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Essays (Essays & Correspondence, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Essays (Essays & Correspondence, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $6.99, median 594 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $1.99 – $11.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 8% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 82% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 594 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $1.99 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Essays best sellers
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
- List rank#1
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews3,871
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Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics)
by C. S. Lewis
- List rank#2
- Price$13.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews10,958
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The Long, Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of Pay It Forward
- List rank#3
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews694
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Two Women Walk into a Bar
- List rank#5
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews12,725
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The Book of Delights: Essays
by Ross Gay
- List rank#6
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews2,120
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The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays, Articles, Speeches, Travel Sketches & Letters (Illustrated): Novels & Letters
- List rank#7
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews108
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Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature
by Becky Siegel Spratford
- List rank#8
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews63
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
by John Green
- List rank#9
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews10,222
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
by Yiyun Li
- List rank#10
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,385
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FAQ
Is Essays a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 594 reviews and sells for $6.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Essays?
The median best seller has 594 reviews, and 22% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Essays best sellers cost?
The median price is $6.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $1.99 and $11.99.
Can new books break into Essays?
8% 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.