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Italy (History › Europe, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Italy (History › Europe, Books), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $15.67, median 471 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 29/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $12.23 – $20.89 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 5% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 25% of the parent category Europe (1,915), one of the easier corners under it.
- Its review barrier is higher than in 76% of Books categories: the median best seller has 471 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 75% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 Italy best sellers
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
by Ross King
- List rank#1
- Price$1.96
- Rating4.6
- Reviews880
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The Prince (Reader's Library Classics)
- List rank#2
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,485
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
by Tom Holland
- List rank#3
- Price$37.19
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,581
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Ghosts of Sicily: The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy
by Mark Harmon
- List rank#4
- Price$18.09
- Rating4.4
- Reviews303
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
- List rank#5
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,683
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Machiavelli: A Biography
by Miles Unger
- List rank#6
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews93
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
- List rank#7
- Price$26.19
- Rating4.6
- Reviews3,386
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Rome's Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire, and the Making of Christianity
by Tim Whitmarsh
- List rank#8
- Price$32
- Rating4.0
- Reviews17
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The Prince (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) (Fingerprint Classics)
- List rank#9
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews8,332
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
by Jacques Barzun
- List rank#10
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews404
FAQ
Is Italy a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 29/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 471 reviews and sells for $15.67.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Italy?
The median best seller has 471 reviews, and 15% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Italy best sellers cost?
The median price is $15.67; half of the best sellers are priced between $12.23 and $20.89.
Can new books break into Italy?
5% 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.