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Food, Lodging & Transportation (Travel, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Food, Lodging & Transportation (Travel, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 122 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 30/100 (highly competitive).

30Opportunity / 100
$9.99Median price
122Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$4.99 – $16.74
Average rating4.5
New releases (90 days)16%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 8% of the parent category Travel (1,602), one of the easier corners under it.
  • The same niche in Books scores 41, 11 points higher than here; worth checking both.
  • 16% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 78% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.

Top 10 Food, Lodging & Transportation best sellers

  1. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland book cover by Jim DeFede

    The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

    by Jim DeFede

    • List rank#1
    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews15,756

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  2. The Arctic Cruise: Make 2026 a year to remember, as you escape this winter for the holiday book cover by Caroline James

    The Arctic Cruise: Make 2026 a year to remember, as you escape this winter for the holiday – and romance – of a lifetime under the Northern Lights (Cruise Escapes Book 1)

    by Caroline James

    • List rank#2
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews2,427

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  3. Blue Highways: A Journey into America book cover by William Least Heat-Moon

    Blue Highways: A Journey into America

    by William Least Heat-Moon

    • List rank#3
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews2,045

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  4. The Cruise Club: Escape on a holiday like no other in a sizzling read for 2026 from the #1 book cover by Caroline James

    The Cruise Club: Escape on a holiday like no other in a sizzling read for 2026 from the #1 bestseller, filled with sunshine, romance and just a little bit of mischief!

    by Caroline James

    • List rank#4
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews3,598

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  5. Burger Chef (Images of America) book cover by Scott R. Sanders

    Burger Chef (Images of America)

    by Scott R. Sanders

    • List rank#5
    • Price$17.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews36

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  6. National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States, 8th Edition (National Ge book cover by National Geographic

    National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States, 8th Edition (National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States)

    by National Geographic

    • List rank#6
    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews1,189

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  7. Meandering Down The Highway - A Year On The Road With Fulltime RVers book cover by Nick Russell

    Meandering Down The Highway - A Year On The Road With Fulltime RVers

    by Nick Russell

    • List rank#7
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.0
    • Reviews76

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  8. Journey Across Japan: The Sunday Times Bestseller - Adventures off the beaten path from th book cover by Chris Broad

    Journey Across Japan: The Sunday Times Bestseller - Adventures off the beaten path from the author of Abroad in Japan

    by Chris Broad

    • List rank#8
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews79

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  9. My First Summer in the Sierra book cover by John Muir

    My First Summer in the Sierra

    by John Muir

    • List rank#9
    • Price$4.65
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews588

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  10. Campervans, Cooking, and Corpses: A humorous vanlife cozy murder mystery (Max's Campervan  book cover by Tyler  Rhodes

    Campervans, Cooking, and Corpses: A humorous vanlife cozy murder mystery (Max's Campervan Case Files Book 1)

    by Tyler Rhodes

    • List rank#10
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews3,744

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Subcategories

Same niche in Books: Food, Lodging & Transportation

FAQ

Is Food, Lodging & Transportation a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 30/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 122 reviews and sells for $9.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Food, Lodging & Transportation?

The median best seller has 122 reviews, and 43% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Food, Lodging & Transportation best sellers cost?

The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $16.74.

Can new books break into Food, Lodging & Transportation?

16% 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.