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Consciousness & Thought (Philosophy, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Consciousness & Thought (Philosophy, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $6.99, median 576 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 27/100 (highly competitive).

27Opportunity / 100
$6.99Median price
576Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$1.99 – $10.99
Average rating4.6
New releases (90 days)14%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 35% of the parent category Philosophy (1,665), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 82% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 576 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $1.99 to $10.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Consciousness & Thought best sellers

  1. I Am a Strange Loop book cover by Douglas R. Hofstadter

    I Am a Strange Loop

    by Douglas R. Hofstadter

    • List rank#1
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews1,074

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  2. When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist book cover by Paul Kalanithi

    When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist

    by Paul Kalanithi

    • List rank#2
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews120,214

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  3. Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering  book cover by Joseph Nguyen

    Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering (Beyond Suffering Book 1)

    by Joseph Nguyen

    • List rank#3
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews27,107

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  4. Beyond Belief: Jaw-Dropping Breakthroughs That Will Shatter Your View of the Mind and Real book cover by Douglas E. Richards

    Beyond Belief: Jaw-Dropping Breakthroughs That Will Shatter Your View of the Mind and Reality

    by Douglas E. Richards

    • List rank#4
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews16

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  5. Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life book cover by Roxie Nafousi

    Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life

    by Roxie Nafousi

    • List rank#5
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews7,016

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  6. What Ultimately Is There?... And Other Foundational Questions book cover by Stephen Wolfram

    What Ultimately Is There?... And Other Foundational Questions

    by Stephen Wolfram

    • List rank#6
    • Price$9.95
    • Reviews-

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  7. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness book cover by Michael Pollan

    A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

    by Michael Pollan

    • List rank#7
    • Price$16.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews2,130

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  8. The Art of Loving book cover by Erich Fromm

    The Art of Loving

    by Erich Fromm

    • List rank#8
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews4,204

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  9. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life book cover by Héctor García

    Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

    by Héctor García

    • List rank#9
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews68,630

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  10. Natural Intelligence & the Logic of Consciousness book cover by Antonio Damasio

    Natural Intelligence & the Logic of Consciousness

    by Antonio Damasio

    • List rank#10
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews33

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FAQ

Is Consciousness & Thought a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 27/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 576 reviews and sells for $6.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Consciousness & Thought?

The median best seller has 576 reviews, and 31% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Consciousness & Thought best sellers cost?

The median price is $6.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $1.99 and $10.99.

Can new books break into Consciousness & Thought?

14% 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.