews8,606
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
by Chester Nez
- List rank#6
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,850
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KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD – UNEDITED
by Robert Hoffman
- List rank#7
- Price$8.88
- Rating3.6
- Reviews1,010
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Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary
by Geoffrey Cain
- List rank#8
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews273
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
- List rank#9
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews8,442
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Ordinary Wife: The true story of America’s forgotten serial killer
by Gregg Olsen
- List rank#10
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews58
Subcategories
Same niche in Books: Biographies & Memoirs
FAQ
Is Biographies & Memoirs a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 23/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,668 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Biographies & Memoirs?
The median best seller has 1,668 reviews, and 17% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Biographies & Memoirs best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $1.99 and $14.99.
Can new books break into Biographies & Memoirs?
22% 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.