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History of Books: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for History of Books, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $17.31, median 104 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $12.71 – $24.97 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 14% of the parent category Books & Reading (721), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 History of Books best sellers
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![The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation ― The Classic So book cover by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71m4x9+UKHL._AC_UL300_SR300,200_.jpg)
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation ― The Classic Soviet History Memoir about the Bureaucracy of Terror (Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956)
- List rank#1
- Price$11.48
- Rating4.8
- Reviews5,485
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
- List rank#2
- Price$19.85
- Rating4.8
- Reviews3,113
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The Voynich Manuscript
by Raymond Clemens
- List rank#3
- Price$46.07
- Rating4.7
- Reviews2,029
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
- List rank#5
- Price$15.06
- Rating4.6
- Reviews223
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary — An OED History
- List rank#6
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews3,898
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An Autobiography
- List rank#7
- Price$16.52
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,836
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
by Edward Brooke-Hitching
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews711
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The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling from the Dawn of Print to the Twenty-First Century
- List rank#9
- Price$25.56
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
by Ross King
- List rank#10
- Price$12.59
- Rating4.6
- Reviews880
FAQ
Is History of Books a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 104 reviews and sells for $17.31.
How many reviews do you need to rank in History of Books?
The median best seller has 104 reviews, and 46% of them have fewer than 100.
What do History of Books best sellers cost?
The median price is $17.31; half of the best sellers are priced between $12.71 and $24.97.
Can new books break into History of Books?
6% 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.