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History (Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels › Nonfiction, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for History (Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels › Nonfiction, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $11.99, median 28 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 22/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $9.69 – $15.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 9% |
| Books on the list | 99 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 16% of the parent category Nonfiction (178), one of the easier corners under it.
- At $11.99 its median price beats 93% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
Top 10 History best sellers
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
- List rank#1
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews94
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MrBallen Presents: The Terror Within: The Graphic Stories (MrBallen Graphic Stories)
by MrBallen
- List rank#2
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews48
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MrBallen Presents: Where Nightmares Live: The Graphic Stories (MrBallen Graphic Stories)
by MrBallen
- List rank#3
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews676
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Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
by Larry Gonick
- List rank#4
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews97
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MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious: The Graphic Stories (MrBallen Graphic Stories)
by MrBallen
- List rank#5
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews2,401
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Aristotle: A Graphic Biography
by Tassos Apostolidis
- List rank#6
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews12
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Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day: The Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe (Zenith Graphic Histories)
by Wayne Vansant
- List rank#7
- Price$18.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews266
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A Firehose of Falsehood: The Story of Disinformation (World Citizen Comics)
by Teri Kanefield
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews21
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More Weight: A Salem Story
by Ben Wickey
- List rank#9
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews71
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The Bomb: Oppenheimer and the Weapon that Changed the World
by Didier Alcante
- List rank#10
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews35
FAQ
Is History a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 22/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 28 reviews and sells for $11.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in History?
The median best seller has 28 reviews, and 80% of them have fewer than 100.
What do History best sellers cost?
The median price is $11.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $9.69 and $15.99.
Can new books break into History?
9% 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.