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By Century: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for By Century, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $8.99, median 86 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 29/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $2.99 – $11.34 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 31% of the parent category Movements & Periods (278), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $2.99 to $11.34, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 By Century best sellers
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The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Albert Camus Classics)
by Albert Camus
- List rank#1
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews13,065
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Animal Farm
- List rank#2
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,618
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Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Charlotte Brontë Classics)
- List rank#3
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews6,617
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Notes from the Underground: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Fyodor Dostoyevsky Classics)
- List rank#4
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews2,981
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The Sun Also Rises: The Original 1926 Unabridged And Complete Edition (Ernest Hemingway Classics)
- List rank#5
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews4,137
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The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
- List rank#6
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews3,738
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Original 1876 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Mark Twain Classics)
by Mark Twain
- List rank#7
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,864
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To The Lighthouse
- List rank#8
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews1,074
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Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
- List rank#9
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews92
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Subcategories
FAQ
Is By Century a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 29/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 86 reviews and sells for $8.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in By Century?
The median best seller has 86 reviews, and 53% of them have fewer than 100.
What do By Century best sellers cost?
The median price is $8.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $11.34.
Can new books break into By Century?
6% 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.