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Career Guides: Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Career Guides, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 532 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 25/100 (highly competitive).

25Opportunity / 100
$9.99Median price
532Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$6.66 – $13.11
Average rating4.5
New releases (90 days)6%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its review barrier is higher than in 81% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 532 reviews, so new books need time to build up.

Top 10 Career Guides best sellers

  1. The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster  book cover by Michael Watkins

    The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

    by Michael Watkins

    • List rank#1
    • Price$12.49
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews12,361

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  2. Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a book cover by Keith Ferrazzi

    Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

    by Keith Ferrazzi

    • List rank#2
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews2,297

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  3. Super Players: How the Best Transform their Career and Company with High-Impact Habits book cover by Verne Harnish

    Super Players: How the Best Transform their Career and Company with High-Impact Habits

    by Verne Harnish

    • List rank#3
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews6

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  4. Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter book cover by Liz Wiseman

    Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

    by Liz Wiseman

    • List rank#4
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews3,031

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  5. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life book cover by Bill Burnett

    Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

    by Bill Burnett

    • List rank#5
    • Price$15.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews2,980

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  6. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half book cover by Arthur C. Brooks

    From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

    by Arthur C. Brooks

    • List rank#6
    • Price$16.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews5,414

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  7. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World book cover by Cal Newport

    Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

    by Cal Newport

    • List rank#7
    • Price$15.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews33,177

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  8. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service book cover by Michael Lewis

    Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

    by Michael Lewis

    • List rank#8
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews2,885

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  9. The Resility Effect: Seven Principles for Thriving in an Age of Unrelenting Change book cover by Josh Davies

    The Resility Effect: Seven Principles for Thriving in an Age of Unrelenting Change

    by Josh Davies

    • List rank#9
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews14

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  10. The ChatGPT-5 Millionaire: The Complete 5 in 1 Collection - Master AI to Build Passive Inc book cover by Connor Redmond

    The ChatGPT-5 Millionaire: The Complete 5 in 1 Collection - Master AI to Build Passive Income, Automate Your Business, and Achieve Financial Freedom Using ChatGPT-5

    by Connor Redmond

    • List rank#10
    • Price$0.52
    • Rating3.8
    • Reviews42

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FAQ

Is Career Guides a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 25/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 532 reviews and sells for $9.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Career Guides?

The median best seller has 532 reviews, and 20% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Career Guides best sellers cost?

The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $6.66 and $13.11.

Can new books break into Career Guides?

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.