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Exploration & Discoveries (Children's eBooks › Historical Fiction, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Exploration & Discoveries (Children's eBooks › Historical Fiction, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $4.99, median 173 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 14/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.56 – $7.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 3% |
| Books on the list | 99 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 8% of the parent category Historical Fiction (2,260), one of the easier corners under it.
- At $4.99 its median price is below 91% of Kindle eBooks categories, so it is a volume game.
- Only 3% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 83% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 Exploration & Discoveries best sellers
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Alice In Wonderland: The Original 1865 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Lewis Carroll Classics)
by Lewis Carol
- List rank#1
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews29,116
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Olympus Academy: The Titan's Treasure
by Eliza Raine
- List rank#2
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews575
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A Horse Named Sky (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel Book 3)
- List rank#3
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews438
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A Rover's Story: A Mars rover named Res learns to feel—facing dust storms, cliffs, and a bond with a drone named Fly, ages 8-12
by Jasmine Warga
- List rank#5
- Price$9.49
- Rating4.7
- Reviews839
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A Whale of the Wild (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel Book 2)
- List rank#6
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews960
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Robinson Crusoe: The Original 1719 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Daniel Defoe Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
- List rank#7
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews599
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One Wrong Step
- List rank#8
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews241
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Peter Pan (Illustrated): The 1911 Classic Edition with Original Illustrations
by J. M. Barrie
- List rank#9
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews562
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Kimberly and the Captives (The Colonial Captives Book 1)
by Angela Hunt
- List rank#10
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews59
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FAQ
Is Exploration & Discoveries a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 14/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 173 reviews and sells for $4.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Exploration & Discoveries?
The median best seller has 173 reviews, and 33% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Exploration & Discoveries best sellers cost?
The median price is $4.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.56 and $7.99.
Can new books break into Exploration & Discoveries?
3% 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.