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Coastal: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Coastal, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $16.99, median 68 reviews, average rating 4.7 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 30/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $11.90 – $22.70 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.7 |
| New releases (90 days) | 7% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 13% of the parent category Ecosystems (518), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 Coastal best sellers
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Florida's Seashells: A Beachcomber's Guide
by Blair Witherington
- List rank#1
- Price$9.27
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,608
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Before New York: The Natural Geography of the City: An Atlas and Gazetteer
by Eric W. Sanderson
- List rank#2
- Price$125
- Reviews-
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The Place of Tides: A Transformative Nature Memoir of Isolation, Forgiveness, and Self-Discovery on a Remote Norwegian Island
by James Rebanks
- List rank#3
- Price$16.16
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,329
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Walk With Me: Hamptons: Elegant photography tour through Hamptons estates, beaches, and the cultivated ease of summer living.
- List rank#4
- Price$17.29
- Rating4.8
- Reviews146
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
by Michael Capuzzo
- List rank#5
- Price$9.96
- Rating4.3
- Reviews1,458
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The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
by Jack E. Davis
- List rank#6
- Price$17.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,242
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Mannahatta: Reimagines Manhattan as it looked before colonization, teeming with forests and wetlands.
by Eric W. Sanderson
- List rank#7
- Price$27.58
- Rating4.6
- Reviews207
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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
by Earl Swift
- List rank#8
- Price$10.69
- Rating4.5
- Reviews803
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California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
by Rosanna Xia
- List rank#9
- Price$17.85
- Rating4.5
- Reviews110
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Going Deep: Inside the Coast and Islands of Maine
by Peter Ralston
- List rank#10
- Price$55.18
- Rating5.0
- Reviews18
FAQ
Is Coastal a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 30/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 68 reviews and sells for $16.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Coastal?
The median best seller has 68 reviews, and 60% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Coastal best sellers cost?
The median price is $16.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $11.90 and $22.70.
Can new books break into Coastal?
7% 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.