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Emotions (Self-Help, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Emotions (Self-Help, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 1,128 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).

28Opportunity / 100
$9.99Median price
1,128Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$4.99 – $13.24
Average rating4.6
New releases (90 days)15%
Books on the list100
StoreKindle eBooks

What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 32% of the parent category Self-Help (3,544), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 89% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 1,128 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
  • 15% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.

Top 10 Emotions best sellers

  1. Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories book cover by Lysa TerKeurst

    Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again

    by Lysa TerKeurst

    • List rank#1
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews28,818

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  2. Stop Letting Everything Affect You: How to break free from overthinking, emotional chaos,  book cover by Daniel Chidiac

    Stop Letting Everything Affect You: How to break free from overthinking, emotional chaos, and self-sabotage.

    by Daniel Chidiac

    • List rank#2
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews4,390

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  3. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You book cover by Elaine N. Aron Phd

    The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

    by Elaine N. Aron Phd

    • List rank#3
    • Price$8.54
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews10,785

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  4. Making Peace with What I Can’t Control: Find Relief from the Exhaustion of Overthinking, T book cover by Lysa TerKeurst

    Making Peace with What I Can’t Control: Find Relief from the Exhaustion of Overthinking, Trying to Fix Others, and Wanting to Figure It All Out

    by Lysa TerKeurst

    • List rank#4
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews206

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  5. God Is With You Every Day: Daily Devotions of Hope and Comfort for When Life Feels Uncerta book cover by Max Lucado

    God Is With You Every Day: Daily Devotions of Hope and Comfort for When Life Feels Uncertain (A 365-Day Devotional)

    by Max Lucado

    • List rank#5
    • Price$10.49
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews3,540

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  6. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Mode book cover by Richard C. Schwartz PhD

    No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

    by Richard C. Schwartz PhD

    • List rank#6
    • Price$12.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews5,798

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  7. Let Them Miss You: The Power of Pulling Back, Standing Firm, and Becoming Unavailable to W book cover by Logan  West

    Let Them Miss You: The Power of Pulling Back, Standing Firm, and Becoming Unavailable to What Doesn’t Serve You (The Let Them Emotional Detachment Series Book 2)

    by Logan West

    • List rank#7
    • Price$5.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews204

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  8. How To Live: Rules For People Who Don't Like Rules book cover by Scott Berkun

    How To Live: Rules For People Who Don't Like Rules

    by Scott Berkun

    • List rank#8
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews40

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  9. What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing book cover by Oprah Winfrey

    What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

    by Oprah Winfrey

    • List rank#9
    • Price$12.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews18,169

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  10. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) book cover by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    • List rank#10
    • Price$12.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews7,620

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FAQ

Is Emotions a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,128 reviews and sells for $9.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Emotions?

The median best seller has 1,128 reviews, and 22% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Emotions best sellers cost?

The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $13.24.

Can new books break into Emotions?

15% 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.